Europa Sports Park is a

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. In UEFA matches, the stadium is referred to as Europa Point Stadium. The facility is home to the

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, as well as other sports such as cricket, darts, gymnastics, squash and more. The rugby uses the facility to host all their home national team games, as well as the training and match base for the four Gibraltar Rugby Football Union clubs: Ibex Buccaneers, the Rock Scorpions, the Straits Sharks and Europa Stormers who all play in the u-mee Gibraltar Rugby Championship. The Trusted Novus Bank Youth Rugby Festival also recently joined the lineup of events and activities at the park.

History

In February 2014 the

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unveiled plans for a UEFA Category 4 multi-function stadium; however, after the association were offered the opportunity to purchase Victoria Stadium, that proposal was abandoned. The Government of Gibraltar developed their own plans for a new multi-sports facilities stadium; the site they selected was at

which was previously a

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cricket pitch. The new stadium, designed by AKS Gibraltar, was completed at Europa Point in 2016. In 2019 it hosted the

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opening ceremony and also hosted the annual

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. On 27 March 2021, Europa Sports Park was the venue for the WBC interim heavyweight championship rematch between

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and

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. In January 2024 new plans were unveiled to upgrade the facilities to meet UEFA Category 2 requirements, which would allow matches to be held there while Victoria Stadium is rebuilt. Permission to use Europa Point Stadium for international matches from September 2024 was granted by UEFA in May 2024.

Florence Nightingale Field Hospital

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field hospital was set up at the site, in line with those set up in the UK mainland.Field hospital ready as Gibraltar mourns possible virus victim
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Football venues in Gibraltar

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History

Florence Nightingale Field Hospital

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