Football is trying to fit in a winter World Cup as the 31st premier league season begins.
Who are the new people this season and how does the winter break work?
All is explained by the BBC Sport.
The number of times each team can make a substitution has gone up.
After the first Covid in 2020, the rule was brought in by the premier league.
English football went back to having three subs.
Five replacements will be allowed from the bench. After which no more subs can be made, teams have three chances to use their five subs.
The anti-racism gesture will no longer be used before selected games.
If there is a medical emergency in the stands, the games should not be stopped.
When there is an immediate chance of a goal and tight calls, assistant referees have been told to only raise their flag for an obvious offside.
Sniffer dogs will be used to find flares and smoke bombs in games.
When the ball is out of play, the premier league will introduce a multi-ball system.
There will be a match ball, one with the fourth official and eight around the pitch on cones.
The league will assess each team's request on a case-by-case basis.
It says that the impact of player unavailability on a club's squad is truly exceptional and that the club concerned has taken all reasonable steps to avoid the necessity to make the application.
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After being demoted to the second tier in 1998-99, Forest are back in the top flight.
It took 8,414 days and 1,069 league and play-off games for them to return. The longest stay in the Championship has been by the team that returned to the premier league.
Two of the three teams coming up have been in the top flight.
The two teams that were demoted in 2020-21 are back in the top flight.
When they won the title, it was the fifth season in a row of bouncing between the Championship and the English top flight.
The Cherries, who were in the premier league until 2020, were up in second place thanks to the work ofParker.
It will be the first time in two years that there won't be a team in the premier league. The two teams went down after one season.
Since Alex Ferguson's retirement, there have been eight people to manage Manchester United.
In his four and a half years in Amsterdam, the 52 year old led the team to two Dutch doubles and a third Eredivisie title.
The hope is that he can help them get back into the competition.
Steve Cooper is one of the new managers.
He was the manager of England Under-16s and 17s before he became the manager ofSwansea.
He took charge of Forest in September, when they were bottom of the table and in the midst of their worst start to a season in 100 years.
Ten Hag was the only summer manager who had managed in the premier league before.
All eyes will be on Erling Haaland when it comes to the signings this summer.
In club football, he has scored more than 130 goals and 20 for Norway. He is 22 years old.
Another big deal was the replacement of Sadio Mane with Darwin Nunez for £64 million.
Richarlison was signed by Spurs for 60 million dollars, Gabriel Jesus was sold by City for 75 million dollars, and Oleksandr Zinchenko was sold by City for 50 million dollars.
KalvinPhillips was signed by City for £45m, Manchester United brought in LisandroMartinez andChelsea recruited Kalidou Koulibaly.
West ham spent more than $60 million on two players.
There are a number of big names who left the premier league.
It will be the first time in the history of English football that there will be six weeks without a game.
Between 13 and 26 December there will be no football in the premier league.
There will only be two days without matches between 26 December and 5 January, but teams are expected to have more time.
The season starts a week earlier than last year, on Friday 5 August, and ends a week later, on Sunday 28 May.
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