Dutch football club Go Ahead Eagles, which won through to this summer’s Europa League play-offs because of their record for fair play, has been banned from taking supporters to the away game.

The Deventer team will meet Ferencváros away on July 9, but the Hungarians have been ordered to play in an empty stadium because of racist behaviour by their own fans.

‘It is very sad that our club is the victim of this,’ Go Ahead’s chairman Edwin Lugt said on Twitter. ‘And it is ridiculous that Ferencváros can bring their supporters here for the first leg.’

Go Ahead were relegated from the Eredivisie and are the first Dutch first division side to play in Europe since NEC in 1983.

Go Ahead’s European ticket stems from its high position in Uefa’s Fair Play category which gives automatic entry to the qualification rounds for the last time this year.