New manager Michael Finneran has selected a panel of 36.
Eight players who featured for Westmeath ladies in their All-Ireland intermediate football final win last September, won't play a part in their league campaign this season.
Michael Finneran has named a panel of 36 players from 14 clubs around the county.
The missing names include six of the starting fifteen against Wexford, Lauren McCormack, Niamh Spellman, Lorraine Duncan, Aoife Brady, Leona Archibold and Fiona Claffey.
Substitutes Johanna Maher and Jennifer Rogers are also not included.
It's expected that four players Brady, Rogers, Maher and last season's captain Fiona Claffey are heading for retirement.
It'll leave a dearth of experience in the side as they step back into the senior ranks this season's championship. Before that though they've the grueling schedule in division one of the Lidl Ladies League, starting with a trip west to face Mayo on Saturday evening.
Incoming manager Michael Finneran paid tribute to them and they way they're leaving the shirt:
The few names that are stepping away obviously people will be very familiar with their names and the success they brought Westmeath ladies football over the last few years.
From the outside looking in, I'm delighted for them to be stepping away after winning an intermediate All-Ireland which is superb. I would have loved the opportunity to work with them, but that's the way of things, they're coming to the end of their careers.
I'm now working with a brilliant new panel. They're all mad keen to put on the Westmeath jersey and drive the county forward at senior level over the next number of years so I'm really looking to that.
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