THE AFL is set to adopt a policy of total transparency over its financial aid to clubs.

For the first time, all clubs will know in detail what monetary help their rivals are getting from the league - and for what the money is intended.

The transparency measure will be discussed at this week's AFL chief executives conference on the Gold Coast and means an unprecedented level of accountability for clubs.

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In the AFL's 2012 annual report, the league recorded distributions of equal and disequal payments totalling $30.6 million to the 18 clubs from the club future fund.

Figures for the 2013 season have not yet been made available.

Melbourne and Brisbane have already won additional funding from the AFL this year after meeting strict league demands about boardroom appointments, while several other clubs are expected to post big losses.

Clubs are set to be briefed on work the AFL has done on what it regards as the minimum level of football department spending needed to allow teams to be competitive.

It is understood the league will also outline a proposed new model for distributing money from the club future fund from 2015, as part of its broader equalisation strategies.

The AFL has taken a more aggressive approach to revenue sharing and equalisation this year and sent a delegation of club chiefs and league bosses on a fact-finding mission to the United States in July.

Also up for discussion will be more immediate equalisation strategies, such at the $2 ticket levy that was revealed by the Herald Sun last month.

The league has already trialled variable ticket pricing, and has considered a blockbuster tax that would put a levy on the season's best games.

Also on the agenda will be the vexed issue of the recruitment of coaches from other clubs.

Port Adelaide was last week left to bemoan the loss of its coaching director Alan Richardson when he was made senior coach of St Kilda.

The Power was most concerned about the timing of St Kilda's decision to sack Scott Watters, meaning a replacement would need to be found from a rival club that already had its 2014 coaching line-up in place.

While there are non-binding guidelines set by the AFL Coaches' Association, Port Adelaide last Thursday arranged with the AFL for the topic to be added to the CEOs conference agenda.

The AFL Commission is due to meet on the Gold Coast tomorrow and Wednesday. It will also deal with revenue sharing and equalisation issues as well as hearing reports from expansion clubs.