The English Premier League (EPL) has disclosed that the 2020/21 season will start on September 12 and run until May 23, 2021. The English top-flight league disclosed this in a statement via its official website on Friday.
EPL. photo credit: Goal.com
“Premier League Shareholders today agreed to start the 2020/21 Premier League season on 12 September 2020,” the statement read.
“The final match round of the campaign will take place on 23 May 2021. The Premier League will continue to consult The FA and EFL regarding the scheduling of all domestic competitions.”
Meanwhile, the 2019/20 Premier League season will be concluded on Sunday. Premier League clubs have agreed to move the summer transfer deadline to the beginning of September.
The window in England has closed 24 hours before the new season kicked off for the last two seasons. However, clubs feel they will benefit from a longer window, to sort out transfer business.
With August 31 being a Bank Holiday, the window will close 5pm on Tuesday, September 1 this year. This ensures England is now in sync with the rest of Europe.
“At a shareholders’ meeting today, Premier League clubs voted to adopt a change to the summer transfer window closing date for season 2020/21.
“This will move the closing date back to the traditional point at the end of August/early September. The 2020 closing date will therefore be 17:00 BST on 1 September (31 August 2020 being a UK Bank Holiday).
“Clubs agreed after discussing the topic at length at previous Shareholders’ Meetings,” a Premier League statement read.
The Premier League also confirmed the 2020/2021 season will start on Saturday, August 8.
Anaedoonline.ng reported that Jordan Henderson captained Liverpool to their first English Premier League glory after 30 years and has been named the player of the year by the Football Writers’ Association.
The 30-year-old featured in 30 games for the Reds until he missed the last four games after he sustained a nagging injury earlier in July.
In his reaction, Henderson stated that he feels delighted to have emerged the player of the year, but there are lot of people who he owes.
“As grateful as I am I don’t feel like I can accept this on my own,” Henderson said. “I don’t feel like anything I’ve achieved this season or in fact during my whole career has been done on my own.
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