Brighton & Hove Albion

Brighton will begin their 2024-25 Premier League campaign against Everton at Goodison Park.

The match will take place on Saturday, 17 August at 15:00 BST.

You can find all of Brighton's fixtures here

Brighton have opened negotiations over a deal for 22-year-old Dutch winger Crysencio Summerville from Leeds United. (Talksport), external

Talks between Borussia Dortmund and Brighton's 33-year-old Germany midfielder Pascal Gross are progressing, though no agreement has been reached. (Sky Germany), external

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The 2024-25 Premier League fixtures are being released on Tuesday at 09:00 BST - and you will see them on the BBC Sport website and app as soon as they are announced.

What should you look out for?

By chief football news reporter Simon Stone

Matches around European games

This will be even more keenly assessed than usual given the four clubs in the Champions League and two in the Europa League will have eight first-phase games rather than six. Long trips before or after European games do not go down well with managers.

Matches around internationals

There are international breaks in September, October, November and March. In Europe, the first three of those are for Nations League fixtures. World Cup qualifiers in Europe start in March 2025, though in South America and Asia they are being played in all four windows.

England managers tend not to be keen on blockbuster league matches immediately before a break and club bosses are equally unhappy at having to play key matches after them when so many players get back on Thursday or Friday.

Festive fixtures

To allow for a mid-August start, there will not be a winter break this season. The Premier League has assured clubs they will not be asked to play twice in less than 60 hours at any point over Christmas and New Year. That rules out any club playing on 26 December also having a game on 28 December. There will be no Christmas Eve fixture in the 2024-25 season.

As the FA Cup third round has been moved from its traditional home on the first weekend of January to the second, it does seem there will be four rounds of fixtures over the festive period - starting on 21 December and ending on 5 January.

New managers

Four Premier League clubs already have new managers - Fabian Hurzeler (Brighton), Enzo Maresca (Chelsea), Arne Slot (Liverpool) and Julen Lopetegui (West Ham) - with a fifth to come at Leicester. So that's a new era beginning at 25% of clubs before a ball has been kicked. Russell Martin will take charge of a top-flight game for the first time after Southampton's promotion.

We asked for your opinions on new Brighton manager Fabian Hurzeler, now the youngest ever full-time Premier League boss.

Here are some of your thoughts:

Nick: This is a very "Brighton" appointment and I love the way the club operates by bringing in personnel that the rest of the football community don't have on their radar. We've all seen that bringing in big names doesn't guarantee success and the fans have ultimate trust in Tony Bloom and Paul Barber to deliver what we need.

Zach: I think it's a gamble, but from what I've heard he plays similar football to past managers, so let's hope he is good. He had a good season last year, but is he Premier League quality?

Martin: Hurzeler's tactics may well work in the Premier League, but as always he will need time. Tony Bloom has a lot of faith him in, so let's hope he gets us off to a good start.

Bob: An interesting choice of manager, not a lot of experience in running a frontline team. Paul Barber is seldom wrong with his managerial acquisitions. I hope that he has an impact on the purchase of players that we undoubtedly need to strengthen the squad.

Peter: I'm very much looking forward to finally seeing our new manager in place. From what I have read his style is very similar to De Zerbi, so hopefully there should be little change in style. I'm not bothered about the age thing - that doesn't seem to have been a problem in the Bundesliga!

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Brighton are getting a "key asset" by appointing Fabian Hurzeler as their new manager - that is the view of St Pauli fan Tom, who is originally from Solihull but now lives in the local area.

By joining the Seagulls, 31-year-old Hurzeler has become the youngest ever full-time boss of a Premier League team.

He guided St Pauli to the Bundesliga 2 title last season, winning 20 of their 34 matches in the process.

"It is an exciting brand of football which the St Pauli fans have fell in love with over the last 18 months or so," Tom told BBC Radio 5 Live. "They will be devastated to lose him because they have gone sky high since he joined.

"It was looking like an exciting season ahead with him at the helm, it is looking more uncertain now he has gone. But Brighton are getting a real key asset, one of the youngest Premier League managers ever so it is really, really exciting news for Brighton and not so good for St Pauli."

Brighton chairman Tony Bloom has spoken of Hurzeler's style aligning with that of the club and Tom feels he has a personality that the fans will take to.

"I go back to earlier in the season when St Pauli were playing in the DFB Pokal, and he was sent off and he went and sat in the stands with the fans watching the match. Not down the tunnel, he was in the stands with the ultras.

"The fans love him, they still do, I don't think they will feel too hard about him going because he has given so much to the club and put them in their best position for a long time.

"Let's see if he can produce the same results for Brighton as he has done for St Pauli - I really hope so for them."