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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. Camzy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    13 hours, 59 mins ago

    Was late getting my team ID because I refused to select a favorite team and couldn't figure out how to not do it.

    Why do I have to pick a PL team to support when I'm a Blackburn Rovers fan...

    1. Andy_Social
      • 12 Years
      13 hours, 30 mins ago

      Yeah, I just moaned about that. Plus, F*** off Adobe.

    2. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      13 hours, 29 mins ago

      You can select Championship clubs. I did it in the profile section last night and made my favourite club QPR.

      1. Dunster
        • 4 Years
        13 hours, 25 mins ago

        Only if your team is a former Premier League team

    3. hibster
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      13 hours, 29 mins ago

      you can unselect it once you're in

      1. Camzy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        13 hours, 26 mins ago

        Yeah I just did it. But it's annoying.

    4. Dunster
      • 4 Years
      13 hours, 29 mins ago

      Same (though PNE not Rovers). Once you’re in you can update details and there is a “none” option.

    5. CONNERS
      • 6 Years
      13 hours, 18 mins ago

      Same.

      Ended up just picking Leeds because I'm a Norwich fan and like Daniel Farke.

    6. Flynniesta
      • 10 Years
      12 hours, 57 mins ago

      I’d love to be able to select PNE for one season at least. I can’t see that ever happening though.

      1. Dunster
        • 4 Years
        12 hours, 55 mins ago

        Keep the faith.

        1. Flynniesta
          • 10 Years
          12 hours, 45 mins ago

  2. ☈☾
    • 7 Years
    13 hours, 59 mins ago

    Absolute nightmare with both FFS and FPL have UI changes at the same time

    1. ☈☾
      • 7 Years
      13 hours, 32 mins ago

      *having

    2. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      13 hours, 24 mins ago

      They have a pretty similar feel too.

      1. ᶠᶦˡᵗʰʸLucre $$$
        • 10 Years
        13 hours, 22 mins ago

        Yes, both shite 😀

  3. Qaiss
    • 9 Years
    13 hours, 58 mins ago

    Guehi at 4.5, if he goes to Liverpool that's crazy. Lacroix is 5m but Guehi 4.5 bit strange

    1. Moon Dog
        13 hours, 14 mins ago

        Yep. Pretty good for defensive contributions too.

    2. Budweiser
      • 11 Years
      13 hours, 57 mins ago

      what was wrong with the old UI

      1. Andy_Social
        • 12 Years
        13 hours, 29 mins ago

        Not enough tedious scrolling or acres of blank space, I guess.

      2. Moon Dog
          13 hours, 14 mins ago

          Didn't work out your neck enough

      3. TheBiffas
        • 4 Years
        13 hours, 57 mins ago

        Stuck in a work meeting, damn

        1. Geriatric Unathletic
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          13 hours, 28 mins ago

          Oh A MIGRAINE... LOL

      4. rrcmc
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        13 hours, 57 mins ago

        Cant find Team ID on the FPL site. Can anyone point me in the direction please?

        1. Geriatric Unathletic
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          13 hours, 26 mins ago

          I think check transfer history and it shows in the site address ... Me = 88627

        2. OverTinker
          • 7 Years
          13 hours, 23 mins ago

          get it from gameweek history

      5. Aribo Starmix
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 4 Years
        13 hours, 55 mins ago

        Malen at 5.5... there are some gems still in there!

        1. Funkyav
          • 16 Years
          11 hours, 58 mins ago

          do you get points for being benched this season

      6. 'Broadsword Calling Da…
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        13 hours, 55 mins ago

        I was admin for and been running the same league for years, however, I can't seem to see it this year, does anyone know how to find it, please (as in where I click now to find it)?

        1. The Polymath
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          13 hours, 1 min ago

          When you go to join leagues, there is an option called renew leagues that cam up for me

          1. 'Broadsword Calling Da…
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 8 Years
            12 hours, 47 mins ago

            Ah, brilliant, thanks alot, yes that did the trick, it wasn't obvious at first. Good luck!

      7. Camzy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        13 hours, 53 mins ago

        I hate the pricing already. It's way too cheap. Last year was way better.

        1. Andy_Social
          • 12 Years
          13 hours, 47 mins ago

          Too cheap? I've swerved both Salah and Haaland, yet my squad feels a bit underwhelming.

          1. Nomar
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 15 Years
            13 hours, 19 mins ago

            He’s fishing

        2. Cymro
          • 15 Years
          13 hours, 45 mins ago

          Who's your #1 bargain?

          1. Andy_Social
            • 12 Years
            13 hours, 41 mins ago

            Wirtz and Marmoush to cover the overpriced twosome

            1. Funkyav
              • 16 Years
              11 hours, 57 mins ago

              "cover" doing a lot of work there

          2. Freshy
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 15 Years
            13 hours, 34 mins ago

            Kelleher - 4.5
            Mbeumo - 8.0
            Konsa - 4.5

            1. Silecro
              • 7 Years
              12 hours, 45 mins ago

              Not sure Mbeumo will be worth 8 mil in a worse side with no pens and no forward to convert his crosses

      8. Andy_Social
        • 12 Years
        13 hours, 52 mins ago

        We've all got the Burnley goalkeeper at 5.0M, right?

        1. SpaceCoyote97
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 2 Years
          13 hours, 17 mins ago

          I wouldn't pick Lev Yashin at 5 mil if he was playing for Burnley

          1. ᶠᶦˡᵗʰʸLucre $$$
            • 10 Years
            13 hours, 12 mins ago

            He wouldn't make many saves nowadays

      9. Nomar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        13 hours, 51 mins ago

        Good luck choosing £4.5m keepers

        1. SpaceCoyote97
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 2 Years
          13 hours, 19 mins ago

          Areola is never a bad choice.

      10. ☈☾
        • 7 Years
        13 hours, 51 mins ago

        On what basis is Joao Pedro 7.5m

        1. Andy_Social
          • 12 Years
          13 hours, 23 mins ago

          On the basis he's straight in my team.

          No, to be fair, how many minutes does he share with Delap?

          1. Freshy
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 15 Years
            13 hours, 6 mins ago

            Delap presses better out of possession

          2. Silecro
            • 7 Years
            13 hours, 4 mins ago

            Due to his positional versatility, there will be a lot of games where Pedro simply shifts to LW or CAM with Delap subbed in to CF. That makes Pedro even greater value

        2. T.Henry14
          • 11 Years
          13 hours, 14 mins ago

          Petrovic and Verbruggen

        3. space mercenary
          • 5 Years
          12 hours, 50 mins ago

          His one decent pre season performance

      11. ☈☾
        • 7 Years
        13 hours, 50 mins ago

        Why fix when not broken ffs

        1. ᶠᶦˡᵗʰʸLucre $$$
          • 10 Years
          13 hours, 21 mins ago

          Time to quit

          1. Nomar
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 15 Years
            13 hours, 19 mins ago

            Aye, when the fun stops, like..

            1. ᶠᶦˡᵗʰʸLucre $$$
              • 10 Years
              13 hours, 11 mins ago

              What will we do without his insightful posts?

        2. riot
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          13 hours, 11 mins ago

          management need to justify themsel

        3. Old Bull
          • 12 Years
          13 hours, 8 mins ago

          It’s the modern way, happens in technology all the time. There’s no choice, go with it or go. Seems to be the thing nowadays that there should always be change.

      12. 420king
        • 11 Years
        13 hours, 48 mins ago

        5524, my lowest ID ever. hoping for the best overall finish too 🙂

      13. Cymro
        • 15 Years
        13 hours, 48 mins ago

        Wirtz seems a bargain. How do I filter to see just 1 team? I can't see the option? TIA.

        1. Zenith UK
          • 8 Years
          13 hours, 17 mins ago

          Mobile or desktop?

          1. Cymro
            • 15 Years
            13 hours, 15 mins ago

            Mobile

      14. Nomar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        13 hours, 47 mins ago

        Is there even a nailed on £4.5m mid enabler?

        1. riot
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          13 hours, 13 mins ago

          I can't find one at a glance either

        2. Moon Dog
            13 hours, 9 mins ago

            I can't see one. This is why I don't understand the defensive contributions. 4.5m DMs used to have a pivotal role in our squads.

          • duke313
            • 1 Year
            12 hours, 38 mins ago

            Do we normally get nailed 4.5 MIDS? Last year Rogers was 5.0, and before that Palmer was also 5.0.

        3. OverTinker
          • 7 Years
          13 hours, 46 mins ago

          So only one WC then?

          1. Zenith UK
            • 8 Years
            13 hours, 16 mins ago

            What you mean?

        4. 420king
          • 11 Years
          13 hours, 45 mins ago

          Looks like I'm playing really wide this year: https://postimg.cc/G8S1GdXq

          Need a smaller monitor to play FPL 😀

        5. jayzico
          • 14 Years
          13 hours, 44 mins ago

          FFS FF. WTF. 2025/6.

          My eyes hurt.

          1. OverTinker
            • 7 Years
            13 hours, 15 mins ago

            everyone's. Atleast changed the background color and match it easily readable font and font-size.

        6. TheBiffas
          • 4 Years
          13 hours, 44 mins ago

          God the forwards selection is dire

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

            Just needs a smattering of Gyokeres.

        7. The Mandalorian
          • 12 Years
          13 hours, 44 mins ago

          Did the big FPL accounts say that the game might launch today ?

          Or did many stay quiet ?

          Let's Talk FPL posted about it on X but what about the rest ?

          1. 420king
            • 11 Years
            13 hours, 39 mins ago

            I don't know about FPL accounts, but the game went to "update mode" at night, so everyone who saw that knew it would be today

          2. Funkyav
            • 16 Years
            11 hours, 56 mins ago

            yeah didnt need a content creator for that info

        8. The Knights Template
          • 11 Years
          13 hours, 42 mins ago

          Solanke (no thankee) in mine auto-pick team. How do I auto-pick again, I can’t have that!

        9. CONNERS
          • 6 Years
          13 hours, 38 mins ago

          I think I'll have to re-think the GW1 BB.

          Without committing to a GW2 WC, It requires too much sacrifice in the first 11 to make it viable with this year's pricing.

          1. S.Kuqi
            • 12 Years
            13 hours, 9 mins ago

            Nah. BB gw1 and clean up the mess with wildcard at first int break.

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

              I think an alternative play might be to wait until AFCON for BB.

              Then you just sell Salah and redistribute the funds with your 5FTs.

        10. AC/DC AFC
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          13 hours, 37 mins ago

          Do you find the player selection more clunky now, or is there a quicker way around than saving changes etc?

          1. riot
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            13 hours, 9 mins ago

            I usually use a 3rd party app but obviously they're not updated yet - yes, it's shocking.

            I would be fascinated to know the thought process behind it

          2. Flynny
            • 10 Years
            13 hours, 8 mins ago

            I'm finding the interface very user unfriendly

            And it's not working on my desktop / iPad...just says loading

            Not ideal just on mobile

            1. riot
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 14 Years
              13 hours, 4 mins ago

              It seems like chromium-based browsers aren't loading it at all

          3. 'Broadsword Calling Da…
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 8 Years
            13 hours, 4 mins ago

            Yeah, it's turd!

          4. Sheffield Wednesday
            • 5 Years
            12 hours, 59 mins ago

            Alarm bells went off in my head when it prompted me to 'save changes'. Seems an unnecessary step.

        11. x.jim.x
          • 10 Years
          13 hours, 36 mins ago

          Mbeumo still under Brentford so everyone can go into the season with 4 United players… this game just gets easier and easier

          1. AC/DC AFC
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 9 Years
            13 hours, 3 mins ago

            I was looking at that too.
            Wikipedia also has him as a Brentford player, I've been watching a bit of cricket etc and switched off a bit but has the transfer not gone through?

            1. x.jim.x
              • 10 Years
              13 hours, 2 mins ago

              It’s all but announced - medical done and contract signed. He was knocking about Carrington yesterday.

          2. AC/DC AFC
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 9 Years
            13 hours, 2 mins ago

            Mind, you'd be bold starting with 2 Man Utd players.

          3. Silecro
            • 7 Years
            13 hours ago

            I believe this one is intentional since FPL towers know that no one in their right mind would want even 3 United players, let alone more

        12. waltzingmatildas
          • 14 Years
          13 hours, 36 mins ago

          Now we have two BBs, anybody considering using the first one in GW1? Feels difficult without knowing the nailed cheapies.

          1. riot
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            13 hours, 6 mins ago

            BB GW1 has been trendy for a few years but it's the gameweek with the most risk of unforseen benchings - it just feels like a way to get rid of the chip rather than actually get value

            1. riot
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 14 Years
              13 hours, 5 mins ago

              plus the big issue for me which is having fewer expensive players in your squad making transitions harder

        13. 'Broadsword Calling Da…
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          13 hours, 33 mins ago

          The new FPL GUI utterly sucks!

          1. Moon Dog
              13 hours ago

              The dropdown boxes are horrendous design.

              The darker theme is nicer on the eyes though 😆

              1. 'Broadsword Calling Da…
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 8 Years
                12 hours, 42 mins ago

                I'll give the darker one a try. It was perfect the way it was before, so swift and easy on the eye to navigate...why do these people insist on making these awkward changes..Rant over (for now, lol).

            • AIRMILES
              • 13 Years
              12 hours, 37 mins ago

              Completely agree. It's abysmal. Having the interactive buttons on either side of the screen on the Transfers page is quite irritating.

          2. Ajax Hamsterdam
            • 11 Years
            13 hours, 32 mins ago

            So we have 5fts for the CAN 2025. Will any existing transfers be added to this total?

            1. ᶠᶦˡᵗʰʸLucre $$$
              • 10 Years
              12 hours, 57 mins ago

              I think the wording was something like "your number of free transfers will be topped up to maximum allowable of 5"

            2. Zenith UK
              • 8 Years
              12 hours, 46 mins ago

              ... No

          3. Wobbles
            • 4 Years
            13 hours, 28 mins ago

            Been trying to login for 2 hours almost. All I get is a screen that's says loading but nothing happens after that. Anyone else having the same problem?

            1. riot
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 14 Years
              12 hours, 59 mins ago

              it's a web browser issue of some kind - I don't really know what though because I use a chromium based browser on both pc and mobile and it only worked on the mobile

              1. Flynny
                • 10 Years
                12 hours, 55 mins ago

                Yup same problem

              2. Wobbles
                • 4 Years
                12 hours, 55 mins ago

                Thanks for the reply

          4. ☈☾
            • 7 Years
            13 hours, 25 mins ago

            Best 4.5 def is….…kgo!