Football Australia (FA) have confirmed that Brisbane United’s application for inclusion in the National Second Tier (NST) has successfully progressed to the next phase, following a review of the club’s initial EOI.

The club will prepare its Request for Proposal document according to FA’s criteria and Chair Rabieh Krayem is confident a compelling application can be put forward for final consideration.

“We have an excellent team of people working on this and we are confident that we are the only club who can represent the whole of Brisbane,” Krayem said.

“Support for our bid has been fantastic so far and we know with the collaborations we have already put in place that the building blocks of success are already there.”

FA expects the application review process to begin in July this year.