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It’s finally here! Yes, Fantasy Premier League (FPL) has belatedly gone live for the 2025/26 season – and managers can now set their first drafts up for the new campaign.

As well as picking a ‘hilarious’ team name, of course…

As ever, we at Fantasy Football Scout will be here to steer you through to Gameweek 1 and beyond.

And there’s never been a better time to become a Member of our site.

With new tools, a new design, subscriber-only articles and much more, you can give yourself the edge over your rivals in 2025/26 by signing up today.

There’s a discount running right now but catch it quick before the price goes up! And don’t forget that your Membership price never rises – so long as you don’t cancel – once you’re aboard.

GET DISCOUNTED MEMBERSHIP FOR 2025/26!


WHAT’S NEW IN FPL 2025/26

FPL 2025/26: Extra free Gameweek 16 transfers ahead of AFCON

If you’ve not been around in the last few days, you may have missed the rule change announcements for 2025/26.

And here they all are…

And there are 11 players who have changed position, including new forward Jarrod Bowen!


NEW TO FPL?

If you’re an FPL rookie, we’ve got a brand new section just for you called ‘Tips + Guides’. You can find it via this link or via the ‘Tips + Guides’ tab on the home page, as seen below:

We’ll be adding more and more of these in the coming days.


YOUR FPL ESSENTIALS FOR 2025/26

Premier League 2025/26 fixtures released

If you’ve been taking a well-earned break from all things FPL over the summer, welcome back. If you’ve stayed with us through the summer, thanks for your dedication!

The FPL planning for Gameweek 1 starts in earnest here and we’ve got all the tools and articles you need to help with your pre-season preparation.

OUR ULTIMATE GUIDE

Speaking of pre-season, our ultimate 2025/26 guide is your first port of call.

It lists all the summer friendlies, as well as the results, scorers and assisters when they have taken place.

We’ll have Scout Notes on all of these friendlies, to see if we can unearth the next John Lundstram ahead of Gameweek 1.

Key transfer ins and outs, links to content for all 20 clubs, set-piece takers and so much more will also be included on this page.

This pre-season article will get a lot busier over the next month, as we build towards the opening weekend in August.

NEW SIGNINGS + MANAGERS ASSESSED

FPL notes: Cunha early sub, 1

There have been some high-profile transfers already taking place this summer and we are documenting them all.

There are a few new manager appointments in the English top flight, too.

The biggest moves will get their own dedicated Scout Reports, while we’ll also cover every other noteworthy incoming transfer in our regular round-up.

All the major incomings can be found here.

SEASON TICKER

Our Season Ticker can help you sort by opponent difficulty to spot those upcoming fixture swings, while you can also find out which teams’ matches rotate well.

Sunderland, for example, are top of our Season Ticker over the first six Gameweeks of 2025/26 – but there are some tough opening games ahead for old foes Newcastle United.

Disagree with the Fantasy Football Scout difficulty ratings? Add you own to customise your experience.

RATE MY TEAM AND PROJECTIONS

Our Projections and Rate My Team tools will both soon be live for the new season, allowing you to see how many points our algorithm thinks you’ll score and which players you should bench.

COMPARE PLAYER AND TEAM STATS FROM PREVIOUS SEASONS

Want to do your own research into the next FPL gem for 2025/26?

From goal threat to expected data, we’ve got hundreds upon hundreds of player and team statistics available, which can help guide your Fantasy transfer decisions.

Premium Members can also create custom tables based on the data available and share them with other subscribers to help with FPL team planning.

PRE-SEASON TRACKER

FPL 2025/26: Our Pre-season Minutes Tracker is live! 1

Follow at the minutes player, goals and assists from the pre-season friendlies with our Pre-Season Tracker!

More details can be found here, with the data from this weekend’s warm-up games to be added soon.

TEAM REVEALS

Fantasy Premier League (FPL) 2025/26 is live!

We’ll soon have some first-draft team reveals from some of our regular contributors.

These team reveals will continue throughout the season, with only Premium Members able to access all of them.

GET DISCOUNTED MEMBERSHIP FOR 2025/26!

362 Comments Login to Post a Comment
  1. Moon Dog
      14 hours, 49 mins ago

      Howl do I see my ID?

      1. langey
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        14 hours, 48 mins ago

        I did it by going to leauges and selecting overall leauge and it's in the URL

        1. langey
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 7 Years
          14 hours, 27 mins ago

          Ok the way I said was wrong - that gave me the leauge code ID not the team ID. Click on transfer history instead.

      2. Magic Zico
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        14 hours, 47 mins ago

        Same question, I clicked in transfer history and the URL giving me a number ... so far that I worked out maybe better way to do it

      3. FPL Virgin
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        14 hours, 46 mins ago

        My team and scroll down to transfer history and then check the number in the URL.

        1. MIGHTY JOE
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 5 Years
          14 hours, 40 mins ago

          This is the way

      4. Moon Dog
          14 hours, 44 mins ago

          Thanks all.

          3410 🙁 I was taking a dump when it released 😆

          1. FPL Virgin
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 9 Years
            14 hours, 40 mins ago

            Pure timing.

          2. Gamst - Up (?) the Rovers
            • 15 Years
            14 hours, 36 mins ago

            A nap and I get, but not a dump. You could have swiped down continously while in there. Shame on you.

            1. The Knights Template
              • 11 Years
              14 hours, 29 mins ago

              Preferred swiping method?

            2. panda07
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 12 Years
              14 hours, 26 mins ago

              Always swipe up!

              1. Andy_Social
                • 12 Years
                14 hours, 24 mins ago

                You Neanderthals! Use a bumjet - so hygienic!

                1. panda07
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 12 Years
                  14 hours, 19 mins ago

                  I just drag myself along the foliage!

                2. Goro Majima
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 6 Years
                  14 hours, 19 mins ago

                  Those things in Thailand? Hell no. Japanese toilets yes, but those things are fraught with danger.

                  1. Andy_Social
                    • 12 Years
                    13 hours, 56 mins ago

                    Maybe in a hotel, but not in your own home.

          3. Andy_Social
            • 12 Years
            14 hours, 28 mins ago

            Caught me out until Bluesky informed me. Found my #, 2070 despite trying to resist all that AI 4ucktarday. Do we have to have a 'surrender' all your data'AI badge?

      5. langey
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        14 hours, 49 mins ago

        Hi, got ID 314. Couldn't find the "random" squad option so it delayed things lol.

        1. Zladan
          • 7 Years
          14 hours, 44 mins ago

          Double check you did get 314. Many reported they had that, then refreshed and it changed. I think Andy even had it at one point.

        2. davidbargh
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 4 Years
          14 hours, 43 mins ago

          i don't think that's right as i got 314 as well based on the URL on the Overall League - https://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/314/standings/c

          I assume 314 is the number for the league?

        3. Lanley Staurel
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          14 hours, 41 mins ago

          Yep I had 314 for a short while 🙂

        4. Reddonkeyham 42
          • 11 Years
          14 hours, 34 mins ago

          314 is the league code lol

          1. langey
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 7 Years
            14 hours, 28 mins ago

            Ah...got a rubbish 21933 ID lol

        5. Reddonkeyham 42
          • 11 Years
          14 hours, 30 mins ago

          The real 314 is Matt L

      6. FPL Virgin
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        14 hours, 48 mins ago

        Just putting together my first draft. Where is the scout article on which £4m defenders are the most viable? Surely the bulk of this article should have pre prepared.

        1. FPL Virgin
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          14 hours, 48 mins ago

          *been pre prepared

        2. Andy_Social
          • 12 Years
          14 hours, 27 mins ago

          Tuanzabe will do for now. He's a starter, isn't he?

      7. thug
        • 12 Years
        14 hours, 47 mins ago

        i got 276 by pure luck

        1. FPL Virgin
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          14 hours, 44 mins ago

          Congratulations. You are no longer a boy. You are now A MAN.

          1. CONNERS
            • 6 Years
            14 hours, 37 mins ago

            High praise indeed.

      8. Zladan
        • 7 Years
        14 hours, 45 mins ago

        This new GUI is awful. It’s completely Microsoft. Gross, feels so cheap and chunky.

        1. Zalk
          • 13 Years
          14 hours, 39 mins ago

          Feels like being back in the 90's with how unintuitive and hard it is to just perform simple tasks.

        2. Andy_Social
          • 12 Years
          14 hours, 26 mins ago

          Heh, I just wrote a post and deleted when i meant to press post!

          1. Zladan
            • 7 Years
            12 hours, 46 mins ago

            I mean I’m talking about FPL… tbh this website has definitely gone backwards also

        3. CONNERS
          • 6 Years
          14 hours, 7 mins ago

          The best part is where the entire page moves up and down when attempting to scroll through the player lists.

      9. Lanley Staurel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        14 hours, 42 mins ago

        Player selection on the left now same as FFS putting comments on the left. Is this some new web design protocol?! Making my brain hurt....

      10. Tonyawesome69
        • 6 Years
        14 hours, 41 mins ago

        Kelleher at 4.5m... GK pick sorted

      11. Lanley Staurel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        14 hours, 40 mins ago

        Where is my 20 yrs of history gone? I assume it will appear once we start GW1.

        1. Tonyawesome69
          • 6 Years
          14 hours, 37 mins ago

          Add your ID to the URL

          https://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/XXX/history

          1. Lanley Staurel
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            14 hours, 30 mins ago

            Ah ha thanks. Must appear as a link once we get into GW1

          2. Goro Majima
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 6 Years
            14 hours, 16 mins ago

            Thanks for this, was having the same problem.

      12. Philosopher's Stones
        • 4 Years
        14 hours, 39 mins ago

        App still not working?

      13. FPL Virgin
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        14 hours, 38 mins ago

        Why is this article an advert for scout?

        Why isn't there a review of the new rule pages to see if there is anything we should know? Or is there no need because Mark leaked everything to scout so far in advance 😆

      14. CONNERS
        • 6 Years
        14 hours, 34 mins ago

        Sorry if it's been asked, but...

        They don't seem to have enrolled me into the 1% league - I thought this was automatic?

        How do you find your previous years' history?

        Thanks in advance

        1. The Bandit
          • 14 Years
          14 hours, 27 mins ago

          Same here

      15. Reddonkeyham 42
        • 11 Years
        14 hours, 34 mins ago

        46671

      16. dan slo
        • 10 Years
        14 hours, 33 mins ago

        37071
        Lads

      17. Philosopher's Stones
        • 4 Years
        14 hours, 31 mins ago

        Can't see my ID in the site?

        1. Reddonkeyham 42
          • 11 Years
          14 hours, 29 mins ago

          Transfer history

          1. Philosopher's Stones
            • 4 Years
            14 hours, 24 mins ago

            Nothing in there

            1. moz_1983
              • 12 Years
              13 hours, 42 mins ago

              It's in the URL

      18. Moon Dog
          14 hours, 30 mins ago

          Any nailed on 4.5m mids? This is what I was worried about with the DC change. DMs no longer fill that important cheap mid role...

        • RUUD!
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          14 hours, 29 mins ago

          I’m just gettin a loading screen, annybody else having this issue?

          1. Forza Papac
            • 9 Years
            14 hours, 27 mins ago

            Yup

        • Forza Papac
          • 9 Years
          14 hours, 28 mins ago

          Is FPL not loading for anyone else? I've refreshed a few times and waited a few mins and it's just saying 'loading...'

        • Codhead
          • 8 Years
          14 hours, 27 mins ago

          314 🙂

        • SM001
          • 9 Years
          14 hours, 26 mins ago

          Christ that new UI is hideous.

          1. x.jim.x
            • 10 Years
            14 hours, 17 mins ago

            Three vertical menus, plus a hamburger menu, is actually insane

        • x.jim.x
          • 10 Years
          14 hours, 25 mins ago

          A second login (for Adobe no less) to create some AI slop badge - I'd be surprised if anyone in my MLs bother

        • Reddonkeyham 42
          • 11 Years
          14 hours, 24 mins ago

          ID 1 is:
          Ron Early
          With the team name: Getting the Worm

          And of course it's a new account with no history

        • -GK22-
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          14 hours, 24 mins ago

          How do I see ID?

          1. panda07
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 12 Years
            14 hours, 23 mins ago

            Transfer history on the Pick Team page.

            1. -GK22-
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 13 Years
              14 hours, 22 mins ago

              Thanks got it 30699, million miles away from last years

        • panda07
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          14 hours, 24 mins ago

          VVD £6m - straight in my team!

        • SpaceCoyote97
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 2 Years
          14 hours, 23 mins ago

          Initial thoughts:
          Villa defenders look nice and cheap, could be a good triple up between a weak Newcastle that may lose Isak.
          Chelsea could be a solid investment too, but other than Palmer, not sure who to target.
          Might miss Salah to begin with, I think Liverpool have created more goalscorers on the pitch now and Salah isn't playing for a new contract. 14.5 is too much. Haaland at 14 might be OK though.

          1. SpaceCoyote97
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 2 Years
            14 hours, 22 mins ago

            Just to say, I'm not tripling up on Villa defenders, just tripling up on Villa as a whole.

          2. Andy_Social
            • 12 Years
            13 hours, 58 mins ago

            I've gone triple Chelsea and had to leave one out!

        • Sheffield Wednesday
          • 5 Years
          14 hours, 22 mins ago

          "Following the Gameweek 15 Deadline on Sat 6 Dec 13:30 and ahead of Gameweek 16 on Sat 13 Dec 13:30, Managers will be topped up to the maximum of 5 free transfers, regardless of how many transfers are available to them at that point.

          They do not need to be used in Gameweek 16, they can be carried over between Gameweeks and used at any time."

          I hope that clears up any doubt about the fact that AFCON FTs carry over.

          1. bitm2007
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 11 Years
            14 hours, 15 mins ago

            Not completely. If you WC or FH GW16 do you forfeit the additional AFCON FTs, or do you get 5FTs for GW17 instead?

        • Zenith UK
          • 8 Years
          14 hours, 18 mins ago

          1999, I'll take it

          1. SpaceCoyote97
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 2 Years
            14 hours, 18 mins ago

            Tonight are you going to party like it?

          2. Sheffield Wednesday
            • 5 Years
            14 hours, 16 mins ago

            Spacey

        • Custard Gannet
          • 5 Years
          14 hours, 17 mins ago

          First time visiting the site since it's been updated... do the comments under the Scout Picks team no longer auto update?
          I now have to manually refresh the page to see new comments whereas before it would display new comments automatically when they were posted??

        • bitm2007
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 11 Years
          14 hours, 16 mins ago

          Not completely. If you WC or FH GW16 do you forfeit the additional AFCON FTs, or do you get 5FTs for GW17 instread?

        • Jack Burton
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          14 hours, 16 mins ago

          Been a member for 9 years, just checking out those prices Wow old Jack not paying his dues this year

          1. Skonto Rigga
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • Has Moderation Rights
            • 7 Years
            14 hours, 15 mins ago

            You're locked into the price you paid last year, Jack - only newbies have to fork out the new fees.

            1. Jack Burton
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 9 Years
              14 hours, 10 mins ago

              Ah nice one just sign up as normal then I take it? And thanks for reply

            2. Jack Burton
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 9 Years
              14 hours, 8 mins ago

              Just saw auto renew cheers

        • Nightcrawler
          • 6 Years
          14 hours, 16 mins ago

          early thoughts are that

          Palmer Saka Cunha Pedor seem underpriced particularly with haaland and salah being 14+

          1. Nightcrawler
            • 6 Years
            14 hours, 16 mins ago

            kudus too

            1. Zenith UK
              • 8 Years
              14 hours, 13 mins ago

              Kudus due to rotation risk, the others not so much (depending on which Pedro you mean)

          2. CONNERS
            • 6 Years
            14 hours, 6 mins ago

            Mbeumo seems very cheap.

            1. Andy_Social
              • 12 Years
              14 hours, 1 min ago

              I suspect FPL Towers know where he's headed.

          3. Andy_Social
            • 12 Years
            14 hours ago

            Wirtz/Marmoush over Salah/Haaland saves you enough to buy X.