Hopes of a breakthrough in the bitter dispute over the make up of the voting structure of Football Federation Australia appear to have faded after some last minute manoeuvring from FFA chairman Steven Lowy.

Just when it seemed a resolution had been sorted, Lowy is understood to have convinced a number of wavering state and territory federations to side with the head body in the battle with the A-League clubs and Professional Footballers Australia over voting rights.

It is understood the states, territories, PFA and the clubs, which met without the FFA on Wednesday night, had made significant progress in terms of an agreement on the make up of the FFA Congress and were quietly confident it would be agreed to at a meeting with a FIFA delegation this morning

However, Lowy got wind of the meeting and subsequently held talks with a number of the states and territory federations.

As a result, the impasse that had dragged Australian soccer into the gutter looks like continuing and will almost certainly lead to FIFA being forced to intervene.

That would see the current FFA board disbanded with the world governing body bringing in a normalisation committee to ensure that a new voting structure is implemented.

Under the current system, the FFA Congress, the decision making arm of the sport, is made up of 10 votes — the nine state and territory federations have a vote each and the A-League clubs one vote between the 10 of them.

The clubs want as many as six votes while the PFA is a demanding at least one, if not two votes.

This morning’s meeting is expected to drag on for some time.