Premier League injury list at the break: Saka, James, Sesko and Rashford out, Mateta suspended, and who is due back
The league's availability notes list 77 players as injured, doubtful or suspended going into the two-week break. Sarr, Tomiyasu, Cairney and Mitoma are due back for the first weekend after it; Saka and James have none.
The Premier League stops for two weeks after Sunday’s games and returns on Saturday 21 November. Going into the break, the league’s own availability notes, which this site receives through a licensed feed and which are updated as clubs report, list 77 players across the 20 clubs as injured, doubtful or suspended. This piece sets out the ones that matter most for the first weekend back, club by club, using the notes as they stood at 06:22 CET on Monday. A note’s wording is the league’s, not ours; where it gives a date, that is the club’s expected return, not a promise.
No return date for the biggest names
Arsenal, five points clear at the top on 27 points from ten games, are without Bukayo Saka, listed with a thigh injury and no return date since 21 October. Max Dowman is suspended until 29 November, so he misses the trip to Newcastle on 21 November as well. Chelsea, fifth on 16, have the longest list of unknowns: Reece James (knee), João Pedro (thigh), Maxence Lacroix (hamstring), Jamie Bynoe-Gittens (ankle) and Jorrel Hato all carry no return date. Manchester United, 18th on eight points, list Benjamin Sesko (shin), Marcus Rashford (hip), Carlos Baleba (hamstring), Luke Shaw and Manuel Ugarte (knee) with no date.
Liverpool, fourth on 18, have Jeremie Frimpong (hamstring), Conor Bradley and Giovanni Leoni (knee) and Hugo Ekitiké (Achilles) without a date; Ryan Gravenberch is listed with a foot injury and a 75% chance of playing, a note added on 3 November. Manchester City, third on 21 after three straight league defeats, list Antoine Semenyo with a knee injury and no date, and Marc Guéhi and Joško Gvardiol as 75% doubts, both notes added on Saturday. Tottenham, 11th on 12 points, have Xavi Simons, Wilson Odobert and Lucas Bergvall all out with knee injuries and no date, and Mykhailo Mudryk with an ankle injury.
Suspended through the break
Three suspensions run past 21 November. Jean-Philippe Mateta of Crystal Palace is banned until 2 December, which rules him out of the trips to Coventry on 21 November and the games either side of it; Palace are bottom on seven points. Brentford’s Igor Thiago is suspended until 5 December, a note added on Sunday after the defeat at Brighton. Dowman’s ban at Arsenal runs to 29 November.
Who is due back for the first weekend
The notes give several players a return date of 21 or 22 November, the first weekend after the break. Crystal Palace expect Ismaïla Sarr (groin) and Takehiro Tomiyasu (calf) back on 21 November. Fulham list Tom Cairney (knee) for the same day. Brighton, second on 22 points, expect Kaoru Mitoma, out with a hamstring injury since the start of the season, on 22 November, when they go to Hull. Brentford list Fábio Carvalho as expected back on 23 November, the day they play Everton. Tottenham expect Sávio, who has a muscular injury, on 21 November.
Two dates are further off: Aston Villa’s Matteo Ruggeri is listed as expected back on 2 January, and Nottingham Forest’s Nicolás Domínguez on 30 December.
The doubts
A handful of players are listed as doubtful rather than out, with the league’s percentage chance of playing. At 75%: Granit Xhaka of Sunderland (calf, added on Sunday), Josh King of Fulham (groin), Mathys Tel of Spurs (ankle), Josh Acheampong and Emiliano Martínez of Chelsea, Gabriel Gudmundsson of Leeds, Darko Gyabi of Hull. At 50%: Aaron Wan-Bissaka of Aston Villa (hamstring), Anton Stach of Leeds (foot), and Frank Onyeka and Bobby Thomas of Coventry. Josh Dasilva of Brentford is at 25%. Two weeks is a long time for a 75% doubt, and most of these notes are likely to change before the clubs play again.
The rest
Newcastle list Joelinton with an unspecified injury and no return date, a note added on 5 November. Sunderland, who beat Chelsea on Sunday to climb off the bottom, are without Daniel Ballard (hamstring), Habib Diarra (muscular) and Romaine Mundle (knee). Hull City have six names on the list, including Hidemasa Morita, added on 5 November. Bournemouth list Juanlu Sánchez with an ankle injury since 5 November. Coventry City, 17th on nine points, have Haji Wright, Luke Woolfenden, Aurèle Amenda and Josh Eccles all out with no date.
What comes next
The league returns on Saturday 21 November with Newcastle v Arsenal, Manchester City v Fulham, Chelsea v Leeds, Spurs v Ipswich, Aston Villa v Sunderland, Bournemouth v Forest and Coventry v Crystal Palace, then Liverpool v Manchester United and Hull v Brighton on Sunday 22 November and Brentford v Everton on Monday 23 November, according to the fixture list published by the league. Many of the players above spend the break with their national teams. The Nations League games start on Thursday, and the availability notes are refreshed each morning in the data this site publishes, so the picture on 21 November is likely to look different from this one.
- Premier League player availability notes (licensed feed, generated 2026-11-09T05:22Z, in data/latest.json), Premier League via Match News. Read 07:40 CET, 9 Nov 2026.
- All 380 fixtures for the 2026/27 Premier League season, Premier League. Read 09:00 CET, 30 Oct 2026.
- Premier League table (licensed feed, generated 2026-11-09T05:22Z, in data/latest.json), football-data.org via Match News. Read 07:40 CET, 9 Nov 2026.
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