If all goes according to plan, the Bermuda Football Association First Division could be comprised of ten teams next season.

New club, Magnum Force, is seeking to join the association's ranks and earlier this week submitted an official request to the BFA asking for permission.

And while details remained sketchy yesterday, Charles Clarke, chairman of BFA's league and cup competitions committee, confirmed the rumours.

"A club has sent in some information seeking admittance into the First Division," Clarke said. "It would be nice to increase the First Division to ten teams as it makes scheduling much easier. But the matter has yet to be brought forth to the BFA executives. They have submitted an application, though at the moment nothing has been done because we only received it some 24 hours ago."

Reluctant to elaborate any further on the matter, Clarke did, however, concede that the new club was exploring the possibility of securing Devonshire Recreation Club as their home base.

"They have really thought about what it is they intend to do at great length and it is now all up to the Association to make a final decision," he added.

It is believed that a large percentage of former Vasco Da Gama players will join ranks with Magnum Force should the new club be granted permission to join the league. Once a formidable opposition on the domestic scene, Portuguese club Vasco disbanded at the end of the 1999-2000 season.

"They (Magnum Force) have forwarded all of the required documentation and the only thing that we now require from them is a list of all of their potential executives," Clarke said. "And in turn, we at the BFA will now have to sit down and look at what our constitution states as it relates to new teams joining the league and then determining what registration fee they will have to pay in order to come onboard."