National team coach Anthony Hudson will have his squad together for the first time in almost six months next week.

A 10-day camp in Brisbane with three games against Queensland club teams is the "exact preparation" the All Whites need for the Oceania Nations Cup, says coach Anthony Hudson.

On Monday, the national squad will assemble for the first time since a 1-0 away win against Oman almost six months ago.

It will be the start of a 20-day build-up to the crucial Oceania confederation tournament in Papua New Guinea, which they must win to qualify for next year's Fifa Confederations Cup in Russia.

PHOTOSPORT The All Whites must win the Oceania Nations Cup to qualify for next year's Confederations Cup.

Achieving that is not only an important stepping stone to qualifying for the 2018 World Cup, securing at least three games against high-quality international opposition, it also guarantees two sizeable pay-days.

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Teams qualifying for the Confederations Cup get NZ$2.1 million to prepare, while last time it was held in 2013 the sides who took part walked away with minimum prize money of $2.4 million.

Hudson, who vented his frustration at the start of this year at a lack of fixtures for the All Whites, was confident the plan they had in place could deliver the Nations Cup title.

"We need three games in this period, so everyone can get game-time," the Englishman said in audio provided by New Zealand Football.

"We also need to acclimatise to the conditions, which is why Brisbane will be perfect for us, and we want as many days on the training pitch as possible, hence why are we staying in one place and reducing any unnecessary travel time.

"It is going to be the exact preparation we need leading us into PNG."

The squad will train from Monday to Friday in Auckland next week, with the 23-man group for the Nations Cup named on Thursday.

On Saturday they depart for Brisbane, where games against Western Pride FC, Redlands United and Brisbane City await.

All three sides play in the Queensland division of the National Premier League, the tier below the A-League.

From there it is off to Port Moresby on May 25, with New Zealand opening their tournament against Fiji four days later.

"We all know we have a very genuine chance, a really significant chance of doing something special in this campaign," Hudson said. "The players believe, most of all, we have a very talented group.

"We don't have a big squad of players all over the world in vast numbers, but we have a small, tight-knit group with a huge amount of quality and a really good blend of youth, enthusiasm and energy and some really strong senior players with a lot of experience."

If the All Whites are to win the tournament, though, they may have to do it without two of those senior figures.

In an uncanny parallel to their ill-fated 2012 Confederations Cup campaign in the Solomon Islands, where captain Ryan Nelsen and Winston Reid were out with injury and the team suffered a stunning 2-0 loss to New Caledonia in the semifinals, two key defenders are in serious doubt to be in PNG.

Reports suggest captain and English Premier League starter Reid has made himself unavailable, while former skipper Tommy Smith could also be missing.

All will be revealed on Thursday, but in the meantime Hudson was upbeat about what the next month would bring.

"I'm very excited," he said. "It's been some time [since we have been together] now and we are all at the point where we are looking forward to getting back on the training pitch and have a really significant target in front of us."

All Whites build-up matches for OFC Nations Cup

Wednesday, May 18: v Western Pride, Briggs Rd Sporting Complex, Ipswich, 6pm

Sunday, May 22: v Redlands United, QSAC Stadium, Brisbane, 6pm

Tuesday, May 24: v Brisbane City at QSAC, Brisbane, 6.45pm