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The new season · 2026/27

The 2026/27 Premier League season is nearly here.

The 2026/27 Premier League, all twenty clubs, live.

The 2026/27 season begins on Friday 21 August, when Arsenal start the defence of their title against Coventry at the Emirates. Everything below is already warming up.

17DAYS
23HRS
41MIN
52SEC
Opening nightFri 21 Aug · 20:00 BST
ARSArsenal
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COVCoventry
Emirates StadiumSky Sports

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Happening now

The latest from across the league

All the latest news from around the Premier League, every club in one place and the newest stories first, refreshed as they publish.

Pre-season

Where all twenty clubs are in their warm-up

The friendlies before the league starts, every club in one place. Each side's most recent warm-up result and the next game in the diary, updated as they are played.

The table

The Premier League table

Every club starts level on nothing, so until the football begins the table simply lists in order. Here are the first six of the twenty by name, and the whole thing reorders itself the moment the goals start going in.

#ClubPWDLGDFormPts
ARSArsenal000000
AVLAston Villa000000
BOUBournemouth000000
BREBrentford000000
BHABrighton000000
CHEChelsea000000
This round

How the opening weekend lines up

The season opens under the lights on Friday and runs through to a Monday night in west London. Here is the full round, each game with its kickoff time, the channel, the radio commentary and the ground, the same standard as everywhere on the site.

Live scores as the goals go in, the table as it reshapes and the full match widget for every game are in the Match Centre.

The season's storylines

What to watch as 2026/27 unfolds

Four threads worth following from the first whistle.

The title raceNot started

Arsenal defend while the rest give chase

Arsenal go into the season as champions after winning the league on 85 points, their first title since 2003/04. The 2026/27 race begins on Friday 21 August and reorders after every round.

ARSArsenalChampions on 85 points
The live table on premierleague.com
In the dugoutsNew faces

Fresh voices at City and Chelsea

Two of the biggest jobs in the league changed hands over the summer. Enzo Maresca takes over at Manchester City as Pep Guardiola's successor, and Xabi Alonso arrives at Chelsea on a four-year contract. Both begin with plenty to prove, and the real pressure only follows once the results start to come in.

MCIEnzo MarescaManchester City CHEXabi AlonsoChelsea
Appointments on Sky Sports
The windowBritish record twice

The transfer record broken twice over

It has been the most expensive summer the English game has seen. Chelsea paid £117m for Morgan Rogers from Aston Villa, which topped the £116m Manchester City spent to bring Elliot Anderson in from Nottingham Forest a few weeks earlier. Tottenham were not far behind, signing Sandro Tonali from Newcastle in a deal worth up to £100m.

CHEMorgan Rogers£117m MCIElliot Anderson£116m TOTSandro Tonali£100m
All the summer's transfers
Up from the ChampionshipPromoted

The three who came up

Coventry City are back in the top flight as Championship winners, with Ipswich Town alongside them as runners-up. Hull City came through the play-offs, beating Middlesbrough 1-0 in the final at Wembley. All three are measured against staying up rather than any position in the table, and Coventry get the whole season under way at the Emirates.

COVCoventry CityChampions IPSIpswich TownRunners-up HULHull CityPlay-offs
See the opening weekend
Watch & listen

Where to watch and listen

Where the game is shown on TV or carried on the radio in the UK. The exact channel and station are confirmed for each fixture nearer the date, so the broadcast schedule is the place to check your game.

Live scores

Follow the round as it happens

Every game of the current matchweek with kickoff times before the whistle and live scores as the goals go in, next to the table as it reshapes.

The table
#ClubPGDPts
ARSArsenal000
AVLAston Villa000
BOUBournemouth000
BREBrentford000
BHABrighton000
CHEChelsea000
COVCoventry000
CRYCrystal Palace000
EVEEverton000
FULFulham000
HULHull City000
IPSIpswich000
LEELeeds000
LIVLiverpool000
MCIMan City000
MUNMan United000
NEWNewcastle000
NFONott'm Forest000
SUNSunderland000
TOTTottenham000
Match Centre

Follow the match live

When there is a game on, this is the one to keep open. It carries the score, the minute and the shape of the match as it plays.

The match card fills in the moment the next fixture is set.

Matchday journey

Follow the match, build-up to full time

The best of YouTube for this club at every stage of the day, from the build-up and the watchalongs through to the reaction after the whistle.

After the whistleHighlights, press conferences and the analysis

Match coverage

Where the game is on

This is where every game is shown and heard at home and around the world. The exact broadcaster and kick-off for each match are confirmed nearer the date, so it is always worth a check before you plan your afternoon.

Where no broadcaster is listed against a game, it falls in the Saturday 15:00 window that is not shown live in the UK. The live picks for the opening rounds go up on the official schedule once they are set.

2026/27

The fixtures, week by week

The full season schedule, one matchweek at a time. Scores fill in as games are played, and any broadcaster still to be set is marked TBC.

The table

Level on zero

Nobody has kicked a ball yet, so the table sits level on zero and lists alphabetically. It reorders itself the moment the season starts, and every club begins with the same nothing to build on.

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AVLAston Villa000000
BOUBournemouth000000
BREBrentford000000
BHABrighton000000
CHEChelsea000000
COVCoventry City000000
CRYCrystal Palace000000
EVEEverton000000
FULFulham000000
HULHull City000000
IPSIpswich Town000000
LEELeeds United000000
LIVLiverpool000000
MCIManchester City000000
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NEWNewcastle United000000
NFONottingham Forest000000
SUNSunderland000000
TOTTottenham000000

Listed alphabetically until a ball is kicked, with positions decided from 20:00 on Friday 21 August. Real league data. The table updates live as games are played and settles when they finish.

Last round

The previous gameweek

Once the season is under way, a recap of the last round lands here: the results, the standout performers and how the table moved. It fills in from the opening weekend on Friday 21 August.

Where to read on

League news and transfers

Our own live feed of the league, blended from the sources we trust and refreshing on its own, newest at the top. Filter by transfers or by source, and the places we read it are gathered below.

Before kick-off

Team news as it happens

This is what most of us open the page for before a game: whether a key player is fit and who is going to start. It carries each club's confirmed team news once the season is under way, injuries, late fitness tests and enforced changes as they land. Hover to pause it.

PL Note Confirmed starting elevens go up about 75 minutes before kick-off, on the official Premier League app and each club's own channels. Anything earlier is a predicted line-up. Premier League
PI Note The injury and suspension tables fill out as each match nears, so this is the place to check who is fit and who is banned. PremierInjuries
tS Note Managers give the latest on fitness and any late tests in their pre-match press conferences, usually the day before the game. talkSPORT
20 Note Once the season is under way, this feed carries each club's confirmed team news, enforced changes and late call-offs as they land. Twenty Clubs
Summer 2026

The done-deals board

All transfers

The biggest confirmed moves of the window, and not the rumours. This summer the British record was broken twice, first by City and then by Chelsea.

Live · The video wall

Videos and fan channels

The latest uploads from the big studio shows and the channels run by supporters, newest first, straight from YouTube. Each thumbnail shows how long ago it went up and opens the video on its channel.

Podcasts

In your ears

The podcasts we keep in the rotation.

Community

Follow the conversation

The communities and accounts worth keeping open through the season.

Analysis

The shows and the big analysis

The shows and the writing that take the weekend apart.

Watch

Watching the Premier League

Where every game is shown and heard, at home and around the world.

Fantasy football

The FPL corner

Fantasy Premier League is open for selection now. Here is the short version and where to play.

Gameweek 1 deadline
Friday 21 August, 18:30 BST
That is ninety minutes before Arsenal and Coventry open the season at 20:00, so have your fifteen picked and your captain set before then. The game is already open, so there is no need to wait for the last night.
Play FPL
£100m
Squad budget
Fifteen players inside £100.0m: two keepers, five defenders, five midfielders and three forwards, no more than three from one club.
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Your starting side
Name eleven from your fifteen each gameweek and leave the other four on the bench.
×2
The captain
One player gets the armband and his points are doubled that week, which is often where a gameweek is won.
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The chips
Wildcard, Free Hit, Triple Captain and Bench Boost, one of each per half-season, saved for the right week.
The numbers

The Premier League, by the numbers

The full table, the scoring and assist charts and the discipline league, all from the same feed behind our live scores. Pick a season below: the current one fills in live from the opening weekend, the past ones are settled.

Season

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2026/27

Pick your club

All twenty clubs of the 2026/27 Premier League. All twenty club hubs are open. Pick yours to dive in.

Head to head

Compare two clubs

Any two clubs with their full 2025/26 records placed side by side, so you can see who finished where and by how much.

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ARSArsenal1st in 2025/26
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MUNManchester United3rd in 2025/26
Arsenal finished first and Manchester United third. Fourteen points separated them across the season.
85Points71
26Won20
71Goals for69
27Goals against50
+44Goal difference+19
2.24Points per game1.87

This shows Arsenal and Manchester United across their full 2025/26 records, with the accent bar and highlighted figure marking the club ahead on each measure. Pick any two clubs and the board fills the same way. Goals against is read the other way round, where fewer is better.

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