Everton's 2026/27 Premier League Fixtures: A New Season Awaits

The countdown clock is ticking at Finch Farm and across living rooms, offices and group chats packed with Evertonians. In a few minutes, the 2026/27 Premier League fixtures drop, and with them the blueprint for another season of hope, dread and everything in between.

For supporters who trail Everton up and down the country, this isn’t just a list. It’s a calendar for their lives.

Goodison memories, Hill Dickinson reality

Not so long ago, Everton were asking the Premier League for something a little different. The club successfully requested to finish the season away from home the year before last, so that Goodison Park could host its final fixture on the penultimate weekend. A proper stage, not buried beneath title races and relegation dramas elsewhere. One last Goodison roar in its own spotlight.

Last season twisted the pattern again. Everton opened away. They closed away. Even the festive period offered no home comforts, with David Moyes’ side on the road for both games between Christmas and New Year. This time, supporters are waiting to see if the pendulum swings back. A home start? A home finish? Or another year living out of suitcases at the most delicate points of the campaign?

The questions pile up as quickly as the speculation.

South coast sun or winter slog?

Every fan knows the fixtures they look for first. For Evertonians, those trips to the south coast have quietly become a modern ritual. Bournemouth in December last season. Brighton in January. The year before that, a double-header on the Channel coast in the depths of winter.

The hope? That this time the computer shows a little mercy. Maybe Bournemouth or Brighton in August, under blue skies, instead of sideways rain and three layers of thermals.

Then there’s London. Last term, Everton finished with a remarkable run of five consecutive trips to the capital. Five. In a row. A logistical headache for the players, a financial one for the fans, and a test of endurance for anyone who spends more time on the M6 than at home between April and May.

Those patterns matter. They shape seasons.

The day the noise came back

The fixture-release ritual also stirs up memories. One in particular still crackles in the mind.

Back in 2021, Everton opened at Goodison Park against Southampton. A 3-1 win, yes, but it was more than a scoreline. It was the first time the old ground had been full again after COVID restrictions. Richarlison scored. Abdoulaye Doucoure scored. Dominic Calvert-Lewin scored. The noise after each goal felt like a city taking a breath again.

For many, that day is still the benchmark for what football is supposed to feel like.

Behind the embargo

Inside newsrooms, the fixtures are already known. The lists are sitting on screens, guarded by a strict embargo until 10am. The debates have started.

One Evertonian in the office has already branded a particular stretch a “nightmare run”. Another sees a chance for a flying start, based on one key detail that, for now, has to stay under wraps. The arguments will only grow louder once the schedule becomes public.

Television will have its say too. The Premier League fixtures land at 10am, but plenty will move. Broadcasters will pick their slots, reshaping weekends and travel plans. The first TV selections are expected to drop alongside the full list, with games likely spread from Friday, August 21 through to Monday, August 24.

Supporters have one simple plea: anything but a Monday night start.

A season stretched and reshaped

The 2026/27 Premier League campaign officially begins on the weekend of Saturday, August 22, with matches also on Sunday 23 and Monday 24, plus the possibility of an opener on Friday 21. It ends on Sunday, May 30, 2027, when every game kicks off at the same time, typically around 4pm, though that precise detail will be confirmed nearer the day.

The international calendar twists the rhythm. Instead of three breaks in the first half of the season, there will be only two. The September window stretches for three weeks, from Monday, September 21, with domestic fixtures not resuming until the weekend of October 10–11. Another pause follows on the weekend of November 14–15.

In total, the Premier League will run to 33 weekend fixture lists and five midweek rounds. Cup runs and postponements will add their own chaos, as always.

Back to ‘normal’ – but not quite

This morning brings a brief pause from World Cup chatter. For one day, domestic football takes centre stage as the Premier League lays out the road ahead.

Unlike recent seasons, when Everton’s farewell to Goodison Park and the first campaign at Hill Dickinson Stadium dominated the narrative, this year carries a more familiar feel. No grand goodbyes, no first-night nerves at a new home. Just the raw anticipation of who comes first, who lands on Boxing Day, and who waits on the final afternoon.

The Merseyside derbies will be circled in red the moment they appear. Last season’s meetings with Liverpool are not ones Everton will want to linger on. The aim for 2026/27 is simple: strike back.

New visitors, familiar faces

Three clubs will make their first-ever competitive visits to Hill Dickinson Stadium this season: Coventry City, Ipswich Town and Hull City, all promoted from the Championship.

Coventry arrive as champions, led by a familiar figure. Frank Lampard, once in the Everton dugout, now returns as the man in charge of the Sky Blues. His reception at Everton’s new home will be one of the more intriguing subplots of the campaign, a collision of past and present in a stadium still writing its own history.

Transfers on the horizon

While the fixture list dominates the morning, the squad-building continues in the background. RB Leipzig’s interest in Thierno Barry has already been laid out, along with the latest on Middlesbrough midfielder Hayden Hackney, a player Everton are actively trying to bring in.

The club are also pushing to finally land a recognised right-back, a long-standing gap that has tested patience in the stands and in the dressing room.

Soon, the dates and destinations will be fixed. Then it becomes real. Which away ends will be sold out in seconds. Which runs could define the season. Which nights under the lights might change everything.

In a few minutes, Everton will know their path. The only question left is how they’ll walk it.