DISGRACED sports scientist Stephen Dank's fight against a lifetime sports ban could be thrown out by the AFL Appeals Board after he failed to provide paperwork justifying his absence from a hearing this week.

Dank was given until 5pm on Friday to provide supporting documentation after he failed to front the Appeals Board on Monday because a relative was in hospital with a life-threatening condition.

The League released a statement shortly after that deadline, confirming no documentation had been provided by the central figure in Essendon's 2012 supplements scandal. 

"The Anti-Doping Appeal Board is expected to provide its ruling on the non-submission next week," the statement read. 

The AFL and Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority both lodged submissions on Monday pushing for Dank's appeal to be dismissed.

Counsel for ASADA, Patrick Knowles, said Dank had a history of non-compliance and urged the Appeals Board not to grant him "another indulgence".

AFL counsel Renee Enbom said Dank's appeal should be dismissed on the basis of his continued failures to appear at hearings and meet evidentiary deadlines.

Dank's former lawyer sent an email to the Appeals Board last Sunday night indicating his ex-client would not be attending his hearing because an ill family member required him to be by her side.

He conducted multiple radio interviews on the evening of his scheduled hearing, rejecting suggestions he was holding proceedings up and assuring he would present the paperwork requested by the Appeals Board.

The architect of the Bombers' supplements program was found guilty of 10 breaches of the AFL's anti-doping code in April last year. 

He was subsequently banned for life from working in any sport in Australia or overseas by the AFL Anti-Doping Tribunal.