Kieran McKenna’s Ipswich face the post-Jurgen Klopp Liverpool on their first day back in the Premier League.
The newly-promoted side are back in the top tier for the first time in 22 years and will welcome the Merseyside giants – who have will have a new manager in Arne Slot – to Portman Road in the first Saturday lunchtime kick-off on 17 August.
Manchester United, meanwhile, begin the season on Friday 16 August against Fulham at Old Trafford a week after playing rivals City in the Community Shield.
Last season’s runners-up Arsenal start at home against Wolves on Saturday 17 August at 3pm, with Aston Villa, in their debut season in the Champions League, travelling to West Ham in the evening for the 5:30pm kick-off.
New Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca, meanwhile, hosts Manchester City on Sunday 18 August in his first competitive game since replacing Mauricio Pochettino. It will be a reunion for the two given Maresca was formerly Pep Guardiola’s assistant.
Maresca left his role at City to join Leicester in 2023 just days after winning the Champions League.
He guided the Foxes back into the Premier League before leaving earlier this summer to become Chelsea manager, and formerly takes up his role on 1 July.
Elsewhere, newly-promoted Southampton begin their season back in the big time by travelling to Newcastle, Everton start their campaign against Brighton and Brentford host Crystal Palace.
Leicester will host Tottenham in the first Monday Night Football of the season.
To address the congested schedule across Christmas and New Year, arrangements will be made to allow more rest time over three of the festive match rounds. No club will play within 60 hours of another match and there will be no fixture on 24 December.
The mid-season break has also been removed from the calendar to allow a mid-August start date for the Premier League, with the final day of the season being 25 May, 2025.
Premier League opening day fixtures
- 16/08/2024: Manchester United v Fulham (8pm)
- 17/08/2024: Ipswich Town v Liverpool (12:30pm)
- 17/08/2024: Arsenal v Wolverhampton (3pm)
- 17/08/2024: Everton v Brighton (3pm)
- 17/08/2024: Newcastle United v Southampton (3pm)
- 17/08/2024: Nottingham Forest v A.F.C. Bournemouth (3pm)
- 17/08/2024: West Ham United v Aston Villa (5:30pm)
- 18/08/2024: Brentford v Crystal Palace (2pm)
- 18/08/2024: Chelsea v Manchester City (4:30pm)
- 19/08/2024: Leicester City v Tottenham Hotspur (8pm)
- Chelsea and Man United are something of opening day specialists having won 62.5 per cent of their first games (P33, W20). Guardiola, though, has won 87.5 per cent of his opening day games, with Spurs the only team to beat him.
Slot will hope to still have Mohamed Salah in his side given that he has scored in six of his last seven openers for Liverpool and Leicester striker Jamie Vardy has seven goals across his games on the first day of the season.
Only Salah, Frank Lampard, Alan Shearer and Wayne Rooney have scored eight.