The Valiants will travel to St James Park tomorrow afternoon to take on Exeter City, for our first away fixture of the new league campaign, where we will look to make it two wins from two. The match officials for the fixture have been confirmed and can be found below:

Sam Purkiss will take charge of the game, his third match so far this season, after having taken charge of 27 games last season.

EFL Trophy: 3 (19/20) 1 (20/21)

EFL Cup: 1 (20/21)

League One: 6 (19/20)

League Two: 15 (19/20)

FA Cup: 3 (19/20)

Purkiss has never officiated a Vale fixture prior to tomorrows clash. In the 27 games he officiated last season, he has issued 82 yellow card and 2 red cards. So far this season he has handed out one yellow card.

His assistants will be Samuel Ogles and Michael Begley, with Garry Maskell taking on the role as fourth official.