The Premier League have confirmed a delay to the beginning of the 2026/27 marketing campaign, with the membership season pushed again to create space for the World Cup.
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In an announcement on the web site on Friday, the competitors organisers confirmed that the beginning date of the 2026/27 version of the competitors has been pushed again by per week.
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The Premier League will now kick off on Saturday, August twenty second 2026, and it’ll run till Sunday, Might thirtieth 2027. By comparability, Arsenal kicked off this league season on August seventeenth and can finish it on Might twenty fourth.
The choice to delay the Premier League’s begin date is because of the World Cup, permitting over a month between the top of the worldwide event and the beginning of the brand new membership season.
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The 2026 World Cup kicks off on June eleventh, with the group levels ending on June twenty seventh. However the event doesn’t finish till the ultimate on July nineteenth.
The possibilities of Arsenal gamers being knocked out by June twenty seventh are additionally comparatively low, given FIFA’s new expanded 48-team World Cup solely eliminates 16 groups on the finish of the group levels. The opposite 32 progress, so it’s doubtless all the large sides will nonetheless be concerned going into July.
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It’s a single-elimination knockout competitors from then on, in order that quantity will shortly drop after that. However there’s nonetheless a good likelihood some Arsenal gamers will stay overseas till mid-to-late July.
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One factor to notice concerning the Premier League’s Might thirtieth finish date is that it’s per week earlier than the Champions League remaining on Saturday, June fifth 2027.
The league additionally verify that the season will include 33 weekend matches and 5 midweek video games, in addition to committing to designing the schedule to keep away from home clashes with UEFA competitors dates.
That’s a little bit of a sore level for Arsenal and Crystal Palace followers for the time being, with the 2 golf equipment shifting their league video games after they’d been “confirmed” attributable to a conflict between certainly one of Palace’s Convention League fixtures and the League Cup quarter-final.
Hopefully an identical state of affairs might be averted subsequent season.