The ninth edition of the tournament will be jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand in nine cities.

Although UTAS Stadium was cut from the list of potential match venues earlier this year, Football Tasmania is optimistic the state can be a training base for one of the 32 competing nations and has secured $10 million of state funding for four venues, including two in Launceston.

FT chairman Bob Gordon said $3 million has been allocated to both Lightwood Park, Kingborough, and Devonport's Valley Road, with $2.5 million for Launceston's Churchill Park and $1.5 million for Birch Avenue.

Gordon said the upgrades are necessary to meet FIFA requirements and include improvements to lighting, pitches, drainage, fencing and changerooms.

"We have to show FIFA that we can get all four venues up to the standard required," Gordon said.

"The World Cup is in July-August 2023 but if we are not ready by the end of next year FIFA will rule us out.

"The money has been allocated in the state budget and we're going ahead with all the work because they are all community facilities. Kingborough has already started and Devonport is waiting on a development application."

Gordon said nations would arrive up to a month out from the tournament and may continue to base themselves here while travelling interstate for fixtures.

"It'll be like having an AFL game here every day for a month," he said.

As 1500 young Tasmanian players descended for the annual Launceston Tournament over the weekend, FT filmed a promotional video in a bid to entice competing teams to use the state as a base.

Selling points include being in a safe, friendly location, walking distance from city-centre hotels, 10 minutes drive from the airport with Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney all within a few hours' flying time.

With matches being hosted from Perth to Dunedin, Australia's Eastern Seaboard is likely to be viewed as the most desirable central location for competing nations.

Gordon said major nations like the US, China or Japan may be out of Tasmania's league so the marketing would target smaller European countries like The Netherlands, Finland or even Sweden who have made the semi-finals in three of the last five tournaments and reached the final at this year's Olympics.

"We'll give it our best shot," he added.

Gordon, who attended the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan, said the Socceroos spent three weeks at a base camp in Turkey before the 2018 World Cup in Russia, with many travelling fans also making the diversion.

"I think some people just don't get the concept of how many people will come, and it will be for at least three weeks," he said.

Scheduled for between July 20 and August 20, 2023, the event will be the first senior FIFA tournament to be held in Oceania.

FIFA announced in April that Launceston, Newcastle and Christchurch had missed out as host cities with Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Wellington, Auckland, Hamilton and Dunedin to stage the 64 matches.

Nine countries initially indicated interest in hosting the World Cup, Australia and New Zealand winning the bid in June 2020, by earning 22 votes ahead of second-placed Colombia on 13.

The push to improve Churchill Park and Birch Avenue came as the venues - and Windsor Park at Riverside - were hosting the popular annual Launceston Tournament.

Some 1500 players from 104 teams spent three days playing matches at the venues, in sometimes atrocious conditions.

Despite the absence of mainland teams, the tournament hit record numbers, exceeding the 84 teams that took part a couple of years ago.

The event produced some excellent performances by home-region teams, with Northern Rangers, Launceston City and Launceston United among the front-runners in the under-16 boys.

Launceston City won all three games in the under-14 boys' pool while the NTJSA rep team won the girls'.

Northern Rangers and the NTJSA Gold went undefeated in their under-13 boys' pools while Launceston United teams topped both pools in the U10-11 girls.

Two new raised pitches at Churchill Park were not used for the tournament but do meet FIFA requirements for a training base.