Tottenham to get go-ahead to play first four Premier League games away from home next season after Wembley deadline passes

SPURS are set to get the green light to their first four Premier League games next season away from home.

But any remaining doubts over where Tottenham will play their home matches have effectively ended after the club let their option on Wembley slip.

Round the clock work is continuing at Tottenham’s new 62,000-capacity home on the site of their former White Hart Lane ground.

The pressing deadlines have raised scares that the stadium would not be finished in time.

But Tottenham’s decision not to ask the FA for extra time over their option for a second term at the National Stadium is the clearest sign yet that the North Londoners are planning for their new era to start next season.

When Spurs chairman Daniel Levy agreed their tenancy deal at Wembley for this season, it included the proviso that the agreement could be extended for another 12 months.

Premier League rules state that every club must play their home games at one venue, meaning Tottenham could not have begun the campaign at Wembley before moving in to their new home, as is allowed for EFL clubs.

Spurs, though, are understood not to have taken up their Wembley option, with the deadline having passed in recent weeks.

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That means their new ground, currently called “The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium” ahead of a potential naming rights deal, will be the venue for all home games next season.

Spurs have already begun selling season tickets, with the stand-out feature of the ground the 17,000-capacity single tier south stand, which took inspiration from Borussia Dortmund’s Yellow Wall.

The NFL, who have invested in the stadium, which has separate dressing rooms for football in the West Stand and larger ones for gridiron on the other side, has also confirmed the first game of their association will be between the Seattle Seahawks and the Oakland Raiders on October 14.

But while Spurs are happy with the pace of building work, they will be handed an extra month to fine-tune and complete all preparations.

While Spurs have yet to confirm to the Premier League that they will be back in N17 that is the working understanding at League HQ.

Outline discussions have already agreed to Spurs being given dispensation to play their first four matches away.

Blackpool played four of their first five matches away from Bloomfield Road in 2010-11, Liverpool started with three away games while Anfield’s Centenary Stand was completed in 2016-17 while this season the conversion work at the London Stadium after the World Athletics Championships saw West Ham start with three games on their travels.

The extra lee-way, which will be added to with the season’s first international break at the start of September, will give Spurs time to stage test events, allowing the new ground to be granted its safety certificate.

And it means it is likely the first Spurs home game at the club’s new ground will not take place until Sunday September 16, more than a month into the campaign.