FIFA's Member Associations department is ramping up support for a large restructure of Australian football's governance as Football Federation Australia comes under increasing pressure to relinquish control.

Fairfax Media can reveal the governing body of world football is becoming more active in the long-term push for promotion and relegation, beginning with the establishment of a national second tier as well as giving National Premier League clubs a seat at the FFA congress.

Relegation push: FIFA is becoming more active in the pursuit of a second-tier Australian competition. Credit:ARND WIEGMANN

An Association of Australian Football Clubs alliance of at least 81 of the 129 NPL clubs came with the blessing of FIFA, who are now offering active support to the organisation ahead of Monday's meeting in Melbourne to define their objectives and course to establish a second division.

The Member Associations department is understood to be impressed by the speed the AAFC has gathered pledged membership of more than two-thirds in just a week, where they jokingly compared their advancements to uprisings, labelling it "the Australian spring".