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Premier League soccer is back! Here’s how to watch today’s game, 2024-5 season info, more
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The Premier League is back and it’s never been easier to watch every soccer game of the season, even if you don’t have cable. Keep reading to find out how and when to watch the 2024-5 Premier League season, important dates of the season and the best ways to stream every game without a cable subscription.
What Premier League teams are playing today?
The 2024-5 Premier League season kicks off with the Manchester United vs. Fulham game on Friday, August 16, 2024 at 3 p.m. ET (noon PT). The game will be played at Old Trafford football stadium in Stretford, England. It will be broadcast on USA Network and stream on Peacock.
The remainder of the Week 1 matches are below. All kickoffs are at 10:00 a.m. ET unless noted. (All times Eastern.)
Saturday, August 17, 2024
7:30 a.m.: Ipswich Town vs. Liverpool – USA Network
Arsenal vs. Wolves – USA Network
Everton vs. Brighton – Watch live on Peacock
Newcastle United vs. Southampton – Watch live on Peacock
Nottingham Forest vs. AFC Bournemouth – Watch live on Peacock
12:30 p.m.: West Ham vs. Aston Villa – NBC
Sunday, August 18, 2024
9:00 a.m.: Brentford vs. Crystal Palace – USA Network
11:30 a.m.: Chelsea vs. Man City – NBC
Monday, August 19, 2024
3:00 p.m.: Leicester City vs. Spurs – USA Network
Key dates for the 2024-5 Premier League season
The 2024-5 Premier League season begins on Friday, August 16, 2024 and concludes on Sunday, May 25, 2025. This season includes 33 weekends of matches, four midweek rounds and one Bank Holiday match week. There will be no Christmas Eve feature this season, nor will there be an extended mid-season break. Instead, the season will feature a longer summer break for players.
- August 10, 2024: The Community Shield takes place
- August 16, 2024: The season begins, with Manchester United hosting Fulham at Old Trafford
- June 14, 2024: The summer transfer window opens and Euro 2024 begins
- August 30, 2024: The summer transfer window closes
- December 26, 2024: Boxing Day
- March 16, 2025: The Carabao Cup final takes place
- April 26, 2025: The semi-finals take place
- May 17, 2025: The FA Cup final and Championship Sunday take place, with all 10 games starting simultaneously
- May 21, 2025: The Europa League final takes place in Bilbao
- May 25, 2025: The final match round of the season takes place
How to watch the 2024-5 Premier League Season
Premier League soccer games will broadcast on NBC and USA Network, and will stream live on Peacock. The streamer will also features Peacock-exclusive Premier League games this season. For more on how to watch the 2024-5 Premier League season, keep reading below.
How to watch the 2024-5 Premier League season without cable
While most cable packages include NBC and USA Network, it’s easy to watch Premier League soccer matches if those channels aren’t included in your cable TV subscription, or if you don’t have cable at all. Your best options for watching are below. (Streaming options will require an internet provider.)
Watch the Premier League soccer on Peacock
If you want to watch every Premier League game of the 2024-5 season, you’ll need a subscription to Peacock. The NBC/Universal-owned streamer will live stream every Premier League game airing on NBC and USA Network, as well as broadcast select Peacock-exclusive Premier League games this season.
The streaming service has plenty more live sports to offer, including Big Ten football and basketball, golf and WWE wrestling (including formerly PPV-only events such as WrestleMania). There are 80,000 hours worth of recorded content to watch as well, including hit movies and TV series such as “The Office” and “Parks and Recreation.”
A Peacock subscription costs $8 per month. An annual plan is available for $80 per year. You can cancel anytime.
Top features of Peacock:
- Peacock offers live broadcasts of Premier League games airing on NBC and USA Network, on-demand replays when available, highlights and post-match coverage.
- There are 175 Peacock-exclusive Premier League games this season.
- Peacock features plenty of current and classic NBC and Bravo TV shows, as well as NFL football airing on NBC, college basketball and more.
Stream Premier League soccer live on Sling TV for half price
One of the most cost-effective ways to stream live network-aired Premier League soccer matches this year is through a subscription to Sling TV. The streamer also offers access to USA Network, NFL Network, local NBC, Fox and ABC affiliates (where available) and ESPN with its Orange + Blue Tier plan. Also worth noting: Sling TV comes with 50 hours of cloud-based DVR recording space included, perfect for recording all next season’s top NFL matchups.
That plan normally costs $60 per month, but the streamer is currently offering a 50% off promotion for your first month, so you’ll pay just $30. The streamer has a new prepaid offering for football season called Sling TV Season Pass. You can get four months of the Orange + Blue tier, plus the Sports Extra add-on, for $219. That’s a savings of $81 over the usual price.
Note: Because Sling TV doesn’t carry CBS, you won’t be able to watch CBS-aired programming like next year’s NFL games on CBS. To watch these games, plus PGA golf, UEFA Champions League and more live sports, we recommend you add the Paramount+ add-on to your bundle.
Top features of Sling TV Orange + Blue tier:
- There are 46 channels to watch in total, including local NBC affiliates (where available).
- Sling TV also offers the live feed of Premier League matches airing live on NBC and the USA Network.
- You also get access to most local NFL games and nationally broadcast games at the lowest price.
- All subscription tiers include 50 hours of cloud-based DVR storage.
Watch the Premier League free with Fubo
You can watch live Premier League soccer matches airing on network TV on Fubo. Fubo is a sports-centric streaming service that offers access to matches airing on NBC, the USA Network, as well as almost every NFL game next season. Packages include CBS, Fox Sunday NFC games via “NFL on Fox”, NBC (Sunday Night Football), ESPN (Monday Night Football), NFL Network and more, so you’ll be able to watch more than just today’s games, all without a cable subscription.
To watch the Premier League without cable, start a seven-day free trial of Fubo. You can begin watching immediately on your TV, phone, tablet or computer. In addition to the Premier League, you’ll have access to NFL football, FuboTV offers MLB, NBA, NHL, and MLS matches. FuboTV Pro Tier is priced at $80 per month after your free seven-day trial.
Top features of Fubo Pro Tier:
- There are no contracts with Fubo — you can cancel at any time.
- You can watch sporting events up to 72 hours after they air live with Fubo’s lookback feature.
- The Pro tier includes over 180 channels.
- Fubo includes all the channels you’ll need to watch college and pro football, including CBS (not available through Sling TV).
- All tiers come with 1,000 hours of cloud-based DVR recording.
- Stream on your TV, phone, tablet and other devices.
Watch the Premier League in 2024 on Hulu + Live TV
You can watch the Premier League as well as the NFL, including the NFL Network, MLB and the NBA, with Hulu + Live TV. The bundle features access to 90 channels, including both NBC and the USA Network. Unlimited DVR storage is also included. Watch every match on every network with Hulu + Live TV, plus catch live 2024 NFL preseason games, exclusive live regular season games, popular studio shows (including NFL Total Access and the Emmy-nominated show Good Morning Football) and lots more.
Hulu + Live TV comes bundled with ESPN+ and Disney+ for $77 monthly.
Watch network-aired Premier League games with a digital antenna
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You can also watch network-aired Premier Leauge games on TV with an affordable indoor antenna, which pulls in local over-the-air HDTV channels such as CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, PBS, Univision and more. Here’s the kicker: There’s no monthly charge.
For anyone living in a partially blocked-off area (those near mountains or first-floor apartments), a digital TV antenna may not pick up a good signal — or any signal at all. But for many homes, a digital TV antenna provides a seriously inexpensive way to watch sports without paying a cable company. Indoor TV antennas can also provide some much-needed TV backup if a storm knocks out your cable.
This ultra-thin, multi-directional Mohu Leaf amplified digital antenna with a 60-mile range can receive hundreds of HD TV channels and can filter out cellular and FM signals. It delivers a high-quality picture in 1080p HDTV, top-tier sound and features a 12-foot digital coax cable.
Waiting for the match to start? Get your Premier League jersey and merch from Fanatics
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If you can’t make it to the game in person, gearing up and watching from home is the next best thing. Fanatics offers a terrific selection of comfortable, stylish Premier League jerseys, T-shirts, hoodies and more.
The site offers Premier League caps, sweats and even team-branded AirPods Pro cases so you can take your soccer fandom on the go. Tap the button below to find your favorite Premier League team’s newest merch drop.
What teams are in the Premier League in the 2024-5 season?
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The Premier League consists of 20 teams, including: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Bournemouth, Brentford, Brighton, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Everton, Fulham, Ipswich Town, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Key matchups of the 2024-5 Premier League season
If you’re looking for the big matches of the 2024-5 Premier League season, mark your calendar for these terrific games.
– Chelsea vs. Man City, Sunday, August 18
– Man United vs. Liverpool, Saturday, August 31
– Tottenham vs. Arsenal, Saturday, September 14
– Arsenal vs. Liverpool, Saturday, October 26
– Liverpool vs. Man City, Saturday, November 30
– Liverpool vs. Man United, Saturday, January 4
– Arsenal vs. Tottenham, Tuesday, January 14
– Man City vs. Liverpool, Saturday, February 22
– Man United vs. Man City, Saturday, April 5
Tap here for the full schedule for the 2024-5 Premier League season.
This year’s resurgence of whooping cough cases has now accelerated to the fastest pace on record in nearly a decade, according to figures published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as pertussis infections are now again climbing around the country during the back-to-school season.
A total of 291 cases were reported for the week ending on Sept. 14, the CDC says. New York has reported the most cases this week of any state, with 44 infections. Ohio, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma have also reported at least 38 cases each.
This now marks the most infections of the bacteria Bordatella pertussis reported to the CDC in a single week since 2015, when the country was coming off a resurgence of whooping cough cases that had peaked the year before.
Whooping cough disease, caused by the pertussis bacteria, typically starts around a week after people are first exposed to another contagious person. Symptoms can last for weeks to months, typically with the disease’s infamous “whooping” as patients struggle to breathe after facing a burst of coughs.
So far this year, 14,569 cases have been reported to the agency, more than four times higher than the number of infections reported by this time last year.
Cases are also higher than the more than 10,000 cases that were reported by this time in 2019, before COVID-19 pandemic measures also caused plummeting cases of pertussis and other infections that spread through the air.
The need for better whooping cough vaccines
While unvaccinated young children and newborns delivered by unvaccinated moms remain at the highest risk of infection and severe disease from whooping cough, federal health officials have warned for months that the U.S. was likely to see a resurgence of breakthrough infections in older children and adults.
Pertussis cases have largely grown over the past few decades, after the U.S. and other high-income countries switched to pertussis vaccines after the 1970s that triggered fewer side effects but also are less effective at guarding against disease and spread.
Officials in Pennsylvania, which has seen one of the country’s largest pertussis outbreaks this year, say that many outbreaks have been fueled by high school students.
“Cases and outbreaks have continued throughout the summer even though most schools were closed,” the department said in an alert to doctors in the state this month, urging doctors to prepare for the possibility of a “continued increase” as schools resumed.
In New York, 40% of their cases this year outside of New York City have been in teens ages 15 to 19 years old, according to figures the state’s health department shared with CBS News.
“[W]e are not seeing evidence of a specific cluster or location or event. Cases have been identified all over the state and among children and adolescents in various settings,” a spokesperson for the New York State Department of Health said.
In Oklahoma, which has seen one of the steepest increases in cases of any state over recent weeks, cases have been seen in people as old as 86 years old. The median age of cases is 9 years old, the health department said.
“Since Jan. 1, 2024, there have been 162 cases of whooping cough in Oklahoma, which is the highest number of cases since 2017 when 207 cases were reported,” Erica Rankin-Riley, a spokesperson for the Oklahoma State Department of Health, told CBS News.
Talks on new trials
The resurgence comes as the Food and Drug Administration is now weighing the prospect of human challenge trials – studies intentionally infecting vaccinated volunteers with the bacteria – in the hopes of accelerating the development of more effective shots to fend off the bacteria.
A panel of the FDA’s advisers are scheduled to meet Friday to discuss the trials, which could lead to vetting “new pertussis vaccines for booster vaccination of adults.”
The CDC currently recommends a number of pertussis shots for children and adults, including boosters of the Tdap vaccine – which contains antigens designed to protect against pertussis – for all adults every 10 years.
Around 39% of adults have gotten a pertussis booster in the last 10 years, CDC survey data from 2022 suggests.
Other factors may also be contributing to rising cases, the FDA said, like mutations in circulating pertussis strains and the “rapid waning” of immunity.
The current generation of “acellular pertussis” vaccines are still believed to “provide a significant public health benefit by preventing disease,” the FDA said in briefing documents published ahead of the meeting.
“Despite the resurgence of pertussis, current rates of disease are very low relative to the rates reported during the pre-vaccine era,” agency officials wrote.
Amazon sent shockwaves through its ranks — and corporate America — Monday when CEO Andrew Jassy told workers they will be expected to report to the office five days a week starting in January.
The decision represents one of the most stringent return to office policies from a major corporation since the pandemic, when offices were suddenly shuttered and many employees shifted to remote work. Amazon’s move is also unusual for a business in the tech industry, which has largely embraced remote and hybrid work arrangements.
Under the company’s current mandate, Amazon workers have been reporting to their physical offices three days a week, although that will expire by the beginning of next year. While advocates of in-office work argue that showing up in person helps foster collaboration and feelings of connectedness, skeptics say Amazon could be imposing the mandate to reduce headcount, as some employees may search for more flexible jobs and depart, without having to lay off workers.
For his part, Jassy said the move is designed to improve company culture. But Amazon workers are reportedly grousing on internal forums about the move.
Amazon isn’t alone in reining in remote work. Here are a few of the major employers that have summoned workers back to the office.
Amazon
CEO Andrew Jassy said the back-to-the-office decision is based on his observation that collaborating and brainstorming work better when people are together in the office.
To foster a culture of collaboration, “we’ve decided that we’re going to return to being in the office the way we were before the onset of COVID,” Jassy said in a memo to employees posted on Amazon’s website. “When we look back over the last five years, we continue to believe that the advantages of being together in the office are significant.”
Disney
Disney mandates that employees work in the office four days a week, typically Monday to Thursday.
“[I]n a creative business like ours, nothing can replace the ability to connect, observe and create with peers that comes from being physically together, nor the opportunity to grow professionally by learning from leaders and mentors,” CEO Bob Iger said in a 2023 memo to employees.
JPMorgan
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is a staunch advocate of in-person work, and once blasted remote work as a policy that “does not work for younger people. It doesn’t work for those who want to hustle,” he said at a business forum. He was among the first leaders to summon employees back to the workplace.
As of April 2023, workers have been reporting to JPMorgan offices at least three times a week. The company is reportedly tracking attendance, too.
Starbucks
While the coffee giant’s new CEO Brian Niccol will commute to Starbucks’ Seattle headquarters from his Newport Beach, California residence, most other workers likely live in closer proximity to their offices, given that they must be at their desks three days a week.
Niccol is not exempt from following the mandate, according to the company.
X
X owner Elon Musk has consistently opposed remote work, saying he believes workers are more productive when working from a corporate office.
In 2022, he said all X workers would be expected to report to the office on a full-time basis, and that he would interpret a failure to show up as a resignation from the company.
Zoom
Even pandemic icon Zoom, one of the companies that benefitted the most from remote work, last summer told workers who live near a company office to report to their desks at least two times a week, a company spokesperson told CBS MoneyWatch.
The mandate applies to its roughly 7,400 workers who live near a Zoom office, the videoconferencing platform said at the time.
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