Sky Sports to broadcast 16 live Premier League games during festive schedule

Sky Sports has announced that 16 Premier League games will be broadcast live during the busy festive schedule.

Seventeen top-flight clubs will feature in the TV fixture list through December and the New Year, including a high-profile battle between Arsenal and Manchester City at the Emirates.

Premier League new boys Bournemouth will feature twice as they take on Chelsea and Manchester United inside a week, while games involving Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and Everton will also be shown live.

Sky Sports head of football Gary Hughes said: "It's been an exciting start to the season on Sky Sports, and with these fixtures into the New Year we will continue to tell the full story of the Barclays Premier League. "With at least three games a week, every team at least three times by the turn of the year and every stadium, Sky Sports is the best place to follow the most exciting league in the world."

By the turn of the year, Sky Sports would have shown 62 live matches.

Sky Sports fixtures:

December

Chelsea vs. Bournemouth - Dec 5, 5.30pm Newcastle United vs. Liverpool - Dec 6, 4pm Everton vs. Crystal Palace - Dec 7, 8pm Bournemouth vs. Manchester United - Dec 12, 5.30pm Aston Villa vs. Arsenal - Dec 13, 1.30pm Tottenham Hotspur vs. Newcastle United - Dec 13, 4pm Leicester City vs. Chelsea - Dec 14, 8pm Newcastle United vs. Aston Villa - Dec 19, 5.30pm Watford vs. Liverpool - Dec 20, 1.30pm Swansea City vs. West Ham United - Dec 20, 4pm Arsenal vs. Manchester City - Dec 21, 8pm Stoke City vs. Manchester United - Dec 26, 12.45pm Sunderland vs. Liverpool - Dec 30, 7.45pm

January

Watford vs. Manchester City - Jan 2, 5.30pm Crystal Palace vs. Chelsea - Jan 3, 1.30pm Everton vs. Tottenham Hotspur - Jan 3, 4pm