The Gaelic Masters Association have welcomed the decision from the GAA to make Club and County Grounds more availabe to their competitions from 2019.
The over-40s event was disbanded in 2009 before being set-up as a separate entity from Croke Park, due in part to the cost of insurance.
Those concerns have been eased somewhat, however, and the competition now looks set to have closer ties with the more mainstream GAA competitions next year.
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Clare entered the All-Ireland series for the first time this year, playing eight games before agonisingly losing out to Down by just one point after a replay in the Plate semi-finals.
Clare Masters Football Chairman Conor Killeen says this recent development is very welcome.