Phil Neville wants England’s Lionesses to dominate Europe during his reign and is keen for Chelsea Ladies and Manchester City to start by showing the way this season.

The Women’s Super League big guns are through to the Champions League semi-finals and will face two of the continent’s established leading lights this month.

Neville’s immediate priority is to ensure his England side rediscover their scoring touch and defeat Bosnia and Herzegovina in Zenica on Tuesday afternoon. The World Cup qualifier against Wales in Southampton on Friday ended in a frustrating 0-0 draw so nothing less than three points on Tuesday will do for Neville.

Beyond that, however, the England manager wants the country’s leading domestic sides to prove their growing strength on the biggest stage in the women’s club game. When Chelsea Ladies play Wolfsburg and Manchester City Women tackle France’s reigning European champions Lyon over two legs on 22 and 29 April, Neville will be willing the WSL teams to make it an all-English final. “Maybe two years ago with City playing Lyon, Wolfsburg playing Chelsea, you’d have probably said, ‘You know what, they’re both going to go out,’” Neville said.

“Do you know what? It wouldn’t surprise me if we have an all-England final. And that’s what we need because the WSL is getting better and better and the best players are now coming to the WSL. They are big games those semi-finals and hopefully our girls can do themselves proud.”

Neville was in Spain last month to see Lyon edge out Barcelona in their quarter-final, bolstering his rapidly developing knowledge of the women’s game and watching the England stars Toni Duggan and Lucy Bronze in action. Both left Manchester City last summer, the striker Duggan moving to Barcelona and the right-back Bronze joining Lyon.

“I was sat with the Barcelona women’s president, we had the Lyon president there as well. And you know what? Their best two players are Lucy Bronze and Toni Duggan,” Neville said.

The Arsenal striker Beth Mead could land a second cap on Tuesday. The forward Fran Kirby and left-back Demi Stokes have missed the trip because of injury and illness respectively.