Greg Dyke has claimed that the FA are close to reaching a deal with Tottenham for the club to play home games at Wembley Stadium in 2017-18.

Standard Sport reported this week that an agreement between the parties was imminent and FA chairman Dyke said that discussions were at an advanced stage. Dyke also hinted that Spurs could play Champions League fixtures in the national stadium next term.

Dyke said: “We’re in discussions with Tottenham that they should come in for a full season when they’re building their new stadium, and we are a long way down the path on reaching agreement.

“I think there are some discussions about whether they will play Champions League games at Wembley next year but I don’t know much about that. But on the full season (2017-18), I think we’re quite close to a deal.”

Wembley has been Tottenham’s preferred option for 2017-18 for some time. The club were prepared to share the stadium for that campaign with Chelsea, who also have plans to redevelop their ground.

Yet there are now indications that Chelsea may delay their departure from Stamford Bridge, meaning Spurs would be the sole club using the ground for the season they need it.

Dyke indicated that should Chelsea agree a deal of their own, it would be for three years. He told Sky Sports News: “Chelsea have really exciting plans for that stadium – to demolish the whole thing and build a new one on the existing site. If they came, that would mean coming for three years.”

Next season will be Tottenham’s last at White Hart Lane, and they intend to be in their new £400million, 61,000-seat home for the 2018-19 campaign. To try to ensure they meet that deadline, the capacity of their current ground is likely to be reduced by about 4,000 next term to accelerate construction work on the new site.

Staging a Premier League club’s home fixtures would be worth about £15m a season to the FA and Dyke added: “We thought we had a responsibility to English football if we can fit [the clubs] in, and that money we can use to support grass-roots football.

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“In particularly, we want to use it to build all-weather pitches, which is something I’ve been going about for two or three years.”