Premier League 2026-27: Full Fixture Guide, Key Dates & Opening Weekend

The 2026-27 Premier League season runs from 21 August 2026 to 30 May 2027 — 20 clubs, 38 matchdays, 380 matches. Every one of them is already loaded on this site with kick-off times shown in your own timezone.

Opening weekend The season opens on Friday 21 August with Arsenal vs Coventry City at Emirates Stadium — last season's champions against a promoted side, in the traditional Friday-night curtain-raiser.

Saturday brings the bulk of matchday one: - Hull City vs Manchester United - Ipswich Town vs Sunderland - Nottingham Forest vs Leeds United - Everton vs Crystal Palace - Brentford vs Tottenham Hotspur

Sunday delivers the weekend's headline fixture: Newcastle United vs Liverpool at St James' Park, alongside Manchester City vs Bournemouth and Brighton vs Aston Villa. Monday night closes matchday one with the west London derby, Fulham vs Chelsea.

Three promoted clubs — Coventry City, Hull City and Leeds United — face away days and openers that will shape the early relegation picture quickly.

How 2025-26 finished Last season's final table is the honest starting point for any expectation about this one. Arsenal won the title on 85 points (26W 7D 5L), with the meanest defence in the division at 27 goals conceded.

• 1. Arsenal — 85 pts (71 scored, 27 conceded)
• 2. Manchester City — 78 pts (77 scored, 35 conceded)
• 3. Manchester United — 71 pts
• 4. Aston Villa — 65 pts
• 5. Liverpool — 60 pts
• 6. Bournemouth — 57 pts

Two numbers are worth carrying into August. Manchester City outscored the champions (77 to 71) and still finished seven points back — their problem was not creation. And Bournemouth's 18 draws is an extraordinary total; sides that draw that often tend to regress in one direction or the other rather than repeat it.

The full 2025-26 table stays visible on our Premier League hub, clearly labelled as last season, so nobody mistakes it for the current standings.

Key dates - 21 August 2026 — season opens, Arsenal vs Coventry City - 30 May 2027 — final matchday - Winter fixture congestion arrives as usual around late December; every date is on the full fixture list

What we will publish through the season Each match gets an automatically generated preview built from verified data in our database — recent form, scoring averages, head-to-head records — inspected before publication and never padded with invented numbers. Where we lack the data, the section stays empty.

Our football analysis desks publish picks only when their strategy finds a signal, and every published pick keeps its record permanently, including the losses. You can audit the whole history on the pick records page or download it as a CSV file.

Odds from tracked bookmakers appear on each match page with the best available price highlighted, and significant moves show up on dropping odds.

Before the season starts If you are new to reading these pages, two short guides cover most of what matters: how odds work and why the bookmaker's margin decides your long-run result.

This is a fixture and data guide, not betting advice. No preview makes any result more likely, and nothing on this site should be treated as a source of income.