The 2026\/27 Premier League schedule hands reigning champions Arsenal a Friday night start, welcoming newly promoted Coventry City to Emirates Stadium. Manchester United begin on the road against Hull City, described in the schedule as a newly promoted opponent, while Andoni Iraola\u2019s Liverpool career gets under way with an away trip to Newcastle United on the Sunday. Monday\u2019s opening-week fixture sends newly appointed Chelsea boss Xabi Alonso to west London rivals Fulham.<\/p>\n
Among the early highlights, the first marquee derby arrives in gameweek four when Manchester City travel to rivals Man Utd. Roughly a month later, City make the trip to Anfield to face Liverpool in the first fixture after the three-week international break. The opening Tyne-Wear derby between Newcastle and Sunderland is set for early December, the same day Tottenham Hotspur entertain north London rivals Arsenal.<\/p>\n
The calendar also confirms how the season will close. On the final day Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United each play at home, against Brighton & Hove Albion, Tottenham, Brentford, Bournemouth and Fulham respectively. Across the full schedule, fixtures are listed consistently with dates and kick-off times noted in Eastern Time (ET) and British Summer Time (BST) or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), depending on the time of year.<\/p>\n
The published list sets out the opening weekends in detail: Arsenal v Coventry City kicks off on a Friday evening, Manchester United head to Hull City and fixtures such as Newcastle United v Liverpool and Fulham v Chelsea follow across the first days of the campaign. Supporters and broadcasters will track the slate of standout ties and derbies that punctuate the campaign from the opening weekend through to the season finale.<\/p>\n
Live TV broadcasts will be chosen for select Premier League games throughout the season, dates and\/or kick-off times remain subject to change. All kick-off times stated are Eastern Time (ET) and British Summer Time (BST) or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), depending on the time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Arsenal open at home to Coventry; Man Utd visit Hull. Liverpool start away at Newcastle key derbies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,172],"tags":[1615,1700,1753],"class_list":["post-14778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-epl","tag-andoni-iraola","tag-arsenal-title","tag-fixtures-2026-27"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}