Premier League outing: Man united vs arsenal the opening weekend | Football news

The Champions of the Premier League Liverpool played the first match of the season on August 15 when they welcome Bournemouth in Anfield.

A Sunday afternoon confrontation between Manchester United and Arsenal is the choice of matches during the opening weekend of the season of the English Premier 2025-2026 while Liverpool will start its defense by organizing Bournemouth on August 15.

On Wednesday, the Premier League published its match calendar for the new season, giving the teams and their fans a chance to start planning less than a month since the end of the last campaign.

Manchester City, who plans a seventh Premier League title under Pep Guardiola, made a trip to Wolverhampton Wanderers for their first season game on August 16.

This is a delicate start for the champions of Arne Slot with a trip to Newcastle on the second weekend, followed by a home match against Arsenal – another team from the Champions League – a week later.

Arsenal, who finished second for a third consecutive year last season, will face Manchester United, Liverpool, Manchester City and Newcastle in their first six games.

Everton said goodbye to their longtime house at Goodison Park at the end of last season, and the first match at its stadium of 53,000 inhabitants of 53,000 inhabitants in Bramley-Moore Dock will be against Brighton on August 23.

Thomas Frank’s first match of the Premier League in charge of Tottenham will be at home to promote Burnley on August 16. It comes three days after Frank’s debut in competition with Tottenham, champion of the Europa League, against the winner of the Champions League, Paris Saint-Germain, in the Super Cup of UEFA.

The first match of Sunderland in the Premier League since the 2016-2017 season is at home against West Ham while Leeds welcomes Everton first after his return to the high flight after an absence of two years.

The new season ends on May 24.

The new season begins here.

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