2015/16 Premier League Tv Fixtures Thread
Judio
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Now that the FA has released a draft schedule I thought that we should start a new thread for next season
THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION
FIXTURE LIST – SEASON 2015-2016
Sat 8 Aug Premier League Commences
Tue 11 Aug UEFA Super Cup
Tue 18 Aug UEFA Champions League Qualifying Play-Off(1)
Tue 25 Aug UEFA Champions League Qualifying Play-Off(2)
Sat 5 Sep San Marino –v- England – Euro 2016 Qualifier
Tue 8 Sep England –v- Switzerland – EURO 2016 Qualifier
Tue 15 Sep UEFA Champions League MD1
Wed 23 Sep Football League Cup 3
Tue 29 Sep UEFA Champions League MD2
Fri 9 Oct England v Estonia – EURO 2016 Qualifier
Mon 12 Oct Lithuania v England – EURO 2016 Qualifier
Tue 20 Oct UEFA Champions League MD3
Wed 28 Oct Football League Cup 4
Tue 3 Nov UEFA Champions League MD4
Fri 13 Nov Possible England International
Tue 17 Nov Possible England International
Tue 24 Nov UEFA Champions League MD5
Wed 2 Dec Football League Cup 5
Tue 8 Dec UEFA Champions League MD6
Sat 26 Dec Boxing Day
Fri 1 Jan New Year’s Day
Sat 2 Jan
Wed 6 Jan Football League Cup SF(1)
Sat 9 Jan FA Cup 3P
Wed 27 Jan Football League Cup SF(2)
Sat 30 Jan FA Cup 4P
Tue 16 Feb UEFA Champions League 16(1)
Sat 20 Feb FA Cup 5P
Tue 23 Feb UEFA Champions League 16(1)
Sun 28 Feb Football League Cup Final
Tue 8 Mar UEFA Champions League 16(2)
Sat 12 Mar FA Cup 6P
Tue 15 Mar UEFA Champions League 16(2)
Fri 25 Mar Good Friday
Sat 26 Mar
Mon 28 Mar Bank Holiday
Tue 5 Apr UEFA Champions League QF(1)
Tue 12 Apr UEFA Champions League QF(2)
Sat 23 Apr FA Cup SF
Tue 26 April UEFA Champions League SF(1)
Tue 3 May UEFA Champions League SF(2)
Sun 15 May End of Premier League
Wed 18 May UEFA Europa League Final
Sat 21 May FA Cup Final
Sat 28 May UEFA Champions League Final
Fri 10 June UEFA Euro 2016 commences
Sun 10 July UEFA Euro 2016 Final
THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION
FIXTURE LIST – SEASON 2015-2016
Sat 8 Aug Premier League Commences
Tue 11 Aug UEFA Super Cup
Tue 18 Aug UEFA Champions League Qualifying Play-Off(1)
Tue 25 Aug UEFA Champions League Qualifying Play-Off(2)
Sat 5 Sep San Marino –v- England – Euro 2016 Qualifier
Tue 8 Sep England –v- Switzerland – EURO 2016 Qualifier
Tue 15 Sep UEFA Champions League MD1
Wed 23 Sep Football League Cup 3
Tue 29 Sep UEFA Champions League MD2
Fri 9 Oct England v Estonia – EURO 2016 Qualifier
Mon 12 Oct Lithuania v England – EURO 2016 Qualifier
Tue 20 Oct UEFA Champions League MD3
Wed 28 Oct Football League Cup 4
Tue 3 Nov UEFA Champions League MD4
Fri 13 Nov Possible England International
Tue 17 Nov Possible England International
Tue 24 Nov UEFA Champions League MD5
Wed 2 Dec Football League Cup 5
Tue 8 Dec UEFA Champions League MD6
Sat 26 Dec Boxing Day
Fri 1 Jan New Year’s Day
Sat 2 Jan
Wed 6 Jan Football League Cup SF(1)
Sat 9 Jan FA Cup 3P
Wed 27 Jan Football League Cup SF(2)
Sat 30 Jan FA Cup 4P
Tue 16 Feb UEFA Champions League 16(1)
Sat 20 Feb FA Cup 5P
Tue 23 Feb UEFA Champions League 16(1)
Sun 28 Feb Football League Cup Final
Tue 8 Mar UEFA Champions League 16(2)
Sat 12 Mar FA Cup 6P
Tue 15 Mar UEFA Champions League 16(2)
Fri 25 Mar Good Friday
Sat 26 Mar
Mon 28 Mar Bank Holiday
Tue 5 Apr UEFA Champions League QF(1)
Tue 12 Apr UEFA Champions League QF(2)
Sat 23 Apr FA Cup SF
Tue 26 April UEFA Champions League SF(1)
Tue 3 May UEFA Champions League SF(2)
Sun 15 May End of Premier League
Wed 18 May UEFA Europa League Final
Sat 21 May FA Cup Final
Sat 28 May UEFA Champions League Final
Fri 10 June UEFA Euro 2016 commences
Sun 10 July UEFA Euro 2016 Final
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Which possible dates will be used for BT's Contract of 5 Holidays and Midweeks ??
The reason is that Boxing Day is a Saturday and New Years Day is a Friday
So will they have a full Easter Monday list instead ???
Based on last season the 5th Round of the League Cup may be on Dec 15th and not the 1st
12 Aug (UEFA ban re Super Cup clashing on TV ?? )
2 Dec (or 16 Dec)
13 Jan
3 Feb
2 Mar (Unlikely due to Cup Replays)
Boxing Day could be classed as a BH for TV purposes even though it is a Saturday. Possibly, the blackout rule may not apply that day.
Monday 28th December is a bank holiday and I assume there will be a full round of games that day.
Easter 2016 is during an international break, so that would be unavailable for a BH round.
As for the August midweek, even if the 12th is out, they could play most of the games on the 11th, with BT showing their second game on Thursday night.
Boxing Day will presumably work like a regular weekend, that's what happened in 2009 when Sky had Super Sunday on the 27th as usual. So Monday 28th will be the Bank Holiday round, which is just the reverse of what we've had the last two seasons when the round in between Christmas and New Year was a normal weekend.
Because the FA Cup third round is on the second weekend of January, there's presumably a bit of flexibility. It may be we have a repeat of what we had on Boxing Day and Sunday 28th this season where everyone plays on New Year's Day, the Friday, and then there's a full programme spread over Sunday 3rd and (the evening of) Monday 4th.
There's no international break at Easter 2016, there wouldn't be three months before the Euros. It's only in odd-numbered years the last weekend in March is an international break. Hasn't been an August midweek for ages.
It's listed as an international break on the FIFA calendar.
http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/calendar/events.html
OK, but there won't be any qualifiers for anything, only friendlies. I don't think they've ever demanded associations drop a weekend of fixtures for friendlies so I'm assuming they'll all be midweek.
Hasn't there been a friendly arranged v France for this date?
That would prevent the PL scheduling games on Easter Monday, since I assume any friendlies will be played on Tuesday 29th March.
Indeed, but we've only had an Easter Monday fixture list once since 2007, so I think we can safely say the Premier League now generally won't put a full fixture list on that day unless they have no other options to squeeze in 38 games.
15/16 December, 12/13 January, 2/3 February look like the most likely dates for midweek games.
Team A v Southampton
Team B v Team D
Team C v West Ham
Team E v Tottenham
Arsenal v AFC Bournemouth
Chelsea v WBA
Crystal Palace v Watford
Everton v Manchester City
Manchester United v Stoke
Swansea v Liverpool
When are the TV selections made? Are they done in a better way than the ad hoc basis Sky pick Championship games?
How many times are each team likely to appear on Sky and BT?
Thanks!
yes they are done in batches i think about 6 weeks in advance but could be wrong.
Maximum is 28, minimum 7 is it, others would no better.
i would have guessed bournemouth will be around the lower limit
hope it helps
PL TV rights 2016/17-2018/19 thread - http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2032192
PL TV Fixtures 2014/15 thread - http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1968474
PL TV rights 2013/14-2015/16 thread part 2 - http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1755756
PL TV rights 2013/14-2015/16 thread part 1 - http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1649839
We can expect the fixture list for the new season to be released around mid-June. This is something that will be announced in advance. Then comes the wait for the first batch of live games to be confirmed. This happens around a month after the fixture list release (without much notice) and will see the live games from August through November announced. The remaining live fixtures are released one month at a time, starting around two months in advance but slowly sliding to around one month in advance.
This is the last season of the current three-year Sky-BT deal with the packages distributed as follows (courtesy of mlt11 post from back in the day!):
Package A (BT): 26 at Sat 12.45pm
- 13 1st picks
- 13 4th picks
Package B (BSkyB): 16-18 at Sat 5.30pm; 6-7 at Sun 12pm or 1.30pm/2.05pm; 2-3 Bank hols
- 22 3rd picks
- 4 5th picks
Package C (BSkyB): 26 at Sun 1.30pm/2.05pm
- 13 2nd picks
- 13 3rd picks
Package D (BSkyB): 26 at Sun 4pm/4.10pm
- 20 1st picks
- 6 4th picks
Package E (BSkyB): 18-22 at Mon 8pm; 4-8 at Sun 4pm/4.10pm or Sat 12.45pm
- 12 2nd picks
- 10 4th picks
- 4 5th picks
Package F (BSkyB): 12 at Sat 5.30pm
- 8 2nd picks
- 4 4th picks
Package G (BT): 10 Midweek and Bank hols; 2 at Sat 12.45pm
- 5 1st picks
- 5 2nd picks
- 2 5th picks
Club Quotas (in alphabetical package order):
Maximum: 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 2, 2 (Total = 28)
Minimum: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0 (Total = 5)
Pick totals:
- 38 1st picks
- 38 2nd picks
- 35 3rd picks
- 33 4th picks
- 10 5th picks
Note that from 2016/17 the packages are different, with BT holding the equivalent packages B and F. For full details of the new packages, see here.
August-November
2014/15 - Mon 14 Jul
2013/14 - Thu 11 Jul
2012/13 - Thu 5 Jul
2011/12 - Mon 11 Jul
2010/11 - Tue 6 Jul
2009/10 - Thu 9 Jul
December
2014/15 - Mon 6 Oct
2013/14 - Wed 9 Oct
2012/13 - Fri 6 Oct
2011/12 - Fri 7 Oct
2010/11 - Tue 5 Oct
2009/10 - Thu 8 Oct
January
2014/15 - Tue 11 Nov
2013/14 - Mon 4 Nov
2012/13 - Wed 31 Oct
2011/12 - Tue 25 Oct
2010/11 - Thu 27 Oct
2009/10 - Sun 8 Nov
February
2014/15 - Fri 20 Dec
2013/14 - Tue 10 Dec
2012/13 - Tue 4 Dec
2011/12 - Fri 2 Dec
2010/11 - Tue 7 Dec
2009/10 - Tue 1 Dec
March
2014/15 - Wed 21 Jan
2013/14 - Mon 27 Jan
2012/13 - Fri 18 Jan
2011/12 - Mon 23 Jan
2010/11 - Tue 18 Jan
2009/10 - Tue 26 Jan
April
2014/15 - Fri 20 Feb
2013/14 - Thu 27 Feb
2012/13 - Wed 13 Feb
2011/12 - Wed 22 Feb
2010/11 - Fri 25 Feb
2009/10 - Mon 22 Feb
May
2014/15 - Thu 2 Apr
2013/14 - Fri 4 Apr
2012/13 - Thu 10 Apr
2011/12 - Wed 4 Apr
2010/11 - Mon 28 Mar
2009/10 - Fri 19 Mar
...although it looks like we could end up having less TV games then we had this season.
The Champions League coverage will cost money though
No Confirmation of it sill being free on Virgin ???
Well yes, obviously. It depends on the fixtures. It is a bit early to be starting this thread.
I honestly think this seasons thread suffered as a result of some people over complicating everything.
By the way the first question is which 20 clubs will be competing in the Premier League next season!
The last August internationals were in 2013 when England played Scotland in a friendly.
There IS an international break in March 2016. FIFA changed the international calander starting after the 2014 world cup. Each set of 2 years after a major international tournament has international breaks in September, October, November, and March, with the odd numbered years having internaionals in June, (with the even numbered years being used for the tournaments.)
The international break in March 2016 is for a double header of friendlies! Whether England choose to play 2 friendlies in that period is obviously up to the FA, but I guess other countries will. It really will be no different to an international break at any other time of the year.
First of all welcome to the thread, and congulations on your team AFC Bournemouth getting into the Premier League. This is a very good thread to follow, the quality and quantity of posts is usually high, and your certainly get more in depth analysis than anywhere else I can think of.
I think that certain newspapers might be reading this thread over the season! They certainly quickly corrected themselves after the 2013-2014 first batch of TV fixtures were realised when it was said by the Daily Mail that Sky had used all of their 20 first picks immediately in the first 20 fixtures. Of course all of the first 20 sets of fixtures for TV had not being selected at that point, it was impossible because some of the first 20 sets of fixtures had midweeks in them which would automatically be BTs first pick, and besides that it would simply lack common sense of Sky to let BT have all first picks as the run in to the season would be shown on BT!
It was immediately picked up and commented on in this thread and soon enough there had being a correction on the Daily Mail (no doubt Sky might have had a word with them as well.) Sporting Intelligence once published mlt11's own figures of the estimated cost for each package that was bid.
Even if your team get relegated to the championship (or even league 1 in successive years!) it is still a good thread to follow and I always enjoy the fixtures for TV being realised just to see reactions from posters afterwards. It seems almost unfair for me to pick out individual posters, but I will pick out mlt11, TLG86 and also Igloo_man.
As for your specific questions, Sky are likely to show you at least 6 times in a season. They have a minimum of 4 times to show you, but always like to show each club more than the minimum number of times that they have to. BTs minimum is 1, and it maybe that you are indeed only shown once on BT.
That would mean you are likely to be shown at least 7 times during the season. The maximum is 28 (21 on Sky, 7 on BT.) The minimum is 5 (not 7) and that is 4 times on Sky and 1 on BT. I hope you enjoy the season, and I also hope you enjoy the thread.
Speak for yourself. Personally I doubt I'll sleep tonight for worrying about which round will be classed as midweek.