Transfer window, kick-off day – Leicester City’s 24-25 Premier League season highlights

Leicester City will soon start preparing for their return to the Premier League. It’s been two weeks since they lifted the Championship title and while Enzo Maresca and his staff are currently on holiday, it won’t be long before they return to Seagrave and start planning the new campaign.

It will help you with this preparation to write down some dates in your diary. And luckily, it’s now been revealed when the summer transfer window opens and closes and when the Premier League kicks off. Here is the summary of those key data.

Transfer window

The Premier League has now confirmed the dates for the next two transfer windows, for both this summer and winter. Both could be significant for City as they look to build a squad capable of staying in the division.

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The upcoming summer window will open on Friday 14 June and close on Friday 30 August at 11pm. The January window will open on Wednesday, January 1, 2025, and Monday, February 3, at 11:00 p.m.

And City needn’t worry about their players being poached without the possibility of signing a replacement as all the major leagues have agreed to close their windows on the same days. The Premier League said: “To ensure alignment with Europe’s major leagues, the closing dates have been set following discussions with the EFL, DFL, Serie A, La Liga and LFP, who will close all their summer and winter windows on August 30. and February 3, respectively.”

The day the device was released

The return to the top means that match day will be a big one for City fans this year. They will be keen to know when Maresca’s men take on division heavyweights, their Midlands rivals and fellow promoted clubs.

Premier League fixtures for the 2024-2025 season will be published at 9am on Tuesday 18 June. The data for all 380 top matches will be published at that time.

Season dates

The 2024-25 Premier League campaign will start on August 17, so City still have three months to wait. The next term will end on 25 May 2025, when all matches will start simultaneously.

Next season will consist of 33 weekends, four rounds of midweek matches and a bank holiday match week. Unlike last winter, there will be no mid-season break this time around, focusing on allowing players a longer break after this summer’s European Championships.

The Premier League said: “The mid-season break has been removed from the calendar to allow for a mid-August start date for the Premier League. This longer summer break allows all Premier League clubs to ensure players get a consecutive three-week break in the summer. This takes into account the advice of experts in the medical and technical departments, who value a longer period of complete rest in the summer, rather than a short break in the winter.

“In line with previous commitments to clubs to tackle busy Christmas and New Year schedules, arrangements will be made to allow more rest time in three of the festive fixture rounds, with no club playing within 60 hours from another match. There will be no match on December 24, 2024.”

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