The A-League is in advanced talks with football's lawmaking body over a world-first trial for the live broadcast of Video Assistant Referee communications in match venues and on television next season.

Discussions between the league and the International Football Association Board (IFAB), which is charged with overseeing the laws of the game, have ramped up over the last month and could see Australia emerge as a test market for changes to the way the controversial technology is presented.

Referee Kurt Ams checks the VAR monitor before deciding to give Rhyan Grant a red card on Sunday. Getty Images

It comes after a weekend in which the A-League was hailed around the world for its transparency around refereeing, with two clips - one of referee Chris Beath explaining a contentious handball decision on Friday night, the other a VAR review discussion that was played on Fox Sports after Sydney FC's win on Sunday - going viral and attracting nearly three million views on social media.

The second clip, which saw Rhyan Grant's yellow card for a dangerous tackle upgraded to a red, is an example of how the VAR pilot program would work.

A-League and refereeing sources have told the Herald that the competition was asked by IFAB to submit a proposed written protocol for the experiment, which was discussed at the organisation's annual business meeting in Belfast earlier this month.

According to IFAB's website: "The meeting ended with a detailed update on the worldwide use of VARs and in particular, the growing demand for more immediate information about the referee’s final decisions after a VAR-review. The members agreed to explore different communication options to improve the understanding of the decision-making process."

The A-League has long been at the forefront of the use of VAR - it was the first top-level competition in the world to implement the system and could now be one of the first to help supporters understand how and why certain decisions are made, having advocated for that outcome for some time.

"We've been working closely with IFAB to allow the communications that people saw post-match [on Sunday] to be live, and communication both on broadcast and in stadia," A-League chief Greg O'Rourke told the Herald.

"We don't want the VAR to be a focal point of the game, but when it is brought into action, we need to make sure our fans understand the communication and the decision-making and we think the feedback we've had to our clips would support this.

"What you can see here already is when it is transparent, whilst not everybody agrees with the decision, they at least understand the process and the reasoning."

'The way it was all communicated and handled was spot on. It's exactly what you want from the VAR.' Football Coaches Association president Phil Moss on Sunday's VAR review

IFAB has long been conservative when it comes to the broadcasting of referee communications, with their concerns believed to revolve around the potential for translation or interpretation issues for officials who speak multiple languages.

But pressure is mounting on IFAB to make changes to VAR, with many coaches, players and fans around the world calling for it to be scrapped altogether.

Under the terms of the trial being discussed, only communications during pitch-side VAR reviews would be broadcast - referee microphones would not be activated at any other time.

The idea has significant support across the game - including from coaches, many of whom in the A-League have been regularly angered by VAR interventions and arguably have the most to lose through its use.

The use of the VAR has caused widespread anger amongst players, coaches and fans in the English Premier League. Getty Images

The two advocacy bodies for coaches and referees - Football Coaches Australia (FCA) and the Professional Football Referees Association (PFRA) - met at Netstrata Jubilee Stadium on Sunday in what was thought to be an Australian-first summit to discuss the perceived overuse of VAR and improve relations and understanding.

FCA president Phil Moss was actually wired into the referee communication system for Sydney's 2-1 win over Melbourne City, allowing him to hear every word uttered by officials during the match and to listen to Grant's VAR review as it happened.

"There were a few myths that were busted, from a point of view of referees not understanding football or the tactics," Moss said.

"We can't deny technology's going to be involved in our game now because you'd be crazy not to use it. When Kris-Griffith Jones jumped in as the VAR over the Rhyan Grant tackle, the way it was all communicated and handled was spot-on.

"It's exactly what you want from the VAR - Kurt [Ams, referee] got it wrong in the moment, VAR over-ruled that and I don't think even Stevie Corica or Rhyan would argue that wasn't the right decision."