ADELAIDE United will field at least one team in SA’s NPL state league next year.

Adelaide’s football director/chief executive Michael Petrillo confirmed the Reds have been granted permission from Football Federation SA to play its second side in the local competition.

Petrillo was also hoping FFSA would grant the club a reserves spot and an under 18 spot with that squad perhaps made up from youngsters selected in SA’s national training centre program.

“The state league team has been confirmed and now we’re just waiting for confirmation on the reserve team and how it will look with an under 18 team feeding into a reserves team,’’ Petrillo said.

“We’ve had discussions with the board of FFSA and they’re ongoing and we’re talking to their technical department.

“Hopefully we’ll have acceptance of the reserves teams in the next two or three weeks.

“We’ve also had discussions on how the under 18 team would look, whether that’s our own team or perhaps the NTC team,’’ he said.

“Negotiations still had to be had with FFSA. The clubs and FFSA have been very good.”