{"id":2462,"date":"2025-09-03T20:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/2025\/09\/03\/six-premier-league-matches-moved-to-fit-uefa-match-dates\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T22:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:24:08","slug":"six-premier-league-matches-moved-to-fit-uefa-match-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/2025\/09\/03\/six-premier-league-matches-moved-to-fit-uefa-match-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Premier League Matches Moved to Fit UEFA Match Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League has adjusted six fixtures scheduled for September and October to accommodate clubs taking part in UEFA competition fixtures. With the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League all in motion, the calendar has been altered to reduce clashes for affected sides.<\/p>\n<p>Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest will compete in the Europa League while Crystal Palace will take on the Conference League. Those three sides look to make it two years in a row winning the second and third tier UEFA competitions given Chelsea also took home the Conference League trophy to complete their European set.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of Premier League fixtures receiving schedule changes is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sunday 21 September AFC Bournemouth vs. Newcastle United \u2014 14:00 BST (9 a.m. EST) Due to Newcastle\u2018s Champions League participation the Thursday before.<\/li>\n<li>Saturday 27 September Spurs vs. Wolves \u2014 20:00 BST (3 p.m. EST) Due to Spurs\u2018 Champions League participation the following Tuesday.<\/li>\n<li>Sunday 28 September Aston Villa vs. Fulham \u2014 14:00 BST (9 a.m. EST) Due to Villa\u2018s Europa League participation the Thursday before.<\/li>\n<li>Sunday 5 October Everton vs. Crystal Palace \u2014 14:00 BST (9 a.m. EST) Due to Palace\u2018s Conference League participation the Thursday before.<\/li>\n<li>Saturday 25 October Brentford vs. Liverpool \u2014 20:00 BST (3 p.m. EST) Due to Liverpool being scheduled to play away in the Champions League the Wednesday before.<\/li>\n<li>Sunday 26 October Arsenal vs. Crystal Palace \u2014 14:00 BST (9 a.m. EST) Due to Palace\u2018s Conference League participation the Thursday before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The changes are intended to give clubs additional recovery and travel time around continental ties. Broadcasters and clubs will publish final confirmation of kick-off times and arrangements in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Premier League fixtures in September and October have been moved to accommodate UEFA matches&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-epl","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462","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=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions\/2467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}