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Who can defending champion Liverpool FC Bidding and who are the new stars of the league? Everything important at the start of the season of the English Premier League.
What does the game plan look like?
The season starts on August 15, 2025 and ends on May 24, 2026. 38 game days are on the program, there are five English weeks and as usual no winter break.
For this, the traditional match day on the second Christmas day (“Boxing Day”) was abolished in its original form. In the future, a whole round will no longer be played on this day. Selected games for television can still be scheduled on December 26th.
The kick -off times has not changed. It starts on Fridays at 9 p.m. with a game. Saturday there is a game at 1.30 p.m., three games at 4 p.m. and one at 6.30 p.m. On Sundays at 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., it starts at 9 p.m. on Mondays (one game each).
What happens at the start?
The master opens the season: On Friday, August 15th, FC expects FC Liverpool the AFC Bournemouth. Runner -up FC arsenal is in front of a high away hurdle in the top game on Sunday. The “Gunners” have to start at Manchester United ran.
Which teams are new?
Have risen Leeds Unitedthe FC Burnley and the AFC Sunderland.
Burnley returns to the highest division after just one season in the second division, Leeds plays back in the Premier League. Sunderland is pleased to be there again for the first time after relegation 2016/17.
All three will be very difficult. Last season rose with Ipswich Town, Leicester City and the FC Southampton All three newcomers off again. In the 2023/24 season, all promoters had also relegated again.
Who are the favorites?
Tophavorit is defending champion FC Liverpool, who also struck properly on the transfer market. Vice master FC Arsenal has also upgraded in terms of personnel. The FC Chelsea goes into the year with self-confidence to be the new club world champion and also Manchester City wants to attack again after a title.
What happened on the transfer market?
As of August 6, the clubs have spent more than 2.1 billion euros on 251 new players – and thus together as much money as three other big leagues. For comparison: The Spanish league has 488 million expenses, in the Bundesliga there are 559 million and around 780 million in the Italian league.
The bird shot down with expenditure of 308.68 million euros from Liverpool, with the “Reds” especially bought in the Bundesliga. Florian Wirtz came from Bayer Leverkusen for 125 million euros, for Hugo Ekitiké the English champion transferred 95 million to Eintracht Franfurt. In Jamie Gittens (from Borussia Dortmund to Chelsea), Jeremie Frimpong (from Bayer Leverkusen to Liverpool) and Granit Xhaka (from Bayer Leverkusen to AFC Sunderland), other top players also left the Bundesliga towards England.
New in the Premier League include Martín Zubimendi, who switched from San Sebastian to Arsenal (70 million euros), Viktor Gyökeres, whom Sporting Lisbon also moved to the “Gunners” (65.8) and Tijjani Reijnders. The Dutch switched from AC Milan to some of the city (55).
Which players left the Premier League?
In the future, FC Liverpool will have to do without Trent Alexander-Arnold, who joined Real Madrid, and Luis Díaz will play at Bayern Munich in the new season. Defense talent Dean Huijsen also moved to Real Madrid. He left the AFC Bournemouth. Marcus Rashford changes on a rental base from Manchester United to FC Barcelona, and Joao Felix from Chelsea is looking for his luck at al-Nassr.
Which clubs do you have to pay attention to?
The question of how Tottenham Hotspur the past horror season processed. Then they landed “Spurs” namely only in 17th place. The new Danish coach Thomas Frank. Manchester United also wants to go up again in the table after a completely messed up season and 15th place.
Where can the games be seen on TV?
Summary of selected top games can be seen on Saturdays and Sundays in the sports show in the first.
If you want to follow all games live, some delayed, you need a subscription to the payer “Sky”. “RTL+” also shows a game live in partnership with “Sky” every week.