Sandiacre Town trip to kick off new season for Louth Town
Louth Town will kick off their United Counties League Division One campaign with a home game against Sandiacre Town on Saturday, 25th July.
The weekend after they play their first away game at Radford, but four of their first six games are at home following their summer sideways shift from the Northern Counties East League Division One.
On Boxing Day they head for Pinchbeck United with the return on Easter Monday and on Saturday, 2nd January host Maltby Main.
The season will conclude on Saturday, 17th April away at Clifton All Whites.
"It is good we have those early home fixtures as it gives us a chance to build a good platform,” said boss Carl Martin.
"We need to make our home ground a bit of a fortress this season.
"We are really looking forward to it. It is all a bit of an unknown as it is a different league and we don’t know too much about the other sides as yet. But we can’t wait to get started.”
Louth captain Alex Aldridge scored the only goal just before half-time in Saturday's 1-0 friendly win at Immingham, turning the ball home from close range as it dropped from a Theo Kitt-Bushell corner.
"I was very pleased with Saturday, particularly the clean sheet which gives us a base to work from,” said Martin.
"I was also pleased with the set piece goal as we have been working on them in training.
"All in all it was a good work-out for us on a difficult surface. We had some good patterns of play and looked like we are getting fitness into their legs.”
It was a first pre-season victory after a 2-2 home draw with Lutterworth was followed by a midweek 2-0 home loss to promoted Step 4 side Boston Town.
The White Wolves' final pre-season game before the big kick off is at Wyberton this Friday night.