WEST Coast CEO Trevor Nisbett isn't expecting an AFL reserves competition to take shape "any time soon", despite the hotly debated topic again being discussed in football circles.  

Reports suggest the League is considering a national second-tier competition for 2022, the year the current broadcast rights deal ends.

AFL football operations boss Steve Hocking has visited Perth to meet with WA football stakeholders and a reserves competition - with potentially huge ramifications for the WAFL and SANFL in particular – was on the agenda. 

"I don't think that's going to happen any time soon, that was Steve's message," Nisbett said.

"I think it gets down to cost as well, not just whether we'd like to play in one, but we'd be very hopeful our (West Coast's) first season in the WAFL is a success and we're competitive, and hopefully we can just build from there."

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The Eagles' WAFL team will play their historic first match in April against Perth at newly named Mineral Resources Park, the Demons' traditional home formerly known as Lathlain Park where West Coast's new headquarters will be based. 

West Coast chairman Russell Gibbs announced a five-year naming rights deal with the WA mining company on Friday.

The Eagles are currently building their $60m facility and hoped to shift the football department before round one, but now won't relocate from Subiaco Oval until at least the end of June.

"It is coming along well, but sometimes these things it's the last bits that take a bit longer than one would hope," Gibbs said.  

West Coast has trained at both venues for the past 18 months, with the MCG-sized secondary oval at the club's new home playing a part in last year's premiership triumph.  

Gibbs wasn't concerned about potential disruption moving mid-season to the "world class" facility.  

"I was talking to (coach) Adam (Simpson) the other night about it. I don't know, maybe we want to keep them lean and mean and keen (at the old facility)," he joked.

"But there's no doubt it's got to have some (on-field) benefit."

The Wirrpanda Foundation and the Eagles' NAB AFL Women's team, set to enter the competition next year, will also be based at Mineral Resources Park. 

The naming rights deal will help fund community activities such as boys' and girls' football and provide some financial support to Perth Football Club.