BURNLEY and Aberdeen are working hard to secure a deal with a broadcaster to show the Clarets' Europa League clashes with the Scottish club.

Club officials have been in talks with several broadcasters, including BT Sport, ITV and Premier Sports about showing the game, while Aberdeen have also held discussions with similar broadcasters.

Both clubs own the rights to their home legs, at Pittodrie on Thursday, July 26 and Turf Moor on Thursday, August 2, with BT Sport's Europa League deal not kicking in until the group stage begins.

Once deals are finalised Burnley will look at plans to show the away leg back at Turf Moor, potentially in the fanzone if the hot weather remains in place.

"We’re working hard to do a deal, as are Aberdeen, but there’s been lots of rumours and speculation about this TV channel or that TV channel are going to take it, and we can show it here or there," said Matt Williams, head of football operations at Burnley.

"Let’s got the contract signed first, then make the announcement and then we’ll look if we can show the game here at Turf Moor, how we show it, be that within the stadium, hospitality lounges or in the fan zone.

"If we can guarantee the weather now I think we’d have it in the fan zone.

"We’ve spoken to broadcasters about covering the game. But you’ve got to be mindful of their commitments, ITV have spent a lot of money on the World Cup and there is a lot of interest in Rangers' early rounds of the Europa League following the appointment of Steven Gerrard, but we believe there will be a lot of interest in the fixture given it is our first foray into Europe for over 50 years.”

Burnley were handed 2,030 tickets for the trip to Pittodrie, which go on sale tomorrow (Wednesday) to 2018/19 season ticket holders with 8,000 or more loyalty points, with the number of points dropping by 1,000 every day until Saturday.

Some supporters have been disappointed with the number of tickets secured and the high loyalty threshold, but Williams said Aberdeen had offered more tickets than they were required to and that Burnley had asked for more as well.

"Under UEFA regulations you only have to provide five per cent of your capacity, that would have been 1,000. They’ve said we’ll give you 2,030, which is a good chunk more than we were entitled to," he said.

"We did ask the question whether we could take the entire stand and they said no, they asked us if they could take the entire Cricket Field Stand and we said no, but those conversations were had.

"To have 2,000 Burnley fans there, I’m sure they will make a racket and do the club proud."

On the selling process, Williams added: "I accept that no matter which way we go there will be some unhappy supporters and that’s unfortunate.

"I think the way we’ve done it is fair. You always get criticised for rewarding a loyal supporter and how do you define a loyal supporter? I accept there will be some supporters who have gone to every game home and away who might not be a season ticket holder, but we have to look at the information we’ve got and we’ve made a call based on the information we’ve have available."

Supporters will face spot checks at Pittodrie and Turf Moor to make sure tickets haven't been passed on.

"These two fixtures are the highest profile fixtures in the qualifying draw," said Williams.

"I had dinner the night before the draw with UEFA’s head of safety and security, he’s a Scottish guy who is very experienced in doing Old Firm games, he did Liverpool v Man City in the Champions League, he did the final in Kiev.

"He was great and he’s since suggested UEFA will probably have their security people at both legs making sure both clubs comply with security regulations and that does include making sure tickets given to supporters end up with those supporters, so there will be spot checks at both games to make sure that none have been passed on."