The Bermuda Football Association have left the door open for unhappy Commercial League clubs to join the First Division.

Plans to restructure football in Bermuda will see the Commercial League cease to exist from the end of the season, leaving clubs such as MR Onions and Robin Hood in the wilderness.

While an over-30s Masters League will pick up much of the slack from the Commercial B teams, other players currently find themselves with the difficult choice of joining established Premier and First Division clubs, or leaving competitive football altogether and playing in the Sunday morning Breakfast League.

However, BFA technical director Derek Broadley, who came up with the new plan, said that Commercial sides were free to apply to join any league in the new structure.

And MR Onions appear to be one club who are ready to jump at the chance.

"The initial document made it quite clear that the First Division would not be taking on any extra teams, I wonder what has caused the backtrack?," said Mark Dunlop, the president of MR Onions FC.

"It is an interesting proposition though and considering the options available to MR Onions FC, then we would have to initially discuss with our squad, but would certainly consider applying to enter our first team (MR Onions A) into the First Divison, with our current Commercial B team (MR Onions Real Men) going into the Masters League.

"I would personally recommend that the league consider making the Premier Division 12 teams with the First Division also having 12 teams.

"This would allow five Commercial teams to enter the First Division – FA Cup results this season have shown that this would be a competitive league. With as many as five additional teams fitting in to the First Division, you would like to think that there would little threat of many other Commercial teams going to the wall with the 10 team Masters League.

"The Commercial league clubs haven't formally met to discuss the situation, or the possibility of Commercial teams joining the First Division, but I know that a number of the teams were very unhappy with the initial BFA proposals.

"I'm definitely glad there has been some movement away from the initial (very extreme in our view) proposals but still some uncertainties exist."

Currently Commercial League sides are only associate members of the BFA and will need to apply to become full members in order to join another league should they wish to do so.

Criteria that the clubs need to meet to be accepted as full members mainly centre around administration, although normally any decision would have to be approved at the Annual Congress Meeting in September.

Given the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the restructuring however, the BFA expect to be holding a series of special meetings over the coming months to deal with the issues that are likely to arise.

Broadley has also confirmed that the BFA is pushing for the winners of the Premier Division to be included in the CONCACAF Champions League, and are waiting for a response from the confederation regarding the costs.