HEREFORD FC will host League Two side and FA Cup giant killers Newport County in their first home friendly to be released.

Pete Beadle's side will host the South Wales side on Saturday, July 21 with a 3pm kick-off.

"Newport are a decent side who had a great run in the FA Cup last season, they finished in the top half of League 2 as well so will be tough opposition," said Beadle speaking to the Hereford FC website.

"Mike Flynn has done a great job there, and we can expect to be up against a decent side.

“You play different teams for different reasons in pre-season, and with Newport hopefully they’ll give us a taste of what we can expect in the coming season, and that is a higher intensity of football for longer periods of the game than we’ve been used to over the past three seasons.

“With them being a league club, and not too far away distance wise, hopefully, they’ll bring a number of travelling supporters as well.”