From Various sources, I can so far confirm the following Dates for NEXT Season

Carling Cup Dates 2007/08
Round 1: Week commencing 13th August
Round 2: Week commencing 27th August
Round 3: Week commencing 24th September
Round 4: Week commencing 29th October
Round 5: Week commencing 3rd December
Semi-Final, 1st Leg: Week commencing 7th January 08
Semi-Final, 2nd Leg: Week commencing 21st January 08
Final: Sunday 24th February 08

8&12 sep look possible holiday trips

andy

Crete is nice at that time of the year!

Crewe Alexandra, Carlilse, Leyton Orient, Oldham, Tranmere, Northampton, Brighton, Blackpool and Yeovil f**kin Town to name just a few....then some tasty trips to the likes of Bournmouth, Swansea, Millwall, Huddersfield and Donny Rovers

MOSCOW!!!!!! Kinell Why?????????????? Nearly as bad as Greece this year.

http://uk.sports.yahoo.com/30042007/3/p ... pbeat.html

Apparently the Asian Cup (equivalent of European championships) is being held in July. Probably wise to avoid players in that at the start of the new FF season.

Must admit its a catch 22 because watching football abroad is great! But i must admit I dont fancy spending my hols doing "The Times" transfers

Carling Cup dates are now confirmed earlier than Usual
Premier League Teams not in Europe will now start on 29 August

Others will start on 24 September

This means only ONE midweek fixture for EPL in August

AND Liverpool and Arsenal will not be able to play this game until December

26th Cup of Africa Nations takes place in 2008.

The tournament will be held between January 20 and February 10. The venues will be Accra, Kumasi, Sekondi and Tamale.


Qualification is still ongoing.

Loving this!! God a lad's golf/piss up weekend away to Marbella already pencilled in for the weekend of Sept 8th but was worried about missing any United games! Now I know I won't miss any games, plus I won't have to fart about trying to make any transfers for TFF in an internet cafe and I get to be out of the country during boring as f*ck Eng-er-land games!! Winner all round!!

From FA site:
http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/TheFAComm ... ld2007.htm

Sunday 5 August 2007 - first Community Shield fixture at new Wembley

Does anyone know when the German Bundesliga kicks off? I'm thinking about a blow-out in Munich or Berlin sometime in August and it would be remiss of me not to take in a game or two whilst there.

Das Endspiel um den DFB-Pokal wird in der kommenden Saison 2007/2008 zum zweiten Mal in der Geschichte des deutschen Fußballs bereits vor dem letzten Bundesliga-Spieltag ausgetragen. Das geht aus dem Rahmenterminkalender hervor, den der Deutsche Fußball-Bund (DFB) und die Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL) am Donnerstag verabschiedeten. Demnach steigt der 1. Spieltag der Saison vom 10. bis 13. August, der 34. und letzte am 17. Mai, das Cup-Finale in Berlin aber nicht wie traditionell eine Woche danach, sondern bereits am 19. April ausgetragen.

Die weiteren Termine der kommenden Saison: Der Liga-Pokal ist vom 21. bis 28. Juli 2007 terminiert worden,

die Winterpause ist zwischen dem 17. Dezember und dem 1. Februar 2008.

Die einzelnen Runden des DFB-Pokals vor dem Endspiel steigen am 4./5. August (1. Runde) und am 30./31. Oktober 2007 (2. Runde) sowie am 29. und 30. Januar (Achtelfinale), 26./27. Februar (Viertelfinale) und 18./19. März 2008 (Halbfinale).

International steht der erste Champions-League-Spieltag am 18. und 19. September 2007 auf dem Programm, das Finale am 21. Mai 2008.

Der UEFA-Cup beginnt am 20. September 2007 mit den Hinspielen der ersten Runde, das Finale ist auf den 14. Mai 2008 terminiert.

Schedule of international events across the continents that may have an impact on Premiership player fitness/fatigue/availability:

2007

June 6 - 24: Gold Cup (CONCACAF) in USA; national teams from North & Central America & Caribbean

June 26 - July 15: Copa America (CONMEBOL) in Venezuela; South American national tournament

June 30 - July 14: Oceania Cup; Australasian countries but without Australia who've transferred to:

July 7 - 29: Asian Cup (AFC) in south-east Asia

2008

Jan 20 - Feb 10: Africa Cup of Nations (CAF) in Ghana

June 7 - 29: Euro 2008 (UEFA) in Switzerland & Austria

From memory the African nations can insist on an attendance
at a two week training camp before the event starts

Arsenal, Chelsea and Bolton are going to start moaning already

What gives Australia the right to transfer to the Asian Cup?

It's almost as ridiculous as the Auld Firm joing the EPL

or Israel playing in European Cup

Because Fifa wont recognise Oceania as a quailfying group for the world cup. If they did i wouldnt have a problem with you whinging about australia being in the Asian group. For 40 years Australia had to qualify for the world cup with a one off game with a south american country or asian country, while all the other countries played 20 to 30 games to qualify(How much of a disadvantage is that all the other teams play as a team 30 times and Australia has to come together for one game). As you saw with the last worldcup Australia didnt have a bad team. If i remember correctly last time Australia played england, Harry Kewell waltzed around Rio and Australia won. Give us a break and give us a fair go!!!

Probably Spurs as well - IF Mido, Ghaly, Ekotto and Zakora are still there next season. Hopefully, the first three will get the Spanish Archer in the summer.

The Fixture List for the League matches will be released on

THURSDAY JUNE 14

FIFA has rules that state clubs must release players at least 14 days ahead of an international tournament.

As mentioned above a month ago, the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations takes place between Sunday 20 January and Sunday 10 February. So the Premiership players called up may miss the FA Cup third round and all domestic club fixtures for the subsequent five weeks.

Jose Mourinho, who is currently in Ghana on a charity mission with Chelsea, has suggested a compromise arrangement.
Monday's Independent covers this as well as the manager's transfer hopes:
http://sport.independent.co.uk/football ... 611685.ece

10 am in One weeks time

FA Cup Dates 2007/08
Round 3: 5th January 08
Round 4: 26th January 08
Round 5: 16th February 08
Round 6: 8th March 08
Semi-Final 5th/6th April 08
Final: Saturday 17th May 08

Anyone care to bet that this is the date of Manchester United v Chelsea league fixture?

It might be, but having had their fingers burnt last season, perhaps Sky won't be so keen.

Sheffield United's appeal to be reinstated in the Premiership at West Ham's expense is due to be heard on Monday 18 June. Here's confirmation, however, that fixture lists for the top four English divisions will be issued at 10am BST on 14 June:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6741049.stm

And here's some background on how the lists are compiled:

http://www.premierleague.com/fapl.rac?c ... breadcrumb

The Scottish league schedule will also be released this Thursday.

CARLING CUP 1st Round - ties to be played week commencing 13 August
Wolves v Bradford
Grimsby v Burnley
Rochdale v Stoke
Scunthorpe v Hartlepool
Port Vale v Wrexham
Crewe v Hull
Chester v Nottingham Forest
Sheffield United v Chesterfield
Rotherham v Sheffield Wednesday
Barnsley v Darlington
Bury v Carlisle
Doncaster v Lincoln
Preston v Morecambe
Stockport v Tranmere
Accrington Stanley v Leicester
Macclesfield v Leeds
Oldham v Mansfield
Blackpool v Huddersfield
Watford v Gillingham
Swindon v Charlton
MK Dons v Ipswich
Southend v Cheltenham
Norwich v Barnet
Shrewsbury v Colchester
Cardiff v Brighton
Swansea v Walsall
Brentford v Bristol City
Bristol Rovers v Crystal Palace
West Brom v Bournemouth
Peterborough v Southampton
Hereford v Yeovil
QPR v Leyton Orient
Northampton v Millwall
Dagenham & Redbridge v Luton
Plymouth v Wycombe
Coventry v Notts County

Premier league fixtures to be announced this morning.

In about 2 minutes

They have chosen Arsenal v liverpool this year

The third weekend in September has by a large coincidence always had a blockbuster fixture for Sky each year

Last year it was a double header with both the Top 4 playing each other

Now by a strange coincidence it is Man U at home to Chelsea