Aston Villa did not waste any time in getting their allocation of tickets on sale for the match. In fact, the sale process will be completed on Wednesday.

But most Villans hoping to get hold of a ticket will be left disappointed, with an allocation of 10,758 seats – and that includes disabled and easy access areas, and some with a restricted view.

That is less than a quarter of Villa Park’s 42,640 capacity.

Season ticket holders who attended 12 or more Europa League matches – Villa have played 14 in total – got the first priority.

To be in the second priority window, fans needed to have been to at least eight European games.

Only these supporters were guaranteed a ticket and had to make their purchase by Tuesday.

A third priority window features a ballot system for the remaining tickets among those fans to have been to seven Europa League games. This period ends on Wednesday at 17:00 BST, when those are successful will be notified.

Freiburg will get the same allocation as Villa, while there will be 5,500 tickets on general sale, with the remaining 10,000 reserved for the local organising structure, Uefa’s member national associations, commercial partners, broadcasters and the wider “Uefa football family”.