Hull City's 2026 pre-season fixtures as they prepare for Premier League return
Hull City have confirmed their programme of pre-season friendlies.
The Tigers tour Slovenia and Turkey for a training camp, before further games in Germany, and at home.
It all builds up to their first game back in the Premier League after a decade away, at home to Manchester United on August 22.
Hull returned for pre-season training on Monday but will step up their preparations when they travel to Maribor seven days later.
Tigers owner/chairman Acun Ilicali also owns Maribor and although his teams will not meet, his fingerprints are all over the schedule, with three games against teams from his native Turkey.
In their nine days in Slovenia, Hull will face Konyaspor at the Aluminij Sports Park in Kidricevo on Saturday 25 July before facing Caykur Rizespor at Maribor’s Ljudski vrt on Tuesday 28 July.
Konyaspor finished ninth in last season's Turkish Super Lig, Rizespor eighth.
Hull played Rizespor in Austria in the build-up to their last Premier League campaign, in 2016-17, Abel Hernandez scoring twice and Robert Snodgrass once in a 3-1 win.
After nine days in Slovenia, Sergej Jakirovic's squad will then spend four in Istanbul, where they will tale on Kasımpasa.
Coached by former Turkey and Newcastle United midfielder Emre Belozoglu, who was a strong contender to be Hull's new coach last summer until a fan backlash over past racist incidents, they finished 13th in Turkey's top division last season.
They will host Hull at the Recep Tayyip Erdogan Stadium on August 1, with Hull returning the following day.
It will be the third pre-season running the sides have faced one another.
Hull's globetrotting continues with a game away to Eintracht Frankfurt on August 8, before the only home game of their programme, seven days later. The Saturday game kicks off at 3pm.
Frankfurt narrowly missed out on European qualification last season before Adi Hutter returned for a second spell as coach. Nice had to beat Saint-Etienne in relegation play-offs to keep their place in Ligue 1.
The match against Manchester United kicks off at 12.30pm so it can be shown live on Sky Sports, the second match of the new Premier League season.
Pre-season fixtures
July 25: Konyaspor (Aluminij Sports Park, Kidricevo, kick-off TBC)
July 28: Caykur Rizespor (Ljudski vrt, Maribor, kick-off TBC)
August 1: Kasımpasa SK (Recep Tayyip Erdogan Stadium, Istanbul, kick-off TBC)
August 8: Eintracht Frankfurt (A, 2pm)
August 15: OGC Nice (H, 3pm)