Collingwood is expecting that it will host the lucrative Queen's Birthday blockbuster against Melbourne next year, for the first time in nearly two decades, in what the Magpies say will be an alternating arrangement between the clubs.

But while Collingwood president Eddie McGuire said he expected the game would no longer be exclusively a Melbourne home game, the Demons pointed out that Collingwood would have to lose another home game – and potentially against one of Carlton, Essendon or Richmond – to have the Queen's Birthday as a home fixture.

McGuire said Collingwood had supported Melbourne hosting and receiving the financial returns from the game "for 20 years", adding, "now we'll alternate".

Melbourne chief executive Peter Jackson pointed out that while he understood Collingwood's argument and praised the Magpies' "great gesture" of letting the Demons retain home game rights, the fixture would be decided by the AFL.

"At the end of the day, it's not the clubs that decide," Jackson said. "It's the AFL."