Chelsea will begin their title defence exclusively live on Sky Sports, the first of 24 live matches from the opening two months of the season. Manchester City, Arsenal and Liverpool will also be shown live on the opening weekend.

Every team will be shown live by the end of September and the schedule features 14 matches involving last season’s top four, plus huge head-to-heads including Manchester City v Chelsea, Arsenal v Liverpool and Manchester United v Liverpool.

The live matches are the first of 116 Barclays Premier League fixtures to be shown exclusively live on Sky Sports in BarRed with unrivalled analysis from Thierry Henry, Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher, Jamie Redknapp and Graeme Souness.
You can enjoy another huge season of live football kicking off in August, including 127 matches from Football League - more than ever before - Capital One Cup, the climax of UEFA Euro 2016 qualification, action from Scotland in the SPFL and Scottish Cup, plus more from around the world.
All other games and Champions League action will also be shown live on BT Sport in BarRed ensuring that all the top games are covered and screened live in HD at the facility

“As well as all that, two of the opening three weeks of the Premier League season coincide with the final two Ashes weekends. It’s all set to be a busy couple of months for our customers as fans pack Sky Sports pubs to catch all this unmissable sport.”

Sky Sports will offer at least four more seasons of the Premier League, with 116 lives games coming this season increasing to 126 each term from the 2016/17 season.

LIVE ON SKY SPORTS IN AUGUST

Chelsea v Swansea Sat, 8 Aug at 5:30pm
Arsenal v West Ham Utd, Sun 9 Aug at 1:30pm
Stoke City v Liverpool, Sun 9 Aug at 4pm
West Brom Albion v Man City, Mon 10 Aug at 8pm
Aston Villa v Man Utd, Fri 14 Aug at 7:45pm
Crystal Palace v Arsenal, Sun 16 Aug at 1:30pm
Man City v Chelsea, Sun 16 Aug at 4pm
Liverpool v Bournemouth, Mon 17 Aug at 8pm
West Brom Albion v Chelsea, Sun 23 Aug at 1:30pm
Everton v Man City, Sun 23 Aug at 4pm
Arsenal v Liverpool, Mon 24 Aug at 8pm
Tottenham v Everton, Sat 29 Aug at 5:30pm
Southampton v Norwich, Sun 30 Aug at 1:30pm