Premier League YouTube interest printed 86 the week of August 29 2026, up 160.61% from 33 on August 1 and up 30.3% from 66 on August 22, per Trends MCP get_growth on youtube pulled August 30 2026. The 261-week series opened at 38 on September 4 2021 and peaked at 100 on December 7 2024, so this week is 14.0% below that high. Same-week 2025 printed 69. Same-week 2024 printed 68. Same-week 2023 printed 66. Google Search for the same keyword also moved, at 47 plus 261.54% over 30 days, but this page charts YouTube because that is where match video lives.
About premier league
Premier League names the top division of English club football, founded on 20 February 1992 as a breakaway from the Football League First Division, with 20 clubs contesting 38 matches from August through May in a format locked in since the 1995-96 season and a 2026-27 calendar that the league dated to a Friday 21 August 2026 start. Wikipedia's 2025-26 season page lists Arsenal as champions with a fourth title, and Manchester United as the all-time leader with 13 titles. The Premier League's June 2026 dates note said the new season ends Sunday 30 May 2027, 33 days after the World Cup final, with 33 weekends and five midweek rounds. Sky Sports on 28 July 2026 said the Community Shield would be Arsenal versus Manchester City on 16 August in Cardiff at 3pm BST. Promoted clubs for 2026-27 are Coventry, Ipswich, and Hull. Relegated from 2025-26 were West Ham, Burnley, and Wolves.
What the time series shows
YouTube interest for premier league printed 86 the week of August 29 2026, up 160.61% from 33 on August 1, with get_growth also printing +30.3% over 7 days from 66 on August 22, on a 261-week series that still peaks at 100 on December 7 2024. Last eight weekly prints are 24, 29, 32, 33, 37, 37, 66, and 86. Absolute change from August 1 to August 29 is 53 points, more than twice the prior 30-day move from 21 on June 27 to 33. 90-day change from 62 on May 30 is +38.71%. Same-week 2025 was 69, 2024 was 68, and 2023 was 66. This year's 86 sits 24.64% above last year, 26.47% above 2024, 30.30% above 2023, and 14.0% below the 100 peak. Week-over-week percent-change sample standard deviation on the last 52 comparable weeks is 27.51%, with 27 up weeks, 23 down weeks, and 2 unchanged. The JSON sidecar chart_from is 2024-08-24, labeled Last 2 years.
Neighbor queries and the MCP calls
YouTube neighbors on the same August 30 2026 snapshot mixed opening-month soccer with other sports, which is why premier league belongs next to those topic pages rather than next to a one-day transfer headline, and why the related grid points at Formula 1, NFL, and College GameDay. Ligue 1 rose 285.71% over 30 days, 14 on August 1 to 54 on August 29, and 107.69% over 7 days from 26. Serie A rose 93.94% over 30 days, 33 to 64. Bundesliga rose 80.0% over 30 days, 20 to 36. NFL YouTube interest rose 84.21% over 30 days, 19 to 35. La Liga rose 60.47% over 30 days, 43 to 69. Formula 1 fell 9.38% over 30 days, 32 to 29. MLS fell 71.79% over 30 days, 39 to 11. Google Search for the same keyword printed 47 on August 29, plus 9.3% over 7 days from 43 and plus 261.54% over 30 days from 13. That search jump is real, and it is a different index. This page keeps the YouTube 86.
get_time_series with source youtube and keyword premier league is the call behind the chart: 261 weekly points from 2021-09-04 through 2026-08-29, stored as {date, value} with no smoothing. get_growth on the same pair, windows 7D and 30D, is the headline math: 66 to 86 (+30.3%) and 33 to 86 (+160.61%). Those tools have to share a source. Mixing the Google Search 47 with the YouTube 86 would invent a story the APIs do not tell. The YouTube trends page documents the 0-100 weekly index. Topic pages: Formula 1, NFL, College GameDay.
A copy-paste pair for Claude or Cursor:
get_time_series source="youtube" keyword="premier league"
get_growth source="youtube" keyword="premier league" percent_growth=["7D","30D"]
REST is the same body at https://api.trendsmcp.ai/api with Authorization: Bearer and mode set to get_time_series or get_growth.