Everton's Premier League fixtures: Full 2025-26 schedule and key dates

New York Times

18-06-2025

Everton begin the 2025-26 campaign away to newly-promoted Leeds United at Elland Road.
The new season brings an end to Everton's men's side's 133-year stay at Goodison Park as they move to their new home at Bramley-Moore Dock. They will play their first Premier League game at their new Hill Dickinson Stadium against Brighton & Hove Albion on August 23.
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The first Merseyside derby of the campaign takes place on September 20, before the reverse fixture on April 18.
David Moyes' side conclude their campaign with a trip to Tottenham Hotspur.
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There are probably easier starts to the season than Leeds United at Elland Road on a Monday night. Tougher ones too, no doubt, but you suspect the promoted side and their fans will be bang up for it. It's also an early return to west Yorkshire for Angus Kinnear, Everton's CEO who joined from Leeds at the end of last season.
Brighton will be Everton's first competitive game at the new stadium in an opening run that also includes Wolverhampton Wanderers (away) and Aston Villa (home) before a late September trip to Anfield for the Merseyside derby. With so much to do in the market this summer, David Moyes' side will need to be ready to hit the ground running.
December, seemingly as ever, contains one of the trickier runs — Bournemouth (away), two games against Nottingham Forest, plus Chelsea and Arsenal — while the run from mid-March to the end of the end of the season is also on the tougher side, culminating in a trip to Tottenham Hotspur on the final day.
Everton fans have grown accustomed to scanning the fixture list for those final fixtures, looking for a winnable game in case the battle for survival goes to the wire. After the way the team ended last season, they will hope those matches carry weight for a different, altogether more positive reason next time around.
The exceptional pre-Club World Cup transfer window opened on June 1 and closed nine days later on June 10.
The summer window re-opened on June 16, while the cut-off date for the 2024-25 profitability and sustainability rules (PSR) reporting period coming at the end of the month on June 30. The window closes on Monday, September 1, at 11pm BST (6pm ET).
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The winter transfer window opens on Thursday, January 1, and closes on Monday, February 2.
The new Premier League season gets underway on the weekend of August 15-17, a week after the Community Shield on August 8, when league champions Liverpool face FA Cup winners Crystal Palace.
The final match round will be played on Sunday, May 24, 2026, when all 10 matches will kick off simultaneously as usual.
Premier League clubs will enter the FA Cup at the third round, which begins on Saturday, January 10. The Carabao Cup will begin in mid-August, with Premier League teams not playing in Europe entering in the second round, which starts in the week commencing August 25, and the remaining seven clubs receiving a bye to the third round, which takes place in the weeks commencing September 15 and 22.