Only the final round of Premier League matches remain to be played.
The 20 teams all kicking off on Sunday (24 May) at 4pm.
Tuesday night saw two Premier League matches played out that were full of drama.
The 7.30pm kick-off ended Bournemouth 1 Manchester City 1.
Whilst the game that kicked off at 8.15pm finished Chelsea 2 Tottenham 1.
They leaves the Premier League table looking like this now on Tuesday (20 May 2026) morning:
Three positions in the table are now guaranteed, with the other 17 to be decided on Sunday.
Arsenal are now crowned champions.
Manchester City guaranteed to be runners-up.
Manchester United will finish third.
Apart from that though, all the other places in the Premier League depend on these final ten 4pm kick-offs on Sunday.
Brighton v Man U
Burnley v Wolves
Palace v Arsenal
Fulham v Newcastle United
Liverpool v Brentford
Man City v Villa
Forest v Bournemouth
Sunderland v Chelsea
Tottenham v Everton
West Ham v Leeds
Relegation
The fight for rock bottom will be played out at Turf Moor. If Wolves win then they will swap places with Burnley.
The huge goal difference advantage that Tottenham have over them, means that West Ham can realistically only stay up if they win against Leeds AND Spurs lose at home to Everton. At least Chelsea’s win last night has kept the Hammers’ hopes alive to the final day.
Champions League
Aston Villa are guaranteed a top five finish and Champions League football.
Either Liverpool or Bournemouth will fill the other top five spot. If Haaland hadn’t scored that very late goal last night, Bournemouth would have moved only a point behind Liverpool. However, the three points gap means that now Liverpool have to lose at home to Brentford AND Bournemouth win at Forest AND the Cherries turn around a six goal GD disadvantage (and Liverpool have currently scored five more goals than Bournemouth). So Liverpool are pretty much guaranteed top five.
Bournemouth are guaranteed a minimum of Europa League though as sixth and seventh place will give you that, at least currently…
However, if Villa win against Freiburg tonight in the Europa League final AND finish fifth in the Premier League, then sixth place will get Champions League rather than Europa League (seventh gets Europa League regardless and eighth Conference League).
This then brings Brighton into Champions League contention if sixth place qualifies for that competition. Brighton would end up sixth if they win at home to Man U AND Bournemouth lose at Forest.
Europa League and Conference League
So whilst Bournemouth are guaranteed to get either Champions League or Europa League, four other clubs can get Europa League, Conference League or nothing.
These clubs are Brighton, Chelsea, Brentford and Sunderland.
Sunderland would get Europa League if they beat Chelsea AND Brentford fail to win at Liverpool AND Brighton lose at home to Man U.
Sunderland are guaranteed at least Conference League if they beat Chelsea AND Brentford lose at Liverpool. Sunderland’s poor goal difference means that a draw can’t give them European football.
In happier news, the Mackems can still finish as low as 12th if they lose to Chelsea AND Everton win at Tottenham AND there is a winner in the Fulham v Newcastle United match.
As for Newcastle United?
For Newcastle United the European dream is over due to Chelsea winning last night. There again, the only possibility that had remained was a slight chance of Conference League qualification. Which at least for me provided a quandary of whether that competition is really worth getting into when balanced on how so much travel and so many extra matches might impact United’s domestic hopes next season.
So this Newcastle United season will now end with Eddie Howe’s team anywhere between 9th and 14th. A win at Fulham would guarantee at least top eleven and then finishing top half (9th or 10th) would need Sunderland failing to beat Chelsea and Brentford losing at Liverpool (and Newcastle turning around a three goal GD difference).