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Aston Villa confirm Middlesbrough friendly match

Middlesbrough players celebrate their promotion to the Premier League
Image: Aston Villa will play Middlesbrough in a friendly next month

Aston Villa will play Premier League newcomers Middlesbrough as part of their pre-season schedule.

Relegated Villa take on the Championship runners-up in a friendly match at Villa Park on Saturday July 30.

The club will be in Austria for a training camp from July 9-14 as the players are put through their paces ahead of the 2016/17 Championship campaign.

Gabriel Agbonlahor and Ashley Westwood of Aston Villa show their frustration after Everton's third goal, March 2016
Image: Villa were relegated from the Premier League after finishing bottom

They then play at Telford United on July 16 before a game at Bristol Rovers four days later.

Villa will then fly to France to play FC Nantes at the Stade Leo Lagrange on July 23.

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Cambridge United provide the opposition on July 26 before the warm-up campaign wraps up against Boro.

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