Reigning Premier League champions Arsenal will welcome newly-promoted Coventry City on the opening night of the 2026/27 campaign.
After three consecutive second-placed finishes, the Gunners ended their 22-year Premier League trophy drought in the 2025/26 season, accumulating 85 points and beating Manchester City to the title by seven points.
With managerial changes at Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea, Arsenal may sense a golden opportunity to retain the top-flight honour - a feat that they haven't achieved since 1935.
As for Coventry, they return to the Premier League for the first time since the 2000/01 term, where they finished 19th in the standings and were therefore relegated to the second tier of English football.
The Sky Blues enjoyed a remarkable 2025/26 campaign in the Championship, falling to just seven defeats and winning the league by 11 points.
There's no dressing it up, a trip to the Emirates on the opening night of the 2026/27 Premier League season will prove an almighty task for Frank Lampard's team.
Mikel Arteta's side have won their opening fixture in each of the last four campaigns, defeating Manchester United in narrow 1-0 fashion in Gameweek 1 of the 2025/26 term, with Riccardo Calafiori's header seeing the visitors over the line.
Losing just one of their opening 18 2025/26 Championship outings, it's hard to imagine that Coventry will have the same success in the top-flight this time round, and they're priced at 12/1 to defeat Arsenal on Friday 21st August at the Emirates Stadium.
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