The 2025-26 Premier League season begins Friday with defending champion Liverpool hosting Bournemouth at Anfield. Here’s what to know heading into the new campaign in the world’s most popular soccer league: Liverpool will attempt to retain the top-flight title for the first time since the mid-1980s to the backdrop of a tragedy.

Liverpool Sanction Ben Doak Move to AFC BournemouthLiverpool have confirmed that Ben Doak has signed for AFC Bournemouth following negotiations that kept him out of the 4-2 Premier League victory at

The opening weekend of Premier League action delivered plenty of good news for the title contenders, while European action takes center stage midweek as a handful of teams inch closer to booking their spots in the UEFA Champions League.

The Reds boast a strong record in their last 33 opening matches, winning 19, drawing 10 and losing just four. That's a 57.58% win rate to kick off the season in the Premier League era and it’s likely to go up given that that Liverpool, title favourites, have won their last five Bournemouth meetings.

When Jürgen Klopp announced his shock departure from Anfield in January 2024, the general consensus was that Liverpool would be in for a period of transition. In came a new head coach in Arne Slot,

Bournemouth's first Premier League match of the season took an ugly turn at Anfield when Antoine Semenyo said he was racially abused by a Liverpool fan. The Liverpool ECHO’s Ian Doyle reported that the Premier League corroborated the allegation,