Arsenal Fixtures 2026/27: Full Schedule, Kick-off Times & TV Guide

Arsenal began the defence of their title on Friday 21 August 2026, beating Coventry 3-0 at home. They won last season by seven points — their first league title in 22 years — so this is the first Arsenal fixture list in a generation that starts with a target on it. All 38 league games are below with US Eastern times, along with the one broadcast change American viewers should sort out now.

To be clear about what this is right now: it is a schedule, not a results page. One league game has been played, a 3-0 win over Coventry on 21 August. The table below is the full schedule, and it is the thing worth reading today — because most of it is already misleading if you take the kick-off times literally. The results and standings live in our Premier League table for 2026/27 .

What changed for US viewers this season?

NBCUniversal still holds exclusive US rights through 2028, and Peacock still carries roughly 175 matches a season that air nowhere else. That part is unchanged.

What changed is underneath it. NBCUniversal spun its cable networks off into a separate company, Versant, and USA Network’s share of the Premier League schedule moved with it from 2026 — this season. Because Versant is now a different company from the one that owns Peacock, matches on USA Network no longer stream simultaneously on Peacock. They need a pay-TV subscription or a live-TV streaming login.

The practical version:

The live-TV services that carry USA Network include YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, Fubo, Sling and DirecTV Stream.

If Peacock was your whole Premier League setup last season, it no longer covers the same set of games. Worth checking before the Villa game on 31 August rather than at kick-off.

We went through this in more depth, including which specific matches are affected on opening weekend, in our Liverpool 2026/27 fixtures and TV guide — which still carries Liverpool v Arsenal on Saturday 31 October, a game since moved to Sunday 1 November.

Arsenal’s full 2026/27 fixture list

August to December is 2026; January to May is 2027. Home and away marked (H)/(A). Twenty-five of the 38 still sit at the provisional 3pm UK kick-off. The other thirteen already have a broadcast slot: eight at 8pm UK — the Friday opener, the Monday night at Aston Villa, Sunderland away and five Wednesday nights — read 3 p.m. Eastern; three at 4.30pm read 11:30 a.m.; Leeds at home at 12.30pm reads 7:30 a.m.; and the Sunday finale at 4pm reads 11 a.m. One row reads 11 a.m. despite a normal 3pm UK kick-off; that is not an error, and the reason is below the table.

Why one 3pm game starts at 11 a.m. Eastern. Britain and the United States change their clocks on different dates, so for a couple of weeks each autumn and spring the gap between them is four hours rather than the usual five. One fixture lands in those weeks: Sunderland at home on Saturday 20 March 2027. It kicks off at 11 a.m. Eastern, an hour later than the Saturday 3pm games elsewhere in this list, which read 10 a.m. Guides that subtract a flat five hours get that one wrong. The autumn window used to catch Liverpool away on 31 October, but that game has moved to Sunday 1 November, by which point both countries have changed their clocks. (The 30 May finale also reads 11 a.m., but for the ordinary reason that it kicks off at 4pm UK.)

Will these kick-off times change?

Most of them, yes — and this is the part fixture lists rarely say plainly.

Thirteen of the 38 have a real slot: the Friday opener, the Monday night at Aston Villa, five Wednesday-night games, the Sunday finale, and five weekend fixtures broadcasters have already picked — Chelsea at home, Sunderland away, Leeds at home, Forest away and Liverpool away. The other 25 are listed at 3pm because that is the default the Premier League publishes when no broadcaster has picked the match yet. Selections are announced in batches, usually five to six weeks ahead, and moved games land on Saturday lunchtime or evening, Sunday afternoon, or Monday night.

For a side that finished top, expect a lot of movement. Title holders get picked for television more than anyone.

So: use the table for the shape of the season and for booking time off around the big ones. Confirm the actual kick-off a month out.

The Sunday 30 May finale at 4pm is the exception that will not move. Final-day matches all kick off simultaneously, so nothing can be selected out of that slot.

Which are the hardest weeks?

Three passages stand out, and the season probably turns on the second one.

The winter pile-up: eight games between 2 December and 6 January. Brentford away, then Tottenham away three days later, then Bournemouth, Man Utd, Crystal Palace on Boxing Day, Fulham away on 30 December, Ipswich on 2 January and Brentford again on 6 January. Three of the eight are midweek. This is where squad depth stops being a talking point.

The seven days that decide it: Man City away on 30 January, Liverpool at home on 6 February. Both title rivals inside a week, one on the road. Nothing else in the calendar concentrates that much.

The finish: Tottenham at home on 1 May, then four to play. The north London derby lands late, with Leeds away, Forest at home, Everton away and Brighton at home after it.

The first meetings with those two are kinder, and spread out: Liverpool away on 1 November, Man City at home on 28 November. The away derby is the awkward one — 5 December, just three days after a midweek trip to Brentford, the joint-shortest turnaround of the season.

When are the international breaks?

Three long gaps break the season up, and they are the natural checkpoints:

• 19 September to 10 October — 21 days
• 7 November to 21 November — 14 days
• 20 March to 10 April — 21 days

The March break is the awkward one. It lands with eight games to play, which historically is when a squad either gets healthy or discovers it cannot.

What else to watch

Three promoted sides. Coventry, Hull and Ipswich are up. Arsenal open against Coventry at home and meet Ipswich twice inside six weeks in the new year — 2 January at home, 10 February away.

Boxing Day is away. Crystal Palace on 26 December, then Fulham away four days after that. Two away trips in the busiest week of the year.

The Brentford double. Away on 2 December, home on 6 January — the same opponent twice in five weeks, both midweek.

Cup and European fixtures are not in this list, because those draws have not been made. They will thicken the December and February stretches considerably.

Sources

Checked on 26 August 2026.