When are the FPL Blank and Double Gameweeks in 2023/24?

The last few Fantasy Premier League (FPL) seasons have been disrupted by a global pandemic, train strikes, last winter’s World Cup and the death of Queen Elizabeth II. A higher-than-usual number of match postponements lead to an increase in Blank and Double Gameweeks for managers to navigate.

It’s hard to remember what a ‘normal’ campaign looks like, if such a thing even exists.

But there should be a more familiar feel to 2023/24, thanks to international breaks in September, October, November and March alongside the return of a split Gameweek that gives all 20 teams a mini-rest.

Here is what we know so far.

2023/24 SCHEDULE

SATURDAY		MIDWEEK
12 August	GW1	16 August	UEFA Super Cup
19 August	GW2	24 August	UECL playoff (Aston Villa)
26 August	GW3	31 August	EFL Cup R2 UECL playoff (Aston Villa)
2 September	GW4	5 September
9 September	Internationals	12 September	Internationals
16 September	GW5	19-21 September	European groups
23 September	GW6	26-27 September	EFL Cup R3
30 September	GW7	3-5 October	European groups
7 October	GW8	10 October
14 October	Internationals	17 October	Internationals
21 October	GW9	24-26 October	European groups
28 October	GW10	1 November	EFL Cup R4
4 November	GW11	7-9 November	European groups
11 November	GW12	14 November
18 November	Internationals	21 November	Internationals
25 November	GW13	28-30 November	European groups
2 December	GW14	5-7 December	GW15
9 December	GW16	12-14 December	European groups
16 December	GW17	19-20 December	EFL Cup QF Club World Cup semi
23 December	GW18 Club World Cup final	26-27 December	GW19
30 December	GW20	2 January
6 January	FA Cup R3	9-10 January	EFL Cup semi
13 January	GW21 (split)	16 January
20 January	GW21 (split)	23-24 January	EFL Cup semi
27 January	FA Cup R4	30-31 January	GW22
3 February	GW23	6 February
10 February	GW24	13-15 February	European knockouts
17 February	GW25	20-22 February	European knockouts
24 February	GW26 EFL Cup final	27-28 February	FA Cup R5
2 March	GW27	5-7 March	European knockouts
9 March	GW28	12-14 March	European knockouts
16 March	GW29 FA Cup QF	19 March
23 March	Internationals	26 March	Internationals
30 March	GW30	2-3 April	GW31
6 April	GW32	9-11 April	European QFs
13 April	GW33	16-18 April	European QFs
20 April	GW34 FA Cup semi	23 April
27 April	GW35	30 April – 2 May	European SFs
4 May	GW36	7-9 May	European SFs
11 May	GW37	14 May
19 May	GW38

WHEN ARE THE BLANK AND DOUBLE GAMEWEEKS?

Blank Gameweek 2

Luton Town and Burnley both blanked in Gameweek 2 due to their meeting at Kenilworth Road being postponed.

Double Gameweek 7

That fixture between Luton and Burnley then took place in Gameweek 7.

Blank Gameweek 18

Manchester City v Brentford was called off because the reigning league champions were at the FIFA Club World Cup.

Double Gameweek 25

Liverpool, Luton Town, Manchester City and Brentford will all have a ‘double’ this week, while the other 16 clubs will be in action just the once as usual.

READ MORE: Double Gameweek 25 confirmed for City and Brentford
READ MORE: Double Gameweek 25 confirmed for Liverpool and Luton

Blank Gameweek 26

Four teams will blank here due to the EFL Cup final taking place at Wembley on the same weekend.

Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool v Luton Town will be postponed following the progression of Liverpool and Chelsea to the final.

READ MORE: Chelsea + Spurs poised to blank in Gameweek 26
READ MORE: Liverpool + Luton set to blank in Gameweek 26

Double Gameweek 28

This will be a double for Bournemouth and Luton Town, while the other 18 sides will play once.

Double Gameweek 28 confirmed for Bournemouth and Luton

Blank Gameweek 29

There’s a big Blank Gameweek on this FA Cup quarter-final weekend.

Six matches will be rescheduled, making it a popular time to use Free Hit chips.

READ MORE: Building towards Blank Gameweek 29 v Free Hit

GW29 Premier League fixture	Status
Burnley v Brentford	On
Fulham v Spurs	On
Luton v Nottm Forest	On
West Ham v Aston Villa	On
Arsenal v Chelsea	Blank
Brighton v Man City	Blank
Crystal Palace v Newcastle	Blank
Everton v Liverpool	Blank
Man Utd v Sheff Utd	Blank
Wolves v Bournemouth	Blank

Double Gameweek 34

Three matches are postponed in Gameweek 34 due to the clash with the FA Cup semi-finals.

However, six other fixtures have been added to the midweek after Gameweek 34.

So, Gameweek 34 is a double for seven clubs, a blank for Spurs and a single Gameweek for the remaining dozen.

Double Gameweek 35

Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur has now been confirmed as going ahead in Gameweek 35.

Both sides will double:

Spurs	Arsenal (h), Chelsea (a)
Chelsea	Aston Villa (a), Spurs (h)

Double Gameweek 37

Brighton v Chelsea, Man Utd v Newcastle and Spurs v Man City have been moved to Gameweek 37, creating a double for all six teams.

Everyone else plays only once.

Club	Double Gameweek 37 fixtures
Brighton	Newcastle (a)	Chelsea (h)
Chelsea	Nott’m Forest (a)	Brighton (h)
Man City	Fulham (a)	Spurs (h)
Man Utd	Arsenal (h)	Newcastle (h)
Newcastle	Brighton (h)	Man Utd (a)
Spurs	Burnley (h)	Man City (h)

49 Comments Post a Comment

The Knights Template
10 months, 19 days ago
Getting serious now!
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1. Mirror Man
  10 months, 19 days ago
  Who's your captain in gwk 36?
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  1. The Knights Template
    10 months, 19 days ago
    Peacock
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  2. Fulchester's New Centr…
    10 months, 19 days ago
    Sensible.
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    1. Fulchester's New Centr…
      10 months, 19 days ago
      Or Scarlet for a hit and cap.
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Mirror Man
10 months, 19 days ago
Hoi gois would you take a hit in gwk 34 or leave it? Is it worth it?
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1. The Knights Template
  10 months, 19 days ago
  Taking out Neymar? You’ve held him that long may as well keep.
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2. Fulchester's New Centr…
  10 months, 19 days ago
  Only - 12 or more.
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Philosopher's Stones
10 months, 19 days ago
City blanking in 18? Haaland -> Awoniyi locked.
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1. Fulchester's New Centr…
  10 months, 19 days ago
  Had him since GW 11.
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The Knights Template
10 months, 19 days ago
Should I stay or Shoigu now?
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1. Andy_Social
  10 months, 19 days ago
  The man in charge of the second-best Russian army in Russia.
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2. Fulchester's New Centr…
  10 months, 19 days ago
  Special military operation to protect Russian speakers in Russia from the Russians.
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Earn your Spurs
10 months, 19 days ago
I don't get how Fifa is allowing what is going on in Saudi Arabia

If their investment fund now owns 4 of the top clubs how can that be allowed?

And the investment fund seems to be giving each one of them incredible amounts of money to massively overpay for players. Why are Fifa not exercising any control?
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1. Andy_Social
  10 months, 19 days ago
  FIFA doesn't deal with clubs. Maybe you mean UEFA or the Asian Federation?
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2. Fulchester's New Centr…
  10 months, 19 days ago
  Won't somebody think of the sheikhs?
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3. Hairy Potter
  10 months, 19 days ago
  What is it that you're unhappy about?
  
  Single entity owning multiple clubs in the same league, or that clubs are spending a lot of money on players following the investment?
  
  What is it that you want FIFA to do?
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4. Wild Card this!
  10 months, 19 days ago
  1. Asian Football Confederation territory.
  3. Have you seen Netflix documentary on FIFA? They are probably massively involved in this one as well…somehow.
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bitm2007
10 months, 19 days ago
So there is space for EFL Cup Final, FA Cup QFs and SFs postponements to be moved to midweek in GW's 29, 34 and 37 but if Manchester City make the EFL Cup Final and the FA Cup semi's there will not space for the Brentford postponement to be played late in the season if City are as expected still in the CL. So wouldn't it make sense for that game to be rearranged sooner rather than later (midweeks of GWs 4, 8, 12, 20, 23 are free) ?
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bitm2007
10 months, 19 days ago
The article mentions that GW34 FA semi postponements could be moved to midweek so it remains a regular GW, but it also appears that the FA Cup QFs postponements in GW29 could be moved to midweek as well. If that happens the only blanks would be City v Brentford from GW18, and up to two fixtures in GW26 due to the EFL Cup Final and they could then be played in rotation rife DGW37. From a blank and DGW preceptive the coming season looks the least inspiring yet.
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1. Mr. O'Connell
  10 months, 19 days ago
  Even 1 DGW is 1 too many imo
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All Muxed Ip
10 months, 19 days ago
Is anyone else finding it impossible to get Livefpl.net to save transfers?
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1. Andy_Social
  10 months, 19 days ago
  Yeah, so I took to using FPLTeam. Mind you, the price estimates are very different.
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  1. All Muxed Ip
    10 months, 19 days ago
    Thanks for that .When I e-mailed them I was told log and back in again which didn't work either. I am using FPL Team also ,but the fixture difficulty colouring needs a lot of work!
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    1. Andy_Social
      10 months, 19 days ago
      If you have more faith in Livefpl's pricing, you can do what I've done - use Livefpl to make a squad for £100m then copy it into FPLTeam and save it. My 100m squad made in Livefpl costs £106m in Team!
      For colouring etc what I do is have both tabs open and flick from one to the other.
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      1. All Muxed Ip
        10 months, 19 days ago
        Cheers
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2. dunas_dog
  10 months, 19 days ago
  Yes- gave up and tried FPL Team but their predicted prices a lot higher.
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diesel001
10 months, 19 days ago
Assuming Spurs sell Kane, buy Vicario (GK) and a new CB, I think they could do well with a 3-5-2 system:

Vicario
Romero CB* Lenglet
Porro Bissouma Bentancur Hojbjerg Sessegnon
Son Richarlison

That looks a very solid PL team, especially one that is not playing any European football and so can limit rotation.
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1. I Member
  10 months, 19 days ago
  Bang average.
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2. Andy_Social
  10 months, 19 days ago
  Posty has his 4-3-3. Never varies.
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  1. Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabadoo
    10 months, 18 days ago
    Never varies... oh really?
    https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/ange-postecoglou/leistungsdatenDetail/trainer/11929/verein_id/3828/datum_zu/2018-02-01/datum_ab/2021-06-09
    
    And he was manager at Celtic for 35 games before he started using 4-3-3.
    https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/ange-postecoglou/leistungsdatenDetail/trainer/11929/plus/0?saison_id=&verein_id=371&liga=&wettbewerb_id=&trainer_id=
    
    He used 3-4-2-1 at Y. Marinos and it would appear to be a system that could fit well at Spurs, with or without Kane.
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3. Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabadoo
  10 months, 18 days ago
  That eleven flirts with relegation.
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  1. diesel001
    10 months, 18 days ago
    Not sure how you came to that conclusion unless being facetious.
    
    When I look at Spurs I see four issues:
    
    1) Their GK isn't good enough
    2) They need a leader at CB who is going to organise the back three
    3) They don't have a creator in midfield
    4) No Kane means no goals
    
    (1) and (2) can be fixed through transfers. (3) is fixed by getting Bentancur back and keeping him fit. (4) is tricky, but both Son and Richarlison have shown they can get double digit PL goals in the past and with Richarlison as the hold-up guy and Son as the last-shoulder guy they could be a potent partnership.
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    1. SpaceCoyote97
      10 months, 18 days ago
      So bad goalkeeping, defence, midfield and attack. That's all the positions in the game.
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      1. Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabadoo
        10 months, 18 days ago
        Precisely.
        1) But some guy you never heard of until last week definitely is?
        2) Not much to ask is it? Wasn't Romero meant to be that player? It will be another £50m+ fee for the pleasure to try again.
        3) They still don't in that eleven you put up.
        4) Agreed 100%.
        
        If you think you have an eleven that will be good for Spurs and it involves playing Bissouma and not Kulusevski then I cannot help you. That eleven you put up looks like a Mou/Conte/NES wet dream. And like I said - firmly bottom half.
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    2. Andy_Social
      10 months, 18 days ago
      The way Posty sets up, adding Maddison to Bissouma and Betancur could sort out their midfield 3. But he uses wide wingers and Son and Kulu ain't that. He uses fullbacks but Conte brought in a bunch of wingbacks. Plus they need, as you say, a GK, CB, and post-Kane striker. They won't be up and running for 2 to 3 windows.
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    3. Sure You Did
      10 months, 18 days ago
      This comment is one of the most hilarious I have read in 10 years. Well done
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    4. Arn De Gothia
      10 months, 18 days ago
      Dont forget Kulusewski
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  2. IN SANE IN DE BRUYNE
    10 months, 18 days ago
    Son is the only hope
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4. Grande Tubarão
  10 months, 18 days ago
  Richarlison scored 1 premier league goal last season I believe? He got more yellow cards for celebrating goals than he got goals.
  
  That team looks awful, honestly. Surprised at your assessment of that being a very solid team.
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5. Ron_Swanson
  10 months, 18 days ago
  That’s a mediocre, dull team. Not getting anywhere near the top half
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6. Arteta
  10 months, 18 days ago
  It will be impossible to replace all of Kane's goals and assists if he leaves, so they might struggle to finish in the top European spots this season. No joke.
  
  What a downfall! This is so far from the quality of their golden generation. Unless they heavily invest and buy a few decent players for all positions in the next transfer windows, they won't come close to the Top 4 for a very long time.
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  1. Surfreak
    10 months, 18 days ago
    Your all assuming Kane will leave in this transfer window, I'd say it's 50/50 he'll stay another year.
    
    I could see them buying Maddy or Barnes from Leicester to add creativity and goals to that midfield.
    
    Would Maguire help that defence? Possibly not but you never know with him having to fight for his England place he could crack on.
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    1. Arteta
      10 months, 18 days ago
      Even if he stays at Spurs for another year, I don't think they will finish above City, Arsenal, United, Newcastle, Liverpool, and Brighton with this team. The demands are increasing, and that's why they have to strengthen.
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7. The Knights Template
  10 months, 18 days ago
  This team will win the tourney. Big Ange is there.
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8. circusmonkey
  10 months, 14 days ago
  Maddison not playing?
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  1. Deulofail
    10 months, 14 days ago
    This was posted ~3 days before Maddison signed
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