This year’s LFE pre-season trip in the Netherlands saw eight EFL clubs take on their Dutch counterparts, as well as Academy teams from the likes of Belgium, Denmark, Germany, USA and Japan.
Each side played two full matches before taking part in a local tournament, either in Volendam, Dordrecht or Lochem. Here’s the results from their time abroad:
Results
Barnsley
Wednesday 31 July
Barnsley 2 – 3 Bayer Leverkusen U17s
Callum Walmsley & Kareem Hassan-Smith
Saturday 03 August
Barnsley 3 – 1 Fortuna Koln U19s
Brad Binns & Sezgin Aleksiev (2)
Lochem Tournament
Saturday 10 August
Barnsley 8 – 0 Sendai Niko
Jack Birch, Sezgin Aleksiev (2), Jack Sherlock, Newton Sila-Conde, Will Calligan, Will Lancaster & own goal
Barnsley 0 – 2 Vitesse
Sunday 11 August
Barnsley 2 – 0 Burton Albion
Jack Sherlock & Sezgin Aleksiev
Barnsley 0 – 0p Go Ahead Eagles (3rd/4th place play-off)
Burton Albion
Wednesday 31 July
Burton Albion 0 – 4 Standard Liege
Tuesday 06 August
Burton Albion 2 – 1 FC Dordrecht U17s
Matty Richardson (pen) & Thierry Larry Fairweather
Lochem Tournament
Saturday 10 August
Burton Albion 1 – 2 Vitesse
Tom Hewlett
Burton Albion 8 – 0 Sendai Niko
Tom Armitage, Owen Hickson, Emmanuel Shittu, Tom Hewlett, Matty Richardson (2) & Jack Holmes (2)
Sunday 11 August
Burton Albion 0 – 2 Barnsley
Burton Albion 4 – 0 Cheltenham Town (5th/6th place play-off)
Tom Hewlett (2), Ben McLean & Emmanuel Shittu
Cheltenham Town
Wednesday 31 July
Cheltenham Town 0 – 10 Rot Weiss Oberhausen
Tuesday 06 August
Cheltenham Town 2 – 2 FC Dordrecht U19s
Aaron Evans-Harriott & Callum Ebanks
Lochem Tournament
Saturday 10 August
Cheltenham Town 0 – 1 Sheffield Wednesday
Cheltenham Town 3 – 1 SP Lochem
Aaron Evans-Harriott (2) & Charlie Stanton
Sunday 11 August
Cheltenham Town 1 – 1 Go Ahead Eagles
Aaron Evans-Harriott
Cheltenham Town 0 – 4 Burton Albion (5th/6th place play-off)
Ipswich Town
Saturday 03 August
Ipswich Town 1 – 5 Bayer Leverkusen U19s
Tuesday 06 August
Ipswich Town 3 – 5 Sparta Rotterdam U19s
Colin Oppong, Alex Henderson & Elkan Baggott
Dordrecht Tournament
Saturday 10 August
Ipswich Town 3 – 0 KV Mechelen
Zak Brown, Tyreece Simpson & Lewis Reed
Ipswich Town 4 – 0 Champs Academy
Ola Bello, Lewis Reed (2) & Michael Bareck
Ipswich Town 0 – 0 FC Helsingor
Sunday 11 August
Ipswich Town 2 – 3 SBV Excelsior
Colin Oppong & Lewis Reed
Ipswich Town 0 – 0 Nottingham Forest (4-2 pens) (3rd/4th place play-off)
Lincoln City
Saturday 03 August
Lincoln City 3 – 1 Sparta Rotterdam U19s
Nathan Odokonyero (2) & Lewis Inglis
Monday 05 August
Lincoln City 0 – 1 SV Meppen U19s
Volendam Tournament
Saturday 10 August
Lincoln City 0 – 2 Sparta Rotterdam U19s
Lincoln City 0 – 0 FC Volendam U19s
Lincoln City 1 – 2 Walsall
Ben Sault
Nottingham Forest
Wednesday 31 July
Nottingham Forest 0 – 5 Bayer Leverkusen U19s
Saturday 03 August
Nottingham Forest 0 – 4 PSV U19s
Dordrecht Tournament
Saturday 10 August
Nottingham Forest 1 – 0 Club Brugge
Nottingham Forest 1 – 0 SPU Falcon Men’s Soccer
Nottingham Forest 1 – 3 Esbjerg fB
Sunday 11 August
Nottingham Forest 0 – 2 FC Dordrecht
Nottingham Forest 0 – 0 Ipswich Town (2-4 pens) (3rd/4th place play-off)
Sheffield Wednesday
Wednesday 31 July
Sheffield Wednesday 1 – 2 Vitesse U19s
Luke Hall
Saturday 03 August
Sheffield Wednesday 0 – 5 FC Koln U19s
Lochem Tournament
Saturday 10 August
Sheffield Wednesday 1 – 0 Cheltenham Town
Jay Glover
Sheffield Wednesday 2 – 2 Go Ahead Eagles
Corey Glaves & Paulo Aguas
Sunday 11 August
Sheffield Wednesday 6 – 1 Lochem
Corey Glaves, Basile Zottos, Luke Hall, Alex Bonnington (2) & Elliott Vasalo
Sheffield Wednesday 0 – 0 Vitesse (2-4 pens) (Final)
Walsall
Sunday 04 August
Walsall 0 – 3 Rot Weiss Essen U19s
Tuesday 06 August
Walsall 0 – 2 Vitesse U17s
Volendam Tournament
Saturday 10 August
Walsall 1 – 0 FC Volendam
Ade Francis
Walsall 2 – 2 Sparta Rotterdam U19s
Ade Francis & Ben Friel
Walsall 2 – 1 Lincoln City
Perry Moss & Ben Friel
