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Brussels Builds New Sports Venues and Parks for Local Communities

New complexes and planned parks deliver updated spaces for clubs and residents across multiple municipalities.

By Brussels Sport Desk · Published 25 July 2026

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The City of Brussels inaugurated a new sports complex in the Evere municipality in June 2025 at a cost of €8.8 million, adding 1,180 square metres of space that opened to clubs and residents in mid-August 2025 through Beliris funding.

These projects arrive while college sports remain suspended across all 19 municipalities due to the highest-level terrorism threat, yet the City of Brussels continues to run its 2026 summer sports camps for children aged 6 to 16 with Week 3 active from July 13 to 17.

Evere and Anderlecht Additions

The Evere facility joins other recent builds, including the Mabo Brussels playground, sports hall and school building that opened in January 2026 after two years of construction to ease capacity pressure in the multilingual education network. In Anderlecht the first indoor cricket facility opened at the Sint-Niklaas Institute in July 2024 after a €120,000 investment from the VGC, with outdoor nets scheduled for the following summer.

The Global Institute of Sport opened its new Brussels campus at RSC Anderlecht’s Lotto Park, offering a Postgraduate Diploma in International Football Business in partnership with Vrije Universiteit Brussel that began in September 2024.

Heysel Park and Municipal Funding

Further ahead, a €50 million Sports Park at Heysel near the Atomium forms part of the Neo project and is set for completion by 2030 with pitches for hockey, athletics and rugby or football plus seating for up to 5,000 spectators. The Brussels Government has allocated €43 million over three years to all 19 municipalities to develop sports infrastructure in underserved neighbourhoods.

Residents and clubs seeking access to these venues can check availability through the City of Brussels sports department listings for current openings and registration details.

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