The AFL will significantly boost security at stadiums across Australia next season, while fans at the Boxing Day Test will also be subject to more stringent searches at the MCG in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.

Following a national stadium-by-stadium review of its match-day practices, the AFL will provide greater security at the gates and extra protection for fans, players, umpires and support staff next season. Plain clothes security personnel will be stationed across all AFL venues and extra funds will be made available for technology.

In a response to the realities of international terrorism and intensified security threats, the AFL has moved to bolster and restructure its integrity department and has already devoted significant extra funds to its proposed new security policy. In the MCG, it has a willing ally.

Fairfax Media understands the heightened security alert for the 2016 season comes following an investigation ordered early this year by league chief executive Gillon McLachlan. Having already identified increased match day security as a priority, the recent Paris attacks only served to escalate the AFL's plans.

The AFL chief and his team were particularly interested in the NFL's security procedures over the week of the Super Bowl.

Football supporters can expect significant extra security both outside and inside venues as a result of the six-month review conducted by the game's integrity chief Andrew Dillon who will put forward his lengthy report to the AFL Commission on December 15.

Player protection is expected to also be expanded across airports and hotels with the game expected to appoint a new security chief and further widen the powers of investigative boss Brett Clothier and his soon-to-be-increased team.

MCG chief Stephen Gough confirmed the AFL had been working closely with his staff all season and checking and testing the match-day procedures of the game's biggest and most regular venue almost on a weekly basis. Having met on Tuesday with security staff in the lead up to the forthcoming Box Day Test, Gough said his team was awaiting further instructions and details from the AFL.

"It's a big topic," said Gough. "Our focus on our security procedures is definitely increasing and given events around the world it's just taken up to another level. The MCC, the MCG Trust, cricket and football are reviewing where we go from here. Obviously cricket is a priority but we will wait to hear from the AFL where they plan to take it."

McLachlan refused to give details of the AFL proposals but it is understood they will involve significant but less visible security inside all venues.

The AFL CEO, who publicly condemned the incident at Perth's Domain Stadium during the preliminary final when Fremantle fan Cody Yarran was caught on film hitting a woman on the jaw, was understood to have angrily demanded at the time how the man had not been ejected from the stadium earlier. Yarran, 24 was on Monday jailed for eight months for assault.

While the AFL is waiting for the Commission to ratify the Dillon report and accompanying proposals before communicating the new protective practices and powers to the clubs, it has already budgeted for the costly new plans.

Hawthorn, whose coach Alastair Clarkson clashed with a drunken member of the public after game in Adelaide in May, has already pushed to raised concerns about players' security at airports and in hotels. Collingwood recently designed a new series of risk management procedures.