FFA chief executive Ben Buckley claims rivals codes are willing to shelve self-interest and back the country's bold bid to host the 2018 World Cup.
If Australia is successful in securing the planet's biggest sporting event in 10 years time, domestic football competitions would be forced to shift venues and re-structure their fixture lists as all major stadia would be required for the World Cup.
But that's a prospect rugby league, union and Australian rules are happy to accept, according to Buckley.
"We obviously realise the World Cup will fall in the middle of some of the other sports' seasons," Buckley said after the FFA received $45.6m from the Federal Government to fund its World Cup bid.
"We've already had preliminary discussions with the major codes - the AFL, the NRL and the ARU.
"We've outlined the broad strategy of our plan. We've informed them we will keep them fully consulted along the way.
"We would work with them to find a solution to their fixturing issues and we would try to do that in a constructive and positive way.
"I can only say that the feedback we've got so far has been nothing but positive."
Asked why football had received this unprecedented show of support from rival codes, Buckley said: "I don't want to put words into the mouths of other sports but I think all of them realise the impact that the World Cup can have on Australia.
"The economic benefits to Australia and the benefits to how Australia is perceived internationally - they recognise that, they understand that and they're supportive of that.
"But clearly we have to work with them to make sure there is a minimal impact on their seasons and we intend to do that.
"We've already set up a process to do that with one of the major sports and we'll seek to do that with the others.
"There are a number of solutions we are looking at."
The cash-conscious FFA also confirmed it would not be tipping in extra money to fund the bid.
It will rely solely on the Federal Government's generous handout.
"We have $45m. This is the budget that we have and this is the budget we are going to spend," FFA chairman Frank Lowy said. "FFA has got no money to put into this."
But that's a prospect rugby league, union and Australian rules are happy to accept, according to Buckley.
"We obviously realise the World Cup will fall in the middle of some of the other sports' seasons," Buckley said after the FFA received $45.6m from the Federal Government to fund its World Cup bid.
"We've already had preliminary discussions with the major codes - the AFL, the NRL and the ARU.
"We've outlined the broad strategy of our plan. We've informed them we will keep them fully consulted along the way.
"We would work with them to find a solution to their fixturing issues and we would try to do that in a constructive and positive way.
"I can only say that the feedback we've got so far has been nothing but positive."
Asked why football had received this unprecedented show of support from rival codes, Buckley said: "I don't want to put words into the mouths of other sports but I think all of them realise the impact that the World Cup can have on Australia.
"The economic benefits to Australia and the benefits to how Australia is perceived internationally - they recognise that, they understand that and they're supportive of that.
"But clearly we have to work with them to make sure there is a minimal impact on their seasons and we intend to do that.
"We've already set up a process to do that with one of the major sports and we'll seek to do that with the others.
"There are a number of solutions we are looking at."
The cash-conscious FFA also confirmed it would not be tipping in extra money to fund the bid.
It will rely solely on the Federal Government's generous handout.
"We have $45m. This is the budget that we have and this is the budget we are going to spend," FFA chairman Frank Lowy said. "FFA has got no money to put into this."
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