As usual, I’ve taken the newly-released fixtures for the Premier League and EFL and combined them with an aggregation of leading bookmakers’ odds to visualise where each club’s tough and easy matches appear to be next season. Each row in the matrix below lists a club’s league matches in chronological order, colour-coded based on how difficult they appear to be and the clubs themselves are sorted and numbered by where the odds imply they’ll finish in the table.

I’ve coloured the strongest-looking clubs (based purely on the odds) in red and the weakest-looking in blue, but you can use the numbers down the side to identify which fixtures are which. PA’s new sport data journalist Phil Leake has written up some analysis for each one (linked below).

The plan is to re-run these nearer the start of the season, assuming the odds will move a fair bit in response to transfers, pre-season friendlies etc.

Premier League

Written up here.

Championship

Written up for the Football League Paper here.

League 1

Written up for the Football League Paper here.

League 2

Written up for the Football League Paper here.