Supporters of Liverpool and Everton are eagerly awaiting the announcement of the fixtures for the 2025/26 Premier League season on Wednesday morning.
Whereas Arne Slot’s facet are ready to find the staff in opposition to which they’ll start the defence of their title, the Toffees will quickly discover out who’ll be the primary guests to their new stadium on Bramley-Moore Dock in a aggressive fixture.
Whereas that relocation places a small bit extra of a geographical distance between the 2 golf equipment after greater than 130 years of being separated solely by Stanley Park, they’ll proceed to alternate between residence and away fixtures on any given top-flight matchday.
Why Liverpool and Everton will proceed to alternate residence video games
As defined by The MirrorLiverpool and Everton can not each play at residence on the identical Premier League gameweek as a result of ‘intense pressure’ it will place on police assets on Merseyside, with an identical ruling utilized to the 2 Manchester golf equipment within the division.
Different guidelines that the Premier League fixture schedule should fulfill are that:
In any block of 5 video games, each membership should have not less than two and not more than three at residence
No staff can start or finish the season with two consecutive residence or away fixtures (except one will get moved to the ultimate week of the marketing campaign owing to a previous postponement)
No staff can have two successive fixtures at residence or away through the festive interval between Boxing Day and New Yr’s Day
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Liverpool hoping for higher away-day fortune at Everton’s new residence!
Regardless of Everton’s new stadium being positioned simply over two miles away from Anfield and (in line with Google Maps) necessitating an hour’s stroll from one to the opposite, it is sensible that we nonetheless received’t see the 2 Liverpool-based golf equipment taking part in at residence on the identical Premier League matchday.
When the fixtures are launched at 9am tomorrow morning, all eyes can be on not solely the groups’ first opponents of the season, but in addition when the Merseyside derbies can be held, together with the primary one on the Hill Dickinson Stadium (which’ll host some fixtures at Euro 2028).
Goodison Park was the epicentre of a lot frustration for the Reds throughout its last few years, with LFC profitable simply two of their final 13 visits to the venue and being denied victory by a 98th-minute equaliser from James Tarkowski in February.
Our current residence file in opposition to Everton has been much more satisfying, with eight Liverpool wins from the final 9 Anfield derbies (and 10 of the final 12). Let’s hope that Slot’s facet can keep that spectacular streak whereas additionally rising victorious from their first journey to Bramley-Moore Dock, every time that is likely to be!
