{"id":8797,"date":"2026-03-04T19:50:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/galatasaray-fans-banned-from-liverpool-second-leg\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T19:50:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:20:02","slug":"galatasaray-fans-banned-from-liverpool-second-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/galatasaray-fans-banned-from-liverpool-second-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Galatasaray fans banned from Liverpool second leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Published33 minutes ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Galatasaray fans have been banned from the club&#x27;s Champions League visit to Liverpool later this month following crowd disturbances during their game with Juventus in the previous round.<\/p>\n<p>European governing body Uefa said supporters of the Turkish club had thrown objects and lit fireworks during the last-16 play-off tie second leg in Turin on 25 February.<\/p>\n<p>Despite <a href=\"\/sport\/football\/live\/cjd9z9k5dd2t\">losing 3-2 on the night<\/a>, they progressed 7-5 on aggregate and will host the Merseysiders in Istanbul next Tuesday (17:45 GMT) with the return leg to be staged at Anfield on 18 March (20:00).<\/p>\n<p>However, Uefa has banned the Super Lig leaders from selling tickets to supporters for the away trip and also fined them 40,000 euros (\u00a334,800).<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Galatasaray said they would appeal against the punishment.<\/p>\n<h2>Related topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/teams\/liverpool\">Liverpool<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/european\">European Football<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/champions-league\">UEFA Champions League<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\">Football<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More on this story<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sounds\/series\/p02nrsln\">\n<p>Listen to the latest Football Daily podcast<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galatasaray fans banned from Liverpool second legImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, A late extra-time goal by Baris Yilmaz sealed Galatasaray&#x27;s aggregate win over Juventus in their Champion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}