Fixtures Calendar - 2022/23

[lancs blue]

Why does the official site fixture list have us kicking off at "14:00 GMT" for the winter matches? Is this some unannounced energy-saving measure or a cock-up? I think I may know the answer...

 

[york away to this!]

What a fix. Can't believe we've been "randomly selected" to play all of those teams both at home, AND away.
Bent as fuck...

 

[manchester blue]

Lol absolutely no chance

Just the 9 games after Liverpool!

 

[blueste41]

Definitely been said before that if we get a promoted side away for first fixture, it’s fixed. Look at who Liverpool get.

Only by the people that are as stupid as our fans that believe it's rigged!
If some believe if it's rigged for us and some believe it's rigged against us, perhaps it isn't actually rigged at all!

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

How the fixtures are compiled

 

[manchester blue]

Glad we don't have to play that Manchester City. They look pretty good.

 

[Bluemoon dan]

The thing is, at this stage nobody really knows what a tough or easy fixture is going to be. I'm sure Everton at home would have been picked out as a tricky one last year because its Everton and it fell straight after an international break and before a champions league game in midweek. As it was, by the time they came to us they were in the process of imploding under Benitez and we cruised to a 3-0. Conversely, Brentford as a newly promoted side would have fallen into the easy camp but they really weren't!

 

[MAG]

Premier League live TV 2022/23 fixture announcement dates

Find out when the rescheduling of matches for live TV broadcast this season will be announced

www.premierleague.com

TV pick announcement dates (at least in theory)

They're already in the calendar :)

 

[hammocity]

As has already been explained, City have, in the last few seasons, usually requested that the opening game be away, to allow the (presumably re-laid) pitch extra time to bed in. Put your tin foil hat away.

There’s 5 teams in our position and three have had events on the pitch this season:

Us - concerts
Dippers - concert
Wolves - International’s
Forest - nothing
Brighton - nothing

West Ham had the Socceraid same time as the last Sheeran concert at the Etihad, presuming The London Stadium pitch will be relaid and they’re at home first game I’m not sure if the City request is just a myth, I know it happened at Maine Road to squeeze in a Jean-Michel Jarre concert and not disputing it could be the case but I think the 53 days available until the 5th August to lay and bed in a pitch is more than enough time.

 

[jimharri]

Not only that, had we all drawn up what we thought the fixtures could have been, none of us would have come up with this combination.

My guess is that that the fixtures are at random.

I don't mind West Ham away first. Get one of the potentially tricky trips out of the way straight away. That game last May was not good for the heart!