Chris Wells' under 18's side will face Altrincham, Chester, Curzon Ashton, FC United of Manchester, Marine, Morecambe, Mossley, Nantwich Town, New Mills, Northwich Victoria, Prescot Cables and Woodley Sports in the elite league which kicks off in August.

Before that the squad fly out to Germany to take part in the OBI-Hilden Cup. They will take on the following teams will be split into two groups of five: Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen, Rot-Weiss Essen, Fortuna Dusseldorf, Westfalia Herne, Wuppertaler SV Borussia, Bonner SC, SG Wattenscheid 09, Warrington Town AFC and VfB 03 Hilden.

This is set to be a major test for the squad who have been training with the first team squad recently in preperation for the tournament.