A court has granted more time to consider charges against disgraced Australian rules football legend Barry Cable over allegations of sexual assault dating back more than five decades.

Cable is facing seven charges relating to the girl, who was aged between 9 and 10 at the time of the offences.

Police charged Cable in May and he pleaded not guilty in the Perth District Court several days later.

The charges were filed almost a year after a judge in a civil case ruled that Cable was a pedophile.

His case was brought back before a judge in Perth on Thursday, but he was not required to appear; instead, he was represented by his lawyer.

The prosecutor told the court the records manager needed more time to consider the charges against Cable.

Police say that between 1967 and 1968, Cable sexually assaulted the girl, who was between 9 and 10 years old at the time.

He was charged with five counts of indecent exposure to a girl under 13 and two counts of unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under 13.

Court given more time to hear case against Australian rules football legend Barry Cable (pictured right, wearing sunglasses and red tie)

Last year, a civil court found the disgraced football legend a paedophile.

The allegations against Cable date back to when he was a 24-year-old footballer.

The former AFL Hall of Fame member was 24 years old at the time of the alleged offences.

This was at the peak of his football career when he won the WAFL championship in 1967 and 1968.

Cable has been stripped of his AFL Legend status and Hall of Fame membership.

North Melbourne also removed him from their Hall of Fame, as did the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.

He was also inducted from the WA Institute of Sport Hall of Champions and the WA Football Commission Hall of Fame.