Tottenham & West Ham United Announced As Only Bidders For 2012 Olympic Stadium

Posted Saturday, November 13, 2010 by YAHOO Sport

West Ham United and Tottenham will have to battle each other for the right to play in the 2012 Olympic Stadium, after the two clubs were announced as the only bidders on a shortlist of future tenants of the site.

The clubs will now enter final negotiations after the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) confirmed them as the only two candidates to take over the stadium after the Games.

OLPC will decide on their preferred bidder by December, and want to confirm a tenant for the stadium by March 2011.

Magaret Ford, chair of OPLC said: "We are very pleased with the extensive and serious interest shown in the stadium.

"We started this process to ensure the very best legacy for the stadium, and we are now at a point where we have selected the two strongest bids.

"We will go forward to start negotiations with the two consortia of Tottenham Hotspur and AEG, and West Ham United and Newham Council."

Tottenham are also pressing ahead with plans to develop their existing White Hart Lane home, for which they will discover whether they have obtained full consent within the next fortnight, as exclusively revealed by Goal.com UK.

The OPLC are keen to retain an athletics legacy for the stadium, and whilst a running track is included within West Ham's plans for the site, they are not in Tottenham's.