The meeting is at the behest of Manchester City and Melbourne City board member Simon Pearce, with Brisbane Roar chairman Chris Fong, of the Indonesian-owned Bakrie Group, revealing that top of the agenda is the owners' push to maintain the status quo of five visa places per club.

"That’s something we as owners have a really strong view on," said a revved up Fong. "We really don't want the number dropped to four next season as the FFA intends and are putting through a really strong case on that.

"You look at what players like Besart Berisha and Thomas Broich have brought to the competition and fans love watching these types of players. We should not be looking at cutting their numbers - for us it's a backwards step."

The owners, who will take their grievances back to FFA in a scheduled meeting with CEO David Gallop in Sydney in mid-December, are also looking at ways of cutting year-on-year losses, which will see them bleed a combined total approaching $20 million in 2014-2015.

"We just can’t keep on doing this," Fong said. "Western Sydney Wanderers and Melbourne Victory are the only two clubs that are making any money. The rest of us aren’t.

"The good thing is we are getting together and helping each other to make things sustainable in the future."

Also high on the agenda is reducing what the owners see as FFA's all pervasive grip over every detail of the competition.

Fong, for one, sees expansion as crucial and would like to see teams from Asia invited into the competition.

"For me, that’s where the growth will come," he said. "We can’t just keep adding teams from Australia because they won’t survive ... that’s already been proven by what happened in northern Queensland and the Gold Coast.

"I saw Frank Lowy quoted as saying he thinks another four clubs could eventually come in, Maybe you could have another two teams from Australia, but that’s probably stretching it.

"Beyond that maybe one or two out of Asia might work. I think we need to look at it.

"We, as owners, don't want to just sit back and be told what to do. We want to develop our own plans and models and present them as stakeholders."

On the issue of FFA’s all-encompassing autonomy on the game, Fong said: "It was all right in the early days of the league for the FFA to have a lot of control but they need start releasing it a bit.

"When it comes to the finals series we don't see any of the revenue from that at all and neither do we get to run it."

With the current four-year $160 million TV rights deal due to expire on 30 June 2017, the owners want a bigger share of the spoils.

"The next TV deal is going to be really important and we are driving that deal and want to see greater transparency in where the money goes,” the Roar chairman said.

"There's a $160 million and about $100 million goes to the clubs (over four years) and we don't think that's right and would like a greater share."

Beyond finances, the owners are also keen to have a greater say in the governance of the competition.

"The FFA is trying and David Gallop has been fantastic. But things need to happen faster and there are a lot of impatient owners," explained Fong.

"When you are losing large amounts of money combined and when see areas where you can make it up … you want to see action.

"None of us are interested in making money - we all just want to break even. That's the minimum we want."

Fong, Mariners boss Mike Charlesworth, Pearce and Perth Glory’s Tony Sage, met with English Premier League boss Richard Scudamore earlier this year to take a closer look at the English model.

They will also be heading to the United States soon to meet officials from New York Red Bulls and Washington’s DC United.

"We want to come up with a plan for the next 10 years of the A-League and how we want see it grow," said Fong.

"And we want a stronger say it that growth."