"Cup competitions around the world have home and away legs and I see this [finals series] as no different. You should adopt what football fans all around the world and Australia understand, and that is the system for cup games," he said. "I don't think it will be hard to educate the non-football people."

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However, any change appears unlikely to happen for next season as the FFA is already deep in the process of planning its schedule. With the competition expanding to 11 teams with the introduction of Western United, the duration of the A-League regular season will extend by an additional two weeks to account for the introduction of byes. That would make it difficult to account for the extra games required for a home-and-away finals series. Though, there remains a chance two-legged finals' games could be make a return in the 2020-21 season while a grand final remaining as a standalone event.

"This season is already locked away and one of the reasons we are reducing the games to 26 rounds is because there are byes in the season which extends the season to 29 weeks," FFA's Head of A-League, Greg O'Rourke, said. "However, the following season when there are 12 teams, we are back to 26 weeks and we could have a look at it."

By then, it is possible the FFA won't have full control over the operation of the A-League which is set to become independent of the organisation and governed by the clubs by June 30 this year.