How to watch 2025/26 Premier League

Jonathan Victoria • 13 Aug 2025 Guides

You won’t want to miss the action this season.

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The 2025/26 Premier League season is set to deliver another year of drama, big goals, and unforgettable moments.

Whether you’re following your club’s push for the title, the battle for European places, or the fight to avoid relegation, knowing where and how to watch is essential. 

From blockbuster clashes to key fixtures, here’s your complete guide to catching the action this season.

How to watch 2025/26 Premier League season

This season will feature more live matches than ever before - we're looking at an increase to around 70% of all matches available to watch in the UK.

This duty will be shared once again, albeit not an equal split. Prime Video is gone from the winter period, leaving just Sky Sports and TNT Sports as the providers for all the live fixtures this year.

BBC keeps their ever-popular highlights show Match of the Day but with a new look now that Gary Lineker has stepped down from hosting duties. 

Premier League on Sky Sports

Sky Sports will once again be the primary home of the Premier League in 2025/26, but this year will see them increase their coverage, going up from 128 matches to 218 live matches throughout the campaign. 

Coverage will feature the biggest head-to-head clashes, Sunday double-headers, and key fixtures across the title race, European qualification, and relegation battle. 

Sky’s broadcast team will deliver in-depth analysis, pre-match build-up, and post-match reaction for every televised game. Expect the usual slate of fan favourites to be part of the coverage this season, such as Roy Keane, Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher and Micah Richards.

Sky Sports subscribers can watch via the Sky Sports Premier League and Sky Sports Main Event channels, as well as on the move with the Sky Sports app, where you’ll find a plethora of Sky Sports+ streams, which will house many of the EFL fixtures plus lot’s more live sport. 

If you’re not already with Sky, you can get signed up in time for the campaign by choosing a pre-made Sky Sports package deal. If you are but don’t have Sky Sports part of your existing Sky TV package, you can add it on. You can choose between a 31-day rolling contract or an 18-month contract.

Premier League on TNT Sports

TNT Sports will also play a major role in this season’s coverage, broadcasting 52 live Premier League matches, including exclusive Saturday 12:30pm kick-offs and select midweek fixtures. 

Viewers can watch through TNT Sports channels on TV or stream via the discovery+ app. For existing customers of BT/EE TV, you can add TNT Sports on to your existing package. 

New customers can find a range of BT package deals that will sort you out with not just EE TV and TNT Sports, but also provide you with BT’s superb fibre and/or full fibre broadband.

2024/25 Premier League recap

The 2024/25 season was rather quiet in terms of the title fight and relegation battle, but the fight for the European spots made the end of the campaign rather special.

Liverpool ran away with the league in their first year post-Jurgen Klopp. New manager Arne Slot got the side flowing early, revitalising Mo Salah back to his very best while getting the most out of many others such as Ryan Gravenberch.

Down at the bottom, for a second consecutive year, the three teams that came up went straight back down. Ipswich’s first season back in the Prem was short lived but showed good glimpses; same went for Leicester, but certainly not for Southampton who had one of the worst Prem seasons of all time - second worst by points, to be precise.

Manchester United and Tottenham endured torrid campaigns yet both somehow still ended up in the Europa League final together. It was Spurs who came out on top, so they turned their 17th place Prem finish into a Champions League spot.

Credit: 2024/25 Premier League Goal of the Season Contenders (Premier League, YouTube)

Speaking of European places, Arsenal came second for a third-straight season, Manchester City had an uncharacteristically bad season but still managed third place, Chelsea found their footing under new manager Enzo Maresca and ended fourth, and rounding out the six teams from the Prem in the Champions League next season will be Newcastle, who also claimed their first domestic trophy since the 1954/55 season.

Aston Villa experienced a heartbreakingly controversial loss in their final game to drop out of Champions League and into the Europa League.

Joining them should’ve been Crystal Palace, who stunningly beat Manchester City in the FA Cup final (and followed it up with a victory over Liverpool in the Community Shield). Unfortunately, due to their owner owning Lyon in France’s Ligue 1, who also finished in a Europa League spot, Palace were dropped down into the Conference League.

This meant that Nottingham Forest, who had spent much of the season in the top four but dropped down in the final few weeks of the year to seventh, gets Palace’s Europa League spot.

2025/26 Premier League: Opening weekend fixtures

The first weekend of a new campaign is always exciting, bringing great fanfare as each team aims for glory - they all start on level points after all!

The 2025/26 season’s start will begin with some tasty affairs, including a potential giant killing in the very first game, a clash between two top four hopefuls in the early Saturday kickoff, and most excitingly, a Super Sunday special featuring two of England’s most accomplished sides.

Here’s the full fixture line-up for the opening weekend:

Friday 15th August

• Liverpool vs Bournemouth, 8pm - Sky Sports

Saturday 16th August

• Aston Villa vs Newcastle United, 12:30pm - TNT Sports
• Brighton vs Fulham, 3pm
• Sunderland vs West Ham United, 3pm
• Tottenham Hotspur vs Burnley, 3pm
• Wolves vs Manchester City, 5:30pm - Sky Sports

Sunday 17th August

• Chelsea vs Crystal Palace, 2pm - Sky Sports
• Nottingham Forest vs Brentford, 2pm - Sky Sports
• Manchester United vs Arsenal, 2pm - Sky Sports

Monday 18th August

• Leeds vs Everton, 8pm - Sky Sports

2025/26 Premier League: Key transfers

Fabrizio Romano has had his work cut out this year as Prem teams have been going crazy with their summer signings. Between Liverpool spending like they’ve got bottomless pockets to Newcastle missing out on basically every one of their targets, this summer transfer window so far has been something special.

The departure of Trent Alexander-Arnold from Liverpool feels like a lifetime ago already but that’s ended up just being the start. Just over two months later and £300m spent, they’ve acquired even more serious talent to their squad.

Florian Wirtz’s £116m move is the largest in Prem history but we won’t be surprised to see him shine this year. Also joining him from the Bundesliga is Hugo Ekitike, the young Frenchman looking to make serious gains as a player while also winning big immediately.

Arsenal pursuit of not finishing second again saw them get pretty much exactly what they needed; a striker in one of the most sought-after players in Europe, Viktor Gyorkeres; Martin Zubimendi, filling in the role of their departed defensive mid (as will Christian Norgaard); and Noni Madueke, for the English wingers team up. 

In a similar vein, Manchester United’s quest to not finish in the bottom half has seen them going big, picking up Bryan Mbuemo, Matheus Cunha and Benjamin Sesko for a new-look up front.

The usual suspects for big spending, Chelsea have dropped a more modest amount so far, Joao Pedro being their marquee signing and already showing potential greatness paired with Cole Palmer after a good showing in their Club World Cup victory.

We’ll end on Man City, who had a woeful previous campaign by their standards. They’ve improved in basically all areas, picking up Rayan Ait Nouri from Wolves to provide an option at the back on the left, while Tijjani Reijnders from AC Milan is sure to provide a brilliant spark in the midfield.

2025/26 Premier League: What’s new

This season will see new initiatives introduced to bring a more entertaining spark to broadcasts. There won’t be changes on the field in the way the game is played, but instead new features that will in a way interact with the game and the players more.

Live Substitution Interviews

For the first time in Premier League history, viewers will see touchline interviews with substituted players during the match - often just moments after they’ve come off, once they’ve had time to cool down. These will be a regular sight, giving fans real-time emotion and insight straight from the pitch.

Close-Up Goal Celebration Coverage

Expect up-close drama: Steadicam-equipped operators will briefly enter the pitch to film goal celebrations, capturing raw emotion - a production technique borrowed from American sports like the NFL.

Limited Dressing-Room Access

Broadcast crews will be allowed short, controlled access to club dressing rooms, though team talks remain strictly off-limits. Each club is expected to offer at least two home games per season where one of the new features (sub interviews, dressing-room access, or halftime content) is implemented.

Sky Sports Multiview Capability

Sky Sports has launched a “multiview” feature - letting fans watch up to four live matches simultaneously on Sky TV, NOW, or the Sky Sports app. 

This is perfect for days packed with overlapping fixtures, particularly on Sundays. It’s complemented by a new Sunday evening show hosted by Jamie Carragher, and enhanced interactivity like player ratings and manager feedback.

All Final-Day Matches Live

For the first time ever in the UK, every single fixture on the last day of the Premier League season will be shown live, marking a historic first and ensuring fans don’t miss any moment of the climactic finale.