LAST Saturday's brilliant NAB AFL Women's Grand Final between Adelaide and the Brisbane Lions has the AFL contemplating introducing a final four next season.

Eventual premiers Adelaide qualified for the Grand Final after finishing second on the ladder with a 5-2 record, 16.3 per cent ahead of Melbourne, who lost to the Lions and Greater Western Sydney during the year.

AFL football operations boss Simon Lethlean told SEN on Tuesday a top four was worth considering.

"It does keep some teams in the equation, and Melbourne were playing great footy at the end of this season and probably deserved to be in a final to see if they could make the Grand Final," he said.

Introducing a top four would create an extra week in the season, with the AFL yet to explore logistical issues such as venue availability, broadcasting considerations and pay for players.

"We are a little bit constrained about when we can start and finish if we want to have, in my view, the right exposure for the competition," Lethlean said.

"I don't think we want to go too far into the men's competition and find we are up against venue issues and broadcast and exposure issues."

This year's eight-week season began on Friday, February 3, with a sell-out clash at Ikon Park between Carlton and Collingwood kicking off the year.

Starting the season a week earlier would see the opening round clash with the finish of the Australian Open.

Melbourne skipper Daisy Pearce said on Monday she would be in favour of a finals series, as it would keep more teams in the finals race for longer.

"In the format we had this year, by round three we had teams that realistically couldn't make the finals, so if you do have a finals series more teams stay alive for longer [and] it makes for a more exciting and entertaining competition," she said.