Traveling fans of Eintracht Frankfurt are BANNED from the Champions League round of 16 clash with Napoli after three Partenopei fans were injured in an attack before the first leg in which nine Die Adler supporters were arrested .
Eintracht Frankfurt supporters will not be able to buy tickets for their team’s upcoming Champions League round of 16 clash against Napoli.
Italy’s Interior Ministry has banned Napoli from making tickets available to fans of the Bundesliga team traveling before next week’s European match.
The first leg, which Napoli won 2-0 in Germany, saw violent altercations between both groups of fans, resulting in numerous arrests and three Partenopei fans being injured.
According to Bild, the clash, played on February 21, resulted in the arrest of nine Eintracht Frankfurt fans after an attack on Italian fans at a bar on Schweizer Strasse before the game.
Eintracht Frankfurt issued a statement informing that the ban would apply to some 2,700 tickets that had been allocated for traveling fans and that UEFA regulations allow them.
Eintracht Frankfurt fans are prohibited from attending next Wednesday’s Champions League match
Eintracht Frankfurt fans have been arrested after an attack on Italian fans in a bar on Schweizer Strasse.
The statement read: “UEFA informed Eintracht Frankfurt last night that the Italian Ministry of the Interior is going to issue a court order against SSC Napoli this morning, whereby the club is prohibited from selling tickets to Eintracht Frankfurt supporters for UEFA Champions League”. second leg of the round of 16 on Wednesday, March 15.
‘This would also include the total allocation of 2,700 away tickets, of which 2,400 are in the away section, to which Eintracht Frankfurt is entitled under UEFA regulations.
“As soon as the specific details of the court order are available, Eintracht Frankfurt will comment further on this development.”
Eintracht is also associated with Atalanta, who share a fierce rivalry with the Serie A leaders, which reportedly worried authorities ahead of the first leg.
Local authorities had previously raised concerns at the European Serie A leaders’ meeting with Ajax in October, when the Dutch giants traveled to the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona.
Napoli lead the tie and now have a 2-0 advantage to defend on their own ground, thanks to goals from Victor Osimhen and Giovanni Di Lorenzo, with one foot already in the quarter-finals.
Goals from Victor Osimhen and Giovani Di Lorenzo gave Napoli a 2-0 lead in the first leg.
It’s not the first time Die Adler fans have shown cause for concern, as the club was fined after trouble in Marseille in a group stage clash in September.
There was a hostile atmosphere at the Stade Velodrome, where riot police intervened before kick-off and later to quell the disorder as rival fans threw flares and fireworks at each other.
A large-scale police operation had prevented fan violence before the game, which was classified as very high risk.
Frankfurt issued a statement distancing itself from an alleged Nazi salute from a fan caught on video before the game.