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Atos kick off new football season as Premier League fixtures released

As fans examine their team’s schedules for the 2025-26 Premier League season, Atos celebrates how they help to ensure balance and fairness across the season

 

 London, United Kingdom – June 18, 2025

Atos is celebrating more than three decades of Premier League football, as another season begins with the hotly-anticipated release of the 2025-26 fixture list it helped to produce.

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, has proudly worked in close partnership with the Premier League to determine when each team will meet, home and away, every season since it was introduced in 1992.

Weighing up all the possible fixture combinations for the Premier League’s 20 teams and ensuring that the final list of 380 matches does not favour one club over another, is a complex task – requiring specially formulated technology to crunch the numbers and produce a balanced schedule.

The process of fixture-setting, which begins in January and takes six months to complete, produces an initial sequence of games, with a human eye is essential for making final decisions.

The first consideration is to ensure fairness: for example, making sure that no one plays the same opponent within three matchdays.

Atos’ team of experts must also ensure, where possible, that local rivals do not play home matches on the same day, and that considerations around police resources and travel infrastructure are taken into account, particularly around public holidays or other major events.

The complex balancing act means that a problem with a single fixture can require dozens more changes to resolve it. Atos has unrivalled experience in overcoming these challenges, having set 12,786 fixtures for 51 teams over the past 33 Premier League seasons – as well as providing digital services to other sporting partners such as the English Football League and International Olympic Committee.

Michael Herron, Head of UK&I at Atos Group, said: “For millions of football fans, the launch of the Premier League fixture list marks the unofficial start of the new season. We’re very proud to have helped facilitate another year of Premier League football, and we are looking forward to a thrilling season to come.”

 

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About Atos Group

Atos Group is a global leader in digital transformation with c. 72,000 employees and annual revenue of c. € 10 billion, operating in 68 countries under two brands — Atos for services and Eviden for products. European number one in cybersecurity, cloud and high-performance computing, Atos Group is committed to a secure and decarbonized future and provides tailored AI-powered, end-to-end solutions for all industries. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea) and listed on Euronext Paris.

The purpose of Atos is to help design the future of the information space. Its expertise and services support the development of knowledge, education and research in a multicultural approach and contribute to the development of scientific and technological excellence. Across the world, the Group enables its customers and employees, and members of societies at large to live, work and develop sustainably, in a safe and secure information space.

 

 

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