The latest Premier League TV selections have been confirmed by TNT and Sky Sports for the and a games rearranged.
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.
There is no explanation from the Premier League over the delay to revealing September’s TV matches. They were were due to be confirmed with the August ones.
Take a look below at what has been chosen along with the rest of the month’s selected games for broadcast…
STATEMENT:
See the revised schedule as matches move for live UK broadcast
The broadcast selections have been announced for live TV in the UK for Premier League matches in Matchweeks 2 and 3 in August.
All kick-off times are 15:00 BST unless otherwise mentioned.
Matchweek 1
Friday 15 August
20:00 Liverpool v AFC Bournemouth (Sky Sports)
Saturday 16 August
12:30 Aston Villa v Newcastle United (TNT Sports)
17:30 Wolverhampton Wanderers v Manchester City (Sky Sports)
Sunday 17 August
14:00 Chelsea v Crystal Palace (Sky Sports)
14:00 Nottingham Forest v Brentford (Sky Sports)
16:30 Manchester United v Arsenal (Sky Sports)
Monday 18 August
20:00 Leeds United v Everton (Sky Sports)
Friday 15 August
20:00 Liverpool v AFC Bournemouth (Sky Sports)
Saturday 16 August
12:30 Aston Villa v Newcastle United (TNT Sports)
Brighton & Hove Albion v Fulham
Sunderland v West Ham United
Tottenham Hotspur v Burnley
17:30 Wolverhampton Wanderers v Manchester City (Sky Sports)
Sunday 17 August
14:00 Chelsea v Crystal Palace (Sky Sports)
14:00 Nottingham Forest v Brentford (Sky Sports)
16:30 Manchester United v Arsenal (Sky Sports)
Monday 18 August
20:00 Leeds United v Everton (Sky Sports)
Friday 22 August
20:00 West Ham v Chelsea (Sky Sports)
Saturday 23 August
12:30 Manchester City v Tottenham Hotspur (TNT Sports)
AFC Bournemouth v Wolverhampton Wanderers
Brentford v Aston Villa
Burnley v Sunderland
17:30 Arsenal v Leeds United (Sky Sports)
Sunday 24 August
14:00 Crystal Palace v Nottingham Forest (Sky Sports)*
*Due to Forest’s participation in UEFA Conference League playoff preceding Thursday
14:00 Everton v Brighton & Hove Albion (Sky Sports)
16:30 Fulham v Manchester United (Sky Sports)
Monday 25 August
20:00 Newcastle United v Liverpool (Sky Sports)
Friday 29 August
20:00 Aston Villa v Crystal Palace (Sky Sports)
Saturday 30 August
12:30 Chelsea v Fulham (TNT Sports)
Manchester United v Burnley
Sunderland v Brentford
Tottenham Hotspur v AFC Bournemouth
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Everton
17:30 Leeds United v Newcastle United (Sky Sports)
Sunday 31 August
14:00 Brighton & Hove Albion v Manchester City (Sky Sports)
14:00 Nottingham Forest v West Ham United (Sky Sports)*
*Due to Forest’s participation in UEFA Conference League playoff preceding Thursday
16:30 Liverpool v Arsenal (Sky Sports)
| Period of games | MW | Estimate release |
| Aug/Sep | 2-6 | 9 Jul |
|---|---|---|
| Oct | 7-9 | 20 Aug |
| Nov | 10-13 | 17 Sep |
| Dec/Jan | 14-24 | 15 Oct |
| Feb | 25-28 | 17 Dec |
| Mar | 29-31 | 21 Jan |
| Apr | 32-34 | 4 Mar |
| MW35 | 35 | 25 Mar |
| MW36 | 36 | 1 Apr |
| MW37 | 37 | 8 Apr |
| MW38 | 38 | Post-MW37 |
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.
