Info2024-25 key dates: Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup and Carabao Cup
Read our guide to the key dates for Liverpool in the 2024-25 season as they get set to compete in the Premier League, Champions League, Emirates FA Cup and Carabao Cup.
Premier League
Fixtures release
Premier League fixtures for the 2024-25 season were released in June, with the Reds to kick off the campaign away at Ipswich Town on Saturday August 17.
The campaign will consist of 33 weekends, four midweek rounds of matches and one Bank Holiday matchweek.
A full list of fixtures is available here on Liverpoolfc.com.
Fixtures are subject to change for television broadcast and European competition purposes, with updates to follow on Liverpoolfc.com.
Key dates
Arne Slot's side travel to Portman Road at 12.30pm BST on August 17, 90 days after the 2023-24 Premier League campaign concluded.
The final match round of 2024-25 will be played on Sunday May 25, when all games will kick off simultaneously as usual.
In keeping with previous commitments made to clubs 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, with no club playing within 60 hours of another match. There will be no Christmas Eve fixture.
The mid-season break has also been removed from the calendar to allow the mid-August start date.
Transfer windows
The Premier League summer window opened on Friday June 14.
The window will then close at 11pm BST on Friday August 30. The EFL will follow the same timeline.
The winter transfer window will then open on Wednesday January 1, closing on Monday February 3.
Champions League
Following their third-placed finish in the Premier League, Liverpool will be competing in the 2024-25 Champions League.
This year’s tournament will see significant changes, in particular to the group stage, which will become a single 36-team league stage.
Each side faces eight different teams (four at home, four away). The top eight overall will advance directly to the Round of 16, while the sides finishing from ninth to 24th will contest the knockout round play-offs, with the victors going through to the last 16. From then on it is a straight knockout.
The draw for the group stage will take place on Thursday August 29, and the group stage matchdays will be as follows:
Matchday 1: September 17-19
Matchday 2: October 1/2
Matchday 3: October 22/23
Matchday 4: November 5/6
Matchday 5: November 26/27
Matchday 6: December 10/11
Matchday 7: January 21/22
Matchday 8: January 29
The knockout round play-offs will take place on February 11/12 and 18/19.
The Round of 16 matches will take place on March 4/5 and 11/12, with the quarter-finals on April 8/9 and 15/16 and the semi-finals on April 29/30 and May 6/7.
The final will be played at Bayern Munich’s Allianz Arena on Saturday May 31.
Emirates FA Cup
The Reds will enter the Emirates FA Cup at the third-round stage.
As part of a new format for the competition, all rounds will now be played on weekends and there are no longer replays from the first round onwards.
No Premier League fixtures will take place on the day of the final.
Third round: Weekend of January 11
Fourth round: Weekend of February 8
Fifth round: Weekend of March 1
Quarter-finals: Weekend of March 29
Semi-finals: Weekend of April 26
Final: May 17
Carabao Cup
Current holders Liverpool will begin their defence of the League Cup in round three.
The semi-finals remain in their current two-legged format.
Third round: September 18 and 25
Fourth round: October 30
Quarter-finals: December 18
Semi-finals: January 8 (first leg) and February 5 (second leg)
Final: March 16
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