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On 6 July 2017 Hull City announced five pre-season friendlies against Oxford United, Bristol Rovers, both in Portugal,[77] Nantes,[78] Benfica[79] and Ajax.

[88] Hull start the season with a trip to Aston Villa, run by former manager Steve Bruce, on 5 August 2017.

Tommy Rowe doubled Doncaster's lead 6-minutes later with Hull failing to make any reply.

The only goal coming in the 58th minute when Ola Aina headed in a Jon Toral corner to take Hull through to the next round.

With a couple of minutes of normal-time remaining Apostolos Vellios pegged one back for Forest, but they could not find another goal.

[157] At a later date Jarrod Bowen also picked up the Hull City Official Supporters Club's Player of the Season award.

[158] In April the club announced that the team would be travelling to Kenya to play a match on 13 May 2018 at the Kasarani Stadium.

[159] This would be part of a 5-day tour to promote football and Shining Hope for Communities projects in the country.

The friendly match against Gor Mahia ended in a 0–0 draw, and was decided on penalties with Hull winning 4–3.