The league will meet with its clubs next week to discuss a potential roadmap out of the lockdown, extended this week to September 2, which will include the possibility of playing a two-week finals series.

But competition officials are concerned a further extension to the lockdown would spell the end of its junior leagues. ACT Junior Rugby Union decided on Tuesday that it would cancel the remainder of this season due to the lockdown.

All AFL Canberra clubs were surveyed in the wake of last Thursday's lockdown announcement which came on the eve of junior AFL finals.

Overwhelming sentiment was to play out the rest of the season if possible, but that survey was distributed before Chief Minister Andrew Barr's lockdown extension announcement.

Competition manager Firas Shahin remained cautiously optimistic the season could be saved.

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"We definitely wouldn't [cancel the season] unless we get consensus from the clubs, we're going to do everything possible to ensure that we can try and finish off the season," Shahin said.

"Realistically we only need two weeks for juniors, given we can shorten the finals from three weeks to two weeks and that's probably the best position we could be in for the juniors.

"We just need to wait until we know exactly what the end of lockdown will look like. Will community sport be allowed back straight away given other states haven't done that? It's still too early to tell, really."

The first week of finals in the senior competitions were scheduled to be played on August 28, but this week's lockdown extension has also put that on hold.

"It gets trickier and trickier when we get onto seniors because we've got Queanbeyan, we've got Batemans Bay we've got Yass," Shahin said.

"It also depends on NSW regional restrictions for those leagues."

Meanwhile the AFL Canberra looks to have dodged a major Covid bullet after a player from the under-14s girls match between Ainslie Red and Belconnen Black subsequently tested positive for COVID-19.

The venue was listed as 'monitor for symptoms', and all people who had potentially been exposed to the virus have since tested negative.

"We were made aware that a positive case participated in a junior match," Shahin said.

"We're just working with ACT Health to assist them in any way possible. We've been advised by the clubs that everyone in that match has returned a negative result."

Officials from the local rugby league, soccer and hockey competitions plan to wait as long as possible before making a decision on their junior leagues.