Premier League opponents confirmed for 2025/26 season
Tue 27 May 2025, 09:00|
Tottenham Hotspur
The 19 teams we shall face in the 2025/26 Premier League campaign have now been finalised.
With Leicester City, Ipswich Town and Southampton all suffering relegation from the top flight to the English Football League Championship, they have been replaced with three new sides from the second tier in Leeds United, Burnley and Sunderland.
The three sides of course join us and the league's 16 other teams - AFC Bournemouth, Arsenal, Aston Villa, Brentford, Brighton & Hove Albion, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Everton, Fulham, Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, West Ham United and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Beginning with the Championship winners Leeds United, the Whites stormed the division to bounce back from Play-Off Final heartbreak in 2024 to record 100 points and take the league title.
After a significant exodus of players in the summer, including the departure of young star Archie Gray who joined us in July, 2024, Leeds rebuilt quickly and, under Daniel Farke and with the help of Manor Solomon, cleaned up in the Championship, sweeping countless teams aside to take top spot and earn a return to the Premier League.
It marks a return to the top flight for United after two years away following their 2023 relegation. That season we completed the double of the Whites with a 4-3 win at home and a 4-1 win away - a final day victory which was also Harry Kane and Lucas Moura's final appearances for the Club.
Watch - Leeds United 1-4 Spurs | May, 2023
Like Leeds, it would also be fair to say Burnley stormed the league as they also recorded 100 points to earn promotion, finishing second behind the Whites on goal difference. It is the first time in the history of the Championship that two sides have recorded at least 100 points.
Under the stewardship of our former midfielder Scott Parker, who made 63 appearances for us between 2011 and 2013, winning our Player of the Season award in his first year, the Clarets have earned an immediate return to the Premier League after their 2024 relegation.
The side where Wilson Odobert began the season, scoring in their opening weekend win at Luton Town, their attack is now supported by another Spurs connection as former Academy player Marcus Edwards moved to Turf Moor in January. He scored once in their last 15 games as they went on an unbeaten to finish as runners up.
We last faced Burnley in May, 2024, running out 2-1 winners in N17 thanks to goals from Pedro Porro and Micky van de Ven having won 5-2 at Turf Moor in the September.
Watch - Spurs 2-1 Burnley | May, 2024
Finally, Sunderland complete the Premier League line up for 2025/26 after they sealed promotion on Saturday via the Play-Offs.
Defeating Sheffield United 2-1 at Wembley, the Black Cats ended an eight-year hiatus away from the top flight and - like their fellow promoted sides - did so with the help of the Spurs Alumni as Academy graduates Dennis Cirkin and Romaine Mundle both played their part in the Mackems' promotion campaign.
The last time we faced Sunderland, we drew 0-0 at the Stadium of Light in a Premier League trip to the north east in January, 2017, having defeated them 1-0 at White Hart Lane in September, 2016.
