The AFL’s 18th club will be unveiled tonight as the Greater Western Sydney Giants after a search of trademark applications revealed the club’s nickname and jumper ahead of tonight's official launch.



Documents on the IP Australia website show the AFL sought to register two names for the new club, including the abbreviated ‘"GWS Giants".



As well as the name for the new club, the league lodged two jumper designs for trademarking, unveiling what is almost certain to be the club’s different strips for home-and-away matches.



According to images on the website, the club will have an orange and black or grey color scheme with a stylised ‘‘G’’ on its front.



In the applications, the AFL has sought to protect a wide range of potential uses of the new name and jumpers, including an exhaustive list of merchandising, from clothes, computer games, sporting cards, books and magazines and films.



The revelation of the club’s name and colours follows this website's report on Friday that the league had registered two potential names for the club - Wolves and Giants - in August.



GWS, which will officially unveil its nickname, colours and its first major sponsor tonight, had been seeking public feedback about a suitable moniker and club colours since February.



Team GWS ran a website - nametheteam.com.au - which gave footy fans the chance to vote on the potential nicknames - Giants, Rangers, Warriors and Wolves.



There was speculation the expansion club - which will join the league in 2012 and play in next year's NAB Cup competition - would drop 'Greater' from its name but it appears the second club in New South Wales had decided to retain the GWS acronym.



Late today the AFL refused to confirm whether the expansion franchise would be known as the Greater Western Sydney Giants.



‘‘All will be revealed at 9pm tonight,’’ the spokesman said.