A little-known rule proved to be Crystal Palace midfielder Eberechi Eze's undoing on the opening weekend of the Premier League season. His free-kick was ruled out because a Palace player was standing too close to the Chelsea wall.

The 2025-2026 English Premier League season begins Friday, August 15 with defending champions Liverpool hosting Bournemouth at 3 p.m. ET on USA Network and NBC ’s Spanish-language channel, Universo.

The Premier League had a new redistribution deal rejected by the English Football League (EFL) shortly before the bill that ushered in a regulator was passed.

The Premier League have seen their latest attempt to tweak how football’s wealth is distributed hit a roadblock. According to The Athletic, the English Football League (EFL) rejected a redistribution proposal just weeks before a landmark bill introducing an independent football regulator was passed.

This summer marked the 40th anniversary of English football’s nadir. At a time of rampant hooliganism, fatal stadium tragedies and a ban from all European competition, an editorial in The Sunday Times infamously derided football as “a slum sport played in slum stadiums increasingly watched by slum people.”

Wound up in 2007 after 128 years, having racked up debts of £2.5million, Scarborough spent a total of 12 seasons in the Football League. They were one of the most successful non-League clubs of the 1970s, reaching four FA Trophy finals between 1973 and 1977 and winning three of them.

It is not the first time Pep Guardiola has publicly urged for rule adaptations in English football, having previously lobbied for greater use of substitutions and longer breaks between matches, often pointing to the physically relentless nature of the Premier League calendar compared to European counterparts.

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Jersey Bulls' women's team will play in the English football pyramid for the first time this season. The newly-formed side will compete in the South East Counties Women's Football League Surrey Division One.

The English Premier League set the ball rolling for the 2025/26 season at 12:30 am, August 16 (IST). The defending champs Liverpool hosted Bournemouth at home in Anfield for the opening fixture of the 34th edition of the Premier League as the Reds defeated Bournemouth in a thrilling 4-2 match.

Bournemouth's first Premier League match of the season took an ugly turn at Anfield when Antoine Semenyo said he was racially abused by a Liverpool fan. The Liverpool ECHO’s Ian Doyle reported that the Premier League corroborated the allegation,