South Africa's football season is set to change to a calendar-year season from 2014 in a bid to make local clubs more competitive in Caf tournaments.
Since 1994, Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs are the only South African teams to have won continental competitions.
The Premier Soccer League (PSL) says local teams are disadvantaged by the timing of the August-to-May season.
"I hope that we would have reached a formal decision by the start of next season," said PSL CEO Stanley Matthews.
"That will give us enough time to plan for whatever logistics or adaptations need to be made."
Matthews says that South Africans teams are weakened by having to register players for Caf competitions in mid-January, which is in the middle of the season.
"Our clubs are seriously disadvantaged because by the time they get to the group stages of the continental competitions, there are two (transfer) window periods that would have passed where some players have left.
"Players became free agents or had been transferred to other clubs so the continuity of those teams playing in the latter stages of the competition isn't good," 
"Sometimes the situation has been so bad that we've previously had clubs who've been down to the bare bones with only 13 players available for a match."
Matthews opined that North African clubs, who have been the most successful in African competition and also have a season that coincides with Europe, do not suffer as much since they do not have as high a turnover of players.
"I'm not saying the moving of the calendar will be the key to success on the continent. There are other reasons like technical, youth and physical development but it is a factor," said Matthews.