The disturbances at the Champions League final which was held on 28 May 2022 were caused by Liverpool fans who did not have legal tickets, according to France’s sports minister, as government officials prepared to meet for an urgent postmortem of Saturday night’s crowd turmoil.
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“What we need to remember is that what happened first and foremost was this enormous assembly of British supporters of the Liverpool club, either without tickets or with counterfeit ones,” Amélie Oudéa-Castéra told French radio.
According to the minister, “between 30,000 and 40,000” Liverpool fans without valid tickets showed up at the 80,000-seat Stade de France in Saint-Denis, outside Paris.
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Thousands of Liverpool fans flooded the streets to welcome the team home and celebrate their double trophy season. The Reds won the FA and League Cups earlier in the season, but they paraded the day after losing the Champions League final in Paris.
It didn’t matter in the end that Liverpool had won two titles instead of four, or that they had fallen agonisingly short of European glory on Saturday night, as hundreds of thousands of fans welcomed their heroes home on Sunday, May 29 2022.
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