NSL giants Adelaide City and West Adelaide have been invited to be part of an independent Australian soccer association intent on setting up a national second division.

SA’s national premier league clubs MetroStars, Western Strikers and Para Hills have also responded to being part of a master plan to give all clubs sanctioned by Football Federation SA and Football Federation Australia a relevant voice at board level.

FIFA has demanded FFA change its congress by the end of March to give the game’s stakeholders a say, which hey have not had since 2004.

Other SA NPL clubs have also been approached but are yet to respond.

A proposed meeting between some of the leading powerbrokers from what were Australia’s most successful clubs before the A-League kicked off in 2005 is due to be held in Melbourne on March 20, with a new national second tier competition potentially on the agenda.

West Adelaide chairman Alex Alexandrou is planning to attend the historic new “Association of NPL clubs” meeting, first fuelled by discontent among Victoria’s leading NPL clubs.

“It’s about NPL getting a voice, we go to meetings with FFSA and a lot of our concerns fall on deaf ears,’’ Alexandrou said on Monday.

“We are relevant, we are stakeholders of the game, we need to be heard — we are the heart of grassroots football and we are the game’s foundations.”

West, which became the first SA club to win a national league championship in any sport when it claimed the now defunct National Soccer League title in 1978, is in the midst of building a multi-million dollar Kilburn Sportsplex.

It’s understood three time NSL winner Adelaide City will not have representatives at the March 20 meeting due to the timing but key directors are keen to be involved in the new association.

Adelaide City directors have also planned a meeting with FFSA president Sam Ciccarello within a fortnight in an effort to discuss the disconnect between FFA, FFSA and grassroots clubs.