Tottenham Hotspur Football Club has secured a deal to use Wembley Stadium for its home fixtures for the rest of the season, while it “awaits certainty on the exact opening date” of its new £800m stadium.
The club said that it had reached the agreement as a “contingency measure” to ensure that it could host “any additional home games that we may have to play at Wembley Stadium”.
The club had originally hoped to move into its new stadium, where Mace is the construction manager, in September. That then slipped to December this year. It now looks unlikely to be ready until next year.
Before any match can take place at the new Spurs stadium, the club must first hold and pass a series of test events in order to obtain a safety certificate from Haringey council.
Wembley had assigned Spurs a number of full capacity games but a restriction on the number of full capacity events available at Wembley each year means that its remaining Premier League fixtures after Chelsea on 24 November are likely to be capped at 51,000.
The company that runs Wembley will also submit a planning application to Brent Council for a variation on the cap for our games in the event that the club requires them. The application will be for games to be at a capacity of 62,000, with additional limited exceptions at 90,000.
Tottenham expects to provide a further update on stadium progress in early December.
