Liverpool cancel Champions League final tickets of 13 fans trying to tout them online

Liverpool have cancelled the Champions League final tickets of 13 supporters caught offering to sell them online.

The club threatened to impose lifetime bans on anyone found to have done the same and report them to the police, as well as calling on social media companies to close more than 50 accounts and groups suspected of being “actively involved” in such activity.

They also said a number of fans had been “defrauded” by “fake match ticket offers”.

Liverpool took action amid anger from their supporters over their official allocation for Saturday’s match against Real Madrid and the cost of tickets.

The club were given barely a quarter of the available 75,000 tickets to sell to their fans for the game at the Stade de France.

That has not stopped supporters trying to cash in on them, with prices on resale websites starting at £1,700.

Liverpool said in a statement: “Liverpool FC will not stand idly by and watch people try to sell tickets they have been fortunate enough to get access to via the ballot.

All reports of ticket touting, or online ticket fraud, will be investigated in line with the LFC sanctions process. If a supporter has been found to have offered a ticket for sale online, this could result in a lifetime ban for that individual.

“The club is also encouraging supporters to be diligent when providing any personal or payment details to persons they do not know.

“Liverpool FC continues to work closely with Merseyside Police and, where possible, will pass on the details of any supporters who have offered a ticket for sale online.”

Meanwhile, the charity Level Playing Field has written to Uefa to ask why only 14 per cent of the 550 wheelchair user spaces at the Stade de France had been offered to disabled supporters.

Branding the figure “entirely unacceptable”, it demanded assurances the other 86 per cent had not been allocated to non-disabled media or sponsors.

It added: “We call on Uefa to review their wheelchair allocation and provide more accessible wheelchair user space to the fans who make the Champions League final special.”