Arsenal Women will play Bayern Munich Women in the pre-season Emirates Cup before Unai Emery's side take on Lyon, the Premier League club have announced.
A revamped tournament, traditionally part of the Gunners' preparations for the new campaign, will see the FA Women's Super League champions host the Germans on July 28 at 12:30pm, with the men's team playing afterwards.
Arsenal's match against Ligue 1 side Lyon, which is set to start at 3:15pm, will be the only pre-season match played at the Emirates Stadium.
Emery's squad are currently preparing for the Europa League final against Chelsea in Baku on May 29, but plans are already in place looking ahead towards the next campaign.
Arsenal will meet Major League Soccer side the Colorado Rapids in Denver before then taking part in the International Champions Cup, with fixtures against Bayern, Roma and Real Madrid across three cities in the United States of America.
'We are delighted to be hosting the return of the Emirates Cup in a new format in July,' Arsenal managing director Vinai Venkatesham said on the club website.
'Supporters will have the first chance to see both our women's and men's teams play at Emirates Stadium on the same day before the start of the new season.
'We are particularly thrilled that the schedule has allowed us to feature our highly successful women's team as part of this event.
'The match will follow this summer's World Cup where many of our players will have featured and will be another indicator of the rapid growth of the women's game.'
Socacdprtz
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Bayern mambo no. 5 episode 5 loading. Best of luck ladies
kkstyles04
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Another 5-1 loading.....Oh wait it's the ladies. Jokes apart,good luck.
Demcemorst
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arsenal girls please try your best
Jonathan14
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Great news, hope to see the women in good spirits as we prepare for the new season. can't wait to see July 28.
Rosemake
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This is brilliant! Women and men’s double header at the Emirates Cup this summer. Hopefully a sign of things to come
TeamFCB
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Will they even have enough players left to field a team? 😂 😂
Gapjust
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And looking forward the game. Hope the stadium will be busy to see you ladies!!!
mailbox
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You deserve to play there as much as the men.
citizeno
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Just don't score 5-1 past us
Torreses
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Win 5-1 please
went666
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Really excited and will be there to cheer them on!
birthday
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5-1 incoming
Pharaohes
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But will Bayern have any players or will they all be in Arsenal kits? 😜
deduce
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On a Sunday work next day.... women match first who cares no offense but it's true...... Lyon in the main match not exactly a big team. I'll give that a miss
operations
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Bayern Munich?? Nightmare fixture for Arsenal 😦
LoveFCB
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The one year I wanted to go to both days and they made it a single day tournament ffs. Lyon are a good team, will be a good competitive friendly. Wonder who will make their emirates debut?
Kennethlie
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Didn’t we sign a player from them like last week? And Miedema signed from them too That’ll be a good day out. Good couple of games
Zhuroffe
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Last time they came to the Emirates for pre season we spanked them. I believe a younger Lacazette was playing for them that day as well