SUNDERLAND will visit Hartlepool United in a pre-season friendly on Wednesday, July 20. 

It will be the third time in five years that Sunderland have visited Victoria Park. They won 3-0 there in July 2014, played there in 2012 and provided the opposition for Ritchie Humphreys' testimonial game in 2011. 

Sam Allardyce's side go to Rotherham, now managed by former Black Cat Alan Stubbs, on Saturday, July 23. 

The Black Cats will head to Austria for an intensive closed training camp between July 7 and 16.

Pools, who have announced they will head to Tenerife for a pre-season training camp on July 10 when they will play two friendlies, also go to Salford City on Thursday, July 26.