The Premier League have confirmed numerous vital dates forward of the 2024-25 season – together with a key piece of scheduling over Christmas.
Most soccer followers are at present transfixed on the continuing top-flight season, which sees an thrilling four-way title race between Man City, Arsenal, Liverpool and Aston Villa. But consideration is rarely distant from what’s across the nook, significantly on the subject of the Premier League.
As such, the top-flight have confirmed numerous key dates forward of subsequent season. They embrace the marketing campaign’s begin and finish dates, data round Christmas fixtures and the variety of weekend and midweek rounds.
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A press release from the Premier League revealed that the 2024-25 season will kick-off on Friday 17 August 2024, some 90 days after the 2023/24 Premier League season concludes on 19 May. The season will finish on 25 May 2025, with all matches beginning concurrently, as per earlier years.
However, the upcoming season has thrown up an attention-grabbing anomaly over Christmas. Christmas Eve in 2025 is on a Saturday, which threw up the prospect of groups being pressured to play on each Saturday twenty fourth December, and on Boxing Day two days later.
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The Premier League have confirmed that won’t be the case, with no fixtures deliberate on Christmas Eve. That means the final Saturday matchday earlier than Christmas will fall on Saturday seventeenth December.
In an announcement, the league defined: “In keeping with previous commitments made to clubs to address the congested schedule across Christmas and New Year, arrangements will be made to allow more rest time over three of the festive match rounds, with no club playing within 60 hours of another match.”
It additionally confirmed that the 2024-25 season will encompass 33 weekends, 4 midweek rounds of matches and one Bank Holiday set of fixtures. The season will begin barely later owing to Euro 2024.