Plans to hold an Australian Rules Football Championships in Bermuda have been all-but scrapped.

The novel event, which was aimed at bringing together teams from everywhere except Australia, including sides from North America and Europe, was scheduled for April this year.

Clubs from Atlanta and New York, and Reading in England, had expressed an interest in competing but this week organisers said the earliest the event might now take place would be in 2008.

?Let me say from the outset this was an event that was hard to imagine happening,? said Wayne Kraska of Atlanta.

?I?m not saying we had a negative attitude from the start, just that we knew there were many obstacles to get over and just one not falling into place would put the long term development of the event in jeopardy.

?It was in the end one of these areas that led to the decision to postpone. We didn?t want to run an event that was going to be just a one-year wonder, it was going to take too much time, effort and money to do that.?