Adelaide Crows forward Kurt Tippett will have to wait until next month to try to find a new club, after opting against nominating for next week's national draft.

Tippett has been charged with draft tampering and player payment breaches in relation to contract arrangements he made with the Crows in 2009.

He will face the AFL Commission next Monday along with the Crows' chief executive Steven Trigg and former football manager John Reid.

The deadline for players to nominate for the AFL draft was on Tuesday afternoon.

After missing the cut-off, Tippett now has two options: re-sign with the Crows or nominate for the pre-season draft on December 11.

However, Adelaide's list manager, David Noble, has previously gone on record saying the Crows would not try and re-draft Tippett.

Speculation had mounted throughout 2012 that Tippett would seek to return to Queensland, most likely to the Gold Coast Suns.

However in October Tippett shocked his club by informing them he wanted to move to the 2012 premiers, Sydney.

Tippett said his decision was both for football and lifestyle reasons.

Adelaide and Sydney held negotiations to cut a deal to allow Tippett to join the Swans, but when the Crows admitted they had a secret agreement, outside the contract with the player, the AFL warned both clubs any trade deal would not be accepted.

The AFL's general manager football operations, Adrian Anderson, laid charges on Monday against Tippett, the Crows, Trigg and Reid over the arrangements.

The charges are that in September or October 2009, the accused engaged in "conduct prejudicial to the draft" and that between September 2009 and October 2012, they engaged in "conduct in breach of the Total Player Payments provisions in the Rules".

Trigg says he welcomes the chance to explain himself.

"The difficulty I think with everyone involved is that it is another week and it feels like it's been dragged out but that's the timelines that we've been given," he said.

"We're really looking forward to being able to explain our side of the story with the Commission and then after that with our members and supporters who have had a long wait with all of this.

"Unfortunately, we just ask them to be patient and wait for another week with it."

The AFL says the hearing, set for November 19, could last for two days.

Adelaide faces fines and possible loss of draft picks if found guilty, while Tippett could be suspended or deregistered from the competition.

Tippett has said he still wants to go to Sydney, even though other sides have expressed interest in the forward, including the Western Sydney Giants, who have just cleared $1 million a season off their salary cap with Israel Folau's decision to quit AFL.

On Tuesday, the Giants said they would now await the outcome of the Commission hearing and Tippett's decision on nomination for the pre-season draft.

"We obviously respect the AFL Commission hearing and await their findings. We also want to see the terms on which Kurt Tippett will nominate for the draft," Giants general manager football Graeme Allan said.

"We are naturally interested in a player of his calibre but a decision on drafting him will also be determined by affordability and with respect to the process outlined by the AFL."

The Giants have the first selection in the pre-season draft.