The 2025/26 Premier League season kicks off on Friday evening as champions Liverpool host Bournemouth and pundits have already been hard at work predicted exactly how the campaign will play out
Gary Lineker
Pundits have given their predictions ahead of the 2025/26 Premier League season
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After three long months, the Premier League is finally back - and pundits already think they know exactly how the season is going to go. Liverpool get the campaign underway as they welcome Bournemouth to Anfield as defending champions.
Arne Slot's side start the season as favourites and will be desperate to become back-to-back champions for the first time since 1984. But they’ve got some serious challengers this time around, with Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal having all spent big in their bid for silverware.
And then you’ve got Ruben Amorim’s Manchester United who have also invested in an effort to recover from their woeful season last time out.
At the other end of the table, Burnley, Sunderland and Leeds are all back in the Premier League and will be hoping to end the trend of all three of the promoted clubs going straight back down.
But will they manage it? Who will win the title? Which sides are going to be the Premier League’s Champions League representatives this time next year? Pundits have all had a look into their crystal balls to try and work it out…
Alan Shearer
Champions: Liverpool
Top four: Arsenal, Man City, Chelsea
Relegated: Leeds, Sunderlands, Burnley
Harry Redknapp
Champions: Liverpool
Top four: Arsenal, Man City, Chelsea
Relegated: Sunderland, Burnley, Wolves/Brentford
Gary Lineker
Champions: Liverpool
Top four: Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City
Relegated: Burnley, Sunderland, Leeds
*If one stays up it will be Burnley, with either Wolves or Brentford going
Gary Lineker
Gary Lineker has suggested Wolves could go down under Vitor Pereira
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Shaun Wright-Phillips
Champions: Man City
Top four: Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea
Relegated: Sunderland, Burnley, Brentford
Joe Cole
Champions: Liverpool
Top four: Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City
Relegated: Sunderland, Leeds, Wolves
Wayne Rooney
Champions: Liverpool
Top four: Arsenal, Man City, Chelsea
Wayne Rooney
Wayne Rooney has predicted Liverpool to win the league
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Micah Richards
Champions: Liverpool
Relegated: Leeds, Sunderland, Brentford or Wolves
Theo Walcott
Champions: Liverpool
Top four: Man City, Arsenal, Chelsea
Steven Gerrard
Champions: Liverpool
Top four: Arsenal, Man City, Chelsea
Ben Foster
Champions: Arsenal
Top four: Man City, Liverpool, Man United
Relegated: Wolves, Sunderland, Burnley
Ally McCoist
Champions: Liverpool
Top four: Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City
Relegated: Burnley, Leeds, Wolves
Ally McCoist
Ally McCoist has predicted the 2025/26 Premier League season
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Robbie Fowler
Champions: Liverpool
Top four: Chelsea, Man City, Arsenal
Relegated: Brentford, Sunderland, Burnley
Jermain Defoe
Champions: Liverpool
Top four: Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal
Opta Supercomputer
Champions: Liverpool
Top four: Arsenal, Man City, Chelsea
Relegated: Burnley, Leeds, Sunderland
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