FIXTURES RELEASED: Now out – details of the opening weekend TV games HERE and here’s when all the Premier League TV games are due to be released HERE

NEW SEASON KICK-OFF: Friday August 16

TV DETAILS: The same deal is in place as last season with Sky Sports showing the most games and having first pick each weekend. TNT Sports continue with the 12.30pm Saturday matches and Amazon Prime are in the final season of having two entire December match rounds.

The opening weekend’s TV games are usually announced with the release of the fixtures with others following a few weeks later.

New TV arrangements which will allow all non-3pm Premier League games to be shown live (including all the Sunday 2pm matches re-arranged due to European games) don’t begin until the 25-26 season.

FIXTURES RELEASED: Wednesday June 26 9am.

NEW SEASON KICK-OFF: Saturday August 11 (Maybe TV games on the Friday)

TV DETAILS: There’s a major change to coverage of the EFL on Sky next season with more than 1,000 games to be screened by Sky on its main channels and the new Sky Sports+ service which is effectively replacing the EFL’s own iFollow service. For the first weekend, EVERY game from the Championship, League One and League Two will be screened live. On a typical match weekend ten games will be broadcast from the three divisions (five Championship and five from the other two divisions) with five in the 12.30pm Saturday kick-off slot and others on Thursday, Friday and Monday evenings and Sunday lunchtimes. As part of the new arrangements ALL TV game fixture changes up to the FA Cup third round will be confirmed before the start of the season.

FIXTURES RELEASED: Thursday June 27 9am

NEW SEASON KICK-OFF: Saturday August 3

TV DETAILS: The same TV deal is in place for the new season with Sky Sports having the bulk of live TV rights to the Scottish Premiership, but extending the number of games it shows to 60 a season, up from the current 48. An extra 20 games from the Premiership will also be shown on Premier Sports. BBC Scotland will some Scottish Championship games again. The opening weekend’s TV games are usually announced on release of the fixtures with others following soon after.

The National League will kick-off on Saturday August 10 and with the fixtures being released on July 10 at 1pm. (TV details have yet to be confirmed with TNT Sports coming to the end of a current deal to show at least one live game every week).

The Women’s Super League will kick-off on September 21 although the date of the fixtures being released is yet to be confirmed. (Sky and the BBC will again share live TV rights with all other matches streamed on The FA Player.