Dundee's managing director John Nelms hopes the club will have plans in place by the end of the summer to play a Scottish Premiership fixture against Celtic in America.

The Dens Park club are in talks to host a home league match with the champions abroad, in what would be a first for the Scottish game, and hope to schedule it for the 2016/17 campaign.

Nelms admits Philadelphia is one of the preferred cities to play the fixture with Boston also being speculated as a possible venue.

While it is proving to be a complicated process, Nelms is positive the historic fixture can be set in stone across the next few months.

"We are continuing to work on it," he explained. "There are loads of things to do to make a match like that happen, all the way from the pitch and up to tax implications.

"It's not nearly as simple as everybody thinks, it's a long process that we've been working on for quite a long time.

"I'm very confident that if it can happen it will happen. I would like it to come to fruition by the end of the summer. We should have some clarity by then if we're going to do it or not."

The club confirmed in their season ticket statement earlier this year they wanted fans to be aware negotiations were in place to play one of next season's home matches in America.

Nelms believes the proposal, which was first discussed in November, would help raise the profile of the Scottish game.

He continued: "Any-time that we can take a match like that in front of an audience we can get greater exposure from I think we should do that. Any time we can expand our brand that's what we need to be doing.

"The more eyes that we get, not just on Dundee but the Scottish game, the more valuable our organisation is as a whole, and by that I mean the SPFL."