Hundreds of Manchester United fans are set to miss out on tickets for their trip to Feyenoord after Dutch authorities ruled their allocation should be slashed.

The Reds were drawn against the Eredivisie giants in the group stage of the Europa League earlier this month.

And there was immediately a huge scramble for tickets for the match in the port city next Thursday.

Many supporters had been looking forward to making a short hop to Europe to see the Reds, after United’s two trips in the group in Turkey and Ukraine have been dogged by security concerns.

However fans groups have now hit out after they were allocated just 1,400 tickets, 200 of those priced at a staggering £110.

Feyenoord are currently the subject of a two-match stadium ban, suspended for two years, after crowd trouble marred their home clash with Roma in February.

And to ensure that the sanction is not enforced they have decided to halve the capacity of their De Kuip Stadium from 51,000 to 26,000.

Despite this, fans and officials at Old Trafford were still taken aback by United’s allocation being cut down from the usual figure of 2,500.

They believe United are being ‘punished’ for the misbehaviour of other team’s fans, similarly to when City fans were excluded from their trip to CSKA Moscow, who had been slapped with a stadium ban.

United chiefs say they have argued vigorously on fans behalf with supporters groups such as the Manchester United Supporters Trust (MUST) also lobbying club, the mayor and UEFA,

Feyenoord say the final decision to halve United’s allocation was taken by the police and Mayor of Rotterdam Ahmed Aboutaleb.

However the Mayor also remains concerned about ‘large numbers’ of ticketless fans remaining in the city centre during the game.

A MUST spokesman told the M.E.N: “We fundamentally disagree with the logic behind the decision to limit United’s ticket allocation for this game.

“Potentially, up to 1,500 United fans will miss out on this game because of this unfair decision.

“United and MUST have both vigorously opposed this restriction and, between us, we have made representations to UEFA, Feyenoord and the Mayor of Rotterdam, to no avail.

“MUST will be writing to UEFA shortly to express our concern about its apparent lack of consideration for away fans - something we have seen before in, for example, its unwillingness to make clubs sell tickets at concessionary pricing.”

United fans have also faced huge logistical issues surrounding their other two away games in the group.

Their clash with FC Zorya will have to be moved from the war-torn city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine with Odese in the west of the country the most likely venue.

Whilst they also face Fenerbache in Istanbul, a city with a history of football violence and the recent centre of an attempted military coup in Turkey.