DALLAS — For Premier League fans in Dallas, there's a handful of changes coming for the upcoming season.
Here's a breakdown of everything you need to know:
When does the Premier League start?
The league opens up its 2024 season on Friday, Aug. 16 when Manchester United takes on Fulham. The weekend slate begins with Ipswich versus Liverpool and ends with Leicester hosting Tottenham.
Where can I watch the Premier League in Dallas-Fort Worth?
Per the Premier League's bar finder, there are nine spots in the metroplex where you can catch matches.
Here is a list and their affiliated club:
- The Dubliner – Newcastle
- 2818 Greenville Avenue, Dallas
- The Irishman – Tottenham
- 18101 Preston Road, Dallas
- McSwiggans – West Ham United
- 6910 Windhaven Parkway, The Colony
- Henderson Tap House – Manchester United
- 2323 N Henderson Avenue, Dallas
- The Londoner (Addison) – Arsenal / Crystal Palace / Everton / Liverpool
- 14930 Midway Road, Addison
- World of Beer – Chelsea
- 3252 W. 7th Street, Fort Worth
- From Across the Pond – Arsenal / Liverpool / Watford
- 8000 Bedford Euless Road, Dallas
- The Holy Grail Pub – Manchester United
- 8240 Preston Road #150, Plano
- Shannon Brewing Company – N/A
- 818 N Main Street, Keller
Cosm Dallas Premier League event schedule
The Colony's newest entertainment venue, Cosm, also will be showing select Premier League matches. The venue, which boasts an 87-foot-diameter LED dome, is set to open Aug. 31. Here are the Premier League matches on their schedule:
Premier League 2024: What to know
There are five newly hired managers, around $1.6 billion worth of new players (and counting), new offside technology, updated financial regulations and a tweaked match schedule.
Coaching changes
A quarter of the coaches will be taking charge of a Premier League game for the first time, with Liverpool ( Arne Slot ), Chelsea ( Enzo Maresca ) and Brighton ( Fabian Hurzeler ) all having new managers and both Southampton (Russell Martin) and Ipswich (Kieran McKenna) gaining promotion with managers owning no top-flight experience. Throw in Julen Lopetegui being the new guy at West Ham after 4 1/2 years of David Moyes at the helm and Steve Cooper replacing Maresca at Leicester, and the dugouts will look different this season. Most of the intrigue, however, will focus on Slot and what style he implements at Liverpool after the team's nearly nine years with the popular Jurgen Klopp. Rock ‘n’ roll could turn into more control, with Slot preferring more of a possession game.
Slower market
The Premier League's 20 clubs have spent as much on new players in this transfer window as those in Spain, Italy and Germany combined, according to transfermarkt.com. So why does it feel like such a slow summer of trading? Maybe because there have been no blockbuster deals, with the most expensive being striker Dominic Solanke moving to Tottenham from Bournemouth for 65 million pounds ($83 million). However, lots of deals for between $30-70 million quickly add up — and there are still three weeks left in the window, during which Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea are expected to weigh in. City (Savinho) and Arsenal (Riccardo Calafiori) have only made one new signing so far and Liverpool hasn't made any. Come the end of transfer deadline day on Aug. 30, don't be surprised if Premier League clubs have spent way more than $2 billion — even if most are balancing the books with sales because of the league's sterner financial rules.
Semi-automated offsides
Expect offside decisions to be reached much quicker in the Premier League this season. The competition is introducing semi-automated offside technology for the first time, with the new system set to be launched during the first half of the season. Multiple cameras will track player movements and record data points on parts of the body that are relevant for an offside decision. Data is processed with artificial intelligence to create a 3D offside line that is alerted to the team of VAR officials. It is expected to take an average of around 30 seconds off the length of time it currently takes VAR officials to come to a decision manually. Semi-automated offsides were used at the 2022 World Cup and at the recent European Championship.
Spending rules
Last season in the Premier League was notable for some clubs, like Everton and Nottingham Forest, receiving points deductions for breaking the competition's profitability and sustainability regulations, which are now being more strictly applied. This coming season is the final year of those regulations, with two new forms of spending caps being trialed ahead of their introduction from the 2025-26 season. Teams in England’s top division will trial a “Squad Cost Rules” system, which will limit spending on players to 85% of a club’s soccer revenue and net profit or loss on player sales. A second system called “Top to Bottom Anchoring” limits — or anchors — spending to a multiple of the lowest combined prize money and cash from TV rights forecast to be earned by a team. The league said the systems aimed to “improve and preserve clubs’ financial sustainability and the competitive balance of the Premier League” as well as “promote aspiration of clubs."
No winter break
The Premier League is renowned for being a relentless slog — even more so this season. There's no winter break for clubs this time, with the season starting later, to give players more time to recover from international tournaments this summer, and therefore being squeezed. Last year, for example, five games were held each weekend over two weeks, giving teams at least one weekend off over January. All of Europe's other big leagues will have a winter break.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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