\n The Bluebirds will be the Blues\u00a0first opposition of the 2025\/26 season, with the teams meeting at the Pinatar Arena in Murcia on Saturday, July 12 with a 7pm kick off (local time).\n<\/p>\n
\n In the coming days there will be specific packages available for supporters to join\u00a0the club in Spain.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Blues\u00a0also confirmed the remainder of the pre-season schedule, with two more matches to be played at Roots Hall.\n<\/p>\n
\n On July 26, Southend be welcoming Johnnie Jackson\u2019s AFC Wimbledon to SS2. The Wombles beat Walsall 1-0 in the League Two Play-Off Final to earn a spot in the third tier for the first time since 2022.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Blues will wrap up\u00a0preparations by hosting\u00a0Charlton Athletic. Led by former Shrimper Nathan Jones, the Addicks also won at Wembley to earn promotion to the Championship for 2025\/26.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ticket details for all our pre-season fixtures \u2013 including the\u00a0meeting with Cardiff in Spain \u2013 will be confirmed in due course.\n<\/p>\n
\n Southend United Pre-Season Schedule<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n \n Cardiff City (N)Pinatar Arena (Murcia, Spain) \u2013 Saturday, July 12\u00a07pm\u00a0\n <\/p>\n \n Bishop\u2019s Stortford (A)\u00a0Woodside Park \u2013 Saturday, July 19\u00a03pm\n <\/p>\n \n Luton Town (H)\u00a0Roots Hall \u2013 Tuesday, July 22\u00a07:45pm\u00a0\n <\/p>\n \n AFC Wimbledon (H)Roots Hall \u2013 Saturday, July 26\u00a01pm\u00a0\n <\/p>\n \n Slough Town (A)\u00a0Arbour Park \u2013 Tuesday, July 29\u00a07:45pm\u00a0\n <\/p>\n \n Charlton Athletic (H)\u00a0Roots Hall \u2013 Saturday, August 23pm\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bluebirds will be the Blues\u00a0first opposition of the 2025\/26 season, with the teams meeting at the Pinatar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-210447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114738533757629101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}