Perth could become a temporary home to the Brisbane Lions as the club navigates playing games away from the Gabba around the 2032 Olympics.

The Gabba will be knocked down in 2025 and rebuilt ahead of the Games, with the Lions needing to find a new home for at least four AFL seasons.

Brisbane chief executive Greg Swann conceded on Wednesday that process would bring some “pain” for their supporters.

Plans exist for the club to play some games at the Brisbane Showgrounds, but Swann said the Lions had received offers to sell games to other states — and floated Perth as an option.

“There are some offers for us to maybe play one or two games elsewhere,” he told SEN.

“We might take it to Perth or play it at the MCG. I don’t know, but there are some options. There is a lot happening in that space, but we haven’t bedded anything down.”

The Gold Coast sold a home game back to Fremantle early in the 2018 season around the Commonwealth Games, while Optus Stadium hosted a raft of neutral games amid the pandemic, including the 2021 grand final.

The Gabba could be out of action for up to four years. It could force them into lower-capacity venues after regularly selling out their traditional home ground on their run to this year’s decider.

“We have two more seasons at the Gabba then it gets bowled over. We are in discussions at the moment with the government about where we play in the interim,” Swann said.

“It’s going to be a four-year hiatus. That’s a long time to be out of mainstream grounds. No matter where we go, the ground is only going to hold low 20s (thousands). We are going to get a membership of 60,000 plus, so we have some challenges in that space.

“The code is flying, we had seven sellouts last season. Our membership is up 25 per cent. The upside is you turn into a brand new 55,000-seat stadium. We fill it pretty regularly and pretty easily.

“But it’s going to create some pain on the way through. Now the government has made a commitment about the Gabba, we are hoping we can get a commitment on where we are going to play.”