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Yahoo
4 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
When will the 2025-26 Premier League fixtures be released?
The BBC's Ask Me Anything team have done all of the research ahead of the announcement detailing next season's Premier League matches. The fixtures for the 2025-26 season will be released at 09:00 BST on Wednesday, 18 June 2025 and the release will include the weekly schedule of all 380 matches. The season will begin with a single fixture played on Friday, 15 August 2025 and conclude on Sunday, 24 May 2026, when all matches will be played at 16:00 BST. There will be 33 weekend rounds of fixtures, plus five midweek rounds. The exact date and time at which individual matches are played during each weekend will be determined at regular intervals throughout the season, based on TV selections made by broadcasters. Read the full article here


BBC News
4 days ago
- General
- BBC News
When will the 2025-26 Premier League fixtures be released?
The BBC's Ask Me Anything team have done all of the research ahead of the announcement detailing next season's Premier League matches. The fixtures for the 2025-26 season will be released at 09:00 BST on Wednesday, 18 June 2025 and the release will include the weekly schedule of all 380 season will begin with a single fixture played on Friday, 15 August 2025 and conclude on Sunday, 24 May 2026, when all matches will be played at 16:00 BST. There will be 33 weekend rounds of fixtures, plus five midweek exact date and time at which individual matches are played during each weekend will be determined at regular intervals throughout the season, based on TV selections made by the full article here


BBC News
6 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
When are the 2025-26 Premier League fixtures released?
The Premier League fixtures for the 2025-26 season will be released at 09:00 BST on Wednesday, 18 June release will include the weekly schedule of all 380 season will begin with a single fixture played on Friday, 15 August 2025 and conclude on Sunday, 24 May 2026, when all matches will be played at 16:00 BST. There will be 33 weekend rounds of fixtures, plus midweek exact date and time at which individual matches are played during each weekend will be determined at regular intervals throughout the season, based on TV selections made by the 2024-25 season, the Premier League told fans they would be given plenty of notice before changing fixtures for based on TV selections are scheduled to be released five to six weeks in advance but - on occasion - have taken longer to be announced."The Premier League has 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," the Premier League said before the 2024-25 criticism over the scheduling of the match between Wolves and Chelsea on 24 December 2023, there will be no Christmas Eve fixture for the second year in a fixture schedule is released to media organisations under an embargo a few hours before the public reveal, in order to allow for the preparation of written news stories and broadcast packages. How are Premier League fixtures decided? According to the Premier League, putting together the fixture schedule takes up to six process is managed by multinational IT company Atos, which has its headquarters just outside of Paris.A slew of information about the football calendar - international dates, European matchweeks, and the scheduling of the lower leagues - is inputted into the system so it can generate a list which information such as policing capacity and geographical proximity are also taken into account. For example, the system is told that Liverpool and Everton cannot play at home on the same weekend, because doing so would put too much on strain on police resources and transport infrastructure in one same goes for other closely situated rivals, like Manchester United and Manchester City, but the rules are more relaxed in London owing to the prevalence of top-flight clubs in the all of the background information has been inputted, clubs are put in a pairing grid, which defines when they will play at home and when they will play away. From there, the system generates a randomised set of fixture list is manually verified by Atos staff and representatives from the Premier League and Football League. If any issues are spotted, the process is repeated again and a new set of fixtures is generated until one is deemed to satisfy all requirements. What rules are there for home and away Premier League fixture scheduling? There are three key home and away rules which the fixture generator must abide any period of five matches, a club must play either three times at home and twice away, or vice versa.A club cannot start or end the season with two home or two away matches.A club cannot play at home twice or away twice for the fixtures which take place on or around Boxing Day and New Year's Day. When are football fixtures for the 2025-26 announced in other leagues? Other British leagues will announce their fixture lists on the following dates:Women's Super League - TBAScottish Premiership - 09:00 BST on Friday, June 20 2025NIFL Premiership - TBAWelsh Premier Division - TBAEFL - 09:00 BST on Thursday, 26 June 2025National League - TBA What is Ask Me Anything? This article is the latest from BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team. Ask Me Anything is a service dedicated to answering your want to reward your time by telling you things you do not know and reminding you of things you team will find out everything you need to know and be able to call upon a network of contacts including our experts and will be answering your questions from the heart of the BBC Sport newsroom, and going behind the scenes at some of the world's biggest sporting coverage will span the BBC Sport website, app, social media and YouTube accounts, plus BBC TV and radio. More questions answered... Who has qualified for the 2025-26 Champions League?How are stadiums chosen for European finals?What is World Football Sevens?Who are the new Match of the Day hosts?Why are footballers allowed to chew gum?


Daily Mail
19-05-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
I've watched rugby in every corner of the world - these are the 20 bucket list stadiums you MUST watch a game in before you die, writes CHRIS FOY
At least, here it is, a global guide to help oval-ball enthusiasts plan the best places to take in a fixture – close to home or thousands of miles away. Below is a personal top 20 list of rugby venues which this observer would recommend for a visit, subject to the availability of tickets or – in most cases – the (rising) cost of the air fares.