Tasmania's dogged bid for an AFL team shows no sign of letting up, with a government poll showing support for a franchise.

The government-commissioned poll shows 48 per cent of the 1,000 Tasmanians surveyed support the state having an AFL team.

Twenty three per cent of those surveyed said they would consider becoming financial members of a locally-based AFL team.

Economic Development and Tourism Minister Paula Wriedt says the second figure "is an extremely important statistic".

"It shows the AFL that almost one-in-four people would think about taking up a membership, and memberships are the lifeblood of any AFL team," Wriedt said.

"This result gives us the confidence to take forward a business case to the AFL.

"We always suspected we had the passion to sustain a Tasmanian team, now we know we have the level of support the AFL will demand."

Wriedt, who is spearheading the government's AFL bid after former premier Paul Lennon quit politics in May, says the poll effectively shows that tens of thousands of Tasmanians are waiting to support a local AFL team.

The government is spending large amounts of money on the bid on behalf of its Aussie Rules-mad population.

That is despite the AFL repeatedly telling Tasmania it is committed to establishing teams on the Gold Coast and in western Sydney.

The government is this week due to decide the successful tender to take Tasmania's bid to the AFL before the end of this season.

It sought tenderers in May, with a June 6 closing date.

Up to eight professional sports lobbying agencies applied.

The announcement of the successful tender is due next week.

Lennon officially launched the government's bid for an AFL team licence in April.

AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou said then that the AFL believed south-east Queensland and western Sydney to be best-placed as the venues for the league's 17th and 18th licences issued in 2011-12.

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