Champions Liverpool defend their Premier League title, with the likes of Man City, Arsenal and more eager to challenge, while Leeds, Burnley and Sunderland are the newcomers
Why Florian Wirtz To Liverpool Is Worth EVERY Penny
The Premier League season has barely finished, but excitement is growing for the 2025/26 campaign with the fixtures set to be released.
Fans will soon be able to start dreaming of possibilities for the new season, as well as mapping out trips to see their teams with a host of new signings assembled this summer.
As the Fifa Club World Cup continues, with every game live on DAZN for free, Chelsea and Manchester City will be able to look ahead to the new Premier League season, with Liverpool ready to defend their title and poised to complete an outlandish summer transfer spree, including the seismic signing of Florian Wirtz.
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We’ll have the opening round of fixtures, with the new campaign poised to get underway on Saturday 16 August 2025, while teams can check for that special derby date and key battles in the title race, battle for European places and relegation scrap - follow for all the fixtures and reaction below:
Premier League 25/26 fixtures released
Premier League set to release fixtures on Wednesday morning
Liverpool ready to defend their title after Reds cruised to title in Arne Slot's debut campaign
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What is considered before the fixtures list is released?
The Premier League considers policing capacity and the geographical proximity of teams.
So you will not see, for example, Liverpool and Everton playing at home on the same weekend. The same would apply to Manchester United and Manchester City, though the rule is not as stringent for London teams, given there are so many teams in the capital.
Jack Rathborn18 June 2025 07:15
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How is the 2025/26 fixture list created?
The Premier League maintains the creation of the fixtures list is a process that can take up to six months.
French IT company Atos, based just outside of Paris, are in charge.
Numerous factors and a great deal of information is considered before the order of matches can be put into the system.
So you can imagine international, Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference League games are all taken into consideration.
Jack Rathborn18 June 2025 07:05
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Man City enter a new era at Club World Cup and two arrivals hold the key
With the Premier League fixtures set to be released later this morning, the Club World Cup rumbles on, with Man City making their debut later tonight...
In December, Real Madrid won the inaugural Intercontinental Cup. The implications for Manchester City were indirect but it does mean that, on a technicality, they enter the Club World Cup as defending champions. An expanded competition can seem a new one: under the old format, the last final – officially, anyway, given Real’s win over Pachuca came in a rebranded competition – was City’s 4-0 walloping of Fluminense in Saudi Arabia.
It was City’s fifth trophy of 2023. It is not the only reason it feels like a different time. One of the goals came from Phil Foden, then on fire. Julian Alvarez bookended the scoring with a brace, but he now leads the line for Atletico Madrid. The silverware was lifted by Kyle Walker, but the captain isn’t even part of the squad City are taking to the United States after spending the second half of the season on loan at AC Milan. Jack Grealish, who started against Fluminense, didn’t make the plane this summer either.
Whatever the competition is called, there was the sense that, 18 months ago, City were entitled to call themselves the world’s best. Hindsight shows it was one of the last triumphs of a team; they won that season’s Premier League but even men as perceptive as Pep Guardiola and Txiki Begiristain failed to notice the evidence of decline until it was too late.
Man City enter a new era at Club World Cup and two arrivals hold the key
Tijjani Reijnders and Rayan Cherki hold a particular importance as Pep Guardiola builds his third Manchester City team and looks to re-establish the club as the best in the world
Jack Rathborn18 June 2025 06:50
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Liverpool ready to defend their title after Reds cruised to title in Arne Slot's debut campaign
German superstar Florian Wirtz is set to join Liverpool in a deal that could see him become the most expensive player ever signed by a Premier League club.
The 22-year-old, who has become one of the most coveted players in world football during his time at Bayer Leverkusen, was a target for Real Madrid, Manchester City and Bayern Munich, though Arne Slot’s side quickly moved to the front of the race for his signature.
Leverkusen had wanted €150m, or £126m, and previously rejected two bids from the Premier League champions. But Liverpool have agreed to sign Wirtz for an initial £100m, potentially rising to £116m, making him their club-record signing.
Wirtz, who was an integral part of Leverkusen’s undefeated run to a Bundesliga title in 2023/24, has scored 57 goals in 197 games for the club, as well as seven goals in 31 appearances for his national side.
But why has the German picked Liverpool as his next club, and when will the deal be finalised?
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The 22-year-old is set to sign for Liverpool for an initial £100m, which could rise to £116m
Jack Rathborn17 June 2025 17:10
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Premier League set to release fixtures on Wednesday morning
When are the Premier League fixtures announced?
The fixtures for the 2025-26 Premier League season will be confirmed at 9am on Wednesday 18 June**.**
When does the 2025-26 season start and end?
The campaign will begin on the weekend of 16 and 17 August, 83 days after the end of the last campaign. Premier League bosses have refused to give Chelsea and Manchester City extra time off with the two clubs providing English representation at the Club World Cup.
The season will run until Sunday 24 May 2026 and consist of 33 weekends and five midweek rounds.
Jack Rathborn17 June 2025 17:09
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Premier League set to return with host of new stars
The Premier League will return in August with a host of new stars.
The biggest will likely be Florian Wirtz, with Liverpool set to break the English transfer record in a £116m deal with Bayer Leverkusen.
Those deals already done, with Premier League debutants, include: Man City’s Tijjani Reijnders and Rayan Cherki, Chelsea’s Dario Essugo and Estevao, Liverpool’s Jeremie Frimpong and Brighton striker Charalampos Kostoulas.
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Jack Rathborn17 June 2025 17:08
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Everything you need to know about new Premier League 2025/26 season
The new season begins on Saturday, 16 August, 2025.
That’s just 83 days after the 2024/25 campaign finished. The new season will run until Sunday, 24 May, 2026.
The 2025/26 season will is run over 33 weekends and there are five sets of midweek rounds of fixtures.
No club will be forced to play within 60 hours of another match over the festive period, and no game will be played on Christmas Eve.
Jack Rathborn17 June 2025 06:59