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Jun 18, 2025, 04:00 AM ET
Arsenal statesman their Premier League run with a travel to Old Trafford to look Manchester United and past look distant games against Liverpool and Newcastle United and a location clash with Manchester City successful their opening six games of the 2025-26 season.
United and Manchester City, 2 sides that struggled past season, besides person hard starts to the season.
After an opening-day trial against Arsenal, Ruben Amorim volition beryllium looking to get points connected the committee against Fulham and Burnley earlier facing City and Chelsea successful a hard opening run. United question to Anfield connected Oct. 18 with the instrumentality fixture against Liverpool astatine Old Trafford connected May 2.
Pep Guardiola's revamped side, who are competing successful the Club World Cup this summer, statesman astatine Wolverhampton Wanderers and past look Tottenham Hotspur, United and Arsenal successful their archetypal 5 games.
Premier League champions Liverpool volition statesman their rubric defence against AFC Bournemouth astatine Anfield and play the season's curtain raiser with the crippled kicking disconnected connected Friday, Aug. 18, astatine 8 p.m. BST (3 p.m. ET).
Liverpool past question to Newcastle and big Arsenal successful their opening 3 games earlier hosting Everton, United and travelling to Chelsea by mid-October.
Following the opening circular of the Champions League, Liverpool big Everton successful the archetypal Merseyside derby of the run and City question to Arsenal. After consequent Champions League rounds Arne Slot's broadside question to Chelsea, Brentford and City. Arsenal person location games aft the archetypal 3 rounds of the flagship European competition.
Thomas Frank volition statesman his reign arsenic Tottenham manager with a location crippled against recently promoted Burnley earlier travelling to City successful the 2nd game. He faces erstwhile broadside Brentford doubly successful December, but it is simply a tally of games successful November that looks peculiarly tricky. After completing October against Aston Villa and Everton, Spurs past look Chelsea, United, Arsenal successful a row.
Chelsea commencement with 4 fixtures against London clubs successful a enactment -- Crystal Palace, West Ham United, Fulham and Brentford -- but things get harder astatine the extremity of the play with Arsenal, Villa, Newcastle, City, United, Liverpool and Spurs each to travel from the extremity of February.
City look a pugnacious spell successful aboriginal 2026 with 5 of 8 games against apical opposition. Their tally from Jan. 3 is against Chelsea, Brighton, United, Wolves, Tottenham, Liverpool, Fulham and Newcastle.
The play is acceptable to decorativeness connected May 24. Players volition person little than 3 weeks to hole for the 2026 World Cup successful the United States, which is scheduled to statesman connected June 11.
