It only feels like five minutes since Manchester City were being crowned champions of England for a fourth successive season, but tomorrow sees the release of the Premier League fixtures for the 2024/25 season.
City have started the new season away from home for seven consecutive seasons, and have only played their first fixture at the Etihad Stadium on the opening day once in the last ten season, That was a 2-1 win at home to Sunderland in 2016, however, they only lost one of those matches – 1-0 at Spurs in 2021.
This season, the Blues will be welcoming Leicester City, back after one year in the Championship, Southampton, who also made it back to the Premier League at the first attempt via the play-offs and Ipswich Town, who return to the top flight after an absence of 22 seasons – they last featured in the Premier League in the 2001/02 season.
As usual, Bitter and Blue will be here to bring the first news of the fixtures, looking at the key fixtures. As well as the opening day, we’ll be taking a look at the derby dates, Christmas schedule, big matches against Arsenal and when our annual defeat at Anfield will happen.
Join us from 9am to see who we get first.