According to Sydney-based newspaper the Daily Telegraph, representatives of clubs in the A-League, the country's top-flight domestic league, wrote a letter to Lowy promising legal action if the meeting on November 1 went ahead.

Clubs from the A-League, who are backed by the Professional Footballers Australia (PFA) want an increased say in how the game is run in the country and are lobbying to increase their representation on the Congress from four to five.

Under the structure proposed by the FFA, which is expected to be put to a vote at the EGM, the clubs would have four votes, while the States in Australia would have nine and there would be one each for the players and the women's game.

The FFA are hoping to force this through as a FIFA deadline of November 30 draws closer.

World football's governing body imposed the deadline for the FFA to resolve the impasse otherwise they warned they would step in and form a Normalisation Committee to run the organisation's affairs.

In a statement confirming the holding of an EGM, the FFA admitted "stakeholders have not reached an unanimous position over the model for change" despite recent discussions with FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation.

"The Congress is responsible for electing directors to FFA’s independent board as well as any amendments to FFA’s constitution," the FFA said in a statement.

"In addition the PFA and a representative of women’s football would be invited to become members and each hold one vote. 

"Each of the nine Member Federations would hold one individual vote (bringing the total voting pool to 15). 

"Under this model, loosely referred to as the “9:4:1:1 model” each Australian A-League club would be invited to become a member of the Congress and share equally in the Clubs’ four votes. 

"As a result the size of the Congress at General Meetings would increase from the current maximum ten members to twenty members.

"The professional clubs and the PFA (which is not currently represented on Congress and therefore does not have a vote) have expressed support for a model that would increase the Congress to 16 - made up of the nine Member Federations, five for the professional clubs, one for the PFA and one for women’s football."

The issue has plunged Australian football in to crisis and has also caused embarrassment for the country, who recently announced their plan to bid for the 2023 Women's World Cup.

The bid was launched despite Michael Garcia's report into the controversial World Cup bidding processes for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments - won by Russia and Qatar respectively - criticising Australia's bid for the latter edition of the tournament.