Doig was speaking after Scottish teams were confirmed for the netball, men's basketball and men's rugby sevens competitions in the Australian city.

He admitted that it would be hard to surpass the record Scottish Commonwealth Games medal haul - which they achieved on home soil at the last edition in Glasgow in 2014.

It means the best overseas performance - the 29 medals won at Melbourne 2006 - is the target the country are aiming for.

"We've set our target of next year being our best ever overseas Games," said Doig, as reported by the News & Star.

"Our previous best was Australia in 2006. 

"The programme is actually very similar.

"This time basketball is back and the only additional sport is beach volleyball and we're very hopeful that our teams for that event will qualify.

"But otherwise we have a like-for-like comparison there.

"Everybody selected for individual sports has been set a qualifying standard that is based on a top-six performance.

"If you are there based on a top-six performance then hopefully you can push on into the medal zone."

Scotland's performance in Glasgow saw them win 53 medals, including 19 golds.

Their most successful sport was judo, where they won 13 medals, but the martial art is not on the Gold Coast 2018 programme.

"It's going to be tough and one of the major aspects is that basketball has come in and judo has gone out," said Doig.

"So those will be tough medals for us to replace." 

Gold Coast 2018 will run between April 4 and 15 next year.