Tottenham have scheduled the first test event at their new stadium for August but doubts remain that it will be ready in time for the start of the season.

Spurs are expected to hold an open training session with a reduced capacity of around 30,000 at their new home, and they will then need to hold another test event at close to the ground’s full 62,062 capacity in order to get a safety certificate from the Football Association (FA).

Arsenal staged three test events ahead of the official opening of the Emirates Stadium in August 2006, including a shareholder’s open day, an open training session for 20,000 club members and Dennis Bergkamp’s testimonial at just under the full 60,000 capacity.

The new Wembley held a community day for Brent residents before an England Under-21 friendly against Italy, ahead of the opening in May 2007.

The Premier League are likely to allow Spurs to start next season with a run of away matches, just as Liverpool and West Ham did in 2016-17 and 2017-18 respectively, and the test event is likely to be after the start of the campaign.

It will be the first confirmed event at Spurs’ new home, with the ground’s only confirmed fixture currently the NFL game between Seattle Seahawks and Oakland Raiders on October 14.

The FA have given Spurs two extra weeks to decide if they want to play a run of games at Wembley if the new stadium is not ready for the start of the campaign. The original deadline was today but it has been pushed back to June 14 to coincide with the release of next season’s League fixture list.

In order to play in two different stadiums in the same season, Spurs would need permission from the Premier League board of executive chairman Richard Scudamore and non-executive directors Kevin Beeston and Claudia Arney.

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Spurs’ option to spend the whole of next season at Wembley expired last month but they also have the option to play some games there as a contingency plan.