By Press Association
Published: 14:28 BST, 4 April 2019 | Updated: 14:28 BST, 4 April 2019
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The Football Association is in talks about England Women playing friendlies in the autumn in bigger stadiums.
The Lionesses face Canada on Friday at the Academy Stadium, the home ground of Manchester City Women which has a capacity of 7,000.
The match, which has sold out, is the first of four home friendlies for Phil Neville's side ahead of this summer's World Cup in France.
The FA is in talks about England Women playing friendlies in the autumn in bigger stadiums
They take on Spain at Swindon's Energy Check County Ground on Tuesday, then Denmark at Walsall's Banks's Stadium on May 25 and New Zealand at Brighton's Amex Stadium a week later.
The FA's director of women's football Baroness Sue Campbell was quoted by the BBC as saying: 'We're having conversations with much bigger stadiums.
'Should the Lionesses do really well this summer, I
