With the Premier League kick-off fast approaching, here's what's new for the 2024/25 season.
There will be new formats to competitions that Premier League clubs are involved in this season, which will have an impact on them and the league's calendar.
New format to UEFA competitions
The UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League have all been revamped this season.
Thirty-six clubs will participate in the Champions League phase, a single league competition now, instead of eight groups of four as it was until last season.
Each club will play eight matches, four home and four away, each against a different opponent, who are determined by clubs' placings in four seeded groups.
Each team will be drawn to play two opponents from each of these pots, playing once against a team from each pot at home, and one away.
The top eight sides in the league will qualify automatically for the round-of-16, while the teams finishing in ninth to 24th place will compete in a two-legged knock-out phase playoff to secure their path to the last 16 of the competition.
Teams who finish 25th or lower will be eliminated, with no access to the UEFA Europa League (UEL).
Premier League Champions Manchester City, Arsenal, Liverpool and Aston Villa will be taking part in the new expanded format of the UEFA Champions League which involves at least two more minimum matches than before.
There will be similar format changes applied to the Europa League (eight matches and eight different opponents in the league phase) and the formerly named Europa Conference League, which will now be called the UEFA Conference League (albeit six matches).
Both these competitions will also feature 36 teams in the league phase. Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United are in the UEL while Chelsea must first compete in two playoff matches against Sporting Braga or Servette to reach the Conference League.
FA Cup changes
All rounds of the Emirates FA Cup will be played on weekends this season, including the fifth round, which has been played in midweek for the last five years.
The competition will also be played without replays from the first round proper.
The fourth and fifth rounds and the quarter-finals all will be exclusive of Premier League fixtures for the first time, and the fourth round will have an extended window from Friday to Wednesday.
The final of the FA Cup will take place on the penultimate weekend of the Premier League, on Saturday 17 May, with no Premier League fixtures on the same day.
