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Premier League 2022-23: Everything you need to know as new season starts

The 31st Premier League season begins earlier than usual - Crystal Palace face Arsenal on Friday - as football tries to fit in a winter World Cup.

BBC Sport explains all...

New rules

The biggest change is that each team can make five substitutions a game, up from three.

The Premier League brought the rule in for the remainder of the 2019-20 season when football returned after the first Covid lockdown in 2020.

While most of Europe's other leagues - and Uefa competitions - kept five subs, English football went back to three.

Now five substitutions will be allowed from a bench of nine players.