Chelsea reached the final in Baku by beating Eintracht Frankfurt on penalties but the club will only receive 6,000 tickets for fans

Arsenal and Chelsea have been restricted to 6,000 tickets each for the Europa League final in Azerbaijan on May 29 because of the limited volume of the capital’s airport. The Baku Olympic Stadium has a capacity of 68,700.

The Times has been told that one of the main factors behind the small allocations is that Heydar Aliyev airport can only accommodate 15,000 passengers per day.

Both clubs expressed frustration that their fans will make up less than one-fifth of the crowd but Uefa insists that it is hamstrung by factors beyond its control. Additionally there had been concerns that some potential finalists would struggle to sell their allocation; at a meeting of the four semi-finalists last month, Valencia indicted that they would only require 3,000