The latest Premier League TV selections have been confirmed by TNT and Sky Sports for the next few months including 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 dates and times for fixtures in Matchweek 27 have been confirmed. All 10 fixtures will be broadcast on TNT Sports in the UK.
All times below are GMT.
Tuesday 25 February
19:30 Brighton v AFC Bournemouth (TNT Sports)
19:30 Crystal Palace v Aston Villa (TNT Sports)
19:30 Wolves v Fulham (TNT Sports)
20:15 Chelsea v Southampton (TNT Sports)
Wednesday 26 February
19:30 Brentford v Everton (TNT Sports)
19:30 Spurs v Man City (TNT Sports)
19:30 Man Utd v Ipswich Town (TNT Sports)
19:30 Nottingham Forest v Arsenal (TNT Sports)
20:15 Liverpool v Newcastle United (TNT Sports)
Thursday 27 February
20:00 West Ham v Leicester City (TNT Sports)*
*This match will move to Tuesday 25 February (kick-off 19:30) should Leicester reach the FA Cup fifth round and draw a club participating in the UEFA Champions League.
ALREADY PICKED:
Saturday 18th January 2025
12:30
Newcastle United v AFC Bournemouth
Premier League
TNT Sports 1 – TNT Sports Ultimate
17:30
Arsenal v Aston Villa
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Sunday 19th January 2025
14:00
Everton v Tottenham Hotspur
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
16:30
Ipswich Town v Manchester City
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Monday 20th January 2025
20:00
Chelsea v Wolves
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Saturday 25th January 2025
17:30
Manchester City v Chelsea
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Sunday 26th January 2025
14:00
Crystal Palace v Brentford
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
16:30
Aston Villa v West Ham United
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
19:00
Fulham v Manchester United
Premier League
TNT Sports 1 – TNT Sports Ultimate
Saturday 1st February 2025
12:30
Nottingham Forest v Brighton & Hove Albion
Premier League
TNT Sports 1 – TNT Sports Ultimate
17:30
Wolves v Aston Villa
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Sunday 2nd February 2025
14:00
Brentford v Tottenham Hotspur
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
16:30
Arsenal v Manchester City
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Monday 3rd February 2025
20:00
Chelsea v West Ham United
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Wednesday 12th February 2025
19:30
Everton v Liverpool
Premier League
TNT Sports 1 – TNT Sports Ultimate
Friday 14th February 2025
20:00
Brighton & Hove Albion v Chelsea
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Saturday 15th February 2025
12:30
Leicester City v Arsenal
Premier League
TNT Sports 1 – TNT Sports Ultimate
17:30
Crystal Palace v Everton
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Sunday 16th February 2025
14:00
Liverpool v Wolves
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
16:30
Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Friday 21st February 2025
20:00
Leicester City v Brentford
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Saturday 22nd February 2025
12:30
Everton v Manchester United
Premier League
TNT Sports 1 – TNT Sports Ultimate
17:30
Aston Villa v Chelsea
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
Sunday 23rd February 2025
14:00
Newcastle United v Nottingham Forest
Premier League
Sky Sports Main Event – Sky Sports Premier League – Sky Sports Ultra HDR
16:30
Manchester City v Liverpool
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 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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