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 aspect 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 house and away fixtures on any given top-flight matchday.
Why Liverpool and Everton will proceed to alternate house video games
As defined by The Mirror, Liverpool and Everton can’t each play at house on the identical Premier League gameweek as a result of ‘intense pressure’ it will place on police sources on Merseyside, with an analogous 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 will need to have at the least two and not more than three at house
No staff can start or finish the season with two consecutive house or away fixtures (until 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 house or away through the festive interval between Boxing Day and New 12 months’s Day
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Liverpool hoping for higher away-day fortune at Everton’s new house!
Regardless of Everton’s new stadium being positioned simply over two miles away from Anfield and (in keeping with Google Maps) necessitating an hour’s stroll from one to the opposite, it is smart that we nonetheless gained’t see the 2 Liverpool-based golf equipment taking part in at house 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 house file in opposition to Everton has been way more satisfying, with eight Liverpool wins from the final 9 Anfield derbies (and 10 of the final 12). Let’s hope that Slot’s aspect can preserve that spectacular streak whereas additionally rising victorious from their first journey to Bramley-Moore Dock, every time that could be!
