Manchester Metropolis might be hopeful of heading into the 2024/25 season with a couple of extra trophies of their cupboard.
Pep Guardiola’s aspect are nonetheless combating for a record-breaking fourth successive Premier League title and they’ll additionally contest this season’s FA Cup last with native rivals Manchester United. After Champions League disappointment by the hands of Actual Madrid, Man Metropolis might be determined for redemption within the last few weeks of the marketing campaign.
Due to this fact, Man Metropolis will not have the ability to forged an eye fixed to subsequent season simply but, though the membership do have a busy 2024/25 pre-season schedule already lined up.
Listed below are Man Metropolis’s pre-season plans thus far.
Man Metropolis are becoming a member of the likes of Arsenal, Liverpool and Man Utd by jetting off to the USA for the majority of their pre-season. Their tour begins with a conflict in opposition to Celtic on 23 July and the Cityzens will play one other three matches in North America over the summer season interval.
It stays to be seen whether or not or not Man Metropolis organise any extra pre-season friendlies, with Guardiola by no means eager to bloat the schedule within the construct as much as a brand new marketing campaign. Nevertheless, there’s a good probability they are going to be concerned within the Group Protect on 6 August and can play within the curtain-raiser at Wembley ought to they win the league or FA Cup this time period.
Man Metropolis’s American tour begins with a conflict in opposition to Scottish giants Celtic on 23 July in North Carolina, with the fixture’s kick-off time – as is the case with all Man Metropolis’s friendlies – but to be confirmed.
Guardiola’s males then face a battle with Milan on the Yankee Stadium in New York 4 days later, earlier than the Spanish coach faces his former aspect Barcelona in Orlando on the finish of July.
A staff Man Metropolis are very conversant in from the 2023/24 season, their last pre-season conflict comes in opposition to Premier League foes Chelsea in Ohio. The encounter will happen on 3 August – three days earlier than a possible Group Protect match-up.
Date / Kick-off time (BST) |
Fixture |
Location |
---|---|---|
23/07/24 – TBC |
Man Metropolis vs Celtic |
Kenan Memorial Stadium, Chapel Hill, United States |
27/07/24 – TBC |
Man Metropolis vs Milan |
Yankee Stadium, New York, United States |
30/07/24 – TBC |
Man Metropolis vs Barcelona |
Tenting World Stadium, Orlando, United States |
03/08/24 – TBC |
Man Metropolis vs Chelsea |
Ohio Stadium, Columbus, United States |
Man Metropolis are but to announce how supporters can tune into 2024/25 pre-season, merely stating on the membership’s web site: “Tv broadcast info might be introduced at a later date.”
Nevertheless, they’ve confirmed the official Man Metropolis app and CITY+ will preserve followers updated with the most recent pre-season information and protection.