JOSE MOURINHO and Manchester United will host Southampton on the first Friday night game of the 2016-17 season.
Champions Leicester will kick off the coverage at 12.30pm on the first day of the new campaign when they travel to newly-promoted Hull.
Televised Sky Sports fixtures in August and September
AUGUST
Sat 13: Hull v Leicester (12.30pm)
Sun 14: B’mouth v Man Utd (1.30pm)
Sun 14: Arsenal v Liverpool (4pm)
Mon 15: Chelsea v West Ham (8pm)
Fri 19: Man Utd v Saints (8pm)
Sat 20: Stoke v Man City (12.30pm)
Sun 21: Sunderland v Boro (1.30pm)
Sun 21: West Ham v B’mouth (4pm)
Sat 27: Spurs v Liverpool (12.30pm)
Sun 28: West Brom v Boro (1.30pm)
Sun 28: Man City v West Ham (4pm)
SEPTEMBER
Sat 10: Man Utd v Man City (12.30pm)
Sun 11: Swansea v Chelsea (4pm)
Mon 12: Sunderland v Everton (8pm)
Fri 16: Chelsea v Liverpool (8pm)
Sun 18: Palace v Stoke (2.15pm)
Sun 18: Spurs v Sunderland (4pm)
Sat 24: Man Utd v Leicester (12.30pm)
Sun 25: West Ham v Saints (4pm)
Mon 26: Burnley v Watford (8pm)
And the opening ‘Super Sunday’ of the campaign will allow Premier League fans to get a first glimpse of new signings Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrikh Mkhitaryan in action for the Red Devils when they face Bournemouth at 1.30pm – before Arsenal face Liverpool in a mouth-watering 4pm clash .
BT Sport have also today announced their opening fixtures of the season– the full list is HERE.
Liverpool‘s visit to Antonio’s Conte‘s Chelsea is the second Friday night game of the season, with pubs set to be rammed for the Friday September 16 clash.
Every team will be live at least once live on Sky before the end of September.
Sky have the right to show 126 Premier League matches next season and have announced the first batch of games they will show throughout August and September.
Relegated Aston Villa hosted Manchester United in a 1-0 defeat last season in a Friday night fixture.
But that was because West Midlands police would have been stretched on the Saturday the game was scheduled to take place due to an EDL march in the city centre.
Domestic broadcast rights alone are worth £5.14billion – with Sky and BT showing a total of 168 matches between for each of the next three seasons.
And Sky will continue to dominate UK coverage after bagging five of the seven TV packages to show 126 games, up from 116 matches in 2015/16.
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This season will see the introduction of Friday night Premier League football on Sky, while they have also taken on the Saturday lunchtime matches from BT, who will instead focus on the Saturday evening games.
Sky are set to show 28 Saturday games at 12.30pm, 28 at 1.30pm or 2.15pm on Sundays, 28 at 4pm or 4.30pm on Sundays, 28 at either 8pm on Mondays (18 minimum) or at 7.30pm/8pm on Fridays (10 minimum) and eight games on Bank Holidays and a further six on Sundays.
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