The 2020-2021 English Premiership League will start on September 12.

The 20 current shareholder clubs held their last video meeting of the season and confirmed plans to begin the next season on the weekend of September 12.

Community Shield will be confirmed at Wembley for August 30, with the majority of Premier league players heading around Europe and the world for the first international break since November.

But clubs and fans are set to  discover the fixture schedule less than a month before the big kick-off.

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SunSport understands the clubs agreed that the fixture list should be agreed and published by August 21, barely three weeks before the new term begins.

Chiefs would have to wait until the outcome of the Championship play-off Final before they can work properly on what will be a tight schedule with only a maximum 32 weekend dates rather than the normal 34.

Fixtures boffins also have to plan around the likelihood of a number of games initially scheduled for the FA Cup fourth and fifth round weekends being moved to midweek dates.