Eintracht Frankfurt had 12k away fans in Bordeaux

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However, this Thursday, you missed quite a sight. When Frankfurt travelled to Bordeaux for their final away game in the group stage, more than 12,000 fans travelled with them. Yes, that's 12,000.

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On Thursday, Orange Kaos coincided with a veritable mass exodus from Frankfurt to Bordeaux. That's a 710-mile trip. One way.

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Normally, the visiting club is allocated five percent of tickets to a UEFA-organised game. In the Bundesliga, it's 10 percent. That means Eintracht were due only 1,600 tickets to the match in Bordeaux, but the French club increased the away contingent more than fivefold. One reason was that the interest from Girondins fans themselves was only lukewarm. A more important reason was that Frankfurt police told Bordeaux that the German fans would be coming anyway, with or without a ticket. And so 8,500 Frankfurt supporters ordered tickets through Eintracht, another 2,000 got their tickets directly from Girondins and between 1,500 and 2,000 fans travelled to France on spec and then purchased tickets at the ground from regular offices, or maybe touts.

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