Pre-Season
14 July 2025 36 comments
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Fantasy Premier League (FPL) will soon be live for 2025/26 – and we’ll be the place to come for the most comprehensive content ahead of Gameweek 1.

Our extensive pre-season page will house everything we write ahead of the new season.

Whilst some articles and tools are available to the entire community, the full serving is only available to Premium Members (sign up here!).

One such benefit to subscribers is this, the Pre-Season Minutes Tracker.

PRE-SEASON MINUTES TRACKER – WHAT IS IT?

Our tracker is, so far as we know, the only place on the web where you’ll be able to access match data from the pre-season friendlies (and the Club World Cup!) in spreadsheet form.

This includes the minutes played (where available), goals scored and assists registered in every friendly played by all 20 teams.

FPL price and position will also be included when the game goes live.

This can be invaluable information going into the first few Gameweeks before we have live FPL data.

It’s often a good way of seeing which £4.0m assets stand the best chance of game-time, for instance.

It’ll also be useful for tracking the minutes of players returning from injury or settling into their new clubs.

WHERE CAN I GET IT?

Premium Members of Fantasy Football Scout can check each player’s pre-season minutes in the embedded spreadsheet via the link below:

GET THE PRE-SEASON MINUTES, GOALS + ASSISTS TRACKER HERE

We’ve made this a separate page so that Members can see a full-page-width view rather than being impacted by the encroaching sidebars.

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  1. Bebeto is for Kinnear
    • 12 Years
    16 days, 11 hours ago

    Expect the game to be released today or tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Get your f5 key ready. Thank me later

    1. The Knights Template
      • 11 Years
      16 days, 10 hours ago

      Can we thank you now in anticipation?

      1. All de Gea no iDier
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        16 days, 7 hours ago

        In light of what redlightening has posted it might be better to with hold your thanks unless the op can guarantee that they will be returned if the competition does not commence by the day after tomorrow.

        1. The Knights Template
          • 11 Years
          16 days, 6 hours ago

          Thankee, will hold onto mine thankees for now!

    2. Yankee Toffee
      • 10 Years
      16 days, 10 hours ago

      We're currently carrying out essential updates to prepare for the 2025/26 Premier League season.

    3. chocolove
      • 14 Years
      16 days, 8 hours ago

      Can you be more specific?
      Been waiting here for 69 days, 16 hours 13 mins 29 sec...

    4. All de Gea no iDier
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      16 days, 8 hours ago

      What has the f5 key got to do with it?

      1. Sheffield Wednesday
        • 5 Years
        16 days, 8 hours ago

        What's F5 but a secondhand emotion.

      2. Old Man
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        16 days, 7 hours ago

        It's a refreshing attitude.

    5. RedLightning
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 15 Years
      16 days, 7 hours ago

      DO NOT expect the game to be released today, tomorrow or the day after.
      FPL has to complete its essential updates first, and for the last few seasons the launch has been preceded by a few days of price reveals.

      The price reveals have never started before the essential updates have been completed, and the updates seem to take longer each year (3 days in 2021, 4 in 2022, 7 in 2023, 10 in 2024, and 18 so far in 2025).

      Last year the essential updates were completed on 4th July, but the price reveals did not start till 11th July. It is to be hoped that there will be a much shorter interval this year.

      Last year the FPL launch was on 17th July, 6 days after the first price reveals. Apart from 2020 when it launched on 15th August (the previous season having finished late after being interrupted and then extended because of COVID), this was the latest launch since 2016 (when they launched on 19th July).
      .
      The 2025-26 Premier League season starts on 15th August

      1. Arn De Gothia
        • 15 Years
        16 days, 7 hours ago

        Amen to that

      2. ᶠᶦˡᵗʰʸLucre $$$
        • 10 Years
        16 days, 7 hours ago

        Facts and common sense are boring

      3. RedLightning
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 15 Years
        16 days, 6 hours ago

        FPL have been revealing prices pre-launch since 2019.
        2019: price reveals 26-27 June, FPL launch 27 June.
        2020: price reveals 14-15 August, FPL launch 15 August.
        2021: price reveals 20-22 June, FPL launch 22 June.
        2022: price reveals 1-4 July, FPL launch 5 July.
        2023: price reveals 3-5 July, FPL launch 5 July.
        2024: price reveals 11-17 July, FPL launch 17 July.

      4. RedLightning
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 15 Years
        16 days, 6 hours ago

        There will also be a final update immediately before the actual launch. This took about 68 minutes in 2021, 109 minutes in 2023 and 209 minutes in 2024, so no F5 keys will be needed until then.

      5. RedLightning
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 15 Years
        16 days, 2 hours ago

        Correction - I was wrong to say that the price reveals have never started before the essential updates have been completed.
        2021: updates completed 17th June, first price reveals: 20th June
        *** 2022: first price reveals: 1st July, updates completed 3rd July.
        2023: updates completed 28th June, first price reveals 3rd July
        2024: updates completed 4th July, first price reveals 11th July.

    6. Lanley Staurel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      16 days, 7 hours ago

      Nope. The 20th August.

    7. AndyCairns
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      9 days, 5 hours ago

      how about now?

  2. Ruinenlust
    • 7 Years
    16 days, 8 hours ago

    Enzo Fernandez is officially the first player in history to be world champion at both club and international level

    1. The Hunt
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      16 days, 2 hours ago

      I think Fernando Torres was a reigning World Cup, European Championship, Champions League and Europa League winner all at the same time a few years back.

  3. FFScout Tom
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    16 days, 5 hours ago

    Congratulations to Dušan Citizen for WINNING the FFScout Club World Cup mini-league with an amazing 609 points, enough to come 12th on the global leaderboard.

    Your Annual Membership for the site has been added this morning! Enjoy the site!

    1. PartyTime
      • 4 Years
      16 days, 2 hours ago

      Congrats Dušan

  4. diesel001
    • 8 Years
    16 days, 4 hours ago

    How much does pre-season form matter? Does it carry over into the PL?

    I can understand monitoring minutes and lineups to check players are fit, and reviewing matches for tactics (e.g., if a player is OOP), but beyond that is there any value to pre-season form?

    1. Skonto Rigga
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 7 Years
      16 days, 4 hours ago

      I don't think massively so, no. I think players can perhaps get up a bit of momentum and build some rhythm and confidence (eg Rogers, Murphy had good pre-seasons last year) but it's not really quantifiable. As you say, much more useful for tactics and minutes.

    2. el polako
      • 8 Years
      16 days, 3 hours ago

      Every season we get players who are shite hot in the preseason consequently highly owned gw1 just to be shipped out en masse by gw3.
      And vice versa.

      Don’t pay too much attention to friendly games, pick solid proven PL assets and 1 or 2 gambles for fun.

  5. Trogon
    • 2 Years
    16 days, 3 hours ago

    Please RMT

    Mitchell Young
    Waits Von Vliet Reed Drake Hendrix
    Richards Bowie Page Lennon Pop
    Wilson Joplin Morrison

    1. Captain Mal
        16 days, 3 hours ago

        Dylan's EO makes him close to essential, risky going without him.

      • el polako
        • 8 Years
        16 days, 3 hours ago

        Might struggle if some of them are randomly picked for post match testing.

      • The Knights Template
        • 11 Years
        16 days, 3 hours ago

        Morrison > Minogue? Might free up some funds for Garcia.

      • skipnicklee
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        12 days, 11 hours ago

        Is Drake Nick Drake or Drake?

      • skipnicklee
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        12 days, 11 hours ago

        They got the pricing bang on so it’s very difficult to have the Lennon & McCartney double up without having to start a Lightbody or a Gray as your 7th attacker.

    2. Sun God Nika
      • 4 Years
      16 days, 3 hours ago

      Slowly crawling back into FPL life now.

      i assume FPL should be live again within the next couple weeks?

      1. The FPL Units
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        16 days, 2 hours ago

        Scroll up

      2. PartyTime
        • 4 Years
        16 days, 2 hours ago

        The time of the season when you think you will win FPL

    3. dunas_dog
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      16 days, 2 hours ago

      Can’t log in to App or website so looks like game not too far from opening- so probably prices will slowly come out next few days

    4. PartyTime
      • 4 Years
      16 days, 2 hours ago

      Gotta watch the Full match of Roland Garros & Wimbledon 2025. History in the making. Currently, the fiercest rivalry iin Tennis at the moment. Kinda like Niki Lauda vs James Hunt in F1.

      Nothing beats Sinner v Alcaraz NOT even sex tbh. Both players are amazing to watch. What a time to be alive!