TIME is fast running out for new clubs to enter the Commercial League.

BFA officials are now drawing up the fixture list for next season but Leagues and Competitions Committee Chairman Charles Clarke said he would welcome one or two more teams playing in the over-30s C division.

It was created last year to give older players a break from getting the run around from teenagers and proved highly successful, Clarke said.

However the C league could begin in late September with just five teams with Somerset Extros looking to return to the B division after taking the championship in a close run title race with MR Onions Real Men C.

Onions and fellow newcomers Dandy Town C consistently fielded large squads in their inaugural 2005/06 season but a question mark hangs over Warwick Workmen's Club who failed to complete the necessary fixtures and dropped out.

Clarke said: "I would love to see some additional teams enter the Commercial League.

"Maybe after the World Cup people will want to come out and play rather than just watch."

He said the BFA wanted to live up to the FIFA mandate of getting as many people involved as possible.

However Clarke said prospective teams needed to get themselves a home pitch as many venues like Shelly Bay and White Hill were booked up.

He pointed out there were still some relatively underused venues such as Police field and Devonshire Rec., which offered opportunities.

A Division stalwarts Tuff Dogs had been considering entering a vets side but president Manny Faria said there weren't enough players to split the club into two teams.

"If we had the numbers we had two or three years ago we definitely would have done that," said the 32-year-old who joked he was now in the right shape to play among 45-year-olds.

Clarke said the structure of the Commercial league would stay the same with the Commercial Cup, revived last season after years in hiatus, staying after proving popular among players.

Greater efforts will be made in trying to schedule the final alongside one of the higher league finals said Clarke after Commercial Cup winners MR Onions split the cost of hiring the national stadium with defeated finalists BAA last year.

Clarke said: "I would love to see the BFA funding that ourselves just like we do with everyone else."

The BFA are also looking at changing the structure of the higher leagues but this depended on getting more pitches fitted with floodlights said Clarke.

That would allow matches to be staggered throughout the week and weekend allowing dedicated fans to watch more live football.

It would also have the advantage of allowing pitches to recover rather than blitzing them at weekends, meaning some fields are a muddy, bumpy mess by mid-October.

"An innovative schedule would add a little more excitement," Clarke added.