Premier League YouTube interest printed 67 the week of August 22 2026, up 109.38% from 32 on July 25 and up 81.08% from 37 on August 15, per Trends MCP get_growth on youtube pulled August 29 2026. The 260-week series opened at 38 on September 4 2021 and peaked at 100 on December 7 2024, so this week is 33.0% below that high. Same-week 2025 printed 82. Same-week 2024 printed 74. Same-week 2023 printed 67. Google Search for the same keyword also cleared the mover bar at 42, plus 162.5% over 7 days and plus 200.0% 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 BBC Sport 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. BBC Sport's Paul Battison, writing on 19 June 2026, said the new season ends Sunday 30 May 2027, 34 days after the World Cup final, with Arsenal versus Coventry as the Friday opener. 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 67 the week of August 22 2026, up 109.38% from 32 on July 25, with get_growth also printing +81.08% over 7 days from 37 on August 15, on a 260-week series that still peaks at 100 on December 7 2024. Last eight weekly prints are 19, 24, 29, 32, 33, 37, 37, and 67. Absolute change from July 25 to August 22 is 35 points, more than twice the prior 30-day move from 23 on June 20 to 32. 90-day change from 68 on May 23 is minus 1.47%. Same-week 2025 was 82, 2024 was 74, and 2023 was 67. This year's 67 matches 2023, sits 18.29% below last year, 9.46% below 2024, and 33.0% below the 100 peak. Week-over-week percent-change sample standard deviation on the last 52 comparable weeks is 27.57%, with 26 up weeks, 24 down weeks, and 2 unchanged. The JSON sidecar chart_from is 2024-08-24, 728 days before the latest point, labeled Last 2 years.
Neighbor queries and the MCP calls
YouTube neighbors on the same August 29 2026 snapshot mixed opening-weekend 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 73.33% over 30 days. NFL rose 63.64%. La Liga rose 47.5%. Serie A rose 15.62%. MLS fell 12.5%. Bundesliga fell 8.7%. Formula 1 fell 21.21%. Google Search for the same keyword printed 42 on August 22, plus 162.5% over 7 days from 16 and plus 200.0% over 30 days from 14. That search jump is real, and it is a different index. This page keeps the YouTube 67.
get_time_series with source youtube and keyword premier league is the call behind the chart: 260 weekly points from 2021-09-04 through 2026-08-22, stored as {date, value} with no smoothing. get_growth on the same pair, windows 7D and 30D, is the headline math: 37 to 67 (+81.08%) and 32 to 67 (+109.38%). Those tools have to share a source. Mixing the Google Search 42 with the YouTube 67 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.