The 2025–26 Premier League will be the 34th season of the

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and the 127th season of English football. The fixtures were released on 18 June 2025 at 09:00 BST. This will be the first full season where semi-automated offside technology is in use, following its introduction during the previous season, on 12 April 2025. The 2025–26 season will consist of 33 weekend and five midweek rounds of matches. Puma will replace Nike as the official match ball supplier from this season.

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are the defending champions, having won their second Premier League title and their 20th overall English title in the previous season. This is the first season to feature the Tyne–Wear derby in the

since the 2015–16 season, following

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's promotion from the

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via the play-offs.

Teams

Twenty teams are competing in the league – the top seventeen teams from the previous season, and the three teams promoted from the

. The promoted teams are

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, and

, returning to the top flight after two, one and eight year absences respectively. They replaced Leicester City, Ipswich Town and

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, who were all relegated after just one season in the top flight. This was the second season in succession, and only the third time in English men's top flight history, where all three promoted teams were relegated after just one season.

Stadiums and locations

:'' Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.'' This is the first season Everton play at their new stadium, the

Everton Stadium Everton Stadium, currently known as the Hill Dickinson Stadium for Naming rights, sponsorship reasons, is a Association football, football stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock in Vauxhall, Liverpool, Vauxhall, Liverpool, England. It will be the new hom ...

, following their move from

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Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

League table

Results

References

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