Video: Huddersfield Town start with Bees at home - before visiting Newcastle United and Aston Villa

DAVID WAGNER'S Huddersfield Town start the new Championship season at home to Dean Smith's Brentford on August 6.
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David Wagner

The home game with the Bees is the appetiser to a mouth-watering away double-header at relegated big guns Newcastle United and Aston Villa - with Town travelling to Tyneside to provide the Magpies with their first home opponents of 2016-17 on August 13 before visiting Villa Park three days later.

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David Wagner

Town’s second home game comes in the shape of a Yorkshire derby at home to Barnsley on August 20 and they end the month with a game with visiting Wolves on August 27.

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September ends with a big home derby for Town at Leeds United on September 10 and they end the month against visiting Rotherham on September 27 - before welcoming Sheffield Wednesday on October 15.

Town have a Christmas double header, at home to Nottingham Forest on Boxing Day, followed by Blackburn on December 31 - and Wagner’s side start 2017 at Wigan on January 2.

Town’s home derby with Leeds is pencilled in for February 4 and they face derby trips to Rotherham on February 14 and Barnsley on February 25.

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David Wagner

Glamour home games against Newcastle and Villa arrive, back to back, in early March, with Town hosting the Magpies on March 4 and Villa three days later.

Huddersfield end the season at home to Cardiff on May 7.