Australian football is at risk of falling behind all major codes in its support of Indigenous Australians with the game making one of the lowest financial contributions to grassroots programs and lacking a 'reconciliation action plan'.

Fairfax Media can reveal Football Federation Australia contributed just $10,000 towards indigenous football, slashing their annual funding in half from last year.

Investment in future: Shadeene Evans, 14, from Borroloola in the Northern Territory runs through some football drills at Westfield Sport High School. She was the first graduate of the John Moriarty Football program. Credit:Kate Geraghty

Sources suggest the FFA cut its funding for Australia's only rural Indigenous football program - John Moriarty Football - in a week where the organisation has publicly celebrated Indigenous football week, publicly promoting young players and coaches from Northern Territory program around the Socceroos' World Cup qualifier against the UAE.

A-League and Australian international players through their union, the PFA, raised approximately $8000 this year for John Moriarty Football and the Socceroos donated match appearance fees of $90,000 last year for the program.