Intro

The English Premier League (EPL) pre-season is underway. It’s a time for fitness, opportunities for youth, team bonding, squad building and tactical trials among other things. Match outcomes are largely meaningless, but can influence the narrative, tone and group morale heading into the new campaign.

This post summarizes pre-season schedules for each EPL team ahead of the 2026/2027 campaign that begins on August 21st 2026. Updates will be provided periodically.

Note

BCD: Behind Closed Doors
Last update: August 19th

The following R packages were used:

tidyverse
reactable
htmltools

(Cheng et al., 2025; Lin, 2025; Wickham et al., 2019)

Arsenal

Aston Villa

Bournemouth

Brentford

Brighton

Chelsea

Coventry

Crystal Palace

Everton

Fulham

Hull City

Ipswich Town

Leeds

Liverpool

Manchester City

Manchester United

Newcastle

Nottingham Forest

Sunderland

Tottenham

About the author:

Christina is a football (soccer) data analyst based in Canada . You can find her on Bluesky ‪@christina6ys.bsky.social‬

References

Cheng, J., Sievert, C., Schloerke, B., Chang, W., Xie, Y., & Allen, J. (2025). Htmltools: Tools for HTML. https://github.com/rstudio/htmltools

Lin, G. (2025). Reactable: Interactive data tables for r. https://glin.github.io/reactable/

Wickham, H., Averick, M., Bryan, J., Chang, W., McGowan, L. D., François, R., Grolemund, G., Hayes, A., Henry, L., Hester, J., Kuhn, M., Pedersen, T. L., Miller, E., Bache, S. M., Müller, K., Ooms, J., Robinson, D., Seidel, D. P., Spinu, V., … Yutani, H. (2019). Welcome to the tidyverse. Journal of Open Source Software, 4(43), 1686. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01686