All the need-to-know info for Saturday's friendly at Peterborough

The background

West Ham United face their first pre-season friendly of the summer on Saturday when they head to Sky Bet League One side Peterborough United.

While the Hammers have already played two UEFA Europa League games this summer, seeing off FC Lusitans of Andorra by a 4-0 aggregate scoreline, a group of senior players have been training in Ireland and have yet to put that work into practice on the pitch.

A trip to Peterborough offers them the opportunity to get that game time into their legs ahead of the start of the new Barclays Premier League season, now just four weeks away.

Peterborough are playing their second warm-up game, having defeated non-league Dulwich Hamlet on Thursday.

They finished ninth last season and will be hopeful of mounting a challenge for promotion to the Championship in 2015/16.

The history

West Ham and Peterborough have met on four previous occasions, with the Hammers coming out on top in all four meetings.

The last set of fixtures came in the 2011/12 campaign when both sides were in the Championship. Sam Allardyce’s men won 1-0 at the Boleyn Ground in September, before Ricardo Vaz Te and Gary O’Neil struck at London Road to give the east Londoners a 2-0 success.

Prior to that, the only other West Ham-Peterborough games came in 1992/93, when the Hammers won 3-1 away and 2-1 at home.

Peterborough were founded in 1934 and have had three spells in the second tier – one in the early 1990s and the latter two in the last decade. Twice League Two winners, their trophy cabinet also contains the Football League Trophy