{"id":457414,"date":"2019-06-13T04:43:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T08:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=457414"},"modified":"2022-01-01T11:31:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T16:31:02","slug":"premier-league-fixtures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/06\/13\/premier-league-fixtures\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League Fixtures 2019\/20 Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League fixtures for the upcoming 2019\/20 season have been announced this morning. Teams now know who they will be facing throughout the season and fans can begin to make plans for their big away days.<\/p>\n<h1>2019\/20 Premier League Fixtures Announced<\/h1>\n<h2>The Opening Day<\/h2>\n<p>Premier League runners up and Champions League winners <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/feeds\/liverpoolfootball-co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liverpool<\/a> are tasked with opening the season as they host promoted side <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/norwich-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Norwich City<\/a> at Anfield on Friday, August 9.<\/p>\n<p>The first Saturday game of the season will then see <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/west-ham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Ham United<\/a> host reigning champions <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/feeds\/manchestercityfootball-co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester City<\/a> at the Etihad Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The feature game later in the evening will see <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/feeds\/tottenhamfootball-co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> host <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/aston-villa-club-news-analysis-fixtures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aston Villa<\/a> in the 5.30pm kick-off while, on Sunday, there&#8217;s a crunch match as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer&#8217;s first full season as Manchester United manager kicks off at home to Chelsea.<\/p>\n<h2>The Derbies<\/h2>\n<h3>Merseyside Derby<\/h3>\n<p>Liverpool v <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/everton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Everton<\/a> &#8211; Wednesday, December 4 &#8211; 8.00pm<\/p>\n<p>Everton v Liverpool &#8211; Saturday, March 14 &#8211; 3.00pm<\/p>\n<h3>North London Derby<\/h3>\n<p>Arsenal v Tottenham Hotspur &#8211; Saturday, August 31 &#8211; 3.00pm<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal &#8211; Saturday, April 25 &#8211; 3.00pm<\/p>\n<h3>Manchester Derby<\/h3>\n<p>Manchester City v Manchester United &#8211; Saturday, December 7 &#8211; 3.00pm<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United v Manchester City &#8211; Saturday, March 7 &#8211; 3.00pm<\/p>\n<h3>Liverpool v Manchester United<\/h3>\n<p>Manchester United v Liverpool &#8211; Saturday, October 19 &#8211; 3.00pm<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool v Manchester United &#8211; Saturday, January 18 &#8211; 3.00pm<\/p>\n<h2>The New Boys<\/h2>\n<p>Aston Villa will open their first season in the Premier League since 2015\/16 with their first trip to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The festive period sees them play<a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/southampton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Southampton<\/a> and Norwich at home before trips to <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/watford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watford<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/burnley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Burnley<\/a>\u00a0and they close the campaign away at West Ham.<\/p>\n<p>Norwich, whose last top-flight campaign was also 2015\/16, will open away at Liverpool on Friday night &#8211; the last game between those two sides was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NvMyfQX1nX8\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reds&#8217; stunning 5-4 win at Carrow Road<\/a> in a true Premier League classic. A favourable Christmas list of three home games sees the Canaries host <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/wolves-club-analysis-news-fixtures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/a>, Spurs and <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/crystal-palace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crystal Palace<\/a>, with a tough visit to Manchester United in the middle, and they finish the season away at Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Sheffield United are playing their first Premier League season since a single campaign in 2006\/07. Their first game back in the division is a trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/bournemouth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bournemouth<\/a>\u00a0before they start the festivities back on the south coast at <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/brighton-hove-albion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brighton &amp; Hove Albion<\/a>. They then host Watford before two daunting visits to Manchester City and Liverpool respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>All fixtures are subject to change once Sky Sports, BT Sport and Amazon Prime make their selections for live coverage.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Ag8wyEBaTEZKjGjiBBY30g\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/955324058\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Ag8wyEBaTEZKjGjiBBY30g',sig:'agQ-7J2_HNrRrySo3uySlYBwCjmma2pBNA4o9jPFg7M=',w:'594px',h:'391px',items:'955324058',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League fixtures for the upcoming 2019\/20 season have been announced this morning. Teams now know who they will be facing throughout the season and fans can begin to make plans for their big away days. 2019\/20 Premier League Fixtures Announced The Opening Day Premier League runners up and Champions League winners Liverpool are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":457415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8,3838,9,1265,10,11,12,13,2,1828,15,16,17,18,1267,1370,3,3839,20,24,25,27,2510],"tags":[4063,3851,40,3850,136],"class_list":["post-457414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-arsenal","category-aston-villa","category-bournemouth","category-brighton-and-hove-albion","category-burnley","category-chelsea","category-crystal-palace","category-everton","category-featured","category-fixtures","category-leicester-city","category-liverpool","category-manchester-city","category-manchester-united","category-newcastle-united","category-norwich-city","category-premier-league","category-sheffield-united","category-southampton","category-tottenham","category-watford","category-west-ham","category-wolves","tag-2019-20-premier-league","tag-fixture-announcement","tag-premier-league","tag-premier-league-fixtures","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Matt Lee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}