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Young hoops open up away to Hibs

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development teamCeltic will kick off the new Development League campaign away to Hibs on August 4, the two clubs will also meet in the final round of fixtures scheduled for April 26.

Last season Hibs played their home matches at Spartans with the last meeting between the two teams seeing Celtic run out 6-0 winners in the semi-final of the SFA Youth Cup.

The 17 team division is in it’s third season with Aberdeen winning the title last season to deny Celtic a sixth consecutive title.

Celtic will play their home matches at Cappielow with Partick Thistle the first visitors on August 18.

Aberdeen are scheduled to visit Cappielow on September 29 with the first Glasgow derby with Sevco pencilled in for the following week with Celtic travelling to the state-of-the-art Murray Park training complex.

With loan deals sending Paul McMullan, Conor McManus, Stuart Findlay and Calum Waters out on loan Stevie Frail will draw on last season’s u-17 squad although the players out on Development Loans are available to play for their parent club in the Development League.

The Development League evolved from the u-20 League and allows four players over 20 to be used as well as an over-age goalkeeper.

Frail is currently in Valencia with a squad of 18 preparing for the new season at a training camp. Last night Celtic enjoyed a 5-0 win over local side Real Gardia and face the Levante first team at their training ground on Saturday morning.

On Monday a Celtic XI will play Morton in a testimonial for kit-man Andy Bryan with further matches arranged against Turriff United (July 18), Raith Rovers (July 21) and East Kilbride (July 25).

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