Accra Hearts of Oak begins pre-season training on Sunday August 11 at Akuse in the Eastern Region. The two-week residential camping will see the team taken through exercises in tactics, technique and conditioning. The team will return to Accra on Sunday August 25, after which it will play its first pre-season trial match a week later, on the 1st of September. Team Hearts will take to the field again to play its second preseason fixture on Wednesday September 4, after which it will round up pre-season activities with a final match to be played on Sunday September 8. All the preparatory matches will be honoured at the Accra Sports Stadium against yet to be determined opponents. Hearts are careful to avoid a repeat of disruptions to its last preseason camping at the Essipong Stadium in Sekondi. That hubbub created low morale leading to a patchy start to the season.