In March 2015, the
City of Brussels 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
Wembley Stadium 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
COVID-19 pandemic). 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. ==See also==