Team Canada general manager Scott Stevenson has set his sights on a third-place finish in the Commonwealth Games medal table this summer.

Canada amassed 75 medals, including 26 golds, in Delhi four years ago, a tally that left them fourth in the table behind Australia, host nation India and England.

Stevenson is expecting the traditional powerhouses of Australia and England to lead the way once more in Glasgow, but is hopeful that they can climb back up to third having named their largest ever roster for an overseas Games.

"We believe that we're going to be in and around third place. We were fourth in Delhi, India had a pretty solid and large team there. We're anticipating that we're going to be back in a place where we're pushing the Aussies and the English a little better than we did back then," he told reporters.

"Scotland is going to have a really strong team, [New Zealand] have a bigger team here than they have had, and the Welsh have a bigger team than they've had. With all these home nations it is a strong group from the UK, but we do believe that third place is about where we should be. We're not getting into actual numbers."

The 2014 Commonwealth Games get underway in Glasgow tomorrow.