Football Federation Australia today launched the fixture list for next season with a series of blockbusters in the first few rounds.

"We've taken a lot of time to reflect on season six and taken the contributions from our major stakeholders, our fans, sponsors, media groups," he said.

"Football needs its own clean airspace and it belongs at the start of October.

"With the Socceroos playing on October 7, it's a spot we want to claim with some very clear objectives: to make it highly popular, world class, to be sustainable, and be more accessible for fans, the 1.7 million people who touch our game at the weekend, year on year.

"It's a really exciting moment for us. There's some tremendous innovation in that which we are really pleased about.

"There's the very family friendly midweek games which we've collapsed into a very tight window around the school holiday period in all of our markets so families can make that more accessible.

"Historically it was hard on them - Wednesday midweek, September and February and so on - to get mums and dads and kids to come out.

He defended January 4's midweek marathon games which sees five games back to back on a normal working Wednesday instead of opting got the public holiday on the Monday two days earlier.

"The positioning is very clear, to make a big strong statement in January when people are on holidays, relaxed," he said.

"Here is a major showcase for football that we will wrap a lot of marketing and engagement around. It should be a tremendous day and exciting."

Luckless Sydney must face four of the top clubs from last season in their first four games of the season, while Adelaide will again travel twice to play Victory in one season...but Victory again have two "away" games against local rivals Heart.

Gorman added: "There's lots of exciting work in that - upfront there's a lot of marquee derby matches which is a very strategic part of our statement about football taking over summer in Australia - and we will do that."

"We are looking at a whole range of innovations around marketing spend, broadcasting and the way we are going to present the game as a television package, regular timeslots...

"There's so much to look forward to for our fanbase coming up."