UEFA Records Belgium-Sweden Match as 1-1 Draw

The result of Belgium's match against Sweden in the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifiers will be recorded as a 1-1 draw after the game was suspended last Monday between the halves and later canceled due to the shooting deaths of two Swedes in Brussels earlier that day. UEFA stated in a release on Thursday that "its executive committee decided not to replay the match and to maintain the score, awarding each team a point in Group Six." The statement added, "This decision was made after the executive committee ruled that it would be impossible to complete the remaining time of the match the following day." The Belgian and Swedish football federations, due to the circumstances at the time, expressed a desire not to complete the remaining time of the match and to consider the halftime score (1-1) as final. The decision was less complicated than it could have been since Belgium had already secured qualification while Sweden could not reach the finals in Germany. Belgium raised its security alert to the highest level after a man claimed in a widely circulated video on social media that he was the attacker and that he belonged to ISIS.