Football’s governing body is currently negotiating the next four-year cycle of the TV rights deal due to start for the 2017/2018 season with potential expansion teams also part of the discussion.

Speaking to EON Sports on our FourFourTwo Saturday program, Gallop said the next broadcast deal could be sorted out soon.

“I’m hopeful we’ll get some resolve over the next couple of months,” he said.

“The timing is still going to take a little while. We’re through an exclusive negotiating period with Fox Sports, and now we’re moving into a phase where were talking to everyone.

Gallop said that potential expansion teams were part of the negotiations as well.

“It will certainly be something that we look at,” he said. “It’s not just about an ability to demonstrate an ability to be sustainable in your geographical location.

"We are interested in places that will help us grow our broadcast revenue, grow our national sponsorship revenue and we’ll talk to broadcasters about expansion in the next period.

With Optus having the Premier League rights and the commercial TV networks also interested, Gallop said the FFA was hoping the deal would find a balance.

 “It’s about both [reach and revenue],” he said. “We all know that the game is in need of more revenue.

"That’s not only for the A-League, but to fund our grassroots programs, to fund our national team’s programs - in every area, the game needs more revenue.

“It’s also important we grow the reach of the game.  We’re interested in commercial free-to-air coverage of the game because that is still the number one way people are going to consume your product and we all know the power of getting ourselves on a commercial network.

"That will give us the reach but we’ve also got to make sure we protect the ability to raise revenue as well.

“Particularly when free to air broadcasters see our big games - big games like derbies, games like Sydney teams versus Melbourne teams - that there is an appetite there and we are pleased with the amount of interest that we’ve had.”