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: July 17
The following R packages were used:
tidyversereactablehtmltools
(Cheng et al., 2025; Lin, 2025; Wickham et al., 2019)
Arsenal
Pre-season start: | Camp:
Aston Villa
Aston Villa
Bournemouth
Bournemouth
Brentford
Brentford
Brighton
Brighton
Chelsea
Chelsea
Coventry
Coventry
Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace
Everton
Everton
Fulham
Fulham
Hull City
Hull City
Ipswich Town
Ipswich
Leeds
Leeds
Liverpool
Liverpool
Manchester City
Man City
Manchester United
Manchester United
Newcastle
Newcastle
Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest
Sunderland
Sunderland
Tottenham
Tottenham
About the author:
Christina is a football (soccer)
References
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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