17,000 Super Cup match tickets were sold to fans of Real Madrid and Eintracht Frankfurt, which went on sale.
Eintracht Frankfurt fans are especially devoted to away games. PDO
A large number of club supporters are expected at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium for the Uefa Super Cup match, where Real Madrid and Eintracht Frankfurt, the winners of two important Uefa tournaments, will meet.
Real Madrid earned their way into the match by winning the Champions League. Eintracht, on the other hand, won the continent’s second tournament, the Europa League.
The Spanish club is clearly at the bottom, at least in the stands. of Diario AS according to Eintracht, 8,000 seats have been reserved for Stadika’s stand, and their quota was fully used. Real Madrid supporters, on the other hand, have taken only 1,800 seats reserved for them.
Eintracht is known for its fans, who travel en masse to the team’s away games. Last spring, more than 30,000 supporters traveled to Barcelona for the quarter-finals of the Europa League. Not all fans could even fit in the stadium.
5,000 match tickets to Helsinki have also been reserved for partners. 17,000 tickets sold out to a neutral audience within minutes.
AS also updates the history of the Olympic Stadium and its spectator capacity in its article. The newspaper pointed out that the stadium, which was originally built for the 1940 Summer Olympics, was almost twice as large in spectator capacity before the renovations.
Today, after the renovation carried out between 2016 and 2020, the home cave of the Finnish national team barely holds half of its original capacity (36,200). There is only room for 31,500 spectators in the Super Cup, the newspaper wonders.
Readers are also told about the stadium’s 72-meter tower and its history, as well as the Bubi whistler, which became a crowd favorite in Finland’s 2007 European Championship qualifying match.