Lauris Coggin’s Under-18s welcome Liverpool to the City Football Academy for a 11:00 (UK) kick-off on Saturday 15 August, our first competitive outing of the new campaign.
Coggin and his team have been hard at work during pre-season, taking part in intense training drills and high-quality friendlies as the squad look to make a strong start to our title defence.
But Liverpool won’t be an easy opponent.
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The Reds handed our young Blues just one of two league losses on home soil last term.
Liverpool went on to finish eighth in the table, with our 3-0 win in the reverse fixture in Merseyside a key stepping stone to City lifting the North title for a second successive season.
So, who will claim the first set of points of 2026/27?
CITY+ subscribers will be able to find out on Saturday...
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