Manchester City will begin their Premier League title defence against a familiar face as they will come up against Vincent Kompany's Burnley.
City's incredible season may have only reached its thrilling conclusion five days ago but attentions are already turning to the next campaign. The Premier League itself ended on May 28 and although Pep Guardiola's side had already wrapped up the title it was still an exciting final day which ended with Leicester City and Leeds United joining Southampton in the relegation spots.
Burnley, Sheffield United and Luton Town will be taking their place in the top flight. Now all 20 teams have an idea of what their forthcoming season will look like after the fixtures were announced on Thursday morning.
City will begin their campaign at Turf Moor where they will once again be reunited with their iconic captain Kompany, who guided the Clarets to an emphatic Championship triumph last season. The Blues will be taking part in the first game of the season as their opening match will take place on Friday, August 11, with kick-off coming at 8pm.
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City faced Burnley on their march to FA Cup success this past season and ran out comfortable 6-0 winners. Erling Haaland grabbed a hat-trick, there was a brace for Julian Alvarez and Cole Palmer also got in on the act.
The Treble winners will return to the Etihad for the first time on Saturday, August 19, as they welcome Newcastle United to Manchester before seeing out August with a trip to another promoted team in Sheffield United. On paper, City have been given a reasonably comfortable start. Though they play Newcastle in the second game they don't face another member of the 2022/23 season's top six until October 7 when they travel to face title rivals Arsenal.
That does kick off a horrible stretch of eight games, though, in which they will then play Brighton, Manchester United, Bournemouth, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham and Aston Villa in succession. The second Manchester derby is scheduled for early March, a month in which they will play the reverse fixtures with Liverpool and Arsenal.
City will bring their Premier League campaign to a close at home this time around against West Ham United.
Manchester City Premier League fixtures in full:
- 11/08/2023 - Burnley (a)
- 19/08/2023 - Newcastle United (h)
- 26/08/2023 - Sheffield United (a)
- 02/09/2023 - Fulham (h)
- 16/09/2023 - West Ham United (a)
- 23/09/2023 - Nottingham Forest (h)
- 30/09/2022 - Wolverhampton (a)
- 07/10/2023 - Arsenal (a)
- 21/10/2023 - Brighton (h)
- 28/10/2023 - Manchester United (a)
- 04/11/2023 - A.F.C. Bournemouth (h)
- 11/11/2023 - Chelsea (a)
- 25/11/2023 - Liverpool (h)
- 02/12/2023 - Tottenham Hotspur (h)
- 05/12/2023 - Aston Villa (a)
- 09/12/2023 - Luton Town (a)
- 16/12/2023 - Crystal Palace (h)
- 23/12/2023 - Brentford (h)
- 26/12/2023 - Everton (a)
- 30/12/2023 - Sheffield United (h)
- 13/01/2024 - Newcastle United (a)
- 31/01/2024 - Burnley (h)
- 03/02/2024 - Brentford (a)
- 10/02/2024 - Everton (h)
- 17/02/2024 - Chelsea (h)
- 24/02/2024 - A.F.C. Bournemouth (a)
- 02/03/2024 - Manchester United (h)
- 09/03/2024 - Liverpool (a)
- 16/03/2024 - Brighton (a)
- 30/03/2024 - Arsenal (h)
- 03/04/2024 - Aston Villa (h)
- 06/04/2024 - Crystal Palace (a)
- 13/04/2024 - Luton Town (h)
- 20/04/2024 - Tottenham Hotspur (a)
- 27/04/2024 - Nottingham Forest (a)
- 04/05/2024 - Wolverhampton (h)
- 11/05/2024 - Fulham (a)
- 19/05/2024 - West Ham United (h)
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