AAMI Park will be Melbourne Victory’s Asian Champions League home in 2016.

Victory played two of its three ACL games at Etihad Stadium in its 2014 campaign, but a desire to succeed in Asia has led Victory to reject a better commercial deal to make an in-principle agreement with Melbourne and Olympic Parks.

Chairman Anthony Di Pietro also revealed that ACL tickets will be bundled into Victory’s A-League membership package, at a ‘reduced rate’.

Victory is desperate to create a footprint in Asia, with work well underway to create an Asian arm of its successful Victory in Business coterie.

While Victory remains commercially obliged to play five games at Etihad, Di Pietro revealed that they would be A-League games and hoped the ACL crowds would lift with the move to AAMI Park, where six A-League games sold out last season.

“It’s highly likely that we’ll have it (ACL games) at AAMI. We’re close, we haven’t signed off,’’ Di Pietro said.

“We’ve had a craving to get out of the group stages and really make an impact deep into Asia and we believe we’ve built a depth in the squad, a knowledge of Asia and a balance between not compromising our ability to go deep in the A-League with our attempts to succeed in Asia. We want to have a go at the lot.

“We will also reward members with our new membership packages. They’ll be subsidised by the club at a cost to enter the Asian Champions League games at a much better rate than the general public.

“We want all of our membership to get behind it, we want to create a 12th man, it gives us another opportunity for success.’’

After a turbulent few years at Victory, on-field success was underlined with another stellar season off the field.

In a season where a share sale valued the club at around $25m, Victory will soon announce another $1m-plus profit, which Di Pietro has vowed to reinvest.

“We posted a profit last year, we’ll post a similar operating profit this year,’’ he said.

“Although we’re shareholder owned, we have never ever taken dividends, we reinvest every cent back into the club.

“We’re saving up for our investment in the rollout of our academy programs — so community and junior development is where the money’s going.’’

Di Pietro said coach Kevin Muscat was determined to continue on after a title-winning season.

“We want to back up what we’ve done,’’ Di Pietro said.

“It’s been a period where we’ve built our success off the park with every measurement, but it really feels hollow until you’ve backed that up and achieved on the park and that’s what it’s all about.

“Football first is paramount in our vision and we now need to be successful continuously and be sustainable with that.

“We want to hit the ground running again with the A-League, the FFA Cup and at the same time Asia.’’