The latest Premier League TV selections have been confirmed by TNT and Sky Sports for the next few months including April and May.
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…
STATEMENT:
See revised schedule as matches move due to clubs’ participation in FA Cup and for live UK broadcast
New dates have been announced for three fixtures that were postponed as a result of clubs progressing to the FA Cup semi-finals, which coincide with the weekend of Matchweek 34. Another fixture has moved as a result of these rearranged dates.
The broadcast selections have also been announced for live TV in the UK for the Matchweek 36 fixtures in May 2025.
Rearranged fixtures
Kick-offs 15:00 unless stated. All times BST.
Tuesday 22 April
20:00 Man City v Aston Villa (Sky Sports)
Wednesday 23 April
20:00 Arsenal v Crystal Palace (Sky Sports)
Thursday 1 May
19:30 Nottingham Forest v Brentford (Sky Sports)
Sunday 4 May
14:00 Brentford v Man Utd*
*Due to Forest v Brentford taking place on Thursday 1 May
Saturday 10 May
12:30 Newcastle v Chelsea (TNT Sports)*
Fulham v Everton
Ipswich v Brentford
Man Utd v West Ham
Southampton v Man City
Spurs v Crystal Palace
Wolves v Brighton
17:30 AFC Bournemouth v Aston Villa (Sky Sports)
*Match will move to Sunday 11 May 12:00 BST and remain live on TNT Sports if Chelsea play in UEFA Conference League on Thursday 8 May
Sunday 11 May
14:15 Nottingham Forest v Leicester (Sky Sports)
16:30 Liverpool v Arsenal (Sky Sports)
ALREADY PICKED:
Thursday 3rd April 2025
20:00
Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Saturday 5th April 2025
12:30
Everton v Arsenal
Premier League
TNT Sports 1 – TNT Sports Ultimate
17:30
Aston Villa v Nottingham Forest
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Sunday 6th April 2025
14:00
Fulham v Liverpool
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
16:30
Manchester United v Manchester City
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Monday 7th April 2025
20:00
Leicester City v Newcastle United
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Saturday 12th April 2025
12:30
Manchester City v Crystal Palace
Premier League
TNT Sports 1 – TNT Sports Ultimate
17:30
Arsenal v Brentford
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Sunday 13th April 2025
14:00
Liverpool v West Ham United
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
16:30
Newcastle United v Manchester United
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Monday 14th April 2025
20:00
AFC Bournemouth v Fulham
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Wednesday 16th April 2025
19:30
Newcastle United v Crystal Palace
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Saturday 19th April 2025
17:30
Aston Villa v Newcastle United
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Sunday 20th April 2025
14:00
Ipswich Town v Arsenal
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
16:30
Leicester City v Liverpool
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Monday 21st April 2025
20:00
Tottenham Hotspur v Nottingham Forest
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Saturday 26th April 2025
12:30
Chelsea v Everton
Premier League
TNT Sports 1 – TNT Sports Ultimate
Sunday 27th April 2025
14:00
AFC Bournemouth v Manchester United
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
16:30
Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Friday 2nd May 2025
20:00
Manchester City v Wolves
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Saturday 3rd May 2025
12:30
Aston Villa v Fulham
Premier League
TNT Sports 1 – TNT Sports Ultimate
17:30
Arsenal v AFC Bournemouth
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Sunday 4th May 2025
14:00
Brighton & Hove Albion v Newcastle United
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
16:30
Chelsea v Liverpool
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Monday 5th May 2025
20:00
Crystal Palace v Nottingham Forest
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
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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