The latest Premier League TV selections have been confirmed by TNT Sport and Sky Sports for October and November, with some fans not happy.
However the deadline has come for a batch TV picks to be made, so that clubs can inform fans, deal with tickets and sort travel arrangements out.
Take a look below at what has been chosen along with the rest of the season’s selected games for broadcast…
The Premier League said in a statement on their website:
The broadcast selections have been announced for live TV in the UK for Premier League matches in Matchweeks 6, 7, 8 and 9 in October and the start of November.
Please see below a revised schedule of fixtures.
All kick-off times are 15:00 BST up to and including Saturday 24 October and are GMT from Sunday 25 October.
Saturday 10 October
12:30 Arsenal v Leeds (TNT Sports)
Aston Villa v Brentford
Chelsea v Bournemouth
Ipswich v Fulham
Sunderland v Brighton
17:30 Man Utd v Spurs (Sky Sports)
Sunday 11 October
14:00 Crystal Palace v Nott’m Forest (Sky Sports)
14:00 Hull City v Everton (Sky Sports)
16:30 Liverpool v Man City (Sky Sports)
Monday 12 October
20:00 Coventry City v Newcastle (Sky Sports)
Saturday 17 October
12:30 Everton v Chelsea (TNT Sports)
Brentford v Liverpool
Fulham v Hull City
Man City v Ipswich
17:30 Newcastle v Aston Villa (Sky Sports)
Sunday 18 October
14:00 Bournemouth v Sunderland (Sky Sports)*
14:00 Brighton v Crystal Palace (Sky Sports)*
*Due to Bournemouth, Sunderland and Palace’s Europa League matches the Thursday before
14:00 Leeds v Man Utd (Sky Sports)
16:30 Nott’m Forest v Arsenal (Sky Sports)
Monday 19 October
20:00 Spurs v Coventry City (Sky Sports)
Friday 23 October
20:00 Ipswich v Nott’m Forest (Sky Sports)
Saturday 24 October
12:30 Aston Villa v Man City (TNT Sports)*
*Match will move to 20:00 if Villa are drawn away in Champions League the Wednesday before
Arsenal v Everton
Coventry City v Fulham
Liverpool v Brighton
17:30 Chelsea v Spurs (Sky Sports)
Sunday 25 October
14:00 GMT Crystal Palace v Newcastle (Sky Sports)*
14:00 GMT Hull City v Brentford (Sky Sports)
14:00 GMT Man Utd v Bournemouth (Sky Sports)*
*Due to Palace and Bournemouth’s participation in Europa League matches the Thursday before
16:30 GMT Sunderland v Leeds (Sky Sports)
Saturday 31 October
12:30 Chelsea v Man Utd (TNT Sports)
Bournemouth v Leeds
Brentford v Nott’m Forest
Coventry City v Sunderland
Hull City v Ipswich
Man City v Brighton
17:30 Spurs v Crystal Palace (Sky Sports)
Sunday 1 November
14:00 Aston Villa v Fulham (Sky Sports)
16:30 Liverpool v Arsenal (Sky Sports)
Monday 2 November
20:00 Newcastle v Everton (Sky Sports)
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Arsenal v Coventry City
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Saturday 22nd August 2026
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Hull City v Manchester United
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Brentford v Tottenham Hotspur
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Sunday 23rd August 2026
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Brighton & Hove Albion v Aston Villa
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Manchester City v AFC Bournemouth
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Newcastle United v Liverpool
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Monday 24th August 2026
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Fulham v Chelsea
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Friday 28th August 2026
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Crystal Palace v Manchester City
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Saturday 29th August 2026
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Liverpool v Nottingham Forest
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Tottenham Hotspur v Newcastle United
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Sunday 30th August 2026
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Chelsea v Brighton & Hove Albion
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Leeds United v Brentford
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Sunderland v Fulham
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Manchester United v Ipswich Town
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Monday 31st August 2026
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Aston Villa v Arsenal
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Friday 4th September 2026
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Ipswich Town v Liverpool
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Saturday 5th September 2026
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Newcastle United v AFC Bournemouth
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Hull City v Aston Villa
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Sunday 6th September 2026
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Everton v Manchester United
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Arsenal v Chelsea
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Saturday 12th September 2026
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Tottenham Hotspur v Everton
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Sunderland v Arsenal
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Sunday 13th September 2026
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Coventry City v Brighton & Hove Albion
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Manchester United v Manchester City
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Monday 14th September 2026
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Leeds United v Newcastle United
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Friday 18th September 2026
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Brentford v Chelsea
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Saturday 19th September 2026
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Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa
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Nottingham Forest v Coventry City
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Sunday 20th September 2026
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AFC Bournemouth v Liverpool
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Fulham v Manchester United
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Why is there a Saturday football blackout in the UK for live streams and TV broadcasts?
Since before the formation of the Premier League, Saturday 3pm kick offs have been forbidden to be televised in the UK, with broadcasters only allowed to show early and late matches on national TV.
Though the 3pm kick off is the slot in which the majority of weekend matches are played with a number of games happening at the same time, they are never broadcast live on television due to the ‘football blackout’.
The United Kingdom is the only place to prohibit the broadcast of 3pm Saturday kick offs.
The 3pm blackout is said to be tradition, with Sky Sports’ Soccer Saturday – the go to show where a panel of pundits report in-game action to viewers with none of the match footage actually being showed.
This is also why ratings for Match of the Day remain ever-popular, though numbers are made tougher to achieve due to online streams, footage of goals appearing within seconds online and highlights uploaded to Sky Sports’ YouTube just after 5pm Saturdays.
Major European leagues in France, Spain, Germany and Italy don’t observe such a blackout, and there has been sufficient evidence to prove that closed periods do not affect the outcome of lower league football match attendance.
If anything, you’re more likely to watch more Premier League games if you’re based in North America or Asia rather than your own country (UK), despite the England priding themselves as a nation who are the home of football.
In February 2011, Advocate General Kokott of the European Court of Justice launched an investigation into the “closed periods” and concluded that they did not affect match attendance at lower league games.
“It is, in fact, doubtful whether closed periods are capable of encouraging attendance at matches and participation in matches,” she said in a statement .
“Both activities have a completely different quality to the following of a live transmission on television. It has not been adequately shown to the Court that the closed periods actually encourage attendance at and participation in matches.
“No closed periods were adopted in France, Germany, Italy and Spain, or in Northern Ireland, that is to say, within the sphere of influence of English football.”
In 2016, Ofcom launched an investigation into the rights of televised football and surveyed football fans about whether they wanted to see a change.
