Football Federation Australia chief David Gallop does not expect FIFA to intervene in the administration of the local game, despite the FFA's looming failure to meet key deadlines for the transition to a more democratic membership.

FIFA has warned that it could take the extreme option of putting in place a "normalising committee" to replace the FFA board and oversee the reform process if the FFA fails to reach consensus for a new congress. So far, the FFA's efforts have resulted in stalemate.

The world governing body has already warned Australia it will take matters into its own hands if the reforms are not forthcoming and has already proved it is willing to act when national football associations have become mired down in domestic political battles. In 2016, FIFA introduced normalising committees in Argentina and Guinea. On both occasions, the board, president and general managers of those federations were replaced with temporary transitional committees.

Currently, the FFA's negotiations with its three key stakeholders - the state federations, the A-League clubs and the players' union (The PFA) - have become fractured, causing delays to the all-important reform process. But Gallop believes the stalemate will not result in an intervention from Zurich.