FORMER AFL diversity manager Ali Fahour has been charged by police over the on-field punch that resulted in a lifetime ban from playing the game. 

Victoria police confirmed in a statement that a 35-year-old Preston man had been charged on summons with intentionally causing injury, recklessly causing injury and unlawful assault following an incident in Whittlesea on 1 July.

Fahour, who has since resigned from his position at the AFL, is due to appear at the Heidelberg Magistrates Court on October 11.

He was handed a 14-week suspension by the Northern Football League on Wednesday night, which triggered a life ban from playing the game. 

Suspensions totaling 16 matches or more over a career result in the automatic deregistration of a player from any football league in Australia. 

Fahour was playing for West Preston-Lakeside in the NFL when he struck Whittlesea defender Dale Saddington. 

AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan accepted the 35-year-old's resignation on Thursday morning.