Liverpool's Premier League fixtures for next season were released on Wednesday morning, as fans discovered the key dates to mark in their diaries ahead of the 2025-26 campaign.

Arne Slot's men kick off the defense of their title with a home game against Bournemouth on Friday, August 15, and it quickly gets trickier for the Reds, with a trip to Newcastle in the second game of the season followed by a meeting with Arsenal at Anfield in gameweek 3.

Manchester City is the only team that has successfully defended the Premier League since Manchester United won three in a row between 2007 and 2009, which underlines the scale of the task that Slot and Co have on their hands heading into next season.



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Once more, the Reds will have to contend with being in four competitions, which is something they did remarkably well for much of the 2024-25 campaign.

Liverpool went into February still competing on all four fronts, before falling short in the FA Cup, the Champions League and the League Cup within the space of five weeks between February and March.

The Champions League loss at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain, via a penalty shootout, was a tough one to take — particularly considering how well Liverpool had done in the competition up until that point.

Liverpool won each of its opening seven league-phase games to secure a spot in the knockout phase, and probably would have made it eight from eight if Slot hadn't fielded a weakened team in the final league-phase game with qualification for the last 16 already secured.

Towards the back end of 2024, Liverpool faced Real Madrid and Liverpool in successive games in the space of five days at Anfield.

At the time, those two games were viewed as the acid test of Liverpool's credentials, as the reigning European champion visited Merseyside ahead of the reigning English champion also turfing up at Anfield — the Reds won both games 2-0 in surprisingly routine fashion.

Next season, the Reds are also scheduled to face City — this time at the Etihad Stadium — off the back of a European game

Gameday 4 in the Champions League is due to take place on 4/5 November, before the game away to City on November 8.

Of course, we don't yet know which teams Liverpool will be playing in the Champions League league phase — that will have to wait until the draw on 28 August — but whichever sides the Reds face, they will be targeting a repeat of the brilliant form they showed during the first stage of the Champions League this season.


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