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Meet the Liverpool superfans set to clock up thousands of miles as they head to Kiev for the Champions League Final.

From Merseyside to Australia, Saudi Arabia to Colombia, fans will be travelling to Ukraine from all four corners of the globe to make the showpiece event.

These supporters are just some of the many Reds planning to conquer all of Europe - and other continents in some cases - in the hope of watching LFC win their sixth European Cup.

Simon Davies is one of the Merseysiders departing from home and hoping to drive all the way to Kiev - and back - to watch Mo Salah and co.

The 47-year-old will set out with five friends and a German sports journalist documenting their trip before returning with two more fans who were unable to get flights home.

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The managing director and CEO of Worldclass Travelling Ltd will leave Formby in a minibus at noon on Thursday and hopes to make the 6.15pm crossing from Dover to Calais.

His crew intend to stop over at Eindhoven in the Netherlands before setting off on a journey that should get them into Warsaw by 10pm on Friday.

They hope to be in Kiev by midday on Saturday.

The 3,400+ miles to get to and from the city from his Formby home will not even be the dad-of-three’s longest road trip to watch the Reds.

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He was unable to make the first European Cup success in Rome but then travelled by road to Wembley and Paris and has since been to every domestic and European final they have competed in since the 1984 Milk Cup win over Everton - meaning he watched the second win in Rome and then the Istanbul triumph.

Should the Reds lift the trophy for the sixth time in Kiev, by the time he makes it home he will have clocked up over 10,000 road miles on watching European Cup successes alone.

Speaking to the ECHO ahead of his latest adventure, he said: “I just wanted to keep the continuity going of driving to finals. I thought ‘I can’t not go to Kiev now’. I’ve been to Istanbul, Athens - with Kiev you can’t really get three places further away from Liverpool for finals. Kiev is just like a drop in the ocean for us now.

“I’m trying to keep my head level because life is going on as usual, I’ve got my job and family, and this is just going to happen on Thursday - it’s surreal.”

Simon only discovered on Tuesday that he needed a special permit to drive beyond the borders of the EU. When he went to sort it out at the Post Office in Liverpool city centre he found six other men filling out the same forms.

He added: “We’ve got a pack of cards, we’ve got travel Scrabble and Connect Four and a bag of Lemon Sherbets. We’re going to have a laugh!”

One fan travelling almost twice as far as Simon is Guy Hellewell.

The 41-year-old is marking off 2,945 miles to get to Kiev from Saudi Arabia, where he works on an offshore oil rig.

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He was questioning whether to make the journey when, like many organised Reds fans, his hotel booking was cancelled just after Liverpool FC qualified for the final - only for a generous fellow supporter to offer his help, and a room in a hostel.

Matteo Siano, who is from Frodsham but is currently studying in Brisbane, Australia, is already on his way to Ukraine.

The 20-year-old’s mammoth trek involves five countries, three flights, a train and a 14-hour coach journey.

His parents paid for the £1,950 trip for his 21st birthday present - and booked it as a surprise.

The journey consists of;

Brisbane - Dubai (14hrs 10 flight)

Dubai - Manchester (7+hrs flight)

Liverpool - Newcastle (2.5hrs train)

Newcastle - Warsaw (2.5hrs flight)

Warsaw - Kiev (14hr coach)

Another fan whose first steps on Ukrainian soil will mean he has entered the fifth country of an epic journey is Felipe Cortez.

The Colombian superfan is travelling over from Bogota and is going through the USA, Germany and Poland.

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And he is not even the only fan making the trip from Bogota - though Harry Kacak is planning an even more complicated route.

The 31-year-old told the ECHO: “I’ve been living in Colombia the past six months learning Spanish, so I’m heading from there. I’m flying from Bogota to Medellin to Madrid to London to Moscow to Minsk to Kiev - it’s about 46 hours travel. I couldn’t stop myself after the first leg against Roma.”