SA is the rogue soccer state of Australia, and FFA boss Ben Buckley is advocating change.

The Football Federation Australia chief executive was appalled by the brawl that marred an SA Amateur Soccer League division-four clash between Maiwand and Seaford Rangers at the North Adelaide university grounds on Sunday.

But Buckley's challenge is now bringing the SA game together after Football Federation SA - the body endorsed by FFA and FIFA - has not been able to unite the sport.

"It's time for all the football community in South Australia to be united and affiliated," Buckley said. "This violent incident, there's no place for it at any level."

Buckley is seeking a meeting after Sunday's brawl indicated the game was not moving forward because an SA soccer majority had not adhered to the 2003 Crawford Report - a revolutionary document that changed governance and other areas of the game.

The report recommended "existing state soccer federations, associations and leagues, including those currently unaffiliated, undertake to amalgamate with Soccer Australia's (FFA) recognised state member affiliate".

Sunday's episode may have avoided a flashpoint if the game was played under one national constitution - eight years after the Crawford findings were released.

The SAASL distanced itself from FFSA affiliation when the relationship between the feuding bodies hit an all-time low in 2008.

The FFSA was also under threat from its member clubs this year when club chiefs voiced a number of concerns prompting the body to conduct an "independent review".

Buckley is determined to meet officials from the FFSA and the State Government to define a clear pathway for soccer after Minister for Sport Tom Kenyon threatened to withdraw all funding grants from the SAASL after Sunday's events.

Kenyon was planning to meet SAASL officials next week to discuss why the State Government should continue to hand over funding to the association, which is one of the last frontiers outside of the sanctioned FFA.

Powerful Football NSW, Northern NSW Football, Football Federation Victoria and Football Queensland - four bodies housing more than half of the nation's 1.7 million registered players - declared that only a minority of footballers from schools and church soccer associations in those states were not affiliated to the FFA.

And the ACT's Capital Football, Football West, Football Federation Tasmania and Football Northern Territory all stated more than 80 per cent who played the game were affiliated with the FFA and FIFA.