UEFA released the decision of its executive meeting which was held on Thursday, October 19, 2023. The European Qualifier match between Belgium and Sweden was abandoned at half-time following an agreement between the two teams, following the terrorist attack that killed two Swedish supporters in Brussels on Monday, October 16, 2023.
The Executive Committee said in a statement that it was impossible to play the remaining part of the match on the following day. both the Royal Belgian Football Association and the Swedish Football Association, given the circumstances, explicitly expressed their desire not to play the remaining match time and to consider the result at the half-time interval (1-1) as final.
