Everton's Argentinian midfielder #24 Charly Alcaraz celebrates after scoring his team first goal during the English Premier League football match between Newcastle United and Everton at St James' Park in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, north east England on May 25, 2025.placeholder image
Everton's Argentinian midfielder #24 Charly Alcaraz celebrates after scoring his team first goal during the English Premier League football match between Newcastle United and Everton at St James' Park in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, north east England on May 25, 2025. | AFP via Getty Images
Everton’s 2025-25 Premier League fixtures will be released on Wednesday
Everton have plenty of reasons to be optimistic as they head into the 2025-26 Premier League season.
The Toffees were one of the stand-out sides in the second half of the most recent campaign as they ended 2024-25 sat 13th in the table and a more than comfortable 23 points above the bottom three.
The return of David Moyes was just the thing Everton needed as they waved farewell to Goodison Park. They will play next season on their new state-of-the-art stadium on Bramley Moore Dock. After a handful of test events, the ground is ready to host Premier League football.
It will be known as the Hill Dickinson Stadium following an agreement on sponsorship rights in May. Fans will be eager to see when the first competitive game in the new ground will be played once the fixtures are confirmed.
There will be some hopes that with the right signings, the Toffees will be able to push up the Premier League and contend for the European spots. Moyes has recent experience of challenging for and managing in Europe, having won the Europa Conference League with West Ham.
Everton 2025-26 Premier League fixtures and key dates
The Toffees’ fixtures will be released by the Premier League on Wednesday, June 18 at 9am. The 2025-26 season is poised to get underway on Saturday, August 16 but could kick off a day earlier if any of the opening round of games are selected to be broadcast on Friday night.
There will be 33 weekends of Premier League football along with five midweek rounds with the season ended on Sunday, May 24, 2026. All games will kick off at the same time on the final day.
Leeds United, Burnley and Sunderland have joined the top-flight for next season after earning promotion from the Championship. All 380 fixtures for the new season will drop at the same time. The times and dates are subject to change, based on what games will be selected for TV coverage by the relevant broadcast companies.
How does the Premier League decide the order of fixtures?
The fixture order process is somewhat complicated, as the Premier League needs to take several things into account when creating the order, such as congestion, home and away composition, and leaving room for FA Cup, International and European matches.
This is what the Premier League says on their website: “We start when we know the composition of each division, so after the last Football League playoff. We place each club in a pairing grid, which defines the dates they will be at home.
“For every date in the season, the fixture computer knows which clubs are at home and who are away and then it will mix them up randomly to determine the matches. In any five matches there should be a split of three home fixtures, two away or the other way around. A team will never have more than two home or away matches in a row, and, wherever possible, you will be home and away around FA Cup ties. A club will never start or finish the season with two home or two away matches because it would be unfair for a team to finish with two aways.
“Around the Christmas period, if you are at home on Boxing Day you will be away on New Year's Day or an equivalent date. We also try to maintain a Saturday home-away sequence throughout the season wherever possible. Most clubs will have a partner club with whom they cannot clash, such as Manchester United and Manchester City, or Liverpool and Everton. In London, it gets a bit more complex and less obvious.”
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