Bradford City AFC can confirm the club’s 2024/25 pre-season schedule, with five men’s first team friendlies and an overseas tour of Austria in the diary.

The Bantams will welcome Sunderland to the University of Bradford Stadium on Tuesday July 30, their penultimate fixture of pre-season before the 2024/25 Sky Bet League Two campaign kicks off on Saturday August 10.

This will come after the squad has returned from a seven-day overseas tour of Austria, where City will be based in the country’s Obertraun resort between Friday July 19 and Thursday July 25, contesting a friendly against a local Austrian opponent to be confirmed in due course, on Wednesday July 24.

Graham Alexander’s side will commence pre-season training at their Woodhouse Grove base on Monday June 24, before opening their fixture schedule away to Chorley on Saturday July 6.

A Saturday July 13 trip to Scunthorpe United will follow, before the Bantams jet off for Austria the week after.

City return to England and face the Sky Bet Championship Black Cats at Valley Parade on Tuesday July 30, before concluding their pre-season campaign with a trip to Altrincham on Saturday August 3 – a week before the start of the league campaign.

A City XI will travel to Pickering Town on Tuesday July 9, before travelling to Eccleshill United on Tuesday July 16, and taking on Bradford (Park Avenue) at the Horsfall Community Stadium on Tuesday July 23. The Bantams will also contest two behind-closed-doors training ground friendlies throughout pre-season.

Bradford City AFC’s 2024/25 pre-season schedule is as follows:

– Chorley (A) – Victory Park – Saturday July 6 – 3.00pm

– Scunthorpe United (A) – Glanford Park – Saturday July 13 – 3.00pm

– Austria tour – Obertraun resort – Friday July 19-Thursday July 25

– Austria friendly (A) – local opponent, venue and kick-off time TBC – Wednesday July 24

– Sunderland (H) – University of Bradford Stadium – Tuesday July 30 – 7.30pm

– Altrincham (A) – J. Davison Stadium – Saturday August 3 – 3.00pm

The club will confirm details of the pre-season friendly fixture in Austria in due course, while ticket details for each game – including the visit of Sunderland on Tuesday July 30 – will be announced as soon as possible.