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Project: King Abdullah Sports City Complex, Jeddah; Value: $10bn (SAR 37.5bn); Developer: Saudi Aramco; Announced: 2009; Status: Cancelled; The project was to provide a 60,000 to 100,000 seater soccer stadium, including large royal suites for the Saudi Arabian Royal Family. It was also expected to include a mosque, an indoor sports arena which could host more than 10.000 spectators, an outdoor athletics stadium, and several other outdoor sport facilities like tennis courts and training pitches for soccer. In September 2010, Saudi Aramco announced that it was scrapping the project, with plans to build a soccer stadium the only feature to survive.
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