Barcelona make tickets non-transferable after Eintracht fans flood Camp Nou

Barcelona president Joan Laporta announced that tickets for European games at the Camp Nou will be made non-transferable after a reported 30,000 Eintracht Frankfurt fans entered the venue for their Europa League game despite away fans only being allocated 5,000 tickets.

Laporta said he was "embarrassed and ashamed" after Frankfurt fans flooded the Camp Nou, providing the perfect atmosphere as Barca were knocked out of the competition after winger Filip Kostic scored twice in a 3-2 win that saw Eintracht advance 4-3 on aggregate.

Of those who attended the game, the club said that 37,746 were season ticket holders, 5,000 tickets were in the away section and 34,440 had bought tickets through other means.

"We insist that the 34,440 tickets that went on sale were tickets restricted to sale outside Germany," the club said on Friday.

"The club did not sell tickets to German fans. Who bought those tickets, did so and passed them on to German fans, that is obvious."

Eintracht Frankfurt players celebrate at the end of the Europa League quarter-final victory at Barcelona. EPA

Laporta said Barcelona "is not guilty" for events leading to the tickets ending up in the hands of German fans.

"However, we do assume the responsibility that falls to us," Laporta said.

"We do not want this to happen again at Barca and we will take action: The measures that I can announce and that we have adopted are that for international competition, tickets will be non-transferable.

"The club is not to blame for people breaking the rules, we applied all the measures we could to avoid it," he added.

"But there are people who consider that they have to do it despite the damage to the club and the fans and members who came to support the team at Camp Nou."