Sevilla fans who came to Lens to support their team on the last day of the Champions League group stage will be able to enjoy the match.

After more than 24 hours of uncertainty, Sevilla players who traveled to France to watch their team play for a Europa League place will not have to hide their identities. The Council of State has suspended the French government’s prefectural decree prohibiting Sevilla fans from attending the Champions League match between Lens and Sevilla.

“The French Conseil d’Etat has upheld the appeal filed by the legal services of the Sevilla football club together with National Supporters Association The French, against the administrative decision of the Prefecture of Pas-de-Calais, which did not allow Sevilla fans to attend this afternoon’s match between our team and Lens on the last day of the group stage of the Champions League, and against the Ministry of the Interior with a similar feeling,” stated in a statement from Sevilla.

In contrast to what prevailed four hours before the match, Sevillestas who have tickets for the match can go to Lens and attend the match as usual.

The French government has decided to ban 300 Sevilla fans from the area around the Bollaert-Delelis stadium in Lens after an FC Nantes fan was killed in an altercation between French ultras on December 3.

The slamming of the door to the Sevilla fans was rejected not only by Andalusia, but also Franck Heise, the coach of Lens, and the French club showed their position in favor of the Spanish national team: “How are we going to organize the Olympic Games if we cannot host 300 Sevilla fans “on our land. The news came late, the draw for the group stage took place in August,” Heise said.

Sevilla FC is pleased that its fans present in France and around Lens will finally be able to attend the match, but it regrets and will complain to UEFA “for the damage that has been caused to many other fans who, in the face of uncertainty and threat in accordance with the decree of the French prefecture, they refused to travel and attend the game, despite the availability of tickets. The club will provide all its assistance to the affected fans.