ISTANBUL
A new football season gets underway in France this weekend – the first of the major European leagues to kick-off.
On Friday, Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint-Germain take on Reims.
They will be followed by the English Premier on August 16, Germany's Bundesliga on August 22, Spain’s La Liga on August 23 and the Italian Serie A on August 30. The first game of Turkey’s Spor Toto Super League will be played on 29 August.
The initial fixtures of Europe’s top five leagues, as well as the Turkish top flight, are:
French Ligue 1
August 8: Reims vs Paris Saint-Germain
August 9: Bastia vs Olympique de Marseille; Evian vs Caen; Guingamp vs Saint Etienne; Lille vs Metz; Montpellier vs Bordeaux; Nantes vs Lens; Nice vs Toulouse
August 10: Olympique Lyon vs Rennes; Monaco vs Lorient
English Premier League
August 16: Manchester United vs Swansea City; Leicester City vs Everton; Queens Park Rangers vs Hull City; Stoke City vs Aston Villa; West Bromwich Albion vs Sunderland; West Ham United vs Tottenham Hotspur; Arsenal vs Crystal Palace
August 17: Liverpool vs Southampton; Newcastle United vs Manchester City
August 18: Burnley vs Chelsea
Bundesliga
August 22: Bayern Munich vs Wolfsburg;
August 23: Hoffenheim vs Augsburg; Hannover 96 vs Schalke 04; Hertha Berlin vs Werder Bremen; Eintracht Frankfurt vs Freiburg; Koln vs Hamburg; Borussia Dortmund vs Bayer Leverkusen
August 24: Paderborn vs Mainz 05; Borussia Monchengladbach vs Stuttgart
Spanish La Liga
August 23: Malaga vs Athletic Bilbao; Sevilla vs Valencia; Granada vs Deportivo La Coruna; Almeria vs Espanyol
August 24: Eibar vs Real Sociedad; Celta Vigo vs Getafe; Barcelona vs Elche; Levante vs Villarreal
August 25: Real Madrid vs Cordoba; Rayo Vallecano vs Atletico Madrid
Italian Serie A
August 30: Chievo vs Juventus; Roma vs Fiorentina
August 31: Milan vs Lazio; Atalanta vs Verona; Cesena vs Parma; Genoa vs Napoli; Palermo vs Sampdoria; Sassuolo vs Cagliari; Torino vs Inter; Udinese vs Empoli
Turkish Spor Toto Super League (to be played on August 29, 30, 31 and September 1)
Istanbul Basaksehir vs Kasimpasa; Kayseri Erciyesspor vs Trabzonspor; Sivasspor vs Gaziantepspor; Fenerbahce vs Kardemir Karabukspor; Balikesirspor vs Akhisar Belediyespor; Eskisehirspor vs Torku Konyaspor; Bursaspor vs Galatasaray; Caykur Rizespor vs Genclerbirligi; Mersin Idmanyurdu vs Besiktas
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