Town have confirmed the two friendlies at the end of their Austria training camp next week as well as revealing that there will be another European trip before the new season gets under way.

As previously reported, the first match in Austria is a training ground match against Slovakian side Spartak Trnava at 11am CEST (10am BST).

The Blues then face Flyeralarm Admira, also known as Admira Wacker, at their motion_invest Arena in Mödling at 5pm CEST (4pm BST).

The second game is open to supporters with tickets available from the Gäste Tickets office at £10 for adults and £5 for under-14s.

Town will also play a further still-to-be-confirmed European match ahead of the new campaign, almost certainly on the weekend of July 29th.

Speaking about the week-long Austria training camp on Saturday, manager Kieran McKenna said: “Really looking forward to that. The first time the club will have travelled away for a few years. The first time for me going out of the country with this group.

“We’re looking forward to that, it should be a really good training week and we’ll finish it off with a couple of fixtures that the club will confirm in due course and that will be a good week for us.”

A list of Town's pre-season matches which have been announced can be found here.

Photo: Matchday Images

BrettenhamBlue added 09:14 - Jul 6 Like the light blue training kit they've got on in the other pic.
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dirtydingusmagee added 09:16 - Jul 6 thought we may have signed another player or two prior to these matches, but confident things will be in place well before new season COYB .
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Europablue added 09:23 - Jul 6 Inter Milan?
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BrettenhamBlue added 09:25 - Jul 6 Or Lazio Europablue?
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BeattiesBackPocket added 09:27 - Jul 6 Anyone else getting excited for the new season. Cannot wait
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Europablue added 09:30 - Jul 6 dirtydingusmagee I think we'd all like to get all the new recruits in early, but a lot of players coming from either Premier League or relegated clubs in the Championship have lots of issues to deal with before they can make decisions on players. A few clubs have been sorting out their managers and for most other clubs, outgoings are dependent on signings. For us too pre-season is a chance to evaluate fringe players and youth players. Things will fall into place eventually and I have every confidence in KM and MA to get their men eventually.

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Europablue added 09:32 - Jul 6 BrettenhamBlue Is it Lazio who owe us the friendly? I can't remember. I had Inter Milan in mind for some reason. Next preseason we will have that match at home and Ed Sheeran will do a half time concert!
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Positive_Vibes added 10:38 - Jul 6 What dates are the matches in Austria? And when do Town fly out?
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VanDusen added 11:07 - Jul 6 It's Lazio. I'm sure they will not be completely bemused that we are still banging on about this 20 years later. As we should - cheaters. ;o)
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bluelodgeblue added 11:24 - Jul 6 Fortuna???
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Naylorsrightboot added 11:43 - Jul 6 Where are the new players ? We could do with them getting used to our system. We dont want what happened last summer. Chasing the same player all summer, not to get him, then panic buying someone who is out of their depth.
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WestSussexBlue added 16:53 - Jul 6 Naylorsrightboot…plenty of time and things are happening without doubt. The club is very good nowadays at keeping things quiet until 100% ready to confirm. Anyway, despite last summer's activity it certainly didn't affect the season we put in. COYB.
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HUTCHITFC added 18:01 - Jul 6 The talk of overseas pre-season friendlies takes me back to when I was younger before having kids around 20 plus years ago (George Burley era) when we often went to Scandinavia. Those were good days. I always enjoyed them and hope those younger than me who have the opportunity travel because it's good times. Not sure players would do it now but back then the likes of Mark Venus, Jim Magilton coming out for a few beers with you after the match against Sundsvall was class.

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Eeyore added 09:50 - Jul 7 There was definitely an Admira Wacker subbuteo team. I think I wanted it because I loved the name but the kit was boring so I got Eintacht Frankfurt instead! They were in UEFA / cup winners cup almost every year.
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uefa1981 added 11:32 - Jul 7 Just booked a weekend in Vienna anyone else going over?
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