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Liverpool has discovered who it will face in the first match of the 2025/26 season following the conclusion of Saturday’s FA Cup final between Manchester City and Crystal Palace.

Liverpool will kick off the new campaign with the 2025 Community Shield, a game that is historically played between the previous season’s Premier League and FA Cup winners.

This term, City beat local rivals Manchester United on penalties.

The Reds now know they will face Palace, following its 1-0 victory at Wembley on Saturday.

The south London club won its first-ever major honor thanks to Eberechi Eze’s 16th-minute strike, although Palace had to soak up wave after wave of opposition attack, with City managing to amass 79 per cent possession and 23 shots.

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Given Arne Slot has allowed the players to enjoy breaks abroad ahead of the Arsenal and Brighton & Hove Albion outings, next Sunday’s Premier League conclusion is unlikely to be played at the usual frenetic pace of a top-tier encounter.



Palace won the FA Cup thanks to a 1-0 win over City

Liverpool will then lift the Premier League trophy after the game, a day before the open-top bus parade around the city.

That will also be Trent Alexander-Arnold’s last act as a Liverpool player; he won’t be part of the squad when it takes on Palace in August.

A date has yet to be confirmed for when the Community Shield will take place, but it will likely be on the weekend before the start of the Premier League, which begins on August 16
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