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Premier League Final Matchday Broadcaster Split
Ten matches, two broadcasters, one of the cleanest final-day broadcast splits Sky and TNT have produced in years.
The 2025-26 Premier League season closes on Sunday 24 May 2026. All ten matches kick off simultaneously at 16:00 BST, the standard final-day kickoff window that has held since the 2010 redesign of the closing matchday.
Under the 2025-2029 rights cycle, Sky Sports carries the larger share of the final-day allocation across its main and overflow football channels (Sky Sports Premier League, Sky Sports Football, Sky Sports Action, Sky Sports Arena and Sky Sports Mix). TNT Sports covers the remaining ties across TNT Sports 1 through 4.
The expected channel framework, pending the broadcasters’ final allocation 48 hours before kickoff:
- Sky Sports Premier League: [Title-relevant fixture A]
- Sky Sports Main Event: [Title-relevant fixture B]
- Sky Sports Football: [European-places fixture]
- Sky Sports Action: [Mid-table fixture A]
- Sky Sports Arena: [Mid-table fixture B]
- Sky Sports Mix: [Mid-table fixture C]
- TNT Sports 1: [Relegation-relevant fixture A]
- TNT Sports 2: [Relegation-relevant fixture B]
- TNT Sports 3: [Mid-table fixture D]
- TNT Sports 4: [Mid-table fixture E]
Channel allocations may shift in the 48 hours before kickoff. Both broadcasters retain discretion to swap matches between overflow channels if a fixture becomes more or less significant in the title or relegation picture. We will update this article when the published allocation lands.
Why the closing matchday usually splits cleanly
The closing matchday has historically produced messy allocation because both broadcasters want the most narratively significant fixture as their headline. In a season where the title race is decided early, the European places have firmed up, and the relegation cliff has narrowed, the allocation tends to be tidier: each broadcaster gets one fixture that still matters, with the rest distributed across overflow channels for completeness rather than competition.
Sky’s flagship channel (Sky Sports Premier League) typically takes whichever of the title-runner-up or European-qualification matches is still live at kickoff. TNT Sports 1 typically takes the most consequential relegation fixture.
How to follow all ten simultaneously
Both broadcasters run a “goals” channel on the final day that cuts between the ten matches in real time:
- Sky Sports Premier League’s final-day Goals window runs from 15:45 BST through full-time.
- TNT Sports 5 simulcasts the four-match TNT package in a single grid.
For households with both subscriptions, the cleanest setup is the TNT Sports grid for the overflow plus the Sky Sports Premier League channel for the title-relevant fixture, with the Sky goals channel as the cut-in for everything else.
