Welcome to the Fulham Supporters’ Trust Colour Coded Fixture List for 2025/26, which tries to help Fulham fans decide when it is safe to buy tickets or travel for matches without the risk of them changing.
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What causes fixture changes?
Each season supporters are presented with an ever more complex fixture list which seems to change at short notice, throwing the best laid plans awry. What causes all these changes?
Selection for domestic broadcast
This season is the start of a new four year Premier League broadcast deal with Sky Sports and TNT Sports (formerly BT Sport); Amazon Prime no longer has a broadcast contract. The key difference to the televising of games from 2025/26 is that any game moved from the “protected” Saturday 3pm timeslot for any reason, e.g. a prior European fixture, will be televised, producing a substantial increase in TV games in the UK. A large number of these games will be played on Sundays at 2pm.
The following table lists the typical weekend slots used by the broadcasters to show Premier League games, depending on the package of games they have agreed to buy. This is useful to know when a broadcast announcement has been made but slots are still available and therefore at risk of being filled later.
Sky | TNT |
|---|---|
| Friday 20:00 – Saturday 17:30 Saturday 20:00 – Sunday 14:00 Sunday 16:30 – Monday 20:00 | – Saturday 12:30 – Saturday 20:00* Sunday 12:00* – – Sunday 19:00* – |
* TNT alternatives if Saturday 12:30 slot not possible due to European commitments.
It has often been difficult to determine when the announcement of fixture moves will take place. This year, the Premier League and broadcasters have again published a timetable of fixture change announcements, but it should be noted that in 2024/25 this timetable was not always kept to.
Domestic cup clashes
Similarly to last season, rounds 3 to 6 of the FA Cup are protected from clashes with the Premier League. So the earliest an FA Cup game can cause a Premier League fixture move is the semi-final, which is the day we play Aston Villa at home (April 25).
The League (Carabao) Cup doesn’t tend to interfere with Premier League fixtures as it is played in midweek, with the exception of the final. However rounds 3 and 5 do clash with certain European game weeks, which could have an impact depending on the draw. Round 3, in particular, is complicated enough that it has been split across two midweeks to cater for the possible European clashes.
European competition clashes
Although Fulham didn’t qualify for European competition, a record nine Premier League teams did and the scheduling of these fixtures often has an impact on the following (and occasionally preceding) league games. This is particularly the case with teams competing in the Europa League and Europa Conference League who generally play on Thursdays; any Premier League fixtures following a Thursday European game will be moved at least to the Sunday (and now televised) to allow for recovery time. Similarly teams who play away in the Champions League on a Wednesday can’t have their following league game moved to a Friday or early Saturday slot by the TV companies, which means that any domestic broadcast will be in the late Saturday slot or on Sunday or Monday.
A quick glance at the fixture list shows that before the end of January when the European groups stages finish, we have three games that follow our opponents midweek European games and two that precede them. However, only one of them (Aston Villa away) follows a Europa League / Conference League fixture which therefore could move, depending on which day Villa’s game is platyed.
- 27 Sep – Aston Villa (away) follows Europa League and could move to Sun / Mon depending on which day Villa’s fixture is played (Wed or Thu).
- 18 Oct – Arsenal (home) preceeds Champions League so can’t be Mon
- 25 Oct – Newcastle (away) follows Champions League so can’t be Fri / Sat early
- 29 Nov – Spurs (away) follows Champions League so can’t be Fri / Sat early
- 6 Dec – Crystal Palace (home) precedes Conference League so unlikely to be Mon
Note that this list was edited on Fri 11 Jul following the demotion of Crystal Palace to the Europa Conference League and the promotion of Nottingham Forest to the Europa League. Should any appeal leave Forest back in the Conference League, it would impact our home game against them on 20 Dec.
After the group stages, much depends on which teams qualify. However of note is that should Liverpool reach the Champions League quarter final, our game at Anfield will be sandwiched between the two legs and similarly for Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium at the semi-final stage.
The final complexity surrounding European fixtures occurs when the scheduling of a Champions League game by UEFA, often on a Tuesday, causes a domestic broadcaster to have to relinquish a previously selected Sunday or Monday slot for that team or even delay match selection. Situations have occurred in the past where this caused knock-ons to the games the domestic broadcaster had already chosen and consequent unexpected late notice fixture moves. These conditional picks are just about the hardest moves to track and predict as they can mean games not involving any teams competing in Europe are moved to accommodate the revised broadcast schedule.
The FSA has this handy explainer on conditional picks, which are becoming more and more common.
Christmas matches
This season there are no matches scheduled for Boxing Day, with all Christmas games currently listed as Saturday 27th December and Tuesday 30th December. However, all 27th December games are available to move across the weekend as normal, including to Boxing Day should the TV companies choose. Similarly the schedule for 30th December can be altered for TV picks, providing that all clubs have at least 48 hours between the two Christmas fixtures.
There will be no games on Christmas Eve.
How to read the colour coded fixture list
To the best of our ability we will monitor all of the move risks listed above, mark them in the Colour Coded Fixture List and classify each game as either green (no longer likely to change), amber (could still change) or red (has changed or will have to change). The specific colours have been selected to support use by colour blind readers, but symbols on the left of the table also indicate this status.
Other key points in the calendar, such as breaks and cup dates, are shown for information and the fixture list also indicates the obvious clashes and shows the expected dates of broadcast announcements, albeit these can often be quite fluid.
This definitely isn’t an exact science, and relies heavily on assessing limited information from the Premier League and the domestic broadcasters, coupled with a detailed look at how TV slots have been filled with games from various leagues. We also have to keep an eye on activities at the other teams in the borough. We’ll keep updating as the season progresses.
Key
Fixture has changed or will have to change
Fixture could still change
Fixture no longer likely to change
Calendar information
The last update took place on Wednesday 23 Jul 2025.
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