Exclusive / Saudi set to drop plans for five 2034 World Cup stadiums - Semafor
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Reuters earlier reported on the cancellation of the NEOM stadium, which was envisaged as being on the roof of The Line, a 500-meter-tall skyscraper. Work on The Line has effectively ground to a halt, and NEOM has not allocated any funding for the project until after at least 2030, Semafor previously reported. Saudi Arabia had also proposed a 45,000-seat stadium at Qiddiya Coast, a planned entertainment and tourism destination north of Jeddah. That development has also been put on hold. Another 45,000-capacity stadium in Riyadh’s New Murabba district is also set to be dropped. Work on the wider development has slowed after the departure of Chief Executive Michael Dyke and the suspension of work on the project’s centerpiece, a 400-meter-tall, cube-shaped skyscraper with screens lining its interior, similar to The Sphere concert venue in Las Vegas. The kingdom is still proceeding with plans for other new stadiums including one in Dhahran being developed by Saudi Aramco, and the King Salman International Stadium and Prince Mohammed bin Salman Stadium in Riyadh. The cuts could leave Saudi Arabia developing just six new stadiums and refurbishing four existing ones for the World Cup.
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