The Premier League are set to reveal the fixture schedule for the new season and Mirror Football has taken a look at everything you need to know before the announcement
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Liverpool's Dutch manager Arne Slot celebrates with the Premier League trophy at the end of the English Premier League football match between Liverpool and Crystal Palace at Anfield in Liverpool, north west England on May 25, 2025.
The Premier League fixture list will be announced on Wednesday
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The new Premier League season will get underway in August and the fixtures will be released this week. Liverpool will be looking to mount a successful title defence, having won the league in Arne Slot's first season in charge.
Arsenal, who have now finished second in the last three campaigns, are hoping to win their first title since 2004 and Manchester City will also be looking to bounce back after a disappointing campaign.
Leeds, Burnley and Sunderland will all be back in the top flight after earning promotion from the Championship, with Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton suffering relegation. There will be a total of 380 matches played, with Sky Sports due to broadcast at least 215 and TNT Sports set to show 52.
It will be the first full season with semi-automated offside technology after that was introduced during the last campaign, while Puma will be the official match ball supplier after it was announced that they would be replacing Nike.
Here, Mirror Football takes a look at everything you need to know before the announcement...
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When is the fixtures schedule released?
The Premier League will release the fixtures schedule on Wednesday, June 18.
What time are the fixtures released?
The schedule will be announced 9am BST.
When will we know matches picked for TV?
Some of the dates will be changed throughout the season due to games being selected for TV coverage and those announcements will come at different intervals throughout the campaign.
Before last season, the Premier League told supporters that they are "committed to giving supporters a minimum of six weeks' notice on UK broadcast selections until December 2024, and five weeks' from January 2025 until Matchweek 37."
Who has the rights to TV games this year?
Sky Sports will broadcast a "record minimum" of 215 Premier League games next season, an increase from the 128 they showed last season, while TNT Sports will also broadcast some matches. Amazon Prime Video will not show any action this year after their six-year broadcast deal concluded last Christmas.
Liverpool lift the Premier League trophy
Liverpool won the league last season and will be hoping to retain their title
How is the Schedule produced?
The Premier League say that putting together the schedule, in full, takes up to six months. It is a process that is managed by an IT company, Atos, whose main headquarters are based just outside of Paris.
An AI system has all manner of information concerning the football calendar thrown into it - including European dates, international games, domestic cup competitions and also what lower league schedules look like - as well as concerns such as geography and policing concerns.
Clubs are then placed into a pairing grid - for example, Aston Villa and Wolves are often paired opposite one another, so when Villa are at home, Wolves are away - which will define when they play at home and when they’ll head away and the system thus randomises a set of fixtures for all 20 clubs.
Those fixtures are then manually verified by Atos staff before being verified further by representatives of the Premier League and Football League. Any issues, and the process is repeated until a new set of fixtures are generated which meet the requirements.
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