{"id":484328,"date":"2024-06-18T10:07:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T14:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484328"},"modified":"2024-06-18T10:07:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T14:07:18","slug":"epl-fixtures-chelsea-man-city-to-play-in-week-1","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/epl-fixtures-chelsea-man-city-to-play-in-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL fixtures: Chelsea-Man City to play in week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EPL shared the fixture schedule for the 2024-25 campaign today, with defending champs Man City starting their title defense at Stamford Bridge vs. Chelsea in what will be Enzo Maresca&#8217;s 1<sup>st<\/sup> match at the helm of the Blues.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Announce 2024\/25 Premier League fixtures \ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g7PU3duDV6\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/g7PU3duDV6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Premier League (@premierleague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/premierleague\/status\/1802974531214291162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 1<sup>st<\/sup> game between last campaign\u2019s top 2 \u2013 the Sky Blues and Arsenal, will be on September 21<sup>st<\/sup> at the Etihad Stadium, while the return match in London on February 1<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The 1<sup>st<\/sup> Manchester derby will be at the Etihad on December 14<sup>th<\/sup> and the return game at Old Trafford at April 5<sup>th<\/sup>, while the Red Devils will face Liverpool away from home on January 4<sup>th<\/sup> after welcoming them in just the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> match of the season on August 31<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Man United welcome Fulham at Old Trafford on August 16<sup>th<\/sup>, a Friday in the opening game of the EPL campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Arne Slot&#8217;s time at the Reds after replacing Klopp begins away from home against newly-promoted side Ipswich Town as they will play in the EPL for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time since they were relegated in 2002.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#39;ll see <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelseaFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ChelseaFC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ManCity<\/a> meet in the opening weekend of the 2024\/25 season!<\/p>\n<p>Any excuse to look back at their 4-4 thriller at Stamford Bridge last season \ud83c\udf7f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pYZj6EShKc\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/pYZj6EShKc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Premier League (@premierleague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/premierleague\/status\/1802985975628394889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EPL shared the fixture schedule for the 2024-25 campaign today, with defending champs Man City starting their title defense at Stamford Bridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484329,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,17183,17317],"news_category":[136,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[17902,18121,17886],"acf":{"announce":"The program for the upcoming Premier League season has been announced.","video":["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\/484328"}],"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=484328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484330,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484328\/revisions\/484330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484328"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484328"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}