Sports anti-doping body has been called by the Australian Rules Football chief Andrew Demetriou to release a report on drug use at the Essendon football club.

Mr Demetriou was speaking to Fairfax radio on Saturday. He said that if the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority had made public their findings, the allegations surrounding the club's use of the drug AOD-9604 would have cleared.

He added that it is absolutely required to make the report public to bring out the truth. Everyone wants to know the truth, be it people, players or the fans.

ASADA was given the responsibility to investigate the matter of drug use in Essendon football club, after it was found that its players were involved in using drug AOD-9604 in amounts and frequencies greater than its clinical trials.

Stephen Danks, who was Essendon's supplement program instigator, was sacked by the club in November over the affair.

The drug is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency and is not approved for human use anywhere. Melbourne company Metabolic Pharmaceuticals made claims in a December 2012 patent application. The claims were made without the knowledge of the footballers. The application was based on in-vitro research on animal cells and tests on rabbits.

The application did not specify which club the footballers belonged to, but Fairfax Media said that the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority believed it to be Essendon.