The 2024/25 Premier League season fixtures are out ahead of the first match of the season in mid-August. But can anyone stop Manchester City from dominating the top tier of men's league football?
Pep Guardiola's side made history last season by winning the Premier League for the fourth year in a row - the first men's side to do this in the history of English league football.
Liverpool and Arsenal tried their best to take the fight to them last time out - they'll be hoping they're in with a good chance this year once Euro 2024 is over and club football takes centre stage once again.
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The Premier League also welcomes Ipswich Town back to the top flight for the first time in 22 years, while Leicester City and Southampton also make a quick return from the Championship.
Elsewhere, after a challenging Premier League campaign last season that saw Manchester United place eighth, the team and its returning manager Erik ten Hag will be hoping to channel the momentum that saw them take a dramatic FA Cup victory against their local rivals Manchester City.
Here's the latest on the Premier League schedule and fixtures announcement - as well as how you can tune in for the whole season.
Premier League 2024/25 fixtures, schedule and key dates The 2024/25 Premier League schedule was released in full today, and the league's dedicated fixtures page is updated throughout the season so you can see which games have been selected for broadcast (as regular viewers will know already, these are announced in waves rather than all at once).
You can filter the listings by club and even check out schedules for other competitions like the FA Cup, Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference League. There are separate tabs for Premier League 2 and the under-18s Premier League fixture schedules, too.
The 2023/24 Premier League season started on Friday, August 17, and concludes on Sunday, May 25. The league's 380 matches will be played across 33 weekends, with four midweek matchdays and one bank holiday matchday (which, you guessed it, is Boxing Day).
However, remember that Premier League matches are often moved due to all sorts of factors such as broadcasting schedules, policing and safety considerations, and clubs' other commitments to competitions like the FA Cup, EFL (Carabao) Cup and European tournaments.
While there isn't a winter break this year, the Premier League has confirmed no fixtures on Christmas Eve and a schedule that means "no club playing within 60 hours of another match".
In explaining the rationale behind removing the winter break, the Premier League said that this is to allow all clubs "to be better able to ensure that players get a consecutive three-week break in the summer.
"This takes into account expert advice from medical and technical departments, which values a longer period of complete rest in the summer rather than a short break in the winter."
Meanwhile, if you're hoping for some solid transfers for your favourite Premier League club, the summer transfer window is now open until Friday, August 30 at 11pm UK time.
The winter 2025 transfer window opens on Wednesday, January 1 and closes on Monday, February 3 at 11pm.
Premier League 2024/25 on TV - how to watch live This is the last year of the current Premier League live TV rights-sharing arrangement between Sky Sports, TNT Sports and Amazon's Prime Video service.
From the 2025/26 season until 2028/29, just two pay broadcasters, Sky Sports and TNT Sports will share live rights in the UK.
Sky will increase the number of live fixtures it broadcasts by 70%, to 215 games - and it will air every match on the league's final day under the new deal. TNT Sports will broadcast 52 matches per season under the new deal.
Amazon's future focus will move to UEFA Champions League broadcasting, where they will share rights with TNT Sports from this season until the end of the 2026/27 season. And of course, free highlights coverage will continue to air on BBC Sport via its flagship programmes Match of the Day and Match of the Day 2.
Some international broadcast rights are renegotiated on a slightly different timescale, with the league renewing its US broadcast deal with NBC until 2028.
Premier League 2024/25 on Sky Sports and NOW Shop for Sky Sports packages
Sky usually gets most of the live Premier League games - this season, it will have exclusive live coverage of 128 fixtures.
Most matches air on Sky Sports Premier League and Sky Sports Main Event, and the network is also home to the famous Soccer Saturday round-up show, hosted by Simon Thomas.
Along with the full fixture list, Sky's opening weekend picks have been confirmed including the very first match of the season between Manchester United and Fulham (Friday, August 16, 8pm kick-off).
Sky has also chosen to present live coverage of West Ham's home match against Aston Villa, which kicks off at 5.30pm on Saturday, August 17. Sunday, August 18's featured games see Brentford hosting Crystal Palace (2pm kick-off), followed by a big opening weekend tie with Chelsea hosting champions Manchester City (4.30pm).
Those of you hoping to watch Leicester City's first game back in the Premier League against Spurs on TV will be able to tune in on Sky on Monday, August 19 (that's an 8pm kick-off).
Shop Sky packages
There are a variety of Sky Sports packages available to new customers on Sky Q (setup fees apply, offer prices may change and pricing on Sky Glass and Sky Stream differs). Our last price check was conducted on Tuesday, June 18:
Sky TV, Sky Sports Complete Pack and TNT Sports - PS76.50/month for 18 months on Sky Q (usually PS96.50/month, plus PS20 setup fees)
Sky TV and Sky Sports - PS51.50/month (usually PS66.50/month) for 18 months on Sky Q (plus PS20 setup fees)
Neither of the above packages includes Netflix. If you prefer, you can build your own package, starting with the Sky TV and Netflix Standard with Ads combo on Sky Stream, adding channels as you wish.
Sky Stream with Sky Entertainment & Netflix Standard with Ads, plus Sky Sports - PS46/month (usually PS56/month) for 18 months, plus PS39.95 setup fees waived.
Sky Stream with Sky Entertainment & Netflix Standard with Ads, plus Sky Sports and TNT Sports - PS74/month (usually PS86/month) for 18 months, plus PS39.95 setup fees waived.
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If you don't already have Sky, it's a requirement that you take the base TV package. Sky also notes in its terms that package prices may go up during your subscription period, so be prepared just in case.
Sky's sports channels cover all sorts - from selected Women's Super League football matches to cricket, motor racing (including Formula 1, F1 Academy and IndyCar) to boxing, NBA to golf, rugby league, darts, tennis, women's rugby and netball. It also has a rolling news channel, Sky Sports News, and will launch a new channel called Sky Sports+ in August.
Further men's football coverage including EFL games, Scottish football fixtures and the German Bundesliga is usually found on its Sky Sports Football channel.
If you'd prefer to watch Sky Sports via NOW, right now you can pay PS14.99 for a daily membership or PS26 (usually PS34.99) for a monthly membership. That offer price will hold throughout a six-month minimum term, before going back up to the usual monthly fee.
The PS26/month (for a minimum 6 months) offer is available to "new NOW Sports & Boost members only", and further terms apply.
Finally, Virgin Media customers can also take advantage of TV and broadband package options that include Sky Sports. More info on those is available here.
Premier League 2024/25 on TNT Sports Sign up for TNT Sports
TNT Sports usually airs 52 live fixtures in a Premier League season - with the vast majority of those matches airing on Saturdays at lunchtime.
It will open its live coverage with Ipswich Town's return to the Premier League on Saturday, August 17 (12.30pm kick-off). The club will be hosting Liverpool, whose new manager Arne Slot has just succeeded Jurgen Klopp.
TNT has exclusive coverage of the UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League until the end of the 2026/27 season, and will share the UEFA Champions League rights with Prime Video for the same time period.
The network also airs coverage of NBA basketball plus MotoGP and Formula E motorsports, Premiership Rugby, baseball, international cricket, UFC and WWE - and it broadcasts exclusive sports documentaries which are only available to subscribers.
TNT Sports also held the rights to the top flights of French and Italian men's football, Ligue 1 and Serie A, until the end of the 2023/24 season, with news to follow on where those rights will go from this season onwards.
TNT Sports' monthly pass is officially titled discovery+ Premium (including TNT Sports). It's priced at PS30.99 per month for 30 days' access, and also includes Eurosport channels and discovery+ entertainment programming.
If purchasing TNT Sports, or TNT Sports on Sky Q with a BT broadband package, there are a couple of bundle options available that might save you some money on a longer-term deal:
For existing BT Broadband and mobile customers: Add discovery+ Premium (including TNT Sports) to Sky Q for (PS25/month on a 24-month contract, plus PS39.99 upfront fee)
For BT Broadband customers only: Add discovery+ Premium (including TNT Sports) for PS20/month.
TNT Sports programming is also now available via EE TV packages - if you're looking to take EE's broadband as part of a bundle.
Premier League 2024/25 on Amazon Prime Sign Up for Amazon Prime
Amazon has 20 matches per season under the current rights agreement - this includes the Boxing Day fixtures.
Amazon Prime (including the Premier League football) is priced at PS8.99 per month or PS95 per year. But if you've not subscribed before, you can access its services for a free trial period, which usually lasts for 30 days.
When Amazon doesn't have live games, it has lots of sports content you can get stuck into, plus sports documentaries about personalities including Wayne Rooney and Sir Alex Ferguson and a new documentary about Manchester United's treble-winning 1998/99 season.
You can also enjoy original TV shows like Fallout and The Boys with Amazon Prime membership, plus movies from Saltburn to American Fiction.
And Prime members can watch Eurosport programming like the Australian Open, French Open or the Le Mans 24 Hours sportscar race via the discovery+ Standard Prime Video Channels add-on, too. This is priced at an additional PS6.99 per month on top of the Prime subscription fees.
Note that discovery+ Standard does not include TNT Sports programming such as UEFA football, TNT's allocation of Premier League fixtures, or the likes of MotoGP, WWE and UFC. You'll need the full discovery+ Premium (including TNT Sports) package for that.
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