"The more that come along, the more likely the league is to visit in the future," Rood said.
"It's a great opportunity for aspiring players to see the standard they should be looking to play at and a good Sunday filler for the family."
Back-to-back champions Northern play the majority of their home games at the North Harbour Stadium's artificial turf, with a capacity of 1000.
Stratford, 24, is looking forward to playing in front of a bigger crowd. "It's going to be phenomenal," Stratford said. "At some of our away games we get about three people supporting."
She said heading up north gave the players a welcome opportunity to play in front of some familiar faces. "It's really nice to be able to play in front of the students that we coach and also friends and family.
"The five of us locals have been working hard to get a home crowd together."
With the 2015 U20 women's World Cup headed to New Zealand, Northern Football development officer Dave Alabaster said it was a great chance to build interest in the area,
Whangarei will host three pool matches and one second-round game during the tournament.
Alabaster hoped a healthy crowd would come out and watch the game.
"I think people who watched women's football at this level will be quite surprised by the quality."
Alabaster said playing against this type of opposition regularly would also help the U17s, as they work towards their own world cup in Costa Rica next year.
"Those girls are quite young, and they're playing against women a lot older than them.
"It will help them prepare physically."
Northern will be without regular captain Pam Yates tomorrow, who instead takes her place on the New Zealand U17s bench as their goalkeeping coach.
Liz Milne, who has just returned from the Football Ferns' successful Valais Cup campaign in Switzerland, will wear the armband in her place.
Entry is by gold coin, and kick-off is at 1pm.
