EVERY match not 3pm Saturday to be broadcast live in UK – Premier League official announcement | OneFootball

I don’t think many Newcastle United fans, or indeed those fans of other top tier clubs, realised just how much of a change the 2025/26 season is going to be, when it comes to the live UK broadcasting Premier League matches.

The 2025/26 Premier League fixtures have been published today (Wednesday 18 June 2025) and along with that has come this message from the Premier League. ‘For the first time, all matches taking place outside of the Saturday 15:00 “closed period” – a minimum of 267 games – will be broadcast live in the UK.’

You might have thought that a lot of Premier League matches were shown on TV but you haven’t seen anything yet!

What it means for example is that all ten PL games on the last day of the season (a Sunday) will be shown live in the UK.

During the festive period, when the rounds of Premier League fixtures often don’t fall on a Saturday, then all of those matches will be broadcast.

English teams in the Europa League and Conference League, all of their Premier League matches that follow a Thursday night European game will be televised.

So assuming that Nottingham Forest get through their Conference League play-off, their visit to St James’ Park the first weekend of October 2025, that game will be automatically moved (to the Sunday for all but certain) and therefore shown live in the UK.

The same for the home game against Aston Villa in late January, that will move to Sunday 25 January (Newcastle will be playing Champions League on the following Wednesday night, so Villa won’t be moved to the Monday), as Villa will be playing in the Europa League the previous Thursday. So that Newcastle v Villa PL game will automatically be broadcast live in the UK.

Amazon Prime are going from currently broadcasting 20 Premier League matches live, down to zero from next season.

TNT Sports are showing no change, they will still broadcast 52 Premier League matches live.

Sky Sports though, are going up from 128 this season, to at least 215 in the 2025/26 Premier League season!

That represents a 70% increase in the number of Premier League matches that Sky Sports will broadcast live.

In total, 200 of the 380 Premier League matches were shown live in the UK the 2024/25 season, split amongst the three broadcasters.

That increases for the 2025/26 season to at least 267 of the 380 Premier League matches to be shared between Sky Sports and TNT Sports.

Overall, it is going from 52% of the 380 Premier League matches getting shown live to a UK audience, up to 70% of the 380 next season.

There will also be more Premier League matches moved to both Friday and Monday nights, all for live TV.

Premier League official announcement – 18 June 2025:

‘This season marks the beginning of a new four-year UK broadcast rights cycle, with Sky Sports and TNT Sports. For the first time, all matches taking place outside of the Saturday 15:00 “closed period” – a minimum of 267 games – will be broadcast live in the UK.

The increase in matches broadcast in the UK comes predominately from Sky Sports showing the fixtures displaced to the Sunday 14:00 slot due to clubs’ participation in European competitions the previous week. Sky Sports will show a minimum of 215 matches and TNT Sports will cover 52 matches.’

Premier League official release – 11 May 2025:

‘Premier League fans in the UK who sign up for Sky Sports now will be able to watch an incredible 215 top-flight matches LIVE in 2025/26 – a 70 per cent increase on this season’s 128 games.

Sky Sports’ enhanced coverage of Premier League football next season will include the broadcaster having FIRST PICK of the fixtures EVERY week and therefore showing the very BEST matches from August through until May.

There will be also more live matches on Friday evenings and Monday nights, making Sky Sports the place to see the first and final action in a Premier League weekend.

In another first for Sky Sports, there will be multiple matches shown live in the Sunday 14:00 BST / GMT slot on a number of weekends. Meanwhile, Sunday 16:30 BST / GMT will remain the flagship kick-off time.

Most of the festive fixtures will be shown by Sky Sports too, with Boxing Day football making a welcome return to its channels.

Not only will there be all of the above, all the matches on the crucial last day of the Premier League season will be live in one place for the first time, creating a real moment for fans of the league and its 20 clubs.’