On Thursday, June 16, 2022, the English Football League announced the calendar of the competition matches during the new sports season 2023/2022, as last season's champion Manchester City meets West Ham United at the latter's stadium in the opening of the tournament.
The start of the English Premier League matches 2022/23
- The new season of the English Premier League is scheduled to start early on August 5, 2022, due to the holding of the World Cup finals in Qatar between November 21 and December 18, 2022.
- Manchester City, the defending champions, will begin their title defense against West Ham United in the first rounds of the Premier League, Liverpool will face Fulham, Arsenal will meet Crystal Palace in the tournament opener on August 5, and Chelsea will play against Everton
- The English league will stop before the start of the World Cup, and the sixteenth round will be held on November 12 and 13, before the matches resume after the end of the Qatar World Cup, with the Christmas round of "Boxing Day", provided that the competition ends on Sunday, May 28 next year, 2023.
- Manchester City will meet with rival Liverpool, on October 15, next, before the Reds in their stronghold "Anfield" will host the cities team on April 1 next year.
English Premier League matches 2022-23 - first round
- August 5: Crystal Palace vs Arsenal.
- August 6: Fulham vs Liverpool, Leeds vs Wolverhampton, Leicester City vs Brentford, Newcastle United vs Nottingham Forest, Tottenham vs Southampton, Everton vs Chelsea.
- August 7: Manchester United vs Brighton, West Ham vs Manchester City.
The English Premier League announces the new season ball 2022/23
On the sidelines of the draw held to reveal the matches of the new season, the Premier League announced the approved Nike Flight ball, inspired by the ball that was used in the Premier League 30 years ago.
The English Premier League has confirmed that new dates for league matches can only be rescheduled from next season if the impact of not having a player in the club's squad is "truly exceptional", after a series of postponements occurred during the past season.
Where 22 matches were postponed last season due to the outbreak of the coronavirus and the subsequent unavailability of a group of players, the league was criticized by clubs for its handling of the crisis.
Under the new rules, applications will continue to be assessed on a case-by-case basis, but any application will be accepted only if the club in question has taken all necessary measures to avoid postponement.
"This will replace the previous rules for postponing matches due to Corona, providing a stable way of submitting applications," the association said in a statement on Wednesday, June 15.
"Approval for the postponement will be granted only when the impact of the player's absence from the club's squad is truly exceptional, and after the club in question has taken all acceptable and available steps to avoid reaching the stage of the necessity of submitting an application," he added.
Earlier, clubs could apply for a postponement of the match only if they had at least four cases of coronavirus infection in the squad.
A few days after the end of the 2021-2022 season, the Premier League revealed the schedule of Championship matches in the 2022-2023 season, on Thursday, June 16, 2022.
A constant excitement that football fans live every season with the Premier League, especially in recent years in which the Premier League has risen to the top, surpassing the major European leagues, mainly Serie A and La Liga.
Manchester City won the 2022 English league after a strong struggle with Liverpool that lasted until the final whistle of the last round, with a difference of only one point, where the Algerian Riyad Mahrez's teammates scored 93 points, against 92 points for the Egyptian Mohamed Salah and his teammates.
Liverpool and City qualified for the 2023 Champions League as the champion and runner-up, and after a bitter struggle Chelsea and Tottenham followed them from the third and fourth places, while Arsenal and Manchester United ascended to the Europa League 2023, and West Ham will participate in the Europa Conference League.
After the announcement of the new season calendar, we will get acquainted with the schedule of matches of the English league 2022-23, as well as the standings, carrier channels, and the launch date of the Premier League.
What is the start date of the English Premier League 2022-23?
The 2022-23 Premier League kicks off on August 5, 2022, after it started in previous years in the second week of the same month, except for the 2020-21 season, which started late due to the coronavirus.
As for the date of the end of the English league in its next edition 2022-23, it will be on May 28, 2023, which is a late date for the end of the Premier League as an extension of the effects of the 2022 World Cup.
What channels broadcast the English Premier League?
- In sports, the channel group has owned the satellite broadcasting rights of the English Premier League for many years, in all countries of the Middle East and the large Arab world from the ocean to the Gulf.
- The carrier channel of the English Premier League is beIN SPORTS PREMIUM 1, which broadcasts the most important meeting of the day, in the event of more than one match on the same date, while the rest of the matches are distributed on the channels of the Qatari group.
How to watch live streaming of English Premier League matches?
- Bn sports channels are the owner of the exclusive rights to broadcast the English Premier League live online as well, through the connect service "beIN CONNECT".
- You have to subscribe to the service provided by Qatar group to watch the Premier League matches, not only that, but through it, you will find all the exclusive tournaments of the network, especially the World Cup 2022.