New season, new rules! The Premier League 2025/26 brings big changes: goalkeepers face an 8-second rule, VAR calls announced in stadiums, and only captains can speak to referees

The Premier League had a new redistribution deal rejected by the English Football League (EFL) shortly before the bill that ushered in a regulator was passed.

Jersey Bulls' women's team will play in the English football pyramid for the first time this season. The newly-formed side will compete in the South East Counties Women's Football League Surrey Division One.

The Premier League have seen their latest attempt to tweak how football’s wealth is distributed hit a roadblock. According to The Athletic, the English Football League (EFL) rejected a redistribution proposal just weeks before a landmark bill introducing an independent football regulator was passed.

This summer marked the 40th anniversary of English football’s nadir. At a time of rampant hooliganism, fatal stadium tragedies and a ban from all European competition, an editorial in The Sunday Times infamously derided football as “a slum sport played in slum stadiums increasingly watched by slum people.”

Brighton's Paul Barber believes 'trusted adults' may be able to help young men - and that football has an important role to play

Mohamed Salah continues to write his own story in the Premier League. On Friday, August 15, 2025, during the opening day of the 2025-2026 season, the Egyptian striker for Liverpool netted his 10th goal in an opening match. He has set a new record at the very top of English football.

Not only was it the setting for Thomas Frank’s top-flight debut as Tottenham Hotspur manager, the return of a suitably snappy dressed Scott Parker to north London or Richarlison’s first goal with his stronger right foot in 10 months, but Premier League history was made.