The first event of the club’s diamond jubilee celebrations will see a legends team from current Premier League champions Leicester City take on a Valley equivalent side at Butlin Road this Sunday.

The game - which kicks-off at 2.00 pm - is the first of a series of events to commemorate the club’s first competitive match in September 1956.

The named Leicester legends squad includes four players – Steve Walsh, Muzzy Izzet, Steve Guppy and Julian Joachim – with just short of 900 Foxes first team appearances between them as well as Matt Piper – sold by City for £3.5 million to Sunderland in 2002.

It also draws upon celebrities from the world of entertainment and other sports, with Kasabian guitarists Sergio Pizzorno and Chris Edwards set to take part in the charity game, and England’s Rugby Union World Cup winning captain Martin Johnson and WBA International Boxing Champion Rendall Monroe also scheduled to play.

Managed by former boss Billy Jeffrey, the Valley line-up is set to include one-time favourites Robbie Beard, Craig Herbert, Danny Hall, Chris Freestone, Mark Rosegreen, Mick Shearer and Terry Angus, with Town’s most recent manager Dale Belford likely to make a quick return to Butlin Road between the sticks and the popular midfielder David Staff – who won the 2009 Sky One series of the Gladiators – also named.

Admission to the legends game is £6 for adults, £3 for concessions and £1 for children under 16, and they will raise money for a variety of good causes including Rugby Myton Hospice, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance, Friends of St Cross Hospital in Rugby and the Birmingham Children’s Hospital.