FIFA Club World Cup 2025 Fantasy managers can theoretically get up to eight shots at nailing the captaincy in Matchday 3.
As is the case in UEFA Champions League (UCL) Fantasy, you can ‘twist’ and shift the armband to someone else.
But unlike UCL Fantasy, you can switch your captains multiple times rather than just once.
With fixtures kicking off simultaneously in each group in Matchday 3, there are eight timeslots – rather than the 16 of Matchdays 1 and 2 – to consider.
MATCHDAY 3 CAPTAINS: DAY BY DAY
Here’s our early stab at the best armband opportunities in Matchday 3, with the caveat that late-developing team news (eg from the pre-match press conferences) could alter some of the picks later in the week.
Some of the names below feature in our Scout Picks or differentials, which go into more detail explaining the rationale behind our selections.
| Mon 23 June | Tue 24 June | Wed 25 June | Thu 26 June | Fri 27 June | |
| Most favourable fixtures | PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN v Seattle (20:00) | PALMEIRAS v Inter Miami (02:00) PORTO v Al Ahly (02:00) BOCA v Auckland (20:00) | CHELSEA v ES Tunis (02:00) DORTMUND v Ulsan (20:00) FLUMINENSE v Mamelodi (20:00) | MONTERREY v Urawa (02:00) | REAL MADRID v RB Salzburg (02:00) AL HILAL v Pachuca (02:00) |
| Early captaincy suggestions | Bradley Barcola ($8.2m, MID) | Estevao ($5.5m, FWD) Samu Aghehowa ($4.2m, FWD) Miguel Merentiel ($6.2m, FWD) | Liam Delap ($6.0m, FWD) Serhou Guirassy ($9.0m, FWD) Jhon Arias ($6.2m, MID) | Sergio Canales ($6.1m, MID) | Arda Guler ($6.5m, MID) Salem Al Dawsari ($5.6m, MID) |
I wanted to go Bowen and Saliba in GW33 but chickened out and went Saka and Williams Around a 40 point swing. I finished 15k in the end, would’ve got back to back 3k finishes had I gone for Bowen. Want the game to launch !
»We urgently need new stats in the members area. CBIT CBIT-R CBIT per 90 CBIT-R Per 90 We only get a maximum of 10 columns in custom stats tables. Can't use 5 of these on a stat that you have to manually export and add together and divide to get the figure you need.
»So getting Saka over Bowen in the final GW last season has pushed me from top 1% to top 10%...What a disaster GW38 was
»I've also discovered there might be a discrepancy over what fbref and other similar sites class as a block which some people have been using to base estimations on - it combines shots and passes blocked and what the game classes as a block which could be just shots blocked. If you look at the numbers here on the official site - https://www.premierleague.com/en/stats/top/players?statMetric=blocks&season=2024 they are for shots blocked only.
»I like Sunderland's transfers. Still a very young team, could see them going down and coming back stronger next time for the experience. Concerned about Burnley most of the three, overperformed in the defence anyway which won't be repeatable against PL strikers. Leeds obviously have the best chance to survive and it'll depend as much on what happens to those likely to drop down (Wolves, West Ham etc) as what Leeds do. Suspicion is they still don't get to 40, maybe not even 35 points so its how far down the others drop.
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