ESSENDON will look to play more games at the MCG next year as it considers the best mix for its 2016 fixture.

Of the Bombers' 11 home games this season, seven were set at Etihad Stadium and four at the MCG.

The club has been a major tenant of the Docklands venue since it opened in 2000, with its stadium deal more lucrative than those afforded to rivals.

But chief executive Xavier Campbell said the club was examining ways to increase its presence at the MCG as its membership base topped 60,000 for the second successive season.  

"We acknowledge that the MCG is the home of football and our players love playing there, I think our fans love going there and we know that finals football is played at the MCG," Campbell told AFL.com.au.

"For all those reasons, you would always love to be playing more games of football at the MCG, and we're open to exploring what that looks like moving forward around our home game mix."

The Bombers spent nearly a decade playing their home games at the MCG after leaving Windy Hill at the start of the 1990s.

They, the Western Bulldogs and St Kilda crossed to the new Docklands stadium for home games in 2000. They played their 150th match at the venue on Sunday against the Dogs.

This year they played a home game against Geelong at Etihad Stadium, which drew a crowd of more than 40,000, and in previous years have played traditional rival Hawthorn there.

Moving that type of contest to the MCG would see the Bombers have a 6-5 split of Etihad and MCG home games.

"Etihad Stadium is a great partner for us and there's no doubting that. But we need to always operate in the best interests of our members and our members enjoy going to Etihad, but they also acknowledge the importance of the MCG to the bigger picture," Campbell said.

The club is working through its fixture requests for next season, having been disappointed to have only received two Friday night slots (both against North Melbourne) in 2015.

Campbell hopes the Bombers' struggles on the field this year won't impact any decision to schedule them in the prime Friday night spot.

"We certainly haven't produced form to the level we would have liked, but I'd like to think we have a really strong group of young players coming through coupled with a really good group of 25 to 30-year-olds as well," he said.

Another marquee game is being developed by Kevin Sheedy in his role as the club's innovation manager, with the match to be centred on the country market of football fans.