'Stellar' match promised for England

England could face South American opposition when they play their first international on their return to Wembley.

FA director of communications Adrian Bevington said: "We are working on that. They will be top level, stellar opponents, quite possibly from South America."

He denied that Germany would provide the opposition, adding: "The Germans are not booked in for us."

The stadium is set to reopen after almost seven years with the first event this weekend's community day for local residents followed by England's Under-21 international against Italy on March 24, for which all 60,000 tickets were quickly snapped up on Monday.

These two 'ramp-up' events will test the facilities at the 90,000-capacity stadium in a bid to obtain a general safety certificate from Brent Council.

Until they are successful, the FA cannot confirm that Wembley will play host to the FA Cup final on May 19.

Bevington added on Sky Sports News: "We are not able to give any confirmation with regards to the FA Cup final.

"Until we have had the two ramp-up events and get the safety certificate it's not really going to be possible to do so.

"But we are increasingly confident. We are all working that we are on track to the FA Cup final.

"You can sense we are very excited about it but it would be foolish for us to confirm something until we are able to do so."