2025–26 Premier League

The 2025–26 Premier League is the 34th season of the Premier League and the 127th season of top-flight English football. The fixtures were released on 18 June 2025 at 09:00 BST. The season will consist of 33 weekend and five midweek rounds of matches.

Liverpool are the defending champions, having won their second Premier League title (and 20th English top-flight crown overall) in the previous season.

This is the first season to feature the Tyne–Wear derby in the Premier League since the 2015–16 season, following Sunderland's promotion via the Championship play-offs.

The summer transfer window opened on 16 June 2025 and closed at 19:00 BST on 1 September 2025. The winter window opened on 1 January 2026 and closed at 19:00 GMT on 2 February 2026.

The first managerial departure of the season came on the late evening of 8 September 2025, when Nottingham Forest sacked Nuno Espírito Santo as his relationship with owner Evangelos Marinakis had deteriorated. He was swiftly replaced the same day, by former Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou, who signed a two-year contract with the club.

The second managerial departure came on 27 September 2025, when West Ham United sacked Graham Potter after a string of bad results in the last half of the previous season and the start of the new season, amassing only one win in five in the Premier League, and losing the other four games. On the same day, Potter was replaced by recently sacked manager Nuno Espírito Santo.

The third managerial departure came on 18 October 2025, when Nottingham Forest sacked Ange Postecoglou 20 minutes after a 0–3 home loss to Chelsea, and after only 39 days in charge, following a run of extremely poor results, where Postecoglou had failed to win all eight of his matches in charge of Nottingham Forest. Postecoglou was replaced by former Burnley and Everton manager Sean Dyche on 21 October 2025.

The fourth managerial departure came on 2 November 2025, when Wolverhampton Wanderers sacked Vítor Pereira following an extremely poor run of results in the Premier League, where they lost eight out of 10 games, with two draws, as well as being rock-bottom in the league, being in 20th for almost the entirety of the season. Rob Edwards was named as his successor and Wolves were 20th at the time of the managerial change.

The fifth managerial departure came on 1 January 2026 when Enzo Maresca left Chelsea following a run of one win in 7 league games and a reported breakdown in relations between manager and ownership over the structure of the club. The club was fifth at the time of his departure. On 6 January, Liam Rosenior was appointed as Maresca's replacement.

The sixth managerial departure came on 5 January 2026 when Manchester United sacked Ruben Amorim following his dispute with the club's recruitment department. The club were sixth at the time of his departure. On 13 January, Michael Carrick was named as Amorim's successor, having had Darren Fletcher as interim head coach in between.

The seventh managerial departure came on 11 February 2026 when Tottenham Hotspur sacked Thomas Frank following a run of two wins in 17 league games. The club were in 16th position at the time of his departure. On 14 February 2026, Igor Tudor was announced as Frank's successor until the end of the season.

The eighth managerial departure came on 12 February 2026 when Sean Dyche was sacked by Nottingham Forest after less than four months in charge of the club following a goalless home draw to basement side Wolverhampton Wanderers, which left Forest 17th in the table. On 15 February 2026, Vítor Pereira was announced as his replacement.

The ninth managerial departure came on 29 March 2026 when Igor Tudor departed Tottenham Hotspur by mutual consent, after the club had picked up just one point in their last five league games. The club were 17th at the time of Tudor's departure. On 31 March 2026, Roberto De Zerbi was announced as Tudor's successor on a five-year contract.

This is the first full season with semi-automated offside technology in use, following its introduction during the previous season on 12 April 2025.

Puma also replaced Nike as the official match ball supplier, ending a 25-year partnership between the Premier League and Nike, from the 2000–01 season to the 2024–25 season. Ref-cam technology also appeared in selected matches during its opening round with a view to making the new technology a permanent feature of live TV games for the rest of the season.

Twenty teams are competing in the league: the top seventeen teams from the previous season and three promoted from the Championship. The promoted teams are Leeds United, Burnley, and Sunderland, returning to the top flight after absences of two, one, and eight years, respectively. They replaced Leicester City, Ipswich Town, and Southampton, who were relegated to the Championship after a single season in the Premier League. This marked the second consecutive season, and only the third time in English top-flight history, in which all three promoted teams were relegated after just one season.

Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.

For the 2025–26 season, the combined stadium capacity of the 20 Premier League clubs is 846,049, with an average of 42,302. This is the first season Everton will play at their new stadium, the Hill Dickinson Stadium, following their move from Goodison Park.

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As of 22 March 2026

• Most yellow cards: 10

  • Lewis Dunk (Brighton & Hove Albion)

• Most red cards: 2

  • Cristian Romero (Tottenham Hotspur)

• Most yellow cards: 79

  • Brighton & Hove Albion

• Fewest yellow cards: 40

  • Arsenal

• Most red cards: 7

  • Chelsea

• Fewest red cards: 0

  • Arsenal
  • Brighton & Hove Albion
  • Fulham
  • Manchester City

• 2025–26 EFL Championship
• 2025–26 EFL League One
• 2025–26 EFL League Two
• 2025–26 National League
• 2025–26 EFL Cup
• 2025–26 FA Cup
• 2025–26 EFL Trophy