Scottish Professional Football League chief Neil Doncaster is ready to explore the possibility of a league game being played abroad, he said yesterday.

On the day Scotland’s top clubs celebrated a radical overhaul of the League Cup which landed them an £8 million windfall, Doncaster feels that no stone should be left unturned as the league continues to look at ways to expand its global reach.

One possible way is to play matches in other countries and after stories emerged last month that Celtic and Dundee are hoping to play a Premiership game in the United States, Doncaster backed the idea.