The latest Premier League TV selections have been confirmed by TNT Sport and Sky Sports for August and September, 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 2, 3, 4 and 5 in August and September.
Please see below a revised schedule of fixtures. All kick-off times are 15:00 BST unless otherwise mentioned.
Friday 28 August
20:00 Crystal Palace v Man City (Sky Sports)
Saturday 29 August
12:30 Liverpool v Nott’m Forest (TNT Sports)
Bournemouth v Everton
Coventry City v Hull City
17:30 Spurs v Newcastle (Sky Sports)
Sunday 30 August
14:00 Chelsea v Brighton (Sky Sports)*
*Due to Brighton’s participation in UEFA Conference League playoff the preceding Thursday
14:00 Leeds v Brentford (Sky Sports)
14:00 Sunderland v Fulham (Sky Sports)**
**Due to the movement of Fulham v Chelsea to Mon 24 Aug
16:30 Man Utd v Ipswich (Sky Sports)
Monday 31 August
20:00 Aston Villa v Arsenal (Sky Sports)
Friday 4 September
20:00 Ipswich v Liverpool (Sky Sports)
Saturday 5 September
12:30 Newcastle v Bournemouth (TNT Sports)
Brentford v Sunderland
Brighton v Leeds
Fulham v Crystal Palace
Man City v Coventry City
Nott’m Forest v Spurs
17:30 Hull City v Aston Villa (Sky Sports)
Sunday 6 September
14:00 Everton v Man Utd (Sky Sports)
16:30 Arsenal v Chelsea (Sky Sports)
Saturday 12 September
Bournemouth v Brentford
Aston Villa v Nott’m Forest
Chelsea v Hull City
Crystal Palace v Ipswich
Liverpool v Fulham
17:30 Spurs v Everton (Sky Sports)
20:00 Sunderland v Arsenal (TNT Sports)
Sunday 13 September
14:00 Coventry City v Brighton (Sky Sports)
16:30 Man Utd v Man City (Sky Sports)
Monday 14 September
20:00 Leeds v Newcastle (Sky Sports)*
*Match will revert to Sat 12 Sep, 12:30 BST should either club reach EFL Cup third round and be scheduled to play against a club participating in the Champions League
Friday 18 September
20:00 Brentford v Chelsea (Sky Sports)*
*Match will move to Sat 19 Sep, 20:00 BST should either club reach EFL Cup third round and be scheduled to play against a club participating in the Champions League
Saturday 19 September
12:30 Spurs v Aston Villa (TNT Sports)
Brighton v Arsenal
Everton v Ipswich
Leeds v Crystal Palace
Man City v Sunderland
Newcastle v Hull City
17:30 Nott’m Forest v Coventry City (Sky Sports)
Sunday 20 September
14:00 Bournemouth v Liverpool (Sky Sports)
16:30 Fulham v Man Utd (Sky Sports)
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Saturday 22nd August 2026
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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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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.
