{"id":541505,"date":"2025-11-01T06:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/541505\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T06:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:48:12","slug":"premier-league-fixture-changes-for-late-december-and-early-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/541505\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League fixture changes for late December and early January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See the revised schedule as matches including Arsenal v Liverpool are moved for live TV coverage<\/p>\n<p>Amendments for Premier League fixtures in Matchweeks 18, 19 and 20 in December 2025 and January 2026 have been announced, following selections for live TV coverage in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Premier League would like to acknowledge the circumstances that have led to a reduced number of matches on Boxing Day this season \u2013 impacting an important tradition in English football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There are now several challenges to Premier League fixture scheduling rooted in the expansion of European club competitions \u2013 which led to a revision of our domestic calendar ahead of last season, including changes to the FA Cup. This ultimately left the Premier League as a 33-weekend competition \u2013 fewer than previous seasons, despite being a 380-match competition since 1995.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">With fewer weekends to work with, the League is bound by how the calendar falls. The League can give an assurance that next season there will be more Premier League matches on Boxing Day \u2013 as the date falls on a Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As with previous years, and in keeping with our commitment to clubs, special arrangements have been made to allow more time between games played across the festive period. This will allow greater time for players to recover with the rest periods between rounds 18, 19 and 20 being increased to ensure that no club plays within\u00a060\u00a0hours\u00a0of another match.<\/p>\n<p>Kick-off times for the fixtures listed below are 15:00 GMT unless otherwise mentioned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stay up to date on all the fixtures with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pl.ecal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League&#8217;s digital calendar<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>See here when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/news\/4324684\/premier-league-live-tv-202526-fixture-announcement-broadcast-selection-dates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">next fixture changes<\/a> will be announced.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday 26 December 2025<\/strong><br \/>20:00 Manchester United v Newcastle United (Sky Sports)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday 27 December\u00a0<br \/><\/strong>12:30 Nottingham Forest v Manchester City (TNT Sports)<br \/>Arsenal v Brighton &amp; Hove Albion<br \/>Brentford v AFC Bournemouth<br \/>Burnley v Everton<br \/>Liverpool v Wolverhampton Wanderers<br \/>West Ham United v Fulham<br \/>17:30 Chelsea v Aston Villa (Sky Sports)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday 28 December\u00a0<br \/><\/strong>14:00 Sunderland v Leeds United (Sky Sports)<br \/>16:30 Crystal Palace v Tottenham Hotspur (Sky Sports)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday 30 December<\/strong><br \/>19:30 Burnley v Newcastle (Sky Sports)<br \/>19:30 Chelsea v Bournemouth (Sky Sports)<br \/>19:30 Nott&#8217;m Forest v Everton (Sky Sports)<br \/>19:30 West Ham v Brighton (Sky Sports)<br \/>20:15 Arsenal v Aston Villa (Sky Sports)<br \/>20:15 Man Utd v Wolves (Sky Sports)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday 1 January 2026<\/strong><br \/>17:30 Crystal Palace v Fulham (Sky Sports)<br \/>17:30 Liverpool v Leeds (Sky Sports)<br \/>20:00 Brentford v Spurs (Sky Sports)*<br \/>20:00 Sunderland v Man City (Sky Sports)*<br \/>*Due to the movement of Spurs and Sunderland&#8217;s previous matches to 28 December<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday 3 January<br \/><\/strong>12:30 Aston Villa v Nott&#8217;m Forest (Sky Sports)<br \/>Brighton v Burnley<br \/>Wolves v West Ham<br \/>17:30 Bournemouth v Arsenal (Sky Sports)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday 4 January<\/strong><br \/>12:30 Leeds v Man Utd (TNT Sports)<br \/>15:00 Everton v Brentford (Sky Sports)*<br \/>15:00 Fulham v Liverpool (Sky Sports)*<br \/>15:00 Newcastle v Crystal Palace (Sky Sports)*<br \/>*Due to Brentford, Fulham, Liverpool and Palace all playing on 1 January<br \/>15:00 Spurs v Sunderland (Sky Sports)<br \/>17:30 Man City v Chelsea (Sky Sports)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday 6 January<br \/><\/strong>20:00 West Ham v Nott&#8217;m Forest (Sky Sports)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday 7 January<\/strong><br \/>19:30 Bournemouth v Spurs (Sky Sports)<br \/>19:30 Brentford v Sunderland (Sky Sports)<br \/>19:30 Crystal Palace v Aston Villa (Sky Sports)<br \/>19:30 Everton v Wolves (Sky Sports)<br \/>19:30 Fulham v Chelsea (Sky Sports)<br \/>19:30 Man City v Brighton (Sky Sports)<br \/>20:15 Burnley v Man Utd (Sky Sports)<br \/>20:15 Newcastle v Leeds (Sky Sports)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday 8 January<\/strong><br \/>20:00 Arsenal v Liverpool (Sky Sports)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"See the revised schedule as matches including Arsenal v Liverpool are moved for live TV coverage Amendments for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,661,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-541505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115473108644878858","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541505","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=541505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}