PLANS for a new Gold Coast stadium have been all but scrapped as the AFL looks to instead redevelop the Carrara stadium, the Herald Sun reports.

The AFL is hoping for assistance from the Queensland and Federal governments to upgrade Carrara for the league’s new Gold Coast team.

The Gold Coast council last week voted to increase its support from $10 million to $20 million as long as it was based at Carrara.

The planned phased redevelopment of Carrara is expected to boost the stadium's capacity to 27,000.

On Monday the GC17 consortium made its final pitch to the AFL Commission for the Gold Coast-based licence.

GC17 chairman John Witheriff, director Graeme Downie and coach Guy McKenna presented a 400-page document outlining the consortium’s plans.

"It was a very impressive presentation and it is clear that GC17 has done an enormous amount of work over the past six months to build strong community and business support for an AFL team," AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou said.

"The commission will now test, analyse and validate the GC17 submission and business models and will be doing that over the coming weeks."