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Mark Pirie

Rangers title defence opener reveal date announced as SPFL step up next season planning

Scottish football fans have a date for their diary as the current Premiership season enters the closing stages.

The SPFL have announced that the season 2021/22 fixture list will be published on Tuesday June 15 at 9.00am.

All four divisions will kick-off the 2021-22 term on Saturday, July 31 with Rangers launching their defence of the top flight crown.

The Premiership will shut down from Monday January 3 until Friday January 21 for the winter break.

But the Scottish domestic action will in fact begin three weeks earlier when the League Cup group stage reverts to its usual pre-season slot.

The group stage will start with matchday one on the weekend of July 10/11.

A further four rounds of fixtures will follow on consecutive midweeks and weekends until matchday five on July 24/25.

Dates for next season’s Challenge Cup competition will be confirmed in due course and fixtures for the 2021/22 league season will be published in June.

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