What To Expect From 2025-26 Premier League Season

The Premier League returns for its 33rd season of top-flight football, continuing its reign as the most-watched league in the world. With 20 clubs competing, the stakes are high as teams battle for European qualification, Cup Success, and the fight to avoid relegation. One thing is certain, the Premier League never fails to deliver drama and excitement.

Whats New This Season?

The Premier League 25/26 season will see new law changes such as referees counting down the last five seconds of the eight second restrictions on goalkeepers controlling the ball with their arms. The penalty of exceeding the eight seconds will see the result of a corner being given to the opposing team.

Semi-automated offsides will be applied to all games through the Premier League season. Semi-automated offside technology, was used thought the latter stages of the Premier League and FA cup season. Which allowed for VAR to help determine offside situations more quickly and accurately.

2025-26 Ones To Watch

The Summer transfer window always brings the biggest players across the globe to the English shores, with the Premier League spending £11.2bn more than the second highest spending league over the last decade.

Premier League clubs have until 1st September to continue to strengthen their squad, with huge deals to come. We’ll highlight some of the ones to watch including new incomings and young stars which are set to flourish.

Cheating from the off the bat, Bryan Mbuemo & Cunha. Manchester United’s 2 new 10’s will be influential with the two of them providing 27 G+A & 21 G+A respectively.

The two of the provided four more goals then Manchester United did collectively throughout the Premier League season. Manchester United have not often signed players from the their own league, let alone those in their peak ages.

Florian Wirtz, being the most expensive Premier League player is often seen as a detriment of the players especially when they’re young but Florian Wirtz already has experience under his belt.

The attacking midfielder made his debut at 17 years old and 15 days making himself the youngest Leverkusen player. Since then the German’s rise has been historic going on to make almost 200 appearances before his 23rd birthday.

Jahmai Simpson-Pusey was named Premier League 2 player of the season, in which becoming the first defender to win the award. The 19-year-old has already had a taste of elite football already attaining 6 appearances across the Premier League, Champions League and domestic cups.

The defender will be looking to implement his experience even further and become a mainstay in the XI under Pep Guardiola.

European Football

European Football in recent years has been monopolised by the Premier League Top 6, the likes of Premier League heavyweight such the likes of Manchester United. Although the 2025-26 season is set to introduce new clubs to experience the two games a week schedule.

Crystal Palace have attained qualification into European competition via winning the FA Cup against then-Premier League winners Manchester City. Ending the clubs 124 year trophy drought. This will be the first time that the Eagles will be playing a European competition. Although it has yet been confirmed whether Glasner’s side will be playing in the Conference League or Europe League, as the side have confirmed they have sent an appeal to UEFA.

Newcastle United have returned to the Champions League being just the third time in their history competing in the group stages. Following their previous exit in 2023, the side would have learnt a lot regarding squad depth after the Magpies managed to pick up one win in four, leading to their eventual exit of the competition.

Nottingham Forest has returned to European competition for the first time in 30 seasons. Under Nuno Santos the side will be wanting to go strength to strength after a solid 7th last season, a great league position for the Reds.

Although, due to Crystal Palace’s situation the side are also in limbo regarding which European Competition they will be competing in. At the time of writing the side are currently in Europa League in place of the Eagles.

Aston Villa have qualified for the third consecutive season into European competition, it may not be under the Tuesday or Wednesday floodlights but there is progression.

Alongside the pedigree Unai Emery has shown within the Europa League, the manager has won the tournament four times, three consecutive titles with Sevilla (2014, 2015, and 2016) and another with Villarreal in 2021. If Vila were to lift the Europa League, it’d be there first in 42 years.

Domestic Cups

After last season where we saw the end of trophy droughts with Newcastle United, and Crystal Palace both pick up the major honours through the domestic cups. It’ll remain to be seen whether the year of the underdog will continue into the 2025-26.

Historically, the FA Cup has been dominated by Arsenal and Manchester United, in which the two have won the competition 14 and 13 times respectively.

Meanwhile, the Carabao Cup is less extensive history has mean that there has been a plethora of opportunities for a multitude of clubs to succeed. Liverpool currently lead the way with 10 EFL Cups to their name.

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