Everton's Premier League Fixtures for 2026/27: What to Expect

The clock is ticking towards 10am and, for Everton, that means more than a line of dates on a screen. It’s the moment an entire season starts to take shape.

In five minutes, the full list of Premier League fixtures for 2026/27 will drop. Supporters will pounce on them, circling away days, plotting holidays, working out which weekends are for family and which are for football. This is the day diaries get rewritten.

Goodison’s long goodbye, part two

Everton have already shown they’re willing to shape the calendar to fit their story. The club successfully asked the Premier League two seasons ago to finish that campaign away from home, so Goodison Park could host its final fixture in the penultimate round. The idea was simple: give the old ground its own stage, not bury it under title races and relegation dramas elsewhere.

Last season, though, there was no such romance. The Blues opened away. They finished away. They even spent both fixtures between Christmas and New Year on the road. Match-going fans – those who chase Everton up and down the country – felt every mile of it.

So the question hangs in the air this morning: does the computer show a little more kindness this time?

South coast sun or winter slog?

Supporters will be scanning quickly for those now-familiar trips to the south coast. In recent years, they’ve become almost a seasonal marker. Last season served up Bournemouth in December and Brighton in January. The year before, it was a double dose of January on the Channel breeze.

Are those journeys going to fall in the sunshine months at last, or will Everton again be dragging themselves down there in the depths of winter? It matters. Not just for the players’ legs, but for the fans’ wallets and their sanity.

London will be another hotspot on the fixture map. Everton closed last season with an extraordinary run of five consecutive trips to the capital. It was a quirk of the schedule that left away followers clocking up rail miles and motorway hours at a relentless rate. They’ll be hoping the fixture list shows a little more imagination this time.

Memories of a full Goodison

Amid the speculation, there’s always room for nostalgia. The last time Everton opened a Premier League season at home was back in 2021. Southampton were the visitors. The result – a 3-1 win – told only half the story.

What mattered just as much was the noise. Richarlison, Abdoulaye Doucouré and Dominic Calvert-Lewin all scored on an afternoon when Goodison Park was full again after COVID restrictions. The roar after each goal felt like a release, a reminder of what football sounds like when it truly lives. Those who were there still talk about it.

Evertonians will be hoping for more days like that in what remains of Goodison’s time as home.

Inside the office, outside the embargo

Behind the scenes, the fixtures are already known. The club and media have them in full, but a strict embargo holds until 10am. No leaks, no hints, no early reveals.

That hasn’t stopped the debate. In one corner of the office, a Blue has spotted what they believe is a “nightmare run” hidden in the schedule. A brutal stretch that could define the season. Across the room, another colleague looks at the same list and sees opportunity, convinced a key factor in the early games could hand Everton a flying start.

Both views can’t be right. Or perhaps, in a league as unforgiving as this, they both are.

TV slots and a stretched calendar

Once the fixtures go public, the broadcasters move in. Everyone knows the list released at 10am is only the first draft. Television will tear it up and rearrange it.

The first TV picks are expected to be confirmed alongside the fixture announcement, with matches spread from Friday, August 21 to Monday, August 24. One plea from the stands will be familiar: anything but a Monday night start.

The 2026/27 Premier League season officially begins on the weekend of Saturday, August 22, with games also scheduled for Sunday 23 and Monday 24, plus the possibility of that Friday night curtain-raiser on the 21st. The campaign then runs through to Sunday, May 30, 2027, when all games will kick off at the same time, typically around 4pm, though that exact time will be nailed down closer to the day.

This season’s international breaks bring a twist of their own. Instead of the usual three stoppages in the first half of the campaign, there will only be two. The September break stretches unusually long – three weeks from Monday, September 21, with the Premier League resuming on the weekend of October 10-11. Then comes a second pause on the weekend of November 14-15.

Across the year, the league will be built on 33 weekend fixture lists and five midweek rounds. Cup runs and rearranged matches will add more, of course, for those who go deep.

Back to domestic business

All this unfolds against the backdrop of a World Cup, but for Evertonians, this morning belongs to the domestic game. Unlike the recent seasons framed by Goodison’s farewell and the first campaign at Hill Dickinson Stadium, there’s a sense of normality returning. No ceremonial edge. Just the hard business of a Premier League year.

Still, anticipation crackles. Who do David Moyes’ men face on the opening day? Where are they sent on Boxing Day? Who stands in their way on the final afternoon? When do the derbies land?

That last question carries its own weight. Once the first fixture is digested, eyes instinctively flick to the Merseyside meetings. After what happened last season – the details don’t need repeating – Everton will be desperate to tilt the balance back in 2026/27.

New visitors to Hill Dickinson

There will also be a fresh feel to Hill Dickinson Stadium. Three newly promoted sides – Coventry City, Ipswich Town and Hull City – will make their first-ever Premier League visits to Everton’s new home.

Coventry arrive with an extra layer of intrigue. They come up as champions, led by a familiar face: former Everton manager Frank Lampard. His return to the club, this time in the away dugout at Hill Dickinson, will be a moment in itself. The expectation is he’ll be warmly received when he steps out into the stadium for the first time as an opponent.

For now, though, everything hangs on those unreleased lines of text. In a few moments, the fixture list will stop being a secret document and become Everton’s roadmap for the next nine months.

Then the talking stops, and the planning begins.