First Boxing Day home game for Plymouth Argyle since 2016
Plymouth Argyle will play at home on Boxing Day for the first time in nine years this December. The Pilgrims - who last hosted the traditional post-Christmas fixture when they drew 3-3 with Wycombe on 26 December 2016 - will meet Reading at Home Park.Argyle's much-travelled fans will also have a home game three days later when Wycombe again come to Devon before the Green Army hit the road for a New Year's Day trip to Stevenage.
Plymouth will begin their return to League One with the visit of Barnsley to Home Park on Saturday, 2 August.The game will be the first for new head coach Tom Cleverley since taking over earlier this month after Miron Muslic left the club.The Pilgrims will be reunited with former manager Steven Schumacher - who guided them to the League One title in 2023 - in their first away game a week later when Argyle head to Bolton Wanderers.The first Devon derby with Exeter City for more than for two years will be at St James Park on 25 October with the reverse fixture at Home Park on 11 April. Argyle's final home game of the season is against Port Vale on 25 April before they end the campaign a week later at Northampton Town.
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