Disabled fans of Manchester United and Tottenham criticized the number of wheelchair tickets available for the Europa League final as “insulting” -both clubs each provided 26 tickets in a Bilbao stadium with a capacity of almost 50,000 capacity.

Manchester United Disabled Supporting Association and Spurs ability, the fan groups that represent disabled supporters, have expressed trouble about the size of the allocation, which contains additional 15 “simple access seats”, from an assignment of 15,000 tickets per club.

In response, the competitive organizer UEFA said in the San Mames Stadium with free accompanying seats and guaranteed visual lines.

According to UEFA, 15% of these tickets were not sold and will be available for sale from Tuesday morning. Both fan groups denied this entitlement to BBC Sport.

The stadium in which the Spanish sporty sporty Bilbao top area has a capacity of more than 53,000 was reduced to 49,600 to 49,600 on Wednesday.

The stadium is usually able to organize 208 wheelchairs and 102 simple access seats. This is somewhat behind the recommended provision in UEFA’s own guidelines for stadiums of its size.

But the two supporter groups and the playing fields of the disability sports level have calculated that both clubs should still have 58 wheelchairs and another 28 Easy Access tickets within the restrictions of the San Mames.

The Spurs -capacity member Mark Spencer has injuries to spine, but is not in a wheelchair. He traveled to Bilbao by car by car to see the match in a fan park.

He said to BBC Sport: “To say that I am disappointed is an understatement. I was unable to go to Madrid for the Champions League (final) in 2019, and I thought this could be my chance – but UEFA simply did not give us the percentage of seats that you should give us under your own rules and regulations.

“You have the feeling that you will be prevented from watching football and supporting your team due to a disability, so it is quite insulting and very disappointing.”

Rick Clement, Secretary of the Manchester United Disabled Support Association, said: “UEFA ultimately has responsibility towards football fans to support their team. This should include people with disabilities.”

Dr. Rita Egan, another member of Spurs skills, said the group was “dismayed” by the assignment and accused UEFA of having “ignored” complaints by not responding to correspondence.

Tony Taylor, the level playing field Tony Taylor, said: “We saw another failure from UEFA at a Showpiece event.

“The accountability obligation was missing beforehand and now we can recognize more disregard for disabled fans, which ignores their own guidance of the management committee and prohibits the available facilities without adequate justification.”

In response to this, the UEFA said that “it is working hard to improve both standards and experiences for disabled fans and to take” the quality of the visual lines “,” historical demand “and the relationship between capacity and accessible seats into account.

For the finals of women Champions League last year in the same stadium, 59 of the 60 assigned seats were sold, and only 41 of the 93 assigned seats were sold for the final of the men last season between Atalanta and Bayer Leverkusen in Dublin.

UEFA also said BBC Sport that it examined “solutions” for more accessible seats and spoke to officials from United and Spurs with disabled entries.

The management committee of European football added: “While both information that they could sell more accessible tickets, they also expressed themselves for maintaining the current assignments instead of increasing the numbers at the expense of seat quality.”