West Ham 2025/26 Premier League fixtures: Full 38-game schedule as Hammers start v Sunderland
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Graham Potter will take his West Ham side to the North East and begin the upcoming Premier League campaign at Sunderland.
West Ham have been dealt a long away day to kickstart the Premier League campaign for the 2025/26 season with a trip up to newly promoted Sunderland for a traditional Saturday 3 pm kick off.
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Graham Potter is overseeing his first pre-season at the London Stadium but knows there is pressure on his head to start delivering results. The former Chelsea and Brighton manager took over for Julen Lopetegui in January but has only won five of his 19 matches in charge.
Potter and the Hammers will hope for a favourable start to the campaign to hit the ground running and move up from their 14th place finish and back towards the top 10.
When is Premier League fixture release day?
The Premier League confirmed that fixture release day for the 2025/26 campaign will be on Wednesday, June 18. The fixtures for the season ahead will be released on the Premier League website and on each club’s official channels at 9 am UK time.
The fixture calendar will give West Ham an idea of when they play each opponent home and away but the final day and time of each match will remain subject to change due to broadcast schedules.
How are Premier League fixtures arranged?
The Premier League website explains: “We start when we know the composition of each division, so after the last Football League playoff. We place each club in a pairing grid, which defines the dates they will be at home.
“For every date in the season, the fixture computer knows which clubs are at home and who are away and then it will mix them up randomly to determine the matches. In any five matches there should be a split of three home fixtures, two away or the other way around. A team will never have more than two home or away matches in a row, and, wherever possible, you will be home and away around FA Cup ties.
“A club will never start or finish the season with two home or two away matches because it would be unfair for a team to finish with two aways, Around the Christmas period, if you are at home on Boxing Day you will be away on New Year's Day or an equivalent date. We also try to maintain a Saturday home-away sequence throughout the season wherever possible. Most clubs will have a partner club with whom they cannot clash, such as Manchester United and Manchester City, or Liverpool and Everton. In London it gets a bit more complex and less obvious.”
West Ham fixture calendar for 2025/26 season
August 18th: Sunderland (A)
August 23rd: Chelsea (H)
August 30th: Nottingham Forest (A)
September 13th: Tottenham Hotspur (H)
September 20th: Crystal Palace (H)
September 27th: Everton (A)
October 4th: Arsenal (A)
October 18th: Brentford (H)
October 25th: Leeds United (A)
November 1st: Newcastle United (H)
November 8th: Burnley (H)
November 22nd: AFC Bournemouth (A)
November 29th: Liverpool (H)
December 3rd: Man Utd (A)
December 6th: Brighton (A)
December 13th: Aston Villa (H)
December 20th: Man City (A)
December 27th: Fulham (H)
December 30th: Brighton (A)
January 3rd: Wolves (A)
January 7th: Nottingham Forest (H)
January 17th: Tottenham Hotspur (A)
January 24th: Sunderland (H)
January 31st: Chelsea (A)
February 7th: Burnley (A)
February 11th: Man Utd (H)
February 21st: AFC Bournemouth (H)
February 28th: Liverpool (A)
March 4th: Fulham (A)
March 14th: Man City (H)
March 21st: Aston Villa (A)
April 11th: Wolves (H)
April 18th: Crystal Palace (A)
April 25th: Everton (H)
May 2nd: Brentford (A)
May 9th: Arsenal (H)
May 17th: Newcastle United (A)
May 24th: Leeds United (H)
West Ham opening day record
West Ham faced Aston Villa at the London Stadium on the first day of the 2024/25 campaign and suffered a 2-1 defeat to Unai Emery’s side. Amadou Onana scored after just four minutes in that match and the visitors found a winner through Jhon Duran after Lucas Paqueta pulled one back.
In 2023, the Hammers drew 1-1 with AFC Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium and the year prior was a 2-0 defeat to Manchester City in London. The last time West Ham won on the opening day of the season was in 2021 when the Hammers beat the Magpies 4-2 at St James’ Park.
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