Watford will host Ligue 1 side Lorient at Vicarage Road in their final pre-season game before the new Premier League campaign.

The Hornets had been looking a potential two-week gap without a competitive match after the final of their three arranged friendlies, against QPR, on July 30, but have moved to add a test against the top-flight French club to their itinerary. They will visit Vicarage Road on August 6, for a 3pm kick-off.

After beginning their pre-season campaign at Woking on Sunday and another game at Stevenage last night, Walter Mazzarri's side will now play four matches in England before their league season begins on August 13 at Southampton.

Lorient, from Brittany in north-west France, finished 15th in Ligue 1 last season after a disappointing end to the campaign, two years after they produced back-to-back eighth-placed finishes in the league.

A host of recognisable names have played for the club in recent years, including Arsenal centre back Laurent Koscielny and France forward Andre-Pierre Gignac, who was inches from scoring what would likely have been the winning goal for France in their Euro 2016 final defeat to Portugal last Sunday.

Lorient had never spent a season in the top flight before they achieved a shock promotion from Ligue 2 in 1998, but were relegated again in the cruellest fashion the following season, losing out to Le Havre on goal difference in the table.

They were promoted again in 2001 and the following season picked up their first domestic trophy, the Coupe de France, the French equivalent of the FA Cup.

That same year they were runners-up to Bordeaux in the French League Cup, but joy soon turned to despair as they again dropped out of the top flight and would not return for four years.

Since then, they have achieved three top-half finishes and have made four summer signings ahead of the new season.