Understand the 8 Simple Steps to the English Premier League Fixtures Schedule - Football Betting

The 8 simple steps to the drawn up of the popular English premier league fixtures. Punters can then schedule and plan out their football betting strategies for the new season

1. Get started : the whole process status upwards of a year in advance. Both work start in the final months of the previous seasons after FIFA and UEFA published their competition calendars.

2. Coupling and Paring : Every club is matched with another in regard to when they play their home and away fixtures even the first match of the season is determined. This is done because some of the nearby or derby clubs such as Manchester united and Man City, Tottenham hostspur and Arsenal etc do not play at home on the same weekend. With the paring system, it can avoid the impacts upon their respective gate attendances,

3. Why the police are involved: A quick survey will be sent to all the premiership clubs in March. This is a
club’sopportunity to apply for specific dates, and list down team they would like to avoid and pairing with. The
survey are jointly signed by the police and also reflects their concerns. Issues such as ensuring high profile
matches do not clash with big events such as their carnival and festival in a city .

4. Planning :It involves manually planning out on what days all the fixtures will take place and the pattern of home and away games that a team will play. There are rules governing sequencing.. For examples, club will play no more than two home matches consecutively. Once the season is finished, the plan will be input into the computer system, Once the information is fed into the computer, the computer software will generate the list in less than 15 minutes.

5. The First Version Of Draft Copy: Within the first week after the Championship play-off final and the last
promoted club to Englsih Premier Leagueare determined, the first version of the outline fixture is produced.

6. Alteration and Fine Tuning: Thereafter, constant fine turning and tweaking will be carried out, and the list will
be enhance and improve. The minor changes such as potentially sensitive fixtures being played on the opening
or final weekends of the season.

7. Finalizing the fixtures:The English Premier League and the football support federation officials will be
presented with the list and if they agreed they will approve and endorsed it, otherwise, another further process of
fine tuning will take place in the couple of days.

8. Final approval :Over the coming week, English Premier League officials will have to deal with requests by
clubs to switch days. Clubs cannot move a game away from an allocated weekend but they can switch the day of
the match. More changes are expected along the course of the season as EPL clubs progress in the League
Cup, FA cup and European competition.

Hence, the fixtures will help punters for the planning of their football betting schedules.