Manchester United and Manchester City figure to contend for the Premier League crown this season, but they'll fight for the FA Community Shield on Sunday in a high-profile season tune-up.

A number of Americans are also slated to be in action Sunday as well. Although he's not guaranteed to start after coming off a hamstring injury, Jozy Altidore's AZ Alkmaar gets its season underway against PSV Eindhoven; Carlos Bocanegra and St.

With all of the midweek action going on, especially in domestic cup competitions, it seems like this is a good week to bring back the scoreboard/schedule feature. The highlights of the week all seem to take place on Wednesday when Real Madrid and Barcelona play in the finals of the Copa del Rey, Benfica and Porto face off in the semifinals of the Taça da Portugal and Real Salt Lake and Monterrey begin their two-leg CONCACAF Champions League final.

It's as if European soccer never left.

A full slate of games from overseas are on tap for this weekend as the Premier League joins the Bundesliga and Ligue 1 as major leagues to start the 2011-2012 campaign. Defending Premier League champion Manchester United opens up against West Brom on Sunday, but a game most Americans will want to keep an eye on is the Fulham-Aston Villa tilt on Saturday.

It's the best day of the year (at least for some soccer fans).

Today marks the start of the English Premier League season, the first real sign that European soccer is back in full swing, and American soccer fans will have plenty of juicy match-ups to make this special day enjoyable.

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Edson Buddle will try and get a scoring streak going for his new club Ingolstadt while Ricardo Clark and Frankfurt will face a Borussia Monchengladbach squad beginning life without Michael Bradley.

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It's time to bring you another listing of weekend soccer action on American television. As I've said before, I started compiling this list just so I could figure out what I want to watch each weekend. Now, that I'm living in Argentina, this list is pretty irrelevant to me, but we will continue to bring it to you on a timely basis.

It looks another exciting weekend in the Bundesliga. For viewers in the United States, here's the TV and Internet viewing guide for the weekend:

Friday, August 26, 2011:

• Hertha Berlin v Stuttgart, 2:30pm ET, ESPN3.com and ESPN Deportes

Saturday, August 27, 2011:

• Kaiserlautern v Bayern Munich, 9:30am ET, GolTV
• Bayer Leverkusen v Borussia Dortmund, 12:30pm ET, ESPN3.

How super fantastic and delicious is this week's action? Well, there's no Manchester derby or Superclasico, unless you count what's going on in Greece and I don't know how to say Superclasico in Greek. This weekend is so good that Chelsea is hosting Liverpool on Sunday and I'm not even going to bother to put that match in my list of Top Five Matches of the Weekend.

Despite the number of big matches that took place this weekend, there wasn't a lot of movement in the rankings this week. Only one club, Werder Bremen, fell out of the rankings and it was replaced by Borussia Monchengladbach, the club that beat it 5-0.
In the Top Ten, the big loser was Udinese, who was passed by two clubs in Italy's Serie A even though neither of those two clubs, Milan and Lazio, managed to pick up a victory.

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Borussia Monchengladbach's exciting new 'Thigh Skimmer Shorts' initiative has received a mixed reaction from players.

The top two teams in Serie A square off as Juventus and Lazio do battle in the weekend's top match-up.

There are some games in England this weekend that may spark more interest, but seeing Andrea Pirlo and Juve take on the Lazio squad led by Miroslave Klose and Hernanes.

The Premier League will offer up the latest contender lining up to try and hand Manchester City its first defeat as Liverpool plays host to the Citizens, while Manchester United takes on Newcastle in another clash of Top Four teams.

Liverpool have continued to be linked with a move for Manchester City and Arsenal target Marcos Reus, who has been in fantastic form for Borussia Monchengladbach.
The Reds boss Kenny Dalglish watched from the sidelines as Liverpool dominated the second half against table topping Manchester City but were unable to break the deadlock as Liverpool were held to a 1-1 draw.

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With nearly full slates of action in the Premier League, Serie A and Ligue 1 and domestic cup play on the docket as well, plenty is on the line across Europe today.

A number of Americans are in action across the continent, as Clint Dempsey looks to keep his goal-scoring form going at Craven Cottage against Manchester United, while goalkeepers Tim Howard and Brad Guzan aim for clean sheets against Swansea City and Arsenal, respectively.