Man City Players To Refund Ticket Costs After Bodo/Glimt Loss

The Manchester City squad will refund the ticket costs for 374 supporters who travelled to Norway to cheer the team in the embarrassing 3-1 defeat to Bodo/Glimt in the Champions League.

The Cityzens produced a poor performance to go down to the minnows in one of the most shocking results in the competition this season.

Kasper Høgh scored a brace for the hosts, and Jens Petter Gauge scored for the hosts while Rayan Cherki scored a consolation for Man City before Rodri was sent off.

City’s captaincy group of Bernardo Silva, Ruben Dias, Rodri and Erling Haaland confirmed that the squad have agreed to refund the fans that traveled for the game.

The group said in a statement on Wednesday: “We know the sacrifice that our fans make when they travel across the world to support us home and away and we will never take it for granted. They are the best fans in the world.

“We also recognise that it was a lot of travelling for the fans who supported us in the freezing cold throughout a difficult evening for us on the pitch.

“Covering the cost of these tickets for the fans who travelled to Bodo is the least we can do.”

Responding to the gesture, Kevin Parker, representative of Manchester City’s official supporters’ club (OSC) praised the players for the thoughtful decision.

He said: “City fans will travel to the ends of the earth to support our team, and last night was no different in the arctic circle.

“Bodo is not an easy place to get to, and the sub zero temperatures made it a challenging evening on a number of levels for our fans.

“The City support has an incredible connection with the players on a matchday, and this gesture is yet another reminder of that relationship – it means a lot to us.

“We know that the players are disappointed with the defeat to Bodo, but with our next game at home on Saturday there’s a chance to get back to winning ways and our fans will be in full voice.”

The defeat left the team in seventh on the Champions League log ahead of the last match of the phase against Galatasaray on Wednesday.

Guardiola was disappointed with the defeat, saying everything is going wrong for the team lately.

He said: “Everything is a little bit turning against us for many, many things. When we started New Year’s [Day] in Sunderland, we missed what we missed and then we started to get injuries. Matheus [Nunes] with the flu cannot be with us so it’s many, many things that are against [us].

“At that level, the Champions League or United at the top level, it’s always more difficult to have consistency that we had — one, two months, winning seven, eight games.

“Now, OK, we’ve lost important players, we’ve lost a little bit, but in general the tone of the team was much, much better than the last one.”

Man City have only won twice out of their seven games in all competitions in 2026.