Barcelona’s president, Joan Laporta, has stated that the club’s ticket policy for European games will be changed.
This follows the admission of nearly 30,000 Frankfurt fans to the Camp Nou for the Europa League match on Thursday.
Barca had allotted 5,000 tickets for the match, but hundreds more were able to get seats in the home end to watch Frankfurt upset Barca 3-2 and book their spot in the semi-finals.
“We feel really bad, it was shameful,” Laporta told Barca’s website on Friday.
“I am appalled by the image presented and feel ashamed as this should never have happened.
“The club is not guilty regarding events leading to the tickets ending up in the hands of German fans. However, we do accept the responsibility that falls on us.
“We do not want this to happen again at Barca and we will take action: the measures that I can announce for now — and that will be adopted for all international competitions — is that tickets will become non-transferable.
“It is something we never wanted to do because it is inconvenient for fans who follow the rules. But we have no option to ensure that what happened against Frankfurt does not happen again.”
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