If the Club World Cup isn’t doing it for you and not even Florian Plettenberg is reporting transfer news for your team, then perhaps you were really looking forward to the Premier League’s fixture release.
All 380 fixtures for the 2025–26 campaign dropped on Wednesday morning, and while there were those keen to remind us how unbothered they were about the release—"everyone plays everyone, innit?"—there’s no denying that schedules do matter. The order of your team’s fixtures is important.
When scanning the list of games, we tend to focus towards the start and end before filling the blanks with significant fixtures in the middle. You probably gasped and alerted the family that there are currently no Boxing Day fixtures scheduled.
The start of the season is where most of the intrigue lies, with teams keen to enjoy productive starts to set them up nicely for the rest of the campaign. Appeasing that intrigue, has rated the difficulty of all 20 Premier League teams’ opening five fixtures of the new season.
Let’s see who’s been handed the shortest straw.
