The 2024/25 Premier League season is slowly starting to take shape as we approach the end of the current campaign. On Thursday it was confirmed that next season will get under way on Saturday, August 17 and come to a conclusion on Sunday, May 25.
The Premier League also revealed that there will be no mid-season break next term and that there will be no league fixture on Christmas Eve after a controversial change to the schedule for this season. Just over 24 hours on from that announcement, confirmation arrived of the first Championship team to earn promotion to the Premier League.
Following their surprise relegation 11 months ago, Leicester City have bounced back at the first time of asking under head coach Enzo Maresca. Leading the way for the vast majority of the season until suffering a late scare in recent weeks, the Foxes' promotion was confirmed on Friday evening as a result of Leeds United's 4-0 humiliation at relegation-threatened QPR.
Returning to the pitch on Monday evening when they visit Preston North End, Leicester have the opportunity to wrap up the Championship title in their final two games of the season as their destiny is very much in their own hands. Ipswich Town, who currently sit in third, currently trail the East Midlands club by five points with a game in hand over them but they would need their rivals to drop points in their next two games to have any chance of lifting the title.
Leicester's promotion does mean that a couple of reunions will take place next season when Ange Postecoglou's Tottenham side face the Foxes. The first will see Harry Winks come up against Tottenham for the first time since departing his boyhood club last July.
In and out of the team prior to his Tottenham Hotspur Stadium exit,
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