Tottenham to learn if they have Wembley green light next month ahead of season away from White Hart Lane

Tom Collomosse15 February 2017

Tottenham will discover on March 23 whether they have the all-clear to play all their home games at Wembley next season in front of crowds of up to 90,000.

Spurs plan to use the national stadium for 2017-18 while work continues on their new 61,000-seat ground, which they hope to occupy from the start of the 2018-19 campaign.

At a meeting in five weeks, Brent Council’s planning committee will consider the application, submitted by Wembley National Stadium Limited, to stage 31 more major events at the venue between August 1 this year and July 31, 2018. If the application is approved then Wembley can be fully open for all Spurs matches there but if it is turned down then capacity will be limited to 51,000 for some games.

Tottenham have yet to announce formally that they will activate their option to make the temporary move but have until the end of March to inform the FA of their intentions.

That would allow the club to confirm that this will, indeed, be the last season at White Hart Lane and reveal their plans to mark 118 years in the stadium. They can also then inform supporters of ticket prices for next term.

Representatives of the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust are encouraging the club to keep season-ticket prices at the same level as White Hart Lane for the year at Wembley. The cheapest this season is £765, rising to £1,895.

The club froze prices for the current campaign, scrapping their original plans to raise them by two per cent across the board.

That would involve a small reduction in the actual price of the ticket, as the Trust believe the cost of travelling to Wembley will be greater for most fans.

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Trust secretary Katrina Law said: “We are eager to hear where we’ll be playing next season and how much it will cost to watch our team. Presuming Wembley will be the venue, THST have lobbied for price parity.

“That would mean no material increase in the price of a season ticket, minus a nominal amount for increased transport costs.

“We’re also keen to ensure no season ticket package should cost more than individual match-day pricing in equivalent seating.”

Spurs’ celebrations for their last year at White Hart Lane have been far more subdued than those of West Ham or Arsenal, though the club argue that whereas those clubs were moving to different locations, Spurs are ‘staying at home’.

Despite that, the lack of fanfare has still been a surprise.

There are scarves on sale from unofficial stalls positioned outside the ground on matchdays but these represent the only evidence that this is to be the final season at White Hart Lane.

The new stadium, a project costing about £750million, is a stone’s throw from White Hart Lane and is rapidly taking shape.

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