Birmingham City will return for pre-season training under Chris Davies later this month and here are all the key dates going into the summer
Birmingham City winger Carlos Vicente
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All the key Birmingham City dates heading into the summer
The transfer window opens for English clubs on Monday, June 15 and runs through until 11pm on Tuesday, September 1.
EFL clubs will receive their new fixture lists at 12pm on Thursday, June 25.
Birmingham City's players will return for pre-season towards the end of June. Chris Davies has mapped out a six-and-a-half week programme for his players before their season officially begins on the weekend of August 8-9.
Blues will undergo the usual testing and enjoy time training at the Elite Performance and Innovation Centre in Henley-in-Arden before jetting off for a pre-season camp in Portugal.
The squad will fly to Portugal on Sunday, July 5 for a six-day training camp concluding on July 11. They will be based in Lagos in the Algarve region having spent part of pre-season in Portugal last year too.
The expectation is that Blues will play their first friendly out in Portugal, with details still to be confirmed.
There will be domestic friendlies once Blues return from Portugal. Their first friendly on home soil is usually against Solihull Moors for The Arthur Cup in memory of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.
The only friendly that has been mooted to date is a possible meeting with Barcelona at St Andrew's @ Knighthead Park at the end of July. Barcelona are travelling to England to train at St George's Park and a friendly against Blues is a possibility.
Blues want a showpiece friendly at St Andrew's for this year's Trevor Francis Memorial Match. Blues have taken on Francis's former clubs Rangers and Nottingham Forest in the last two years.
Blues' season will begin with a Carabao Cup first round match on the weekend of August 8-9 before the Championship season begins the following weekend (August 15-16).