Eurostadium was a proposed stadium in

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, Belgium, just north of

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. It would have had a capacity of 62,613. In June 2015, the building deadline was set for 2019. It would have hosted matches for

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, and would have become the home ground of the

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. The initial plans intended for it to be the home ground of

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as well, but they withdrew from the project in an early stage. In contrast to the current stadium on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau, the King Baudouin Stadium, it would no longer contain an athletics track.

History

In March 2015, the

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council chose the Ghelamco/ BAM Consortium as best candidate to finance, build and exploit the stadium. During the years that followed, however, the project was plagued by numerous political delays. Anderlecht eventually pulled out of the project in February 2017. Because of the delays, concerns rose that the stadium would not be built in time for Euro 2020, or even at all. On 7 December 2017, the UEFA Executive Committee decided, due to these delays and the uncertainty that the stadium would be completed in time, to remove Brussels as a host city for Euro 2020. The games scheduled to be held there were instead awarded to

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in London, which meant that London would now host a total of seven matches (this increased to eight during the actual tournament, following the removal of Dublin as a host due to sanitary issues related to the

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). On 30 January 2018, Flemish Minister Joke Schauvliege rejected the application from Ghelamco for an environmental permit, and as a result, the project was cancelled.

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History

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