Como execs give up seats for oldest fans — SkimNews
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- Como president Mirwan Suwarso and several club directors announced they will give up their own tickets for Thursday's Champions League opener against RB Leipzig (20:00 BST) to allocate them to elderly supporters.
- The released seats will go to fans born in 1950 or earlier — supporters who have followed Como 'through every division and every era,' per Suwarso's Instagram post.
- The match will be played at Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia, whose roughly 12,000 capacity was cut by 1,000 to meet UEFA broadcasting and operational requirements.
- Como qualified for the Champions League for the first time in the club's 119-year history by finishing fourth in Serie A last season.
- Manager Cesc Fabregas — a former Arsenal, Chelsea and Barcelona midfielder and ex-Spain international — guided Como to that fourth-place finish in his first full season in charge.
- Como's maiden European campaign will also feature group-stage matches against Feyenoord, Manchester United, Lens, AEK Athens, Real Betis, Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona.
Why it matters: Como has twice gone bankrupt in the past two decades and only ended a 21-year Serie A absence in 2024, so the Champions League berth itself is a milestone — and the executives' gesture routes the club's rarest seats toward supporters who endured those bankruptcies, since UEFA requirements already trimmed Stadio Sinigaglia's capacity by 1,000 to roughly 11,000.
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