It was announced, though, last week that "issues with the critical safety systems" in the 62,062 venue would force the Premier League football club to push back the opening date.

Amid fan discontent and a supposed search for electricians, there is uncertainty regarding the moving in date, with the earliest believed to be in November and latest as far as next February.

Tottenham are not the first team to deal with a prolonged spell away from home, with many cases offering far worse scenarios.

Security reasons have largely caused teams to spend lengthy periods away, with Tottenham’s fellow Champions League qualifiers Shakhtar Donetsk a clear example.

The Ukraine Premier League team moved into their over 52,000 capacity Donbass Arena in 2009, but were forced to depart the venue due to the armed conflict in the region in 2014. The stadium, which hosted matches at the European Championships in 2012, was reported to have been damaged by artillery shelling.

While the venue has undergone repairs, Shakhtar Donetsk have not been able to return. The club were forced to play their home matches in Lviv in 2014, before eventually moving to the Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv in 2017.

Despite the enforced move 150 miles away from the Donbass Arena, the club have continued to enjoy success. However, numerous teams proved unable to relocate during the conflict, which led to several being dissolved entirely.

The Yugoslav wars in the early 1990s also led to several teams being prevented from playing home matches.

Both Croatian basketball teams in the FIBA Euroleague League in the 1992 season played all of their home matches in Spain. Defending champions Slobodna Dalmacia of Split, proved unable to qualify from their group, while Cibona bowed out in the quarter-final stage.

Partizan, the third Yugoslavian team, fared better. Based in Fuenlabrada near Madrid, they qualified in fourth position from their group.

Their only "home match" of the competition came in the quarter-final stage when they returned to Belgrade, where victory saw them reach the Final Four in Istanbul.

Even though they played only one home tie in their 19 matches in the competition, Partizan earned their only Euroleague title to date. They achieved a 71-70 victory in the final against Joventut with a famous buzzer beating three pointer from Sasha Djordjevic, now Serbia’s national team coach.

Concerns over terrorism have forced Pakistan’s cricket team to spend nearly a decade playing matches away from home.

The country has not hosted a full series on home soil since 2009 after the Sri Lankan team bus was attacked in Lahore during a tour that year. The attack killed six Pakistani police officers and two civilians, while it also injured six Sri Lankan cricketers, two members of staff and a reserve umpire.

In their enforced exile, Pakistan have been forced to host “home” series in the United Arab Emirates. Despite this, six years into their stay in the UAE, Pakistan rose to the top of the International Cricket Council test rankings for the first time since they were introduced in 2003.

It proved a brief stay as they have since slid down the rankings, while the Pakistan Cricket Board have previously claimed the absence of home series has proved gruelling for the players who are forced to spend months away from home, along with the high costs and damage that young fans are unable to watch the team at home.

International teams have started returning to Pakistan as Zimbabwe travelled to Lahore for a limited-over series in 2015, while sights have been set on the country hosting a full home series by 2020.

It is remarkable, yet unsurprisingly, that some of their players will have never played a home test match in Pakistan.

The UAE has also provided the home to Afghanistan for their home international cricket matches, while Iraq is another war-affected sporting country. 

Since the start of the Iraq War in 2003, the national football team have been forced to play matches abroad. In recent years the country has been able to play some matches on home soil, but bans have continued to be imposed and lifted as the security situation changes.

Security has not proved the only factor behind teams being forced away from home, with nature often lending its hand to force teams away from home.

New Zealand professional rugby team Crusaders had to leave their Lancaster Park home following the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. The venue had also been due to stage Rugby World Cup matches later that year, but matches were forced to be relocated.

The damage ultimately led to a decision being taken last year to demolish the stadium.

In the majority of cases, a solution has generally been found to allow teams to fulfil fixtures to an existing schedule with often only minimal delays. Several times this has involved fixtures being switched to away matches or a new venue being sought.

In the case of Ireland’s rugby team in 2001, they were unable to achieve either leading to their Six Nations matches against the home nations England, Scotland and Wales being pushed back nearly six months.

The delay was caused by the foot and mouth crisis epidemic impacting sheep and cattle across Britain, leading to a ruling that stated no Irish sporting fixtures would be able to take place until 30 days after the last case was recorded.

It led to a five month wait to see whether England would be able to complete a Grand Slam. They ultimately could not, with Ireland beating them 20-14 at Lansdowne Road in October, just four months before the next edition of the tournament.

Disputes and finances have also dictated matters on several occasions.

A dispute between Coventry City and Arena Coventry Limited led to the former being forced to play home matches in 2013 at the home ground of Northampton Town, 70 miles away. The dispute was settled the following season with Coventry City returning to the Ricoh Arena.

A proposal to relocate Wimbledon Football Club to Dublin in 1996 was another controversial move. While it proved unsuccessful, it paved the way for the equally unpopular announcement in 2001 that the team would move to Milton Keynes. The relocated team, as it stands, are currently one division below AFC Wimbledon, who reformed after the controversial change.

We could become far more accustom to watching teams play "home" matches outside of their stadiums in future, following the announcement last week by La Liga that some top Spanish division matches will be held in the United States.

The move comes after the likes of the NFL, NBA and MLB have sought to increase their worldwide fanbase by taking matches abroad, with teams giving up home games.