2025/26 Premier League fixtures released

Jonathan Victoria • 18 Jun 2025 News

Next season’s drama starts here

The 2025/26 Premier League season is still two months away but we can start to get excited for the new campaign as the fixture list for the year has been released.

Next season will hopefully bring a host of new storylines and they will all start on the first weekend, which will be highlighted on Super Sunday when Manchester United host Arsenal.

As usual, the first match of the year will come on the Friday and will see defending champions Liverpool welcoming Bournemouth.

Opening weekend fixtures

The 2025/26 Premier League season will get underway on Friday 15th August, with one game on the Friday and the rest coming over the weekend.

Here are the fixtures for the opening weekend:

Friday 15th August

• Liverpool vs Bournemouth – 8pm on Sky Sports

Saturday 16th August

• Aston Villa vs Newcastle – 12:30pm on TNT Sports
• Brighton vs Fulham – 3pm
• Nottingham Forest vs Brentford – 3pm
• Sunderland vs West Ham – 3pm
• Tottenham vs Burnley – 3pm
• Wolves vs Manchester City – 5:30pm on Sky Sports

Sunday 17th August

• Chelsea vs Crystal Palace – 2pm on Sky Sports
• Manchester United vs Arsenal – 4:30pm on Sky Sports

Monday 18th August

• Leeds vs Everton – 8pm on Sky Sports

Key dates

The 2025/26 Premier League season will run from 15th August 2025 until 24th May 2026.

In that time, there will be the usual slate of domestic and European competitions, starting with the Carabao Cup, with Premier League teams beginning their League Cup campaign in the second round (third round for teams in European competitions).

The 2025/26 FA Cup campaign starts properly with the first round on Saturday 1st November 2025. The Premier League teams as always will enter in the third round, which will take place on Saturday 10th January 2026.

As for the European competitions, the Champions League gets properly underway with the league phase on Tuesday 16th September 2025. The Europa League begins on Thursday 25th October 2025, and the Conference League gets started on Thursday 2nd October 2025.

The finals for each of the competitions above will take place on the following dates:

• Carabao Cup – Sunday 22nd March
• FA Cup – Saturday 16th May
• Europa League – 20th May
• Conference League – 27th May
• Champions League – Saturday 30th May

Note: All dates are subject to change.

More games than ever on Sky Sports

This season will see Sky Sports hosting more fixtures than ever before, increasing their coverage so that they have 80% of all televised Premier League games. It is an increase from 128 matches a season to at least 215 games.

Not to mention the over 1000 EFL fixtures that are shown live exclusively on Sky Sports, largely making them the de facto home of domestic English football.