UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin admits “not the whole lot was excellent” for Manchester Metropolis and Inter Milan followers on the Champions League ultimate in Istanbul.
Metropolis supporters reported points with transport to the Ataturk Stadium, on the outskirts of Istanbul, previous to their crew’s treble-clinching 1-0 win towards Inter.
There have been additionally complaints a few lack of bogs and restricted entry to water on the showpiece ultimate on June 10.
Soccer Supporters Europe is gathering fan accounts from Istanbul in an effort to compile a report back to current to UEFA.
Ceferin, talking on the European Soccer Followers Congress in Manchester on Thursday, insisted this 12 months’s ultimate “proved UEFA had discovered from previous errors.”
However he added: “We’re properly conscious that in Istanbul not the whole lot was excellent and I am definitely not enjoying down the issues encountered by some.
“However allow us to proceed working collectively to enhance what we will enhance. I am pondering specifically of transport hyperlinks, to higher understanding the internet hosting of disabled supporters and entry to water and bogs for everybody.
“I can guarantee you that subsequent 12 months’s Champions League ultimate at Wembley and Euro 2024 in Germany will likely be a novel expertise for followers.”
Ceferin additionally referenced the intense points endured by Liverpool followers on the 2022 Champions League ultimate towards Actual Madrid in Paris.
Crushing outdoors the Stade de France sparked an unbiased report into the chaos, which discovered UEFA bore “major duty” for what virtually grew to become “a mass fatality disaster.”
“Given what a few of you expertise not too long ago, I might perceive if I obtained a chilly reception,” Ceferin stated.
“I additionally got here right here to make an apology. We might like to erase occasions that occurred final 12 months. Everybody welcomed the choice to maneuver the Champions League ultimate from St Petersburg to Paris and we all know what occurred.
“Good intentions are sometimes not sufficient, we all know that and we’re sorry for that.”
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