Hammers await tonight’s Europa decider
The teams are level on 1-1 after the first leg of the second qualifying round of the Europa League.
Domazale’s Sports park holds just 2,813 supporters meaning. Europa rules mean that Domazale could sell as few as 140 away tickets as the minimum requirement is only 5 per cent of the ground capacity. However with an average home league attendance of just 1,003, more tickets could be made available to West Ham.
Shakhtyor’s Stroitel Stadium is slightly better with a capacity of 4,200 meaning their minimum away allocation can be as low 210 tickets for the Hammers. The stadium was half full with 2,100 fans when Shakhtyor played Domzale last Thursday.
Both sides have agreed to a fixture reversal meaning we will we either travel 2,000 mile round trip to Slovenia to take on Domazale or 2,730 mile round trip to Belarus to face Shakhtyor Soligorsk.
Our ticket office source told ClaretandHugh this afternoon: “Europa away allocation will be dependent on the opposition, we have sent someone to tonight’s game and ideally we may even bring the tickets home tomorrow. As seen last year the quick turnaround prevented many people from going to these games which is why each game reached general sale. Details will follow tomorrow”
Last year West Ham sold out our 450 away ticket allocation for FC Lusitans away in the Europa League, However Birkirkara FC sold just 376 away tickets from an allocation of 3,000 and just 345 supporters made the trip for Astra Giurgiu from an allocation of 500.