The latest Premier League TV selections have been confirmed by TNT Sport and Sky Sports for December and January, with some fans not happy.
However the deadline has come for a batch TV picks to be made, so that clubs can inform fans, deal with tickets and sort travel arrangements out.
Take a look below at what has been chosen along with the rest of the season’s selected games for broadcast…
The Premier League said in a statement on their website:
The Premier League is today announcing the broadcast selections for fixtures across the festive period, including the Boxing Day and New Year’s Day weekends.
This comes after the League and our broadcast partners agreed to bring forward the selection process for live UK matches across match rounds 17 to 20, which run from 26 December to 7 January.
This fixture announcement gives supporters more than three months’ notice to plan and make travel arrangements for a particularly busy time of the year and follows consultation with the Football Supporters’ Association and representatives from club Fan Advisory Boards.
There are seven Premier League matches on Boxing Day this season.
Over the Christmas and New Year period, clubs have at least a 60-hour break between fixtures. This is in keeping with commitments made to clubs to address the congested festive schedule – in the context of an expanding European and international fixture calendar.
Broadcast selections for match rounds in November are due to be announced by week commencing 21 September 2026 and match rounds in December will be announced by week commencing 19 October 2026.
LATEST TV SELECTIONS:
Saturday 26 December
12:30 Aston Villa v Leeds (TNT Sports)
Everton v Sunderland
Fulham v Brighton
Ipswich v Brentford
Spurs v AFC Bournemouth
17:30 Hull v Liverpool (Sky Sports)
20:00 Newcastle v Man City (Sky Sports)
Sunday 27 December
14:00 Coventry v Chelsea (Sky Sports)
16:30 Man Utd v Nott’m Forest (Sky Sports)
19:00 Crystal Palace v Arsenal (Sky Sports)
Tuesday 29 December
19:30 Hull v Leeds (Sky Sports)
19:30 Spurs v Brighton (Sky Sports)
20:15 Everton v Man City (Sky Sports)
Wednesday 30 December
19:30 Coventry v Brentford (Sky Sports)
19:30 Crystal Palace v AFC Bournemouth (Sky Sports)
19:30 Fulham v Arsenal (Sky Sports)
19:30 Man Utd v Sunderland (Sky Sports)
19:30 Newcastle v Nott’m Forest (Sky Sports)
20:15 Aston Villa v Liverpool (Sky Sports)
20:15 Ipswich v Chelsea (Sky Sports)
Friday 1 January 2027
20:00 Leeds v Everton (Sky Sports)
Saturday 2 January 2027
12:30 Brighton v Man Utd (TNT Sports)
Arsenal v Ipswich
Brentford v Crystal Palace
Liverpool v Coventry
Nott’m Forest v Fulham
Sunderland v Hull
17:30 AFC Bournemouth v Aston Villa (Sky Sports)
Sunday 3 January 2027
14:00 Chelsea v Newcastle (Sky Sports)
16:30 Man City v Spurs (Sky Sports)
Tuesday 5 January 2027
19:30 Arsenal v Brentford (Sky Sports)
19:30 Brighton v AFC Bournemouth (Sky Sports)
19:30 Everton v Aston Villa (Sky Sports)
19:30 Nott’m Forest v Hull (Sky Sports)
20:15 Sunderland v Liverpool (Sky Sports)
Wednesday 6 January 2027
19:30 Crystal Palace v Chelsea (Sky Sports)
19:30 Fulham v Spurs (Sky Sports)
19:30 Ipswich v Coventry (Sky Sports)
20:15 Leeds v Man City (Sky Sports)
Thursday 7 January 2027
20:00 Man Utd v Newcastle (Sky Sports)
ALREADY PICKED:
Saturday 12th September 2026
17:30
Tottenham Hotspur v Everton
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
20:00
Sunderland v Arsenal
Premier League
TNT Sports 1 – TNT Sports Ultimate – HBO Max
Sunday 13th September 2026
14:00
Coventry City v Brighton & Hove Albion
Premier League
Sky Sports Premier League
16:30
Manchester United v Manchester City
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Monday 14th September 2026
20:00
Leeds United v Newcastle United
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Friday 18th September 2026
20:00
Brentford v Chelsea
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Saturday 19th September 2026
12:30
Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa
Premier League
TNT Sports 1 – TNT Sports Ultimate – HBO Max
17:30
Nottingham Forest v Coventry City
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Sunday 20th September 2026
14:00
AFC Bournemouth v Liverpool
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
14:00
Manchester City v Sunderland
Premier League
Sky Sports TBC
16:30
Fulham v Manchester United
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Saturday 10th October 2026
12:30
Arsenal v Leeds United
Premier League
TNT Sports 1 – TNT Sports Ultimate – HBO Max
17:30
Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Sunday 11th October 2026
14:00
Crystal Palace v Nottingham Forest
Premier League
Sky Sports TBC
14:00
Hull City v Everton
Premier League
Sky Sports TBC
16:30
Liverpool v Manchester City
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Monday 12th October 2026
20:00
Coventry City v Newcastle United
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Saturday 17th October 2026
12:30
Everton v Chelsea
Premier League
TNT Sports 1 – TNT Sports Ultimate – HBO Max
17:30
Newcastle United v Aston Villa
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Sunday 18th October 2026
14:00
AFC Bournemouth v Sunderland
Premier League
Sky Sports TBC
14:00
Brighton & Hove Albion v Crystal Palace
Premier League
Sky Sports TBC
14:00
Leeds United v Manchester United
Premier League
Sky Sports TBC
16:30
Nottingham Forest v Arsenal
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Monday 19th October 2026
20:00
Tottenham Hotspur v Coventry City
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Friday 23rd October 2026
20:00
Ipswich Town v Nottingham Forest
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Saturday 24th October 2026
12:30
Aston Villa v Manchester City
Premier League
TNT Sports 1 – TNT Sports Ultimate – HBO Max
17:30
Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Sunday 25th October 2026
14:00
Crystal Palace v Newcastle United
Premier League
Sky Sports TBC
14:00
Hull City v Brentford
Premier League
Sky Sports TBC
14:00
Liverpool v Brighton & Hove Albion
Premier League
Sky Sports TBC
14:00
Manchester United v AFC Bournemouth
Premier League
Sky Sports TBC
16:30
Sunderland v Leeds United
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Saturday 31st October 2026
12:30
Chelsea v Manchester United
Premier League
TNT Sports 1 – TNT Sports Ultimate – HBO Max
17:30
Tottenham Hotspur v Crystal Palace
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
20:00
Aston Villa v Fulham
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Sunday 1st November 2026
16:30
Liverpool v Arsenal
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Monday 2nd November 2026
20:00
Newcastle United v Everton
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
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 you’re 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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