The FA are in talks about England Women playing at bigger stadiums after this summer’s World Cup.
The Lionesses face Canada tonight in a sold-out friendly at Manchester City’s Academy Stadium, which has a capacity of 7,000.
England manager Phil Neville this week said Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal should “throw open” their grounds for women’s matches.
Chelsea’s Maren Mjelde, a Norway international, has called for more opportunities to play in front of big crowds in England after the Blues beat PSG in the Champions League in front of around 13,200 people.
The popularity of the women’s game is growing and the FA’s head of women’s football, Baroness Campbell, said: “We are having conversations with much bigger stadiums.
"Should the Lionesses do really well this summer, I think we are on a very different trajectory into the autumn than we are right now.”
England play Spain at Swindon’s County Ground on Tuesday. Then in May they have World Cup warm-up fixtures against Denmark at Walsall’s Banks’s Stadium and New Zealand at Brighton’s Amex Stadium.
