Belgium's Euro 2024 qualifying clash with Sweden that was abandoned at half time will go down as a 1-1 draw and won't be replayed, UEFA has confirmed.
Monday night's match at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels was suspended at half-time when news filtered through that two Swedish supporters had been shot dead in a terrorist attack.
Their fans were locked inside the stadium until 4am, while the players were taken to the airport under police escort to return home.
It was initially unclear whether they would be forced to play the rest of the game, but UEFA have now confirmed it will go down as a 1-1 draw.
In a statement, UEFA said: 'With regard to the European Qualifier match between Belgium and Sweden abandoned at half-time upon request and agreement of the two teams, following the terrorist attack that killed two Swedish supporters in Brussels on 16 October, the UEFA Executive Committee decided today that: The match is abandoned and the result at the half-time interval (1-1) is confirmed as final, each team is awarded one point with the Group F standings to be updated accordingly and any suspension is considered served and single yellow cards remain valid.
'To take the mentioned decision, the Executive Committee took note that it had proved 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.
'The result of this match does not impact the qualification of Group F since Belgium is already mathematically qualified to the UEFA EURO 2024 final tournament (together with Austria) and Sweden is mathematically eliminated
'The respective fixtures do not allow any date to be used in the upcoming November international window, when the preliminary group stage of the competition must be concluded, to be followed by the play-off draw and final tournament draw.'
The score was 1-1 at the time the game was abandoned. Viktor Gyokeres gave Sweden a 15th-minute lead, but Romelu Lukaku had Belgium level just after the half-hour.
Police shot dead the gunman - a 45-year-old Tunisian national named by Belgian media as Abdesalem L - in a café in the Schaerbeek area of the city on Tuesday morning.
Sweden and Manchester United defender Victor Lindelof said there was 'no reason to finish the match' given Belgium have already qualified for Euro 2024 and Sweden cannot make it to the tournament in Germany.
'Belgium are already qualified and we don't have the opportunity to get to the European Championship, so I see no reason to play [replay the game],' Lindelof said