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Liverpool will receive just 9,000 tickets if they reach next month's Europa League final in Switzerland.

The Reds face Villarreal in a two-legged semi-final with the winners going on to meet either Shakhtar Donetsk or holders Sevilla in Basel on Wednesday, May 18.

If Jurgen Klopp's side get through to the club's first major European final since 2007 there promises to be an almighty scramble for tickets.

UEFA selected St Jakob-Park to host the showpiece occasion and it will have a capacity of just 35,000 for the final.

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The governing body have confirmed that the two finalists will both be allocated around 9,000 tickets each.

Liverpool, who sold around 32,000 tickets for February's Capital One Cup final at Wembley, currently have around 27,000 season ticket holders.

Around 9,000 other tickets for the Europa League final have already been sold to supporters from across the world via UEFA.com.

An online sale opened on February 23 and closed on March 21 with tickets allocated via a ballot earlier this month.

UEFA say the remaining 8,000 seats for the final will go to the “local organising committee, national associations, commercial partners and broadcasters, and to serve the corporate hospitality programme”.

Tickets for the final are in four different price categories in Swiss francs which works out at around £130, £87, £65 and £36. This follows consultation between UEFA and the independent Football Supporters Europe network (FSE).

St Jakob-Park, which opened in 2001, was announced as the venue for the 2016 Europa League final two years ago.

It will be the first time the Swiss city of Basel has hosted a major European final since 1984.

Europa League/UEFA Cup final destinations and attendances since 2010 49,000 2010 - Hamburg 45,391 2011 - Dublin 52,347 2012 - Bucharest 46,163 2013 - Amsterdam 33,120 2014 - Turin 45,000 2015 - Warsaw

If Liverpool reach the final UEFA are bound to be heavily criticised for selecting a stadium with such a low capacity.

Only once since 1998 - when the UEFA Cup final became a one-off game at a neutral venue rather than a two-legged affair - has it been played at a smaller stadium. That was in 2014 when 33,120 watched Sevilla beat Benfica in Turin.