Man City pre-season fixtures: Schedule, how to watch and kickoff times

For the archetypal clip successful a decade, Manchester City are preparing for a caller run without Pep Guardiola astatine the helm aft the legendary Catalan manager bid farewell to the Etihad Stadium astatine the extremity of the 2025-26 season.

Guardiola steered the Citizens to an EFL Cup and FA Cup treble earlier leaving astatine the extremity of May, and helium has since been replaced by his erstwhile adjunct manager Enzo Maresca.

The Italian is tasked with knocking Arsenal disconnected their perch astatine the Premier League acme arsenic Man City question to debar a 3rd successive play without winning the top-flight title.

Man City person already made a connection of intent successful the summertime transportation model with the club-record £116m seizure of England planetary midfielder Elliot Anderson, and much caller faces are expected to get astatine the Etihad earlier the caller run gets underway.

Once again, Man City volition marque the travel overseas this summer, and here, Sports Mole runs done everything you request to cognize astir their 2026-27 pre-season.

Who are Man City playing successful pre-season?

Man City person finalised their pre-season schedule, with 3 fixtures taking spot during a summertime circuit of Asia.

The Citizens volition statesman their circuit with a travel to Hong Kong to look Inter Milan successful a repetition of the 2023 Champions League final, which Guardiola’s broadside won 1-0 successful Istanbul to go European champions for the archetypal clip arsenic good arsenic implicit a historical treble.

Maresca’s archetypal lucifer arsenic Man City manager volition beryllium followed by an brushwood with a K-League All Stars side astatine the Seoul World Cup Stadium successful South Korea, earlier locking horns with Atletico Madrid 4 days later.

Both fixtures are portion of the 2026 Coupang Play Series, which archetypal launched successful 2022 and has established itself arsenic South Korea’s premier sports festival, hosting games betwixt immoderate of the world’s biggest clubs and the K-League All-Stars.

Only doubly antecedently person Man City played successful Seoul, archetypal successful 1976 with legendary players including Alan Oakes and Glyn Pardoe, and astir precocious successful 2023 erstwhile they mislaid 2-1 to Atletico Madrid.

The Citizens volition past caput backmost to the UK for the Community Shield against Arsenal, which volition beryllium staged astatine Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, alternatively than Wembley, connected August 16 – a week earlier they kick-start the caller Premier League play astatine location to Bournemouth.

How tin I ticker Man City's pre-season fixtures?

All of Man City's pre-season fixtures volition beryllium shown unrecorded connected the club's CITY+ streaming platform.

A CITY+ Premium contented subscription costs £9.99 per period oregon £34.99 annually, portion existing Official Cityzens and Season Ticket Members tin subscribe annually for a discounted complaint of £30.

Who volition play for Man City successful pre-season?

As galore arsenic 17 Man City players were called up to correspond their state astatine the 2026 World Cup and respective of those are apt to miss the opening of pre-season, alternatively taking a well-earned break.

Those who were eliminated aboriginal from the tourney are present enjoying a play of remainder and whitethorn nexus up with Maresca’s squad successful clip for their opening pre-season lucifer against Inter.

However, those who are inactive striving for World Cup glory whitethorn articulation up with Man City astatine a aboriginal date, including England quartet Marc Guehi, Nico O’Reilly, James Trafford and caller enlistee Anderson, who - astatine the clip of penning - are each gearing up for the quarter-finals.

The likes of Phil Foden, Nico Gonzalez, Savinho and Rico Lewis, who person each had the summertime disconnected aft they did not gain a World Cup call-up, should beryllium acceptable and raring to spell for pre-season arsenic they bid to marque an content nether Maresca.

Younger players including Sverre Nypan, Vitor Reis, Claudio Echeverri and Max Alleyne could besides beryllium included successful Maresca’s squad, portion it remains to beryllium seen whether Jack Grealish volition beryllium reintegrated aft spending past play connected indebtedness astatine Everton.