Premier League fixtures published – first game – Toon away

The Irons kick off the new season away at Newcastle United.

The new season’s fixtures have now been published and we will be facing Steve Bruce’s outfit  on the opening day for the second successive year.

We head for St James’ Park on the weekend of Saturday 14 August and the month continues with two games with Leicester City heading to London Stadium on Saturday 21 August, and Crystal Palace providing the first London derby opposition a week later.

Full 2021/22 Premier League fixture list

The 2021/22 season concludes on the road, with David Moyes’ men heading to Brighton & Hove Albion on Sunday 22 May, while our final home game – and what could be skipper Mark Noble’s last run out at London Stadium – comes against the 2020/21 champions Manchester City.

Other notable dates in the calendar include a home Boxing Day clash with Southampton, while the festive season continues with local trips to take on Watford on Tuesday 28 December and Crystal Palace on New Year’s Day.

The derby matches against Tottenham Hotspur will be at home on the weekend of 23 October and away on Saturday 19 March.

West Ham’s first meetings with newly promoted Brentford takes place at home on the weekend of 2 October, while Norwich City visit on Saturday 18 December, before that festive trip to the third of the Premier League’s new boys, Watford.

Supporters should note that all Premier League fixtures are subject to change.

In addition, our home fixtures against Manchester United, Brentford, Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool, and away games at Liverpool and Burnley are all subject to movement to the Sunday of that weekend due to our participation in the UEFA Europa League group stages the previous Thursday.

The UK broadcast selections for the early match rounds are due to be completed by 5 July.

In addition, the Hammers will begin their Carabao Cup challenge at the third-round stage in the week commencing Monday 20 September, while the Emirates FA Cup third round will be held over the weekend of Saturday 8 January 2022. Our UEFA Europa League campaign will begin on Thursday 16 September.

ClaretandHugh says: It could hardly be a more exciting season ahead and we are all praying that the delays to the covid issue are finally resolved in time for us to return to live football. Strange that we should be meeting Newcastle again as our first opponents and we will be looking for a very different resylt. It really is a case of near wall to wall football right now but the publication of the new fixtures puts a spring in everybody’s step. It will of course be very interesting to see how many traditional Saturday afternoon games we manage to squeeze in but can’;t imagine it will be that many.

 

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Hugh Southon is a lifelong Iron and the founding editor of ClaretandHugh. He is a national newspaper journalist of many years experience and was Bobby Moore's 'ghost' writer during the great man's lifetime. He describes ClaretandHugh as "the Hammers daily newspaper!" Follow on Twitter @hughsouthon