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