Premier League 2022/23

[Lineker]

The 2022-23 Premier League fixtures are being released on Thursday at 09:00 BST - so watch this space...

 

Opening Round of Fixtures:

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Friday August 5^th

Crystal Palace v Arsenal

Saturday August 6^th

Bournemouth v Aston Villa
Everton v Chelsea
Fulham v Liverpool
Leeds v Wolves
Leicester v Brentford
Newcastle v Nottingham Forest
Tottenham v Southampton

Sunday August 7^th

Man Utd v Brighton
West Ham v Man City

Club-by-club guide to the 2022-23 fixtures

• Big six all kept apart immediately before the World Cup as requested by Gareth Southgate.
• Chelsea v Liverpool on weekend of 17 September, immediately before final international break before the World Cup.
• Manchester City get four home games immediately before Champions League matches, Liverpool and Chelsea three, Tottenham two.
• Also, a couple of papers ran the line about no midweek game between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day programme. This is normal when Boxing Day is on a Monday [happened in 2011 and 2016]. The additional fixture is in the midweek after New Year [Monday 2nd Jan].

[FestiveJack]

Hope doesn't exist currently, so for the new season I just want everyone except Man City and Newcastle to have a nice time.

[Adam]

Usually my birthday weekend is an international break, so no PL fixtures. This year there are games.

Everton v Liverpool

And it's my 30th.

[Hobo]

The best/worst birthday present you could ask for

[damhausen]

I was reading about all the unique league schedules this year to accommodate for the international break happening in November and December. Bundesliga is a closed shop for 2 months!

It'll be a truly odd season and I suspect will give us the likeliest season in years for a surprise top 4 finisher in the majority of the major domestic leagues.

[Szumi - A Polack]

I'm definitely happy as a Liverpool fan that Salah, Robbo, and Diaz will be fresh for the second half of the season with no World Cup, Fabinho is only a Brazil squad player, and Southgate doesn't trust Trent. 

[Matt]

Our games against the big teams are spread out which makes a nice change, since coming back we've had about 4 spells where play 3 of the top 6 in the space of 3-4 games

[Colly]

No home game when I'm on holiday for once!

[TheGrandAvatar]

Should be a interesting unique season. Have to wonder if it could be the start of thing's with the World Cup changing around when it might be played that certain year, or a change to the format of the Premier League and match fixtures going forward.

Depends how the schedule works out. If it's successful and if clubs prefer it more or less.  

[METALMAN]

Seven teams from London this year. That’s too many.

[Hobo]

1 hour ago, METALMAN said:

Seven teams from London this year. That’s too many.

Which ones would you like to relegate?

[METALMAN]

Arsenal, Brentford, Chelsea, Fulham, Tottenham and West Ham.

[FestiveJack]

Wait what's the other one?

[Cymbols]

Palace innit.

[FestiveJack]

Oh yeah. They're fun, they can stay.

[TheGrandAvatar]

Yeah Palace aren't a bad little team. Keep them in. 

Had a look into London football club's in existence. Was interesting to look at the original name's that the club's went by in history, and located and how they formed.  

[Hobo]

6 London teams out of 20 isn't has bad as the League of Ireland Premier Division which is 50% Dublin teams with no teams currently in the division further south than the captial.

[METALMAN]

Ewwww. That’s almost at Argentina levels of centralisation.

[Hobo]

The first division is far more evenily distributed with 0 teams from Dublin this season because a) Shelbourne and UCD got promoted and b) Cabinteely were taken over and subsequently merged with Bray Wanderers

[Lineker]

 

[FestiveJack]

Hopefully twitter will shut up about him now. I've got his name muted about 6 different ways and he still ends up on my feed.

[Lineker]

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Mike Riley will step down as English referees chief at the end of the coming season. Riley has been managing director of Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) for 13 years, but will bring his tenure to a close at the end of the 2022-23 campaign.

“I am proud of the contribution our match officials have made to the professional game and have enjoyed working with a such a dedicated, professional and high-quality group at all of the levels that PGMOL manages,” said Riley.

“As the elite referee development plan begins to take shape, now is the right time to plan for the future and allow the new leadership team to build on the strong foundations that we have in place. I look forward to working with the new team over the next season and giving them my support before I step down.”

The PGMOL will now look to appoint a chief refereeing officer to oversee development of officials, and a chief operating officer to manage organisational administration.

“On behalf of the Premier League, I would like to thank Mike for his valuable contribution and significant commitment to PGMOL over the last 13 years as well as his considerable service to the game as an elite referee for 20 years,” said the Premier League chief executive, Richard Masters.

“During his time at PGMOL, he has worked hard to deliver and develop high-quality match officials across the professional game and led on the implementation of VAR into the Premier League three seasons ago.”

 

[FestiveJack]

Feels like a quiet revolution is going on at PGMOL - the retirement of Dean as an active ref along with Martin Atkinson, Jonathan Moss and Kevin Friend leave just two refs over the age of 50 (Andre Marriner and Graham Scott), and the average age of the select group in around the mid to late 30s for the first time in about a decade.

Riley stepping down as head of referees will hopefully bring some good things too, like how to address the lack of referees from certain demographics (both ethnic and locality based - the lack of any refs hailing from the south east is weird and can only be due to structural problems in the way referees are assessed and promoted) making their way up the ladder.

[Lineker]

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Chelsea have confirmed Petr Cech will leave his role as technical and performance advisor at Chelsea this week.

The former goalkeeper will become the latest to leave the club following Todd Boehly’s takeover following the departures of chairman Bruce Buck and director Marina Granovskaia last week.

Cech said: “It has been a huge privilege to perform this role at Chelsea for the past three years. With the club under new ownership, I feel now is the right time for me to step aside. I am pleased that the club is now in an excellent position with the new owners, and I am confident of its future success both on and off the pitch.”

Boehly, chairman and co-controlling owner, added: “Petr is an important member of the Chelsea family. We understand his decision to step away and thank him for his contributions as an advisor and his commitment to the club and to our community. We wish him the best.”

Cech, who made 333 appearances for Chelsea, was appointed in 2019.

 

[DavidMarrio]

On 16/06/2022 at 09:28, MadJack said:

Hope doesn't exist currently, so for the new season I just want everyone except Man City and Newcastle to have a nice time.

 

Man City 2.0 begins!