Susan Alberti with Bulldog Nicole Callinan after the latest AFLW grand final. Credit:Hamish Blair

Women's football pioneer Susan Alberti has slammed a proposed six-match AFLW home-and-away season as an insult to all women involved in "the great game of AFL" and instead proposed starting the expanded league earlier.

The 2018 Victorian of the Year and former Western Bulldogs vice-president joined the ranks of prominent women in footy to speak out against reports the league has decided the next AFLW season will remain an eight-week competition, including two weeks of finals.

This, despite the league expanding to 10 teams.

"My first reaction to this, in one world, is: insulting,” Alberti said.