THE scramble for Seville started for Rangers fans yesterday as they began making plans to get to the Europa League final.
And Ibrox boss Giovanni van Bronckhorst joked the Light Blues legions might swim to the Spanish hotspot after John Lundstram fired them into dreamland against RB Leipzig on Thursday night.
Rangers supporters are prepared to break the bank to cheer on their heroes against Eintracht Frankfurt on May 18.
It is believed as many as 100,000 will travel to Seville. The club will receive an official allocation of about 10,000 tickets, with 4000 given free by tournament organisers Uefa to reward fans for sticking with football during the pandemic.
However, Rangers have 45,000 season ticket holders and Uefa have also axed all corporate hospitality inside the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium, which has a capacity of just 40,000.
Diehards have started marking out their route to Andalucia and as well as booking flights and rooms, scores of supporters swamped Scottish-based travel agents with requests. The demand has been so high that firms Sport Options and Barrhead Travel are looking at chartering planes to get fans to Rangers' first European final since they lost 2-0 to Zenit St Petersburg in the Uefa Cup in Manchester in 2008.
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