Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal are all heading to the United States for pre-season ahead of the 2024/25 campaign, with the Premier League giants all set to face each other in a string of high profile summer friendlies.
America has been a common destination for leading European clubs in recent years, with Real Madrid and Barcelona also hosting informal Clasico games in each of the last two summers. Other smaller Premier League clubs like Aston Villa and Brentford have been involved in well received pre-season games in the country, where the appetite for European ‘soccer’ is enormous as part of last year’s inaugural Premier League Summer Series eventually won by Chelsea.
Details about the summer of 2024 are yet to be released, but United and Arsenal played each in front of more than 80,000 people at the MetLife Stadium near New York last July.
United also faced Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund and Wrexham during their tour, while Arsenal were invited as the opponent for the annual MLS All-Star game at the same venue and then later played Barcelona in Los Angeles.
Liverpool played a pair of friendlies in south east Asia last summer, facing Leicester City and Bayern Munich in Singapore and 2024 will mark their first pre-season in the United States since 2019. It is also going to be their first without Jurgen Klopp in nine years following his recent announcement.
This year will be the first time all three have been in the United States in one summer since 2014.
All three Premier League clubs are majority-owned by American entities. Even with Sir Jim Ratcliffe recently buying 25% and taking over sporting operations, the Glazer family still retain 75% majority ownership of United, while Stan Kroenke’s firm owns Arsenal and Liverpool have been controlled by Fenway Sports Group since 2010. Each owner also runs at least one other American sports team.
The Athletic has reported that Chelsea, another American-owned club, and Manchester City are also set to spend the summer of 2024 stateside and are in talks about playing a game against each other.
Club
Year
Opponents
Man Utd
2023
Arsenal, Wrexham, Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund
Arsenal
2023
MLS All-Stars, Man Utd, Barcelona
Arsenal
2022
Everton, Orlando City, Chelsea
Liverpool
2019
Borussia Dortmund, Sevilla, Sporting CP
Arsenal
2019
Colorado Rapids, Bayern Munich, Fiorentina, Real Madrid
Man Utd
2018
Club America, San Jose Earthquakes, AC Milan, Liverpool, Real Madrid
Liverpool
2018
Borussia Dortmund, Man City, Man Utd
Man Utd
2017
La Galaxy, Real Salt Lake, Man City, Real Madrid, Barcelona
Liverpool
2016
Chelsea, AC Milan, Roma
Arsenal
2016
Guadalajara, MLS All-Stars
Man Utd
2015
Club America, San Jose Earthquakes, Barcelona, PSG
Man Utd
2014
LA Galaxy, Roma, Inter, Real Madrid, Liverpool
Liverpool
2014
Roma, Olympiacos, Man City, AC Milan, Man Utd
Arsenal
2014
New York Red Bulls
Liverpool
2012
Roma, Tottenham
Man Utd
2011
New England Revolution, Seattle Sounders, Chicago Fire, MLS All-Stars, Barcelona
Man Utd
2010
Philadelphia Union, Kansas City Wizards, MLS All-Stars