Perth Glory face a torrid one-sided season with just three home games in their battle to make the A-League finals.

They were expecting a seven home, seven away split but have played just once at Macedonia Park, on December 4 in the 1-0 win over Brisbane Roar.

The COVID-disrupted season means Glory, currently four games into a seven-game, five-week road trip, are likely to have just two more home games when they return after border restrictions ease.

And they will be even more disadvantaged by having to return to the Eastern States for two more matches.

Since their only home game Glory have played five matches for a win, two draws and two losses.

The lopsided schedule is another blow to the side that lost three players and staff, including coach Alex Epakis, to COVID last week and have three key strikers Susan Phonsongkham, Cyera Hintzen and Demi Koulizaki on the injury list.

Epakis said they should be given more home games.

“I’ve been told that once we return to Perth on February 5, if that happens, the schedule will remain as it was before us coming to Sydney,” Epakis said.

“So, the way I interpret that, is we had two home matches from February 5 onwards...it’s not enough.

“And believe it or not we’ve got to come back to Melbourne (City), and Wellington as well.

“It’s just one of many difficulties we’ve had to encounter over the last two years.

“I will advocate for absolutely everything for the team through the right channels.

“Hopefully common sense can prevail and the competition organisers can come up with a really great solution that can benefit everyone.

“We would have liked more but hopefully we can really make the most of those two fixtures.”

Epakis expects to be back on the sideline for Sunday’s match with Western Sydney Wanderers at Central Coast Stadium after coaching from home last weekend.

“I don’t think I’ve had to do anything more difficult than watching the game from my living room,” he said.

“We’re realistic, we’re at mid-season and we’re one point out of the top four, we’ve got games in front of us and we can hopefully put a consistent side out.

“I’m really excited about what the second half of the season looks like.

“There’s certainly a sense of optimism throughout the group about what we can achieve.

“I think we’ll peak at the right time and we’ll do enough to keep us in the hunt until the end of the season.

“I don’t know if anyone expected that to be honest.”