The 2025-26 Premier League season begins Friday with defending champion Liverpool hosting Bournemouth at Anfield. Here’s what to know heading into the new campaign in the world’s most popular soccer league: Liverpool will attempt to retain the top-flight title for the first time since the mid-1980s to the backdrop of a tragedy.

The defending English Premier League champions look to start the new season on the right foot, as Liverpool gets set to play host to Bournemouth to kick off the 2025-26 campaign.

Florian Wirtz, Liverpool: It didn't take long for Liverpool's current record signing to get up to speed with the Premier League, the former Bayer Leverkusen man darting elegantly around the Wembley field in what was an impressive display against Crystal Palace, one in which he laid on a goal for fellow new arrival Hugo Ekitike.