Eight of Arsenal’s Premier League fixtures in December and January have been given new kick-off times following the latest round of broadcast selections.
Remember, there will be no winter break for England’s top-flight sides this season so the Gunners will be playing 13 games in 53 days; a game every four days or so.
Should we progress in the Carabao Cup, there could be two additional games before the end of January.
It’s going to be very busy…
Wednesday 4 December, 8:15pm (previously 3 December, 7.45pm)
Arsenal vs Manchester United
Premier League
Amazon Prime Video
Sunday 8th December, 2pm (previously 7 December, 3pm)
Fulham vs Arsenal
Premier League
Sky Sports
Wednesday 11 December, 8pm
Arsenal vs Monaco
Champions League
TNT Sports
Saturday 14 December, 3pm
Arsenal vs Everton
Premier League
Not being broadcast in the UK
16 December
Possible Carabao Cup quarter-final
Saturday 21 December, 5:30pm (previously 21 December, 3pm)
Crystal Palace vs Arsenal
Premier League
Sky Sports
Friday 27 December, 8:15pm (previously 26 December)
Arsenal vs Ipswich
Premier League
Amazon Prime Video
Wednesday 1 January, 5.30pm (previously 29 December, 3pm)
Brentford vs Arsenal
Premier League
Sky Sports
Saturday 4 January, 5.30pm (previously 3pm)
Brighton vs Arsenal
Premier League
Sky Sports
6 January
Possible Carabao Cup semi-final first leg (second leg on 3 February)
10-12 January
FA Cup 3rd Round
Wednesday 15 January, 8pm (previously 14 January, 7pm)
Arsenal vs Sp*rs
Premier League
TNT Sports
Saturday 18 January, 5.30pm (previously 3pm)
Arsenal vs Aston Villa
Premier League
Sky Sports
Wednesday 22 January, 8pm
Arsenal vs Dinamo Zagreb
Champions League
TNT Sports
Saturday 25 January, 3pm
Wolves vs Arsenal
Premier League
Not being broadcast in the UK
Who the fuck decided to place a game on January 1st?
I mean players can’t celebrate new year properly and supporters will be recovering from the heavy drinking and stuff lol
Plenty of us work on New Year’s Day mate
Historically we played Boxing Day and New Years Day. And that’s not even that long ago. Get over it.
my family has a made Arsenal games in the new year a bit of tradition even during most horrible times
It’s a bank holiday, so it’s always been a traditional day for football – same with Boxing Day (although in non-league, at least, I remember that often being for local derbies).
Meanwhile in America, they have sport *on* Christmas and Thanksgiving, so by comparison the Premier League footballers do well
Like other posters, I love the tradition of starting off a new year with Arsenal. And as one who watches from the west coast of North America, I love that kick-off will be at 9:30 my time so I can actually celebrate New Year’s and not feel too gross for the match.
On the upside we seem to have a lot of home games and the away ones are mostly in London so not too much travelling.
Hectic yes, but none of those teams are titans, we’ve gotten most of those out of the way for this half of the season, or will have after Liverpool and Inter. I’m actually more afraid of a banana skin slip up vs. the likes of Brentford or Brighton than anything Tottenham or Man U can do, because those latter teams actually try to attack us, and they’re not that good at it, and that plays into Arteta’s hands.
At least its all midtable sides
Midtable sides with a week between games.
They’ll be just as busy around Christmas. The bigger issue for the clubs with European football is the fatigue/injuries they take into that busy period of fixtures, but on paper they should have the squads to deal with it better.
So many games, it’s relentless. Hopefully our squad is fully fit so we can share the minutes, otherwise it’s going to be really tough.
Again all the festive games are late kick offs, how are younger kids supposed to watch games. God I hate Amazon.
i know, but it has shown the PSG game, and will also show the Shaktar game, whichis good for me, as I can watch CL games without paying for TNT;
A lot of games, but actually not too bad a schedule spacing and travel wise compared to other years. Potentially not leaving London for the whole of December is another bonus. Spurs on midweek is strange one though, I thought the police doesn’t allow the PL to put this fixture in an evening slot given it’s high risk?
Presumably midweek is treated differently since most fans will be at work (and will have often work the next day) so there will be a lot less booze in them.
Great. I work Wednesday evenings. 3 rearranged matches switched to Wednesday nights and both Champions League games studiously avoiding Tuesday and Thursday as well. I bet the League Cup games will be on Wednesdays as well if we beat Preston (also on a Wednesday of course).
I swear we play so many Saturday late KOs. Furious as it’s the worst for my schedule
Some of these fixture changes really throw a spanner in my Christmas game planning.I had a family event on 7th December I couldnt get out of and had already promised someone my Fulham tickets. Now its been moved to the Sunday I still cant get out of the family thing and miss the game. Grrr. However, like another poster touched on – At least there’s no major travelling.