{"id":473817,"date":"2023-12-22T22:33:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T02:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=473817"},"modified":"2023-12-22T22:33:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T02:33:59","slug":"epl-opts-out-of-christmas-eve-matches-for-2024-2025","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/epl-opts-out-of-christmas-eve-matches-for-2024-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL opts out of Christmas Eve matches for 2024-2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024-25 Premier League campaign will begin on August 17<sup>th<\/sup>, the FA shared today, 3 months after the current season ends.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/premierleague?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@premierleague<\/a> says \u201cthere will be no Premier League fixture on Christmas Eve during the 2024\/25 season\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Henry Winter (@henrywinter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/henrywinter\/status\/1738235779590066189?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The new campaign starts just over a month after the Euro 2024 finishes, with the match for the trophy on July 14<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The last matches of the next season will be played on May 25<sup>th<\/sup>, 2025, and the campaign will not feature a game on Christmas Eve after a backlash in the current season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In keeping with previous commitments made to teams to address the congested schedule across the Festive period, arrangements will be made to make sure more rest time over 3 of the festive game rounds, with no side playing within 60 hours of another game,&#8221; the Premier League admitted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be no match on Christmas Eve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea will face Wolverhampton at Molineux Stadium on Christmas Eve on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024-25 Premier League campaign will begin on August 17th, the FA shared today, 3 months after the current season ends. The @premierleague [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":473818,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21389,17317],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[17886,1402],"acf":{"announce":"The Premier League season will not feature Christmas Eve games in \u201824-25.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473820,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473817\/revisions\/473820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473817"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=473817"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=473817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}