United and Sevilla are locked in a bitter ticket war over their forthcoming Champions League last-16 clash with the Spanish club saying they will report United to UEFA for not offering their fans enough seats.

Sevilla claim that United have not followed UEFA’s ticket guidelines in allocating 5% of the tickets to their supporters and had been given just under 3,000 tickets when they should have had 3,800. Sevilla are also upset their fans are being charged £89 but United say that is because the Spanish club declined to lower their own prices. Sevilla are charging United fans between £89 and £133 pounds ($120 to $179) to watch the first leg at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan on February 21, which the English club considered excessive. “Sevilla will subsidise the tickets of the fans who go to Manchester so they will not pay more than the €60 established in the first place,” read a Sevilla statement.

“We will make UEFA aware that five percent of the stadium is not being made available (to our fans) and the unilateral price rise – after the official request for tickets (from Sevilla) – as well as asking them to verify that Sevilla fans do not pay a penny more than British fans for similar tickets, as per the competition regulations.” United say they will refund each fan £35, taken from the £89 they have decided to charge the Sevilla fans for the return leg on March 13 after the Spanish club refused to budge over their own prices. That means United fans will pay £54, the same amount Liverpool fans paid to see their side draw 3-3 in Sevilla in the group stage.....

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