TASMANIA will host one of the season's most-anticipated A-League matches on Saturday - but it wants more than that in the future.

Melbourne Victory and Central Coast Mariners clash at Launceston's Aurora Stadium in a battle between first and third that would be the biggest soccer game played in the state, Football Federation Tasmania chief executive John Boulous said.



Victory will play one home game a year in Launceston for at least the next two years and Boulous hopes Football Federation Australia will see fit to send a game a year to Hobart as well.



But in the long term, Boulous said the dream for Tasmania was to have an A-League team.



"That's the aspiration," Boulous said.



"But it's certainly a way off. In talking to the FFA, the league is embedded for a while, but the Tasmanian Government are of a similar opinion to us in that we want to get the local game strong, get a strong relationship with an A-League club - which we have now with Victory - and get a program of games down here so we can help create hype.



"Who knows then where we can go from there."



Victory will donate $5 of every adult ticket sold and $3 from every concession ticket to the Tasmanian bushfires appeal.



"We'd be very hopeful of a crowd around the 6000-7000 mark," Boulous said.

Originally published asTassie's hand up for more