Rangers are reportedly set to strike a deal with the Scottish FA to play their home matches at Hampden Park at the beginning of the new season.

Ibrox is currently out of use due to ongoing construction works being carried out on the Copland Road stand.

It became clear around a fortnight ago that the stadium would not be fit for purpose for the opening games of the Scottish Premiership campaign, as well as the club's Champions League qualifiers.

This has left chairman John Bennett the conundrum of trying to find Rangers a temporary stop-gap to meet the demand of the 50,000-strong Rangers home support - leaving realistically only Hampden and Murrayfield as viable options.

It seems the former is a goer, with the Daily Record reporting that Rangers are on the brink of tying up a deal to play there.

They state that conversations with the SFA have been described as ‘extremely complicated,' but they are confident an agreement could be signed off by next week.

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Discussions with Scottish Rugby remain ongoing over the possibility of renting Murrayfield too. The Edinburgh stadium has a capacity of 67,000, and Rangers will play Manchester United in a friendly match there this summer.

SFA president Mike Mulraney and chief executive Ian Maxwell are keen to facilitate Philippe Clement and his players though, it's said.

A contingency plan is set to be triggered, with the pitch at the national stadium due to be relayed following P!nk's concert recently. 

Scotland's first game back at Hampden is on September 5 against Poland in the Nations League.

A date in which the works being carried out at Ibrox will be finished has yet to be finalised, with delays to materials causing havoc.