Stoke City won’t be heading to Union Berlin for a pre-season friendly.

The German Bundesliga 2 club had announced a home game against the Potters on July 13 but Stoke-on-Trent Live can confirm that isn’t on the Potters’ agenda.

Stoke will be taking on Wolves at the bet365 Stadium on Wednesday, July 25 (7.45pm) and sister club St Pauli on Saturday, July 28. More fixtures are expected to be confirmed shortly, including a training camp in Europe.

Gary Rowett organised seven matches last summer when he was in charge at Derby County – with one at Kaiserslautern and the others mostly around the Midlands. There were eight 12 months previously when he was in charge at Birmingham City, all in the UK.

The manager has taken a team to play at Port Vale in both the previous pre-seasons - winning 1-0 with Derby and 2-0 with Birmingham - but he is not expected to make it a hat-trick.

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When is Stoke’s first league game of the season?

The first Championship game of 2018/19 will take place on Saturday, August 4 – just three weeks after the World Cup final, which might be particularly relevant for Xherdan Shaqiri, Mame Diouf and Badou Ndiaye, Jack Butland and Ramadan Sobhi.

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When are Stoke in cup action?

The first round of the Carabao Cup will take place in the week starting Monday, August 13. Stoke will still enter the FA Cup in the third round.

The Checkatrade Trophy, if Stoke are invited to field an under-21s team, will commence in the week starting Monday, September 3.

Are Stoke going to defend their Uhren Cup title?

This is the silverware Mark Hughes picked up in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, last summer... but never got a chance to pick up.

Stoke beat Neuchatel Xamax 1-0 and then Young Boys Bern 6-5 in a marathon penalty shoot-out, securing the crown when Young Boys then hammered Benfica 5-1.

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Hughes's party had moved to Martigny to take on Monaco by that time and the trophy was supposed to be delivered to England. It was the first time Stoke had won a pre-season tournament since becoming Isle of Man Trophy champions back in 1992, preceding the season when Lou Macari’s side stormed to the Division Two championship.

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Newly-promoted Wolves fly the flag for the Premier League at the tournament this time, with the quartet made up by Young Boys, FC Basel and Feyenoord.

Wolves be warned. Only two English clubs have won the title, with Stoke preceded by Ipswich Town in 1963. They also went on to suffer relegation, beaten 9-1 by Stoke along the way into the bargain.