The first match on the field for Fabio Pisacane's new Cagliari has a date you can circle on your calendar: Saturday 19 July, at 5 pm, the rossoblù will have their first friendly match in Temù, against Ospitaletto Franciacorta, a team that will play in Serie C next season. It will be the only match scheduled in the Ponte di Legno retreat, where the pre-season will take place from 13 July (after the first few days of testing at the Crai Sport Center in Assemini) until the 22nd.
The first phase of training has concluded, and Cagliari is now ready for international events. The friendly on July 23rd (7:30 p.m.) in Linz, Austria, against the Turkish team Galatasaray was already well-known. Today, another piece of news: the rossoblù will also be going to Germany, on Saturday 26th at 2 p.m., to challenge Hannover – a team from the 2nd Bundesliga – on the Germans' pitch, the Heinz von Heiden Arena .
Following the long-awaited return to Sardinia and the first edition of the Gigi Riva Trophy , Saturday 2 August at 8:30 pm at the Unipol Domus against Saint-Étienne . A match that recalls the 1970 Champions Cup challenge , Cagliari's historic debut in the competition after the championship won the previous season, and which will be part of a two-day event dedicated to the Myth.
Another friendly match, yet to be defined, is possible at the beginning of August . At an official level, Cagliari will play their first match on Saturday 16 August at 20:45 at home against the winner of Virtus Entella-Ternana, in the thirty-second finals of the Coppa Italia. A week later, on Sunday 24 at 18:30, their debut in Serie A, again at the Unipol Domus, against Fiorentina.