The Australian Professional Football Clubs Association (APFCA) - the body representing A-League clubs - is currently meeting with FIFA, AFC and FFA representatives in a "working group" set up by FIFA to resolve the congress issue.

FIFA said the working group was an alternative to sacking the FFA board and replacing it with a "normalisation committee".

In its submission to the meeting, the APFCA said A-League clubs were on the brink of "insolvency" and Australian football was facing collapse if the congress makeup wasn't resolved.

"For the professional game the consequences of the continuance of the status quo are dire," their submission read.

"All critical commercial metrics associated with the professional game are in decline and our ability to arrest that trend is completely blocked by the congress issue.

"Professional clubs stand on the brink of joining the nine club administrations that have already become insolvent in the first 14 years of the A-League.

"There are clear symptoms of a potential impending catastrophic collapse of the professional game in Australia and these can be directly linked to the governance issue at hand."

In a difficult day for FFA, the APFCA also tried to have the organisation removed from the meeting and banned from future discussions, in addition to raising questions over the government body's finances and corporate structure.