Tottenham expect Thomas Frank and his side to compete on multiple fronts this season and the full effect of the fixture calendar with Champions League and domestic cup games added in shows the task ahead.
Spurs faced 60 matches last season under Ange Postecoglou, managing to win the Europa League and reach the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup. However, they finished 17th in the Premier League and did not progress beyond the fourth round in the FA Cup as an injury crisis, poor performances and Postecoglou deciding to prioritise Europe all played a part.
In sacking Postecoglou, Tottenham made it clear that they expect to compete on multiple fronts. Frank will face a similar fixture pile-up to his predecessor, with games every three to four days in most weeks, and the Dane will be hoping for better fortune when it comes to injuries as well as the club helping him to build a squad capable of taking on the expanded Champions League format, which brings eight league phase games, as well as the packed domestic season.
It will be a new experience for Frank as he has never experienced juggling European football during the middle of a campaign, with his only experience of it coming with 10 Europa League qualifying games back around a decade ago at Brondby.
The Tottenham supporters learned the club's Premier League fixtures for the 2025/26 season on Wednesday morning but now football.london has inserted the European and potential domestic cup dates into the calendar and the full scope of the pile-up becomes clear. As always clubs in continental competition enter the Carabao Cup in the third round and the European games could cause Premier League matches to be shifted from their Saturday spots.
What was already a horrendous trio of games against Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal in November now becomes even harder when you insert a potential Carabao Cup fourth round match days before the game against Chelsea, then Champions League matchday four after it, before the home game against United, and then the trip to the Emirates Stadium after the international break is swiftly followed by the next European matchday.
The little run of four horrible games from January into February next year against Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle and Arsenal also becomes even harder when you add in Champions League matchday eight just days before the game against City and a potential Carabao Cup semi-final second leg days after.
There could then be an FA Cup fourth round match and a potential Champions League knockout phase play-offs first leg tie to squeeze in between the games against Newcastle and Arsenal with the second leg of the play-offs just days after the home North London Derby.
In an ideal world Spurs will want to finish in the top eight in the expanded Champions League to avoid the play-offs, but that is easier said than done in Europe's elite club competition.
It's easier to see it all laid out so here is Tottenham's fixture schedule in full for the 2025/26 season with the potential cup dates added in, with the Carabao Cup fixtures to be played in the week commencing their date: