The fixtures for the 2023/24 Premier League season have been released this morning.
Manchester City begin their latest title defence with an away fixture at 2022/23 Championship winners Burnley, a match that kicks off the new campaign in the televised slot on Friday 11 August.
Liverpool’s trip to Chelsea is the most eye-catching fixture of the opening weekend, while newly promoted Luton Town and Sheffield United face Brighton and Hove Albion and Crystal Palace respectively in their 2022/23 curtain-raisers.
Man City’s early schedule leaps off the page, as they avoid a ‘big-six’ side in the first seven Gameweeks – albeit with a clash against Newcastle United to come in Gameweek 2.
Arsenal have also been handed a decent opening run of three fixtures, with four of their first six games at the Emirates.
Liverpool have a tricky-ish start with Chelsea, Newcastle and Aston Villa to come in the first four Gameweeks, although Mohamed Salah looks to be the stand-out captaincy pick in Gameweek 2. Otherwise, Erling Haaland will again no doubt be perma-captain for many Fantasy managers in the opening half-dozen Gameweeks.
Newcastle have arguably been handed the toughest task, their first five fixtures all against clubs who finished in the top half last season.
SEASON TICKER UPDATED
Our Season Ticker has been updated both on the sidebar and in our Premium Members Area, with all 20 Premier League clubs sorted by fixture difficulty in the first six Gameweeks in the graphic above.
The Premium Members ticker is customisable, too.
You can sort by difficulty, rotation pairings and ‘relative’ difficulty (something that factors in the strength of the team), while you can also remove clubs and Gameweeks from the outlook, add your own difficulty ratings, sort by home/away matches and filter by attack/defence.
It’s one of the many benefits available to subscribers – make sure you sign up before the 2023/24 season to give yourself all the tools you need for a successful FPL campaign.
FIXTURES: INTERNATIONALS, WINTER BREAK + MORE
We’ll get a total of four Gameweeks before our first international break in September.
Further international fortnights will follow after Gameweeks 8 and 12.
The UEFA Champions League and Europa League group stages will start on September 19-21, after Gameweek 5.
Aston Villa begin their UEFA Europa Conference League campaign a month earlier, a two-legged play-off on August 24 and 31 after Gameweeks 2 and 3 respectively.
Our first midweek round of matches is Gameweek 15, which takes place on December 5-6.
There are three Gameweeks (18-20) over the festive period but neatly spaced out to avoid the 48-hour tuanrounds we’ve encountered in previous years. Manchester City will blank in the first of those Gameweeks, however, due to a clash with the FIFA World Club Cup.
The winter break will take place between 13-20 January 2024, bisecting Gameweeks 21 and 22.
The season ends on Sunday 19 May, with Brighton and Hove Albion v Manchester United and Manchester City v West Ham United among the final fixtures of 2022/23.
SELECTED GAMEWEEKS
GAMEWEEK 1
GAMEWEEK 2
GAMEWEEK 3
GAMEWEEK 4
GAMEWEEK 19 (BOXING DAY)
GAMEWEEK 38
ROTATION PAIRS
Scout user Portsmouth Bubblejet has once again come up with the goods and found out the home/away rotation pairs for 2023/24, which you can see above.
VIDEO REACTION
11 months, 21 days agoAll aboard the Brentford treble up.
(Knights Template, step your game up)