Hull City's £1.5m training ground facelift forces Tigers on their travels
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Hull City will spend the majority of pre-season away from East Yorkshire as the club's Cottingham training ground continues its £1.5m facelift.
Steve Bruce and his squad will head straight out to an extended warm-weather training camp in Portugal on July 6 to begin preparations for the Championship season, only returning to England in time to face local neighbours North Ferriby
United on July 17.
A short spell at home brings a second friendly against Chesterfield four days later before the
Tigers then fly out to Austria for the games with German club Hannover and Al-Ain of the UAE Pro-League on July 26 and 29.
The final friendly comes against Sheffield United on August 2, the final chance for fine-tuning ahead of facing Huddersfield
Town on August 8.
Despite suffering relegation from the Premier League in May, City have committed to a seven-figure overhaul of the club's training facilities at their Millhouse Woods Lane base.
The investment into the playing surfaces will see the same Desso system,
part artificial grass, installed to replicate that of the KC Stadium pitch, including undersoil heating for the winter months.
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