A four-day train journey, a 58-hour drive or a flight via Istanbul - the travel issues facing Arsenal and Chelsea fans going to Baku.
There are currently no direct scheduled flights between London and Baku in the week of the final.
The quickest journey by air on the day of the final takes six hours 55 minutes, with the majority lasting more than 10 hours. That's an eight-day trip for 90 minutes of football - and for a game which kicks of at 11pm local time , so will not finish until around 1am!It takes more than four days to travel from London to Baku on public transport, passing through seven countries. Anyone who watched BBC Two'sThe whole journey would likely include 11 changes and a two-day train journey from Kharkiv in Ukraine to Baku.
When you take in the time needed to eat and sleep, it would probably be best to set off on the Saturday to make the Wednesday night kick-off.
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