Nineteen double headers will have been played in the regular season with four already played to date.

Dowie, who holds 14 caps for England brings vast experience to the W-League after playing for a number of big clubs back home, including Everton and Liverpool.

She now plays her second season in the W-League for Victory and welcomes the double headers.

“It’s a great idea, more people come to watch the games and it’s great to play in stadiums like that with young girls as well and to just gain experience like that which is invaluable,” Dowie told FourFourTwo.

“Long may it continue and hopefully more people want to come watch the women’s game here because the league’s getting huge and you can tell with the amount of internationals who want to come and play.”

The Victory struggled last season finishing last after losing the majority of their key players to rival Melbourne City who won the Championship in their inaugural season in 2015/16.

Dowie elected to come back to the Victory after having faith in the team with the majority of young players in the squad featuring Young Matildas MelindaJ Barbieri an Annabel Martin.

Victory’s defensive woes continue after conceding seven goals in the opening two rounds, a 3-3 draw to Adelaide United last week and a 4-0 shellacking to Newcastle Jets on Sunday.

Dowie, who had experience playing against Manchester City in the past believes what the City Football Group have done in Melbourne has improved the standard of women’s football.

“I think it’s good for the women’s game, back home in England, they’re the benchmark there for the women’s game,” she said.

“The amount of money they’ve invested into their women’s team, for me it’s a case of pushing women’s football forward.

“Melbourne City dominated last season, they’ve got a very professional setup and other teams need to step up and follow in their footsteps otherwise they’ll be left behind.

“I think a lot of teams will be trying to do that this year and I definitely think this season will be a lot tougher than it was last year.”

Victory’s task does not get any easier as they play Sydney FC next week who have Matildas Kyah Simon, Alana Kennedy and Caitlin Foord in the squad.

Dowie has experience playing alongside Simon for National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) side Boston Breakers where they finished last in season 2016.

She still has faith Victory can push for finals in W-League season 2016/17.

“I came back to Victory to win and we’ve brought some quality players and have a coach (Jeff Hopkins) who’s been there and done it, he knows what it takes to be successful,” Dowie added.

“It’s early days, second game of the season, we were on a bit of a high last week coming back three times to get a draw and it was a good performance, to put in a performance like we have against the Jets was of course disappointing in front of a home crowd who were great.

“It’s just silly passes (against Newcastle), we had two turnovers and they score two goals so for us we didn’t learn from last week where we gave away three goals and today we’ve done the same so we need to work harder to cut out the silly errors and then we’ve got the quality to score goals.”