TV Rights & Revenue
Live
Sky Sports will televise 92 Premier League games live. ESPN will show 46 live games on a new channel yet to be set up. This balance will change to 115-23 from 2010/11.
Highlights
BBC has rights to show highlights on Match of the Day until 2013.
Revenue
All clubs receive £23.6million from domestic and overseas television rights sales and league sponsorship (not including revenue from the highlights deal).
Clubs are paid £477,000 per live game shown, with a guaranteed minimum of £4.77m even if shown less than ten times.
Prize Money
The club finishing bottom of the league at the end of the season will receive a £761,000 merit payment, with an extra £761,000 per each place above, to £15,220,000 for the champions.
Competitions
League Cup (sponsored by Carling)
Hull City will enter at the 2nd Round, along with the other Premier League teams not playing in European cups this season. Rounds will take place around the following dates:
Round 1 - Tuesday 11th August
Round 2 - Tuesday 25th August
Round 3 - Tuesday 22nd September
Round 4 - Tuesday 27th October
Quarter Finals - Tuesday 1st December
Semi Finals 1st Leg - Tuesday 6th January
Semi Finals 2nd Leg - Tuesday19th January
Final - Sunday 28th February
Sky Sports will show two live matches in each of the first five rounds. Sky and BBC will show two of the semi final legs each. Both will show the final.
FA Cup (sponsored by E.on)
Hull City will enter at the 3rd Round, along with all other Premier League teams. Rounds will take place around the following dates:
Qualifying Rounds - 15th August-24th October
First Round Proper - Saturday 7 November
Second Round - Saturday 28 November
Third Round - Saturday 2 January
Fourth Round - Saturday 23 January
Fifth Round - Saturday 13 February
Quarter Finals - Saturday 6 March
Semi-Finas - Saturday 10 April & Sunday 11 April
Final - Saturday 15 May
ITV were due to share TV rights with Setanta Sports.
Reserves
Premier League clubs' reserve teams play in the Barclays Premier Reserve League, except for Tottenham who are not participating in 2009/10. This is split into north and south divisions, with the winner of each playing a final against one another. Hull City Reserves finished 9th out of 11 in the 2008/09 north division. Aston Villa beat Sunderland in the final.
The north division this season will be:
Blackburn Rovers - Christie Park, Morecambe
Bolton Wanderers - Lancashire FA Headquarters
Burnley - Crown Ground, Accrington Stanley
Everton - Stobart Stadium, Halton Rugby League
Hull City - Church Road, North Ferriby United
Liverpool - Prenton Park, Tranmere Rovers
Manchester City - Regional Athletics Arena (across from Eastlands)
Manchester United - Moss Road, Altrincham
Sunderland - Eppleton Colliery Ground, Hetton
Wigan Athletic - Robin Park
Hull City Reserves, now managed by Aidan Davison, will continue to play home games on Wednesday evenings at Church Road in North Ferriby. Season passes can be used to gain free entry. Tickets no longer need to be claimed in advance.
Youth Team
Hull City Juniors will play home games at Winterton Rangers' ground West Street. They will play in the Football League Puma Youth Alliance North East Conference and Puma Youth Alliance Cup against other centre of excellence teams. Wigan Athletic and Burnley are the only other Premier League clubs not competing in the Premier Academy League.
The opening fixture is away to Darlington on Saturday 15th August. The first home game is a week later against Grimsby Town. Click here for full fixture list on City's official website.
Premier League Rules
Away Kits
Rule F.22 states that teams may wear their away strip on no more than 8 occasions, unless required to wear it on more occasions due to a clash with the home team's strip. For example, if Hull City wear their away kit when playing at Wolves because - in the opinion of the referee - both teams wearing their home kits would result in a clash, they would be able to wear their away kit a further 7 times through choice.
Ticket Allocations
The home club must offer the visiting club 3,000 tickets, or 10% of capacity when stadiums hold less than 30,000 (Bolton, Burnley, Portsmouth, Stoke, Wigan, Wolves). Hull City must therefore offer around 2,500 tickets to visiting clubs (unless capacity is increased).
Transfer Windows
The transfer window opened at midnight on the final day of the 2008/09 season, and closes on Monday 31st August. It reopens on 1st January 2009, and will close on Monday 31st January. Unlike the Football League, loans are not permitted outside of the transfer windows except when permitted by the Premier League in extraordinary circumstances (eg. no available goalkeeper). Loan signings made during the transfer window can be made permanent even after the window has closed. Further details on the transfer windows can be found here.
Loan Signings
Clubs may have a maximum of two players on loan at any one time. Clubs can sign a maximum of four players on loan over the course of the season, and only one can be signed from the same club. On-loan players cannot play in either fixture against their transferor club. Players who initially signed on loan before making the transfer permanent cannot play against the transferor club in the same season. Loans that become permanent are excluded from the quota of loan signings a club may make in a season. Loans must be made while the transfer window is open, unless permitted by the Premier League in extraordinary circumstances. Such 'emergency' loans are excluded from the quota of loan signings.
Referees
The Select Group (consisting of 20 referees in 2008/09) are paid a £33,000 annual retainer plus match fees, and are allowed to continue with other careers in addition to the several days spent each month on training and development. Match officials will wear black, green and yellow Umbro manufactured kits complete with the logo of the Professional Game Match Officials Ltd sponsors Air Asia. Officials wear headsets to communicate with one another during the match.
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