The 12th team to enter the A-League could become the first to tie its identity to an Aboriginal nation with the Macarthur-South West Sydney expansion team having registered a potential trading name that is influenced by its Indigenous people.

The Campbelltown-based club might enter the A-League in the 2020-21 season as "Dharawal Bulls Football Club", which is one of a handful of names the group has lodged with Australian government entities.

Brains trust: Macarthur-South West Sydney co-chairman Gino Marra (left) and Campbelltown mayor George Brticevic speak after the region's A-League expansion bid was given the green light in December. Credit:AAP

Searches of the IP Australia website and the Australian Business Registry have revealed a shortlist of names the Macarthur-South West Sydney team appear to have come up with - three of which are variations of the Aboriginal nation in which Campbelltown sits, Dharawal.

Among those found by The Herald include Dharawal Football Club, Dharawal FC and one which includes the moniker of "Bulls", which appears to be used in some of the other names lodged as possible businesses.