Carnegie have agreed a five-year deal in order to use Throstle Nest which they hope will prove a springboard to launch an assault up football's pyramid system.
Met have already had an application to join the Northern Counties East League turned down, but are hoping a renewed bid following a move from their Headingley Campus base to Farsley will get the green light.
John Hall, who manages the team as part of a full-time role at Carnegie, said: "From a football point of view, we have got the players to go up but not the facilities required by the NCE League.
"We applied tentatively last year, but we were playing at Headingley Campus and the facilities there are not up to the levels they require.
"So we looked at the link up with Farsley and we will apply again. Hopefully, we are doing everything right now in order for them to accept us.
"When I came here three years ago the plan was to get into the pyramid system, which is why we applied to join the West Yorkshire League.
"But we are ambitious and we want to go as high as we can. I would love to be thinking in the long-term when people mention senior football in Leeds, and Farsley and Guiseley come to mind now, they will be talking about Leeds Met Carnegie in the same breath."
Student teams excelling in the higher echelons of the pyramid system aren't unheard of.
Oxford University won the FA Cup in 1873, while Team Bath – the sports brand of the university of Bath – famously became the first uni side to reach the proper stages of English football's favourite competition for 122 years in 2002.
That brought Bath, who have risen to the Southern Football League Premier Division – the equivalent of the UniBond League Premier Division – a live televised home game against Mansfield Town.
Leeds Met are now hoping they can make a similar impact in the north.
Met have taken the West Yorkshire League by storm after joining the set-up the season before last, winning Division One at the first attempt with 25 victories and a draw from their 26 matches.
And in their inaugural season in the Premier Division, they lifted the championship and the fair play award to boot, suggesting they do have the right calibre of players to make the step up.
Further evidence comes with the likes of Roy Stamer, who arrived at Leeds Met to study but has made a big impact playing on the left wing for Farsley Celtic in their rapid rise to Conference North.
Met are hoping the latest move will enable them to ultimately hang on to their best players during and after they leave uni, while also helping to attract students in the first place.
It is all part of a wider strategy to develop the sports brand 'Carnegie', which has seen several link-ups over the last three years.
The university financed a new stand at what is now Headingley Carnegie Stadium which is used as a series of classrooms on non-match days and has strengthened ties with Leeds Rhinos, Leeds Tykes and Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
Director of Sport, Malcom Brown, said: "What we are offering football-wise is for people who are talented footballers to get an education alongside training to a high standard.
"At the moment if they play for Bradford City Academy and they get released, where do they go, what do they do?
"What we are offering 18 to 24-year-olds is to play at as high a standard as we can get to and at the same time get a degree in a very good football environment.
"They would train three times a week, play twice a week, and they can also obtain coaching badges – we've always had a good relationship with Farsley and what we are saying is we will provide them with coaches to help out with their junior teams if they require it.
"We will also play in the NCE league or above, we won't put a limit on it because in the end it will come down to finances. It's a journey no-one has done before, it's pioneering in the north of England.
"What we don't want to do is settle for what happened last season all the time, when we won the West Yorkshire League but couldn't get promoted."
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