Arsenal will start the 2023/24 Premier League season at home to Nottingham Forest in the early Saturday slot on 12 August.
The Gunners eased past Steve Cooper’s side 5-0 at the Emirates last season but fell to a limp 1-0 defeat at the City Ground in May to confirm Manchester City as champions. Given that’s still fresh in the memory, the chance for an early revenge is welcome.
After that, we head to Crystal Palace and then host Fulham before a mouthwatering home clash with Manchester United on 2 September.
There are seven fixtures in December including a trip to Anfield and a home game versus West Ham either side of Christmas.
The north London derbies are pencilled in for 23 September at home and 27 April at White Hart Lane.
On the final day of the season, we’ll host Everton at the Emirates.
As for tricky runs, we’ve got City and Chelsea either side of October’s international break and the run of away games at the tail-end of the season from March through until May has us heading to City, Brighton, Wolves, Sp*rs and United. Granted, the home games in between look kind(ish).
TV selections haven’t been made yet so all of the dates are subject to change. The Premier League have stated:
“The Premier League has committed to giving supporters a minimum of six weeks’ notice (from the first match in the relevant month) on broadcast selections until December 2023, and five weeks’ notice from January 2024 until Matchweek 37.”
They tend to trip at the first hurdle on that front, so take it with a pinch of salt.
We can at least hope for a little less Sunday football now that we aren’t playing Thursday nights in the Europa League.
Provisional dates for 23/24 Premier League season
23/24 Champions League group stage schedule
Matchday 1: 19/20 September 2023
Matchday 2: 3/4 October 2023
Matchday 3: 24/25 October 2023
Matchday 4: 7/8 November 2023
Matchday 5: 28/29 November 2023
Matchday 6: 12/13 December 2023
LET’S DO THIS!!
Everton at home last game of the season? WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT
Big Willy through to Gabriel for the fourth?
Like it. 😉👍
Brings back memories of T.Adams sealing the deal.
If they haven’t been retroactively relegated by then and we play Leeds instead.
Nice start to the season and not seeing any terrible runs. COYG!!!
The fixture list is similar to last season – we play most the tough fixtures at home first half of the season – so it almost guarantees a collapse second half of the season. Last few fixtures include spuds and Utd away
My eyes scroll straight to the dates for the NLD 😂
Spuds and Man United our last two away games?!
WTF?!
What a horrible time to play them. Either we have nothing to play for which is crap or we really need the points which is fucking nerve racking!!
Or we clinch the title at either of them.
Think positive FFS.
Ok I’ll think positively from now on, cheers
That’s the PMA bro!
What’s the matter Fats?
Don’t tell me you’re scared of them….!!
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
Spuds after Champions League game in September, that’s a bit disappointing
Glad you raised this – same thing was dealt out last season – play the tough teams at home first half of the season so you can set up the collapse second half of the season
Well spaced fixtures.
No death run.
1st step to glory…
Oof, that’s a tricky end to the season. We’ll need to have points in the bag by the end of March to make it through that run-in… I can’t see us going to Brighton, Spurs and United and not dropping some points.
Good to see all home games following Champions league fixtures – makes a nice change!!
Sounds like bad news for Forest
I like this, should have good chances of going 3 out of 3 to build momentum for harder challenges!
COYG!
Concur with the kind(ish) fixtures. At least we don’t start our campaign on a Friday night…
Am I right in working out from the above that we follow each of our Champions League group games with a home game? If so that’s presumably pretty rare but a good thing?
I noticed that too. I guess it’s probably not as unusual as you would imagine, as PL fixtures tend to alternate between H and A, whilst CL group fixtures will fall in the same game weeks year after year. Definitely a good thing for us though, especially if we get drawn in CL against teams at the far end of Europe.
Saw this too. Pretty kind…so no excuses!
Brighton at home in Dec is tricky – we have lost to Brighton 3 times at home in the last 2 seasons and Dec has 7 games.
Gonna try and come over for one of the September games. It’ll be the first time for me.
And strike that one off as the only date available is the away game at Everton. Never mind.
And you’d have to be lucky enough to get a ticket in the poxy ballot.
Money better spent on other stuff I guess. I’ll find a pub to get pissed up and watch the game in instead.
That’s the spirits.
We’re at home after every CL fixture
Never been bothered with the fixture list, got to play everyone home and away and that’s that. Looking forward to what the summer brings and let’s go for it
Im praying the last 8 matches we pull through this time.. and we go to old Trafford and win the league…. Again.
Opportunities to win the title at Old Trafford for the second time – and, if we REALLY smash up the league – at the toilet bowl for the first time and Tottenham for the third time!
Get these signings made and BRING IT ON….!!
COYG
Apart from Everton away, all of our games are in London or the south coast till November 4th @ Newcastle. This will definitely help with the travel times and upcoming Champions League games.
Most of the tough opponents at home in the first half of the season and away in the second. I’d rather have had it the other way around, or more evenly split. Otherwise, not too bad a schedule.
Well that was rather anticlimactic, each team home and away you say? Sounds reasonable.
The one I’m really waiting for is the CL draw, don’t think I’ve been as excited about a draw since our early forays into the CL. I remember being a little disappointed with getting little Lens, and then we went and lost to them if memory serves correct!
I’m off to the Rice bid rejected comments section now, already a little afraid of what’s lurking there.
Feels like a title winning programme IMO.
27 April 2024 must be the day we get Tottenham relegated