Carlisle United will start the new League Two season with a trip to Mansfield - the place where Keith Curle began his Blues reignUnited travel to Field Mill on the opening day of the 2015/16 campaign on Saturday August 8
The clash sees Curle return to his former club and the opposition who beat Carlisle 3-2 on the manager's first match in charge last September.
It also means United will be up against ex-Carlisle player Adam Murray, now the Stags manager, for the curtain-raiser.
And it hands a quick reunion with his former club to new Blues signing Michael Raynes, who was a Mansfield player for the second half of last season.
The new fixtures were released this morning and see United's first home game of the new league season on August 15 when Cambridge visit Brunton Park.
There is then an early mammoth midweek trip with Carlisle handed a Tuesday night game at Plymouth on Tuesday, August 18.
That is United's longest journey of the campaign, a 780-mile round trip.
The first month of the campaign then closes with a home clash against Wimbledon and a trip to nearby Hartlepool, before the visit of Conference champions Barnet at the start of September.
The festive period, meanwhile, sees United given an away game at Accrington Stanley on Boxing Day, with Hartlepool the visitors to Brunton Park two days later.
Their first clash of the new year, on January 2, sees Plymouth make the long trip to Cumbria.
Easter weekend has handed Curle's side a long trip to Yeovil on Easter Saturday before promoted Bristol Rovers come to Brunton Park on Easter Monday.
Other mammoth trips for their die-hard fans include Exeter (March 12), Yeovil (March 26), Portsmouth (April 2) and Crawley (April 23), while the shortest journey of the season, to Morecambe, comes on Saturday, February 27.
United's last game of the campaign is a trip to Notts County, ending a season where they will travel 11,901 miles to their 23 away fixtures.
Midweek league games for the Cumbrians in 2015/16 are Plymouth away (August 18), Leyton Orient away (September 29), Northampton away (October 20), Luton away (November 24), Leyton Orient home (March 1) and Luton home (April 19).
CARLISLE UNITED FIXTURES FOR 2015/16 (home games in capitals)
AUGUST
8 Mansfield Town
15 CAMBRIDGE UNITED
18 Plymouth Argyle
22 AFC WIMBLEDON
29 Hartlepool United
SEPTEMBER
5 BARNET
12 DAGENHAM & REDBRIDGE
19 York City
26 NEWPORT COUNTY
29 Leyton Orient
OCTOBER
3 Stevenage
10 MORECAMBE
17 EXETER CITY
20 Northampton Town
24 Wycombe Wanderers
31 YEOVIL TOWN
NOVEMBER
14 Bristol Rovers
21 PORTSMOUTH
24 Luton Town
28 CRAWLEY TOWN
DECEMBER
12 Oxford Utd
19 NOTTS COUNTY
26 Accrington Stanley
28 HARTLEPOOL UNITED
JANUARY
2 PLYMOUTH ARGYLE
9 AFC Wimbledon
16 Barnet
23 YORK CITY
30 Dagenham & Redbridge
FEBRUARY
6 ACCRINGTON STANLEY
13 Newport County
20 STEVENAGE
27 Morecambe
MARCH
1 LEYTON ORIENT
5 NORTHAMPTON TOWN
12 Exeter City
19 WYCOMBE WANDERERS
26 Yeovil Town
28 BRISTOL ROVERS
APRIL
2 Portsmouth
9 MANSFIELD TOWN
16 Cambridge United
19 LUTON TOWN
23 Crawley Town
30 OXFORD UNITED
MAY
7 Notts County
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