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Date Published: 17/05/2022

ARCHIVED - Seville fears violent football fan clashes between Germans and Brits again at the UEFA cup final

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5,500 extra police have been added as 100,000 fans descend on Seville to see Eintracht Frankfurt and Rangers face off at the Europa League final

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Seville fears violent football fan clashes between Germans and Brits again at the UEFA cup final

Seville will be hosting the final of the 2021/22 UEFA Europa League cup tomorrow, Wednesday May 18, between Eintracht Frankfurt and Glasgow Rangers.

This will be the third major European final to be held in Seville, after the 1986 European Cup final and the 2003 UEFA Cup final. Rangers are the first Scottish club to reach the final of a major European competition since Rangers themselves did it in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup. They have reached five such finals, as many as every other Scottish side combined.

Ahead of the final, which kicks off at 9pm local time tomorrow, the city of Seville is preparing to receive an estimated 50,000-100,000 German and Scottish fans, with 324 flights operating out of Seville, Jerez and Malaga airports between Tuesday and Thursday.

To accommodate the huge influx of people, there will be two specific fan zones set up in the Prado and Cartuja. There will also be traffic and parking restrictions around the city, as well as the removal of street cafés, fencing off of monumental areas and 5,500 additional police officers to ensure the safety of the event and the whole city.

With the violent clashes between German Eintracht fans and English West Ham fans on March 10 still fresh in the minds of Sevillians, they’re not taking any chances this time and are boosting security drastically to avoid any further confrontations.

Street furniture like dustbins will be removed from 11am on Wednesday in Paseo Colón, Alameda de Hércules, the area around the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán football stadium and the Enramadilla-Viapol area so that they cannot be used as projectiles or burned.

Former Celtic player Chris Sutton has been among those like Graeme Souness who have launched an appeal for Rangers fans to “please just behave out in Seville and try not to let yourselves down.” “Do the right thing, guys. Be good, and behave, and don’t do anything naughty out there,” he said in a video shared on Twitter.

A message to Rangers fans in Seville 👍 pic.twitter.com/sXVO3nF8H2
— Chris Sutton (@chris_sutton73) May 16, 2022

Meanwhile, former Rangers and Scotland star Ally McCoist has said that while it is a “fantastic achievement” for Rangers to make the final and that fans should “enjoy the occasion”, it’s important to “represent the country, represent the great club, representing everybody.” “Please let’s behave ourselves. Go have a party, have a dance, have a singsong, enjoy your drinks, but let’s behave ourselves.”

🎉Stay safe and enjoy the party pic.twitter.com/ZA3INFrV33
— Rangers Football Club (@RangersFC) May 17, 2022

The Eintracht Frankfurt fan zone will be on Paseo del Prado in San Sebastian and the Rangers fan zone will be next to La Cartuja Stadium, in Las Morenas, both with health and safety facilities and the sale of low alcoholic beverages. The match can be watched from inside the La Cartuja stadium for Scottish fans, where a screen has been set up, with security and surveillance, although the sale of alcohol is not permitted inside the stadium.

A ”pre-critical phase” is being activated this Tuesday and includes a preventative plan to try and detect the presence of high-risk supporters of the Ultra groups of both teams, although there will also be a general prevention plan in the city, with a police presence via patrols in areas of special interest where there will be the most fans.

At the same time, the mayor of the city, Antonio Muñoz, praised the “relaunch of the city’s image and the very important economic injection”, which will have an impact of more than 50 million euros and will leave the city’s hotels “practically full”.

Parking restrictions and closures in Seville

With the arrival of the first supporters of both teams, who can already be seen all over the city, there are already parking restrictions in several streets in Nervión, the Casco Histórico and Cartuja, linked to the Alfonso XIII, Meliá Colón, Barceló, Torre Sevilla and Meliá Lebreros hotels.

Several areas have been reserved for bus parking and fan zones in Avenida Concejal Jiménez Becerril, in the area around the Prado and Santa Justa station.

The restrictions will be intensified until the entire area surrounding the Sánchez Pizjuán stadium is completely closed, both for security reasons and to guarantee pedestrian access, and the stadium’s Metro stop will not operate on the day of the match for security reasons.

In addition, in order to safeguard the city’s protected heritage areas, some particularly sensitive areas such as the sculpture of San Fernando in Plaza Nueva, Plaza Virgen de los Reyes, Plaza del Triunfo, Puerta de Jerez and Fuente del Prado will be fenced off, and the Jardines de Murillo will be closed.

Image: Rangers FC

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