The team have gone into camp at the Papua New Guinea Football Association (PNGFA) Academy in Lae and head coach Francis Moyap says the sessions are going well.
The camp is set to run for a week and the final line-up will be announced at its conclusion.
“Upon completion of the camp, we are hopeful that we will be selecting a very strong team that will be a force to be reckoned with during the tournament,” Moyap says.
Papua New Guinea are second favourites, behind defending champions New Zealand, to take the title and have been drawn in Group B with Fiji, Solomon Islands and Tonga.
New Zealand is placed in Group A with Cook Islands, Tahiti and Vanuatu.
Papua New Guinea hosted the last OFC Women’s Nations Cup in 2007 and have a proud history in the tournament. They finished as runners-up on that occasion and came third four times in a row (in 1991, 1995, 1998 and 2003) prior to that.
Women’s football in the country is also on a high after the national U-15 women’s side took part in the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore last month.
Papua New Guinea take on Fiji in their opening Nations Cup match and Moyap says the side will be looking for revenge after going down 1-0 to the same opponents at the South Pacific Games in 2007.