RELOCATION remains an option for Victoria's weaker clubs, should any of them be interested, says AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou.

While the club presidents have enthusiastically backed the league's expansion plans, they have also sought confirmation that the AFL might offer a new relocation package if one or more clubs find themselves in deep financial trouble.

The matter was raised earlier this month at the meeting between the league and the 16 club presidents, where the AFL gained strong support for an 18-team competition, with new teams in south-east Queensland and western Sydney.

The league offered North Melbourne a $100 million relocation package to the Gold Coast last year, but the club's fans strongly rejected the plan.

"There's no club that's interested in relocating and they've made that quite clear," said AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou.

"At the recent presidents' meeting we were asked that if a club wants to come to us, would we put together a package and we said `of course we would'.

"We're interested in expanding the competition to 18 teams and that's good news for all of our 16 teams.

"But if there's a club out there that wants to come along, we would put together a package."

Demetriou also expressed confidence that the league could re-negotiate a deal with the Queensland Government that is not due to expire until 2016.

Under the deal, a second AFL team in Queensland must play half their games at the Gabba in Brisbane.

That would effectively ban a Gold Coast-based team from actually playing in their home area until 2016.

Demetriou pointed to the revised deal with the Melbourne Cricket Club over finals scheduling, which solved the dilemma over non-Victorian clubs having to sometimes "host" preliminary finals.

"We've been negotiating and dealing on that issue, it's very important to know that any team that went to the Gold Coast, there would still be some games played at the Gabba ... particularly big games and the derby," he said.

"That's not news to us and we'll continue to have that dialogue with the Queensland Government.

"We're very confident in our ability to make sure that we respect the terms of an agreement, but at the same time you can re-negotiate - as we did with the MCC when it came to the preliminary final."