Premier League Announces Major 2025 Boxing Day Schedule Change

Boxing Day will characteristic conscionable a azygous Premier League match—Manchester United vs. Newcastle United—in a displacement distant from nan vacation play tradition.

Usually 1 of nan busiest periods of immoderate shot season, nan convention announced each different Gameweek 18 fixtures will return spot Dec. 27–28. There won’t beryllium a Christmas Eve fixture this twelvemonth either.

Instead, location will beryllium 10 matches betwixt Dec. 20–22, nary matches done Christmas Day and past Man Utd hosting Newcastle at Old Trafford connected Boxing Day. The past clip location was a Christmas Eve fixture was successful 2023 erstwhile Wolverhampton Wanderers faced Chelsea.

“The Premier League would for illustration to admit nan circumstances that person led to a reduced number of matches connected Boxing Day this play – impacting an important contented successful English football,” nan league said Friday.

Ruben Amorim’s Man Utd return nan spotlight connected Boxing Day. / Carl Recine/Getty Images

The Premier League elaborate challenges that arose this play pinch scheduling, highlighting European competitions, nan FA Cup and nan calendar, while besides making a large committedness for nan 2026–27 campaign.

“There are now respective challenges to Premier League fixture scheduling rooted successful nan description of European nine competitions—which led to a revision of our home almanac up of past season, including changes to nan FA Cup. This yet near nan Premier League arsenic a 33-weekend competition—fewer than erstwhile seasons, contempt being a 380-match title since 1995,” nan convention said.

“With less weekends to activity with, nan League is bound by really nan almanac falls. The League tin springiness an assurance that adjacent play location will beryllium much Premier League matches connected Boxing Day—as nan day falls connected a Saturday.”

The caller changes guarantee nary squad will beryllium play 2 matches withing 60 hours of each other.

2025 Premier League Holiday Schedule

The afloat slate of fixtures from Boxing Day done New Year’s Day is arsenic follows:

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