New date added to Chelsea pre-season tour
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Chelsea have confirmed their full pre-season tour of the Asia-Pacific region, which will end with a match against Johor Darul Ta'zim at the Sultan Ibrahim Stadium in Malaysia.
The fixture on 11 August is one of only two played by the Blues - who will be led by new manager Xabi Alonso - against local opposition in that country.
Remarkably, the Johor-based club are on a 108-game unbeaten run in the league - the joint longest in world football history.
The match will also see Alonso face his former Liverpool team-mate Luis Garcia, who is chief executive of the Malaysian side.
The tour begins in Australia against Western Sydney Wanderers.
Chelsea will then face Tottenham in Sydney before travelling to Hong Kong, where they play Juventus and AC Milan in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta.
Alonso begins work on 1 July and will be unveiled to the media shortly after.
He will then train with the available players at Cobham for a couple of weeks before leaving London on 24 July and arriving in Australia on 25 July to begin the tour.
There remains a possibility Chelsea will add another domestic friendly closer to when the 2026-27 Premier League season begins on 22 August.
