2023–24 Premier League

The 2023–24 Premier League is the 32nd season of the Premier League and 125th season of English football overall. The fixtures were announced on 15 June 2023 at 09:00 BST. Manchester City are the three-time defending champions, and can become the first men's club in the history of the English top-flight to win four titles in a row, if successful.

This season is the third to feature a winter break, with every team having a two week break from all competitions sometime between January 2 and January 30. The summer transfer window lasted between 14 June and 1 September 2023. The Premier League's winter transfer window opened on 1 January 2024 and will close at 23:00 GMT on 1 February 2024.

Events

For only the third time in Premier League history (after Middlesbrough in 1996–97 and Portsmouth in 2009–10), a Premier League team were deducted points, when Everton had 10 points taken off from their total on 17 November 2023, for a breach of the Premier League's profit and sustainability rules. The deduction is the biggest to be handed out in Premier League history and is subject of appeal.

On 30 September 2023, in the game between Tottenham and Liverpool, Premier League's video assistant referee (VAR), Darren England, failed to intervene on a decision that disallowed Luis Díaz's legitimate goal. Liverpool lost the game 2–1 and PGMOL admitted the offside ruling as a "significant human error". It was revealed that England and the assistant VAR, Dan Cook, took an eight-hour long flight back from the UAE a day before. A group of PGMOL officials were in UAE to take charge of a match between Sharjah and Al-Ain. It led to questions over PGMOL's decision of allowing the leading match officials to take lucrative assignments in the UAE Pro League despite the fact that the Emirates owned Premier League's club, Manchester City.

On 5 December 2023, Sheffield United became the first club to sack their manager, dismissing Paul Heckingbottom after their 5–0 defeat to fellow newly-promoted side Burnley. He was replaced by Chris Wilder, marking his return to the club since the 2020–21 season. At that time, Sheffield United were bottom of the league, grabbing only 5 points in 14 games.

On 16 December 2023, the match between Bournemouth and Luton Town was abandoned after 65 minutes, as Luton captain Tom Lockyer suffered a cardiac arrest, and collapsed on the pitch. Play was initially suspended, with the referee taking both sets of players off, midway through the second half, whilst medical personnel tended to Lockyer. He was eventually stretchered off, and taken to hospital, where it was later announced that he was responsive, and in a stable condition. The referee then abandoned the game after 65 minutes, with the score level at 1–1.

On 19 December 2023, Nottingham Forest became the second club to sack their manager, dismissing Steve Cooper after going on a winless run of 6 games. His last game in charge was a 2–0 home defeat to Tottenham Hotspur. He was replaced by former Wolverhampton Wanderers and Spurs coach Nuno Espírito Santo, whose first game in charge was a 2–3 home loss to Bournemouth, extending the club’s winless run to 7 games. In his second game, Nuno ended Nottingham Forest's winless run with a 3–1 away win at Newcastle United, with Chris Wood scoring a hat-trick against his old club, having left in the January transfer window of the 2022–23 season.

Developments

Just like the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the new stoppage time rule will take place in the league. In an effort to improve to clamp down on time-wasting and to improve the accuracy of time added on, stoppage times will be longer across matches. The new rule will account for stoppages due to injuries, goal celebrations, yellow and red cards, and VAR reviews. Additionally, there will be yellow/red card offences for dissent and time wasting, which contributed to a massive increase in yellow and red cards this season.

Teams

Twenty teams are competing in the league – the top seventeen teams from the previous season and the three teams promoted from the Championship. The promoted teams were Burnley, Sheffield United, and Luton Town, who returned to the top flight after respective absences of one, two and thirty-one years. This is also Luton Town's first season in the Premier League.
With their promotion, Luton Town were the first team to have been promoted from non-league (5th tier or lower within the English football league pyramid) to the top flight during the Premier League era. The promoted teams replaced Leicester City, Leeds United, and Southampton, who were relegated to the Championship after respective spells of nine, three and eleven years in the top flight.

Stadiums and locations

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Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Season statistics

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Top assists

Clean sheets

Discipline

Player

* Most yellow cards: 9
** Bruno Guimarães (Newcastle United)

* Most red cards: 2
** Yves Bissouma (Tottenham Hotspur)
** Oli McBurnie (Sheffield United)

Club

* Most yellow cards: 66
**Chelsea

* Fewest yellow cards: 30
**Arsenal

* Most red cards: 4
**Burnley
**Liverpool
**Tottenham Hotspur

* Fewest red cards: 0
**Luton Town
**Newcastle United

Awards

Monthly awards

Notes

References

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