Tottenham would be open to sharing Wembley with Chelsea while their new stadium is under construction.

FA chief executive Martin Glenn said this week that the organisation were willing to consider allowing Premier League clubs to play home matches at the national stadium for a season.

Wembley, along with Milton Keynes, is Tottenham’s preferred option for home games in the 2017-18 campaign, as they prepare to move into their new ground. Spurs hope the new venue, which will also host NFL matches, will be ready by the summer of 2018.

Chelsea may have to vacate Stamford Bridge for at least two seasons if their £500 million plan to increase capacity to 60,000 comes to fruition.

While Tottenham are encouraged by Glenn’s words, they remain cautious. Standard Sport understands that recent conversations between the club and the FA about this have been rare, while the prohibitive cost of staging games at Wembley, which has a 90,000 capacity, must also be taken into account.

Spurs would like to play home matches in London while their £400m, 61,000-capacity ground is being built. Because of this, rivalry with Chelsea would be secondary to their needs.

Yet there are doubts about whether Chelsea would be as willing to share with Spurs. If this is the case — and Chelsea are determined to relocate temporarily to Wembley — they have the financial muscle to outbid Spurs for the right to play there.

Speaking at the Soccerex event in Manchester, Glenn said: “We are the national stadium and seeking to use it more is what we are all about. We have an obligation to football.”

The Premier League would allow both Chelsea and Spurs to play at Wembley although neither club would be permitted to use more than one venue in a single season for their home games in the League.