Big Football Matches This Weekend and Beyond: Fixtures and Predictions

Here are the biggest football matches this weekend and for the next three months: our running list of the games worth clearing your diary for. It covers the Champions League and Europe’s top five leagues, plus the Eredivisie and Primeira Liga, and it picks out the fixtures that matter most: derbies, title clashes, top-four meetings and the heavyweight European nights.

Fixtures, kick-off times and tables come straight from the official competition data, so nothing here is guessed. If a match is moved, the calendar moves with it. Kick-off times show in your own time zone.

How we pick the big matches

Every fixture gets a score based on the competition, the size of the two clubs, whether it is a recognised derby and where both teams sit in the table. Matches marked Flagship are the ones we cover in the most depth, with a full preview, our model’s prediction and a fan vote. About 48 hours before kick-off, each big match gets its own preview page, and after the final whistle it gets a report with fan ratings.

Make your own predictions

Every big match has a fan prediction box. Pick home, draw or away before kick-off and see how the rest of our readers are leaning. You can change your pick right up until the match starts. Want to know how our model is doing? Every call it makes is time-stamped and graded on our prediction record page.