exactly
and Braga, two years ago in Dublin...they didn`t even sell out their allocation- thousands empty seats and it looked ridiculous for a final.
Clubs from England and Germany won`t have problems with using 20 or even 30k allocation but there are many many clubs that would struggle with 5-10k so it looked sensible to sell 15-18k in general sale long before the finalists are known (but resale of the unwanted ticket should be possible through ticketing website, easy and accessible but that`s different story). Amount of tickets that are allocated for sponsors and "friends" is embarrassing though and I agree with that.