Football: It's Millwall away for starters for Yeovil Town

A FAVOURED trip to Millwall on the opening day of the 2013-14 season had not been excitedly mentioned among Yeovil Town fans ahead of the publication of The Championship fixtures – but that is what the Glovers will be facing on August 3.

The fixtures for the new season, which will be Yeovil’s first-ever in The Championship, were published this morning and for many supporters today is the day when they can start to really take it in that the Glovers will be plying their trade in the second tier of English football following that never-to-be-forgotten League One Play-Off Final success at Wembley on May 19.

A game at Millwall might not have been the fixture Yeovil Town would have wanted with many citing possible trips to the likes of QPR, Nottingham Forest or Leeds United or an attractive home game with FA Cup holders Wigan Athletic or relegated Reading.

But one thing all fans know is that over the course of the season you have to play 23 teams home and away at some point – so a trip to Millwall was going to happen.

It will not be the first time that Yeovil Town have faced a trip to The Den on the opening day of the season.

Back on August 5, 2006, the Glovers travelled to London to face Millwall and came back with a point following 1-1 watched by a crowd of 10,012 including 808 Yeovil fans.

Seven years on and Yeovil return to Millwall to kick-off a new campaign – this time in The Championship.

Yeovil’s first home game in The Championship will take place a week later when Birmingham City are the visitors, followed by a trip to Burnley (Aug 17) and then home games with Derby County (August 24) and Reading (Aug 31).

The Glovers travel to Bournemouth on Boxing Day, while Watford are the visitors to Huish Park on New Year's Day.

Yeovil will close the season on May 3, 2014, with a home game against Middlesbrough.

Yeovil have been given an away tie at Southend United in the First Round of the Capital Cup which will be played, most likely, on August 6.

For full details of Yeovil Town's fixture list for 2013-14 - log onto the club's official website at www.ytfc.net .

PS: Going back to that league opener at Millwall in 2006. That season, under manager Russell Slade, the Glovers reached the League One Play-Off Final where they lost out to Blackpool – could it be an omen of a good campaign to come?

Also, it should be noted, that back in the 2006-07 season as well as Millwall and Blackpool, they also faced up to the likes of Bournemouth, Nottingham Forest, Huddersfield Town and Brighton & Hove Albion who they will now face again in The Championship.

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