{"id":193194,"date":"2025-06-18T01:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T01:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/193194\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T01:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T01:53:12","slug":"when-are-premier-league-fixtures-released-match-dates-for-2025-26-season-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/193194\/","title":{"rendered":"When are Premier League fixtures released? Match dates for 2025-26 season confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/newsletter_arsenal_embed_desktop.png\" alt=\"Arsenal Football Newsletter\" width=\"158px\" height=\"158px\" class=\"sc-fnLEGM bSnNhN\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The dust has only just settled on the previous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/premier-league\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> season as clubs are turn their attention to the new campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly, the release of the fixture schedule for 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/liverpool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a> are the team to beat after they ended Manchester City\u2019s four-year dominance to be crowned champions of England for a record-equalling 20th time. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/arsenal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arsenal<\/a> finished as runners-up once again, whilst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/chelsea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea<\/a> and Newcastle completed the top five, sealing Champions League qualification in the process.<\/p>\n<p>While the Club World Cup is on hand for a football fix this summer, the new club season is already on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When are the Premier League fixtures released?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Premier League will release the fixtures for the 2025-26 campaign on Wednesday, June 18, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The official reveal for the 380 matches is set for 9am BST.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When does the Premier League start?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first match is currently pencilled in for Saturday, August 16, but that could be brought forward slightly if the opening game is given a Friday night slot for TV coverage.<\/p>\n<p>That is just over a month after the final of the Club World Cup, which will be played on July 13 &#8211; and could feature Man City or Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>Over the Christmas period, no clubs will play more than once within a period of 60 hours, and there will be no Christmas Eve fixture.<\/p>\n<p>The final round of games is scheduled for Sunday, May 24, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which Premier League games are on TV?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sky Sports and BT Sport will announce their first picks for televised coverage shortly after the fixtures are released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The dust has only just settled on the previous Premier League season as clubs are turn their attention&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[43147,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-193194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-premier-league-fixtures","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114701874232228575","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}