Uefa to refund Liverpool fans who had tickets for 2022 Champions League final

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Uefa is to refund Liverpool fans who had tickets for the 2022 Champions League last successful Paris.

Fans were penned successful and sprayed with teardrop state extracurricular Paris' Stade de France arsenic kick-off was delayed by 36 minutes.

Uefa said the refund strategy "covers each of the Liverpool FC summons allocation for the final, i.e. 19,618 tickets".

"We person taken into relationship a immense fig of views expressed some publically and privately and we judge we person devised a strategy that is broad and fair," said Uefa wide caput Theodore Theodoridis.

"We worth the input from the Liverpool FC protagonist organisations Spirit of Shankly and Liverpool Disabled Supporters Association arsenic good arsenic the unfastened and transparent dialog passim this period.

"We recognise the antagonistic experiences of those supporters connected the time and with this strategy we volition refund fans who had bought tickets and who were the astir affected by the difficulties successful accessing the stadium."

Liverpool were besides portion of the process of securing refunds for their fans and, arsenic supporters bought tickets from them straight alternatively than Uefa, the nine volition administer the process.

Uefa and French authorities initially blamed ticketless fans for the events extracurricular the stadium.

The report, which Uefa commissioned aft the 28 May final, said determination was "no evidence" to enactment the "reprehensible" claims.

The study besides said "it is singular nary 1 mislaid their life", adding: "The sheet has concluded that Uefa, arsenic lawsuit owner, bears superior work for failures which astir led to disaster."

More to follow.

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