The GAA's management committee and central council are to meet this weekend to consider allowing Páirc Uí Chaoimh to host the Liam Miller tribute match, RTÉ Sport understands.

The charity game between Manchester United and Celtic-Ireland Legends selections, which will benefit the late Republic of Ireland midfielder's family, is currently set to take place at Turner's Cross on 25 September.

All 7,000 tickets for the home of Cork City FC sold out in minutes last week however, and pressure has grown on the GAA to sanction the use of the revamped 45,000 capacity Páirc Uí Chaoimh to host the match.

The GAA's initial response was to issue a statement insisting that the use of any stadium other than Croke Park for non-GAA sports was "prohibited under rule" and could only be changed at Congress but this week they met with the organisers of the tribute game.

It is now expected that the GAA's 16-member management committee, comprising provincial council representatives and elected members, will meet tonight and consider allowing the game to go ahead.

That would have to be ratified on Saturday by a special meeting of Central Council, which has the power to over-ride the relevant rule and "sanction use of GAA facilities, from time to time, for field sports and for such other purposes it considers not to be in conflict with the aims and objectives of the association".

Many GAA members, including the Gaelic Players Association, have come out publicly to support the game being hosted at Páirc Uí Chaoimh with the GPA saying "the decision being taken on this issue is not in line with our values as sportspeople and it should be revisited".

Miller, who played for Celtic, Manchester United, Sunderland and Cork City over the course of a 16-year career, died in February at the age of 36 after a battle with cancer.