{"id":18085,"date":"2026-07-16T21:45:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=18085"},"modified":"2026-07-16T21:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:45:25","slug":"when-does-the-new-premier-league-season-start-2026-27-dates-and-first-fixtures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=18085","title":{"rendered":"When does the new Premier League season start? 2026\/27 dates and first fixtures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s all the information you need for the 2026\/27 Premier League campaign.<\/p>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\">Friday 21st August is the date for the diary, with a fascinating clash up first. Champions Arsenal kickstart the 2026\/27 Premier League season against newly-promoted Coventry City at the Emirates. For Frank Lampard&#8217;s side, it&#8217;s a return to the top tier for the first time in 25 years.<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\">The season&#8217;s traditional curtain-raiser, the FA Community Shield, will take place between Manchester City and Arsenal at Principality Stadium in Cardiff on Sunday 16 August.<\/div>\n<p>The final round of fixtures will take place on Sunday May 30th 2027. All fixtures will kick-off at the same time.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s all the information you need for the 2026\/27 Premier League campaign. Friday 21st August&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}