SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster has offered encouragement to Dundee in their bid to take a Premiership clash against Celtic to the United States, describing it as an “exciting concept”.
The Dens Park club’s US owners are exploring the prospect of staging a domestic match outside Scotland for the first time.
Yesterday’s fixture list announcement, as well as comments from Doncaster, have kept the American dream alive.
Dundee are due to play Celtic in Tayside twice in the new season, and the second of those fixtures is on a date (March 18) that would suit the two clubs to take it across the Atlantic.
The home of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles is thought to be the first choice for the Dark Blues’ American ‘home’ game.
Doncaster said: “I think it’s important we have an open mind to these sorts of initiatives.
“We need as many people as possible to be watching the Scottish game, if there is a way of taking a game overseas, we’re duty bound to look at it.
“It’s certainly an exciting concept and we know there’s a huge interest in America in Scottish football, and I can see why that might be attractive.”
Courier Sport understands that at the last SPFL Board meeting no formal application for the fixture switch had been made.
And even if the SPFL voted for it, the SFA, Uefa and Fifa would all have to give it their approval.
