What's set to be the largest regional sporting precinct between Sydney and Melbourne is due for completion ahead of the tournament, which is being jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand.

For the first time ever, 32 nations will take part in the Women's World Cup, playing in eight groups of four, and football authorities on the Border are hopeful one of those squads will set up their training camp right here.

Wodonga Council this week shared drone footage showing how work had started at Baranduda Fields, with the main road through the site taking shape as well as the pad for the first Australian Rules oval.

"The Baranduda project is all on course for two years' time," Murray United chairman Darren Yates said.

"Tenders have gone out for the pavilion and football fields, so that's quite exciting and it's going to coincide with the female football World Cup in 2023.

"It's still not out of the question that we may see some international sides in Wodonga and we hope to be a major tenant within that facility, alongside the Albury-Wodonga Football Association.

"For an international side to visit Albury-Wodonga, it needs to have a facility such as Baranduda Fields ready.

"If we don't have that, it simply won't happen but provided that it continues on schedule and it does become a reality, it will require engagement from Football Australia and lobbying with Football Victoria and Football NSW, which we can do locally through council to make contact with those federations overseas when they're looking for training bases leading up to 2023."

Hosting an international team on the Border would also open up opportunities for AWFA.

"If we can get access to their coaching and their players, it's great for our kids to get a bit of a wow factor about football," AWFA president Mark Leman said.

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"The work they can do to help grow women's football, just be being in town, will be huge as well.

"We're going to look at some projects around the women's World Cup and having some female programs running, specifically just during that period of time.

"The World Cup is a great opportunity for us and Murray to co-exist and to promote female participation.

"The Baranduda facility will be a great facility for us to co-share at some stage.

"We may hold rep trials there, we may hold cup finals down there in the future so once it's all built and up and running, we'll certainly be talking to council and talking to Murray about how we can work together and use that space."

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