Manchester United and Manchester City will both wear shirts featuring the city’s iconic worker bee in their derby match in Houston next week in a show of solidarity for victims of the Manchester bombing in May.

The game will be the first Manchester derby to be held outside the UK and the first time the two teams have met since the terrorist attack on the city, which claimed the lives of 22 people and left 64 injured.

United and City will make the match-worn shirts available for fans to purchase via auction after the game at Houston’s NRH Stadium in the early hours next Friday with all the proceeds going to the ‘We Love Manchester Emergency Funds’. Both clubs are touring the US this summer. United arrived in Los Angeles last Sunday and City are due to fly to Houston on Monday.

The worker bee has been an emblem symbolising the industrial heritage of Manchester and its people dating back to the Victorian era and was adopted into the city’s coat of arms in 1842.

The move follows the launch of #ACITYUNITED which saw the blue and red halves of Manchester come together to pledge a £1 million joint donation to the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund.