The latest Premier League TV selections have been confirmed by, Amazon Prime, TNT and Sky Sports for December, January and February.
However the deadline has come for a batch of TV picks to be made, so that clubs can inform match going supporters, who have to sort out tickets and travel arrangements.
Take a look below at what has been chosen along with the rest of the season’s selected games for broadcast…
PREMIER LEAGUE STATEMENT:
The broadcast selections in the UK for Premier League fixtures in February 2025 have been announced.
Below is the revised schedule, including fixtures which have been moved due to European matches.
Due to complexities around the match calendar, the League will announce the selections for Match Round 27 (25-26 February) in the week commencing 13 January, following the FA Cup fourth-round draw.
All kick-off times below are 15:00 GMT unless otherwise mentioned.
Saturday 1 February 2025
12:30 Nottingham Forest v Brighton (TNT Sports)
AFC Bournemouth v Liverpool
Everton v Leicester City
Ipswich Town v Southampton
Newcastle United v Fulham
17:30 Wolves v Aston Villa (Sky Sports)
Sunday 2 February 2025
14:00 Brentford v Spurs (Sky Sports)
14:00 Man Utd v Crystal Palace*
*Due to participation in UEFA Europa League the preceding Thursday
16:30 Arsenal v Man City (Sky Sports)
Monday 3 February 2025
20:00 Chelsea v West Ham (Sky Sports)
Friday 14 February 2025
20:00 Brighton v Chelsea (Sky Sports)
Saturday 15 February 2025
12:30 Leicester City v Arsenal (TNT Sports)**
**This match is subject to change to kick-off at 20:00 should Arsenal participate in the UEFA Champions League knockout rounds the preceding Wednesday and be drawn away
Aston Villa v Ipswich Town
Fulham v Nottingham Forest
Man City v Newcastle United
Southampton v AFC Bournemouth
West Ham v Brentford
17:30 Crystal Palace v Everton (Sky Sports)
Sunday 16 February 2025
14:00 Liverpool v Wolves (Sky Sports)
16:30 Spurs v Man Utd (Sky Sports)
Friday 21 February 2025
20:00 Leicester City v Brentford (Sky Sports)
Saturday 22 February 2025
12:30 Everton v Man Utd (TNT Sports)***
***This match will move to Sunday 23 Feb (kick-off TBC) should Man Utd participate in Europa League the preceding Thursday
AFC Bournemouth v Wolves
Arsenal v West Ham
Fulham v Crystal Palace
Ipswich Town v Spurs
Southampton v Brighton
17:30 Aston Villa v Chelsea (Sky Sports)
Sunday 23 February 2025
Newcastle United v Nottingham Forest (Sky Sports)****
Man City v Liverpool (Sky Sports)****
****Kick-off times for these matches will be announced in due course
ALREADY PICKED
Saturday 14th December
Nottingham Forest v Aston Villa (5:30pm) Sky Sports Premier League
Sunday 15th December
Brighton & Hove Albion v Crystal Palace (2pm) Sky Sports Premier League
Manchester City v Manchester United (4:30pm) Sky Sports Premier League
Southampton v Tottenham Hotspur (7pm) TNT Sports / discovery+
Monday 16th December
AFC Bournemouth v West Ham United (8pm) Sky Sports Premier League
Saturday 21st December
Aston Villa v Manchester City (12:30pm) TNT Sports / discovery+
Crystal Palace v Arsenal (5:30pm) Sky Sports Premier League
Sunday 22nd December
Fulham v Southampton (2pm) Sky Sports Premier League
Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool (4:30pm) Sky Sports Premier League
Thursday 26th December
Manchester City v Everton (12:30pm) Amazon Prime Video
AFC Bournemouth v Crystal Palace (3pm) Amazon Prime Video
Chelsea v Fulham (3pm) Amazon Prime Video
Newcastle United v Aston Villa (3pm) Amazon Prime Video
Nottingham Forest v Tottenham Hotspur (3pm) Amazon Prime Video
Southampton v West Ham United (3pm) Amazon Prime Video
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Manchester United (5:30pm) Amazon Prime Video
Liverpool v Leicester City (8pm) Amazon Prime Video
Friday 27th December
Brighton & Hove Albion v Brentford (7:30pm) Amazon Prime Video
Arsenal v Ipswich Town (8:15pm) Amazon Prime Video
Sunday 29th December
Leicester City v Manchester City (2:30pm) Sky Sports Premier League
West Ham United v Liverpool (5:15pm) Sky Sports Premier League
Monday 30th December
Manchester United v Newcastle United (8pm) Sky Sports Premier League
Wednesday 1st January 2025
Brentford v Arsenal (5:30pm) TNT Sports / discovery+
Saturday 4th January 2025
Tottenham Hotspur v Newcastle United (12:30pm) TNT Sports / discovery+
Brighton & Hove Albion v Arsenal (5:30pm) Sky Sports Premier League
Sunday 5th January 2025
Fulham v Ipswich Town (2pm) Sky Sports Premier League
Liverpool v Manchester United (4:30pm) Sky Sports Premier League
Monday 6th January 2025
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Nottingham Forest (8pm) Sky Sports Premier League
Tuesday 14 January 2025
19:30 Brentford v Man City (TNT Sports)
19:30 Chelsea v AFC Bournemouth (TNT Sports)
19:30 West Ham v Fulham (TNT Sports)
20:00 Nott’m Forest v Liverpool (TNT Sports)
Wednesday 15 January 2025
19:30 Everton v Aston Villa (TNT Sports)
19:30 Leicester v Crystal Palace (TNT Sports)
19:30 Newcastle v Wolves (TNT Sports)
20:00 Arsenal v Spurs (TNT Sports)
Thursday 16 January 2025
19:30 Ipswich v Brighton (TNT Sports)
20:00 Man Utd v Southampton (TNT Sports)
Saturday 18 January 2025
12:30 Newcastle v AFC Bournemouth (TNT Sports)
17:30 Arsenal v Aston Villa (Sky Sports)
Sunday 19 January 2025
14:00 Everton v Spurs (Sky Sports)
16:30 Ipswich v Man City (Sky Sports)
Monday 20 January 2025
20:00 Chelsea v Wolves (Sky Sports)
Saturday 25 January 2025
17:30 Man City v Chelsea (Sky Sports)
Sunday 26 January 2025
14:00 Crystal Palace v Brentford (Sky Sports)
16:30 Aston Villa v West Ham (Sky Sports)
19:00 Fulham v Man Utd (TNT Sports
Fixtures are amended throughout the 2024/25 season for several reasons, including live TV broadcast selections and to accommodate domestic and European cup competitions.
For this reason, Premier League fixtures are always advertised as being subject to change.
Below are the approximate dates for when the announcements on matches that have been selected for live TV broadcast will be made.
Period of matches – Provisional announcement date
August/September 18 June – 5 July
October 22 July – 19 August
November 2 September – 13 September
December/January 16 September – 14 October
February 14 November – 9 December
March 2 January – 24 January
April 27 January – 28 February
MW35 17 March – 21 March
MW36 24 March – 28 March
MW37 31 March – 4 April
MW38 Post MW37
N.B. These dates are subject to change
Why is there a Saturday football blackout in the UK for live streams and TV broadcasts?
Since before the formation of the Premier League, Saturday 3pm kick offs have been forbidden to be televised in the UK, with broadcasters only allowed to show early and late matches on national TV.
Though the 3pm kick off is the slot in which the majority of weekend matches are played with a number of games happening at the same time, they are never broadcast live on television due to the ‘football blackout’.
The United Kingdom is the only place to prohibit the broadcast of 3pm Saturday kick offs.
The 3pm blackout is said to be tradition, with Sky Sports’ Soccer Saturday – the go to show where a panel of pundits report in-game action to viewers with none of the match footage actually being showed.
This is also why ratings for Match of the Day remain ever-popular, though numbers are made tougher to achieve due to online streams, footage of goals appearing within seconds online and highlights uploaded to Sky Sports’ YouTube just after 5pm Saturdays.
Major European leagues in France, Spain, Germany and Italy don’t observe such a blackout, and there has been sufficient evidence to prove that closed periods do not affect the outcome of lower league football match attendance.
If anything, you’re more likely to watch more Premier League games if your based in North America or Asia rather than your own country (UK), despite the England priding themselves as a nation who are the home of football.
In February 2011, Advocate General Kokott of the European Court of Justice launched an investigation into the “closed periods” and concluded that they did not affect match attendance at lower league games.
“It is, in fact, doubtful whether closed periods are capable of encouraging attendance at matches and participation in matches,” she said in a statement .
“Both activities have a completely different quality to the following of a live transmission on television. It has not been adequately shown to the Court that the closed periods actually encourage attendance at and participation in matches.
“No closed periods were adopted in France, Germany, Italy and Spain, or in Northern Ireland, that is to say, within the sphere of influence of English football.”
In 2016, Ofcom launched an investigation into the rights of televised football and surveyed football fans about whether they wanted to see a change.
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