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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!

366 Comments Login to Post a Comment
  1. Moon Dog
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 1 Year
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Howl do I see my ID?

    1. langey
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

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

      1. langey
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        1 year, 1 month 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
      • 8 Years
      1 year, 1 month 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
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

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

      1. MIGHTY JOE
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

        This is the way

    4. Moon Dog
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 1 Year
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Thanks all.

      3410 🙁 I was taking a dump when it released 😆

      1. FPL Virgin
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

        Pure timing.

      2. Gamst - Up (?) the Rovers
        • 16 Years
        1 year, 1 month 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
          • 12 Years
          1 year, 1 month ago

          Preferred swiping method?

        2. panda07
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          1 year, 1 month ago

          Always swipe up!

          1. Andy_Social
            • 14 Years
            1 year, 1 month ago

            You Neanderthals! Use a bumjet - so hygienic!

            1. panda07
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 14 Years
              1 year, 1 month ago

              I just drag myself along the foliage!

            2. Goro Majima
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 7 Years
              1 year, 1 month ago

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

              1. Andy_Social
                • 14 Years
                1 year, 1 month ago

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

      3. Andy_Social
        • 14 Years
        1 year, 1 month 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?

  2. langey
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

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

    1. Zladan
      • 9 Years
      1 year, 1 month 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
      • 5 Years
      1 year, 1 month 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
      • 15 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Yep I had 314 for a short while 🙂

    4. Reddonkeyham 42
      • 12 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      314 is the league code lol

      1. langey
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

        Ah...got a rubbish 21933 ID lol

    5. Reddonkeyham 42
      • 12 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      The real 314 is Matt L

  3. FPL Virgin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 1 month 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
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      *been pre prepared

    2. Andy_Social
      • 14 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

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

  4. thug
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    i got 276 by pure luck

    1. FPL Virgin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

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

      1. Conners
        • 7 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

        High praise indeed.

  5. Zladan
    • 9 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

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

    1. Zalk
      • 15 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

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

    2. Andy_Social
      • 14 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

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

      1. Zladan
        • 9 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

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

    3. Conners
      • 7 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

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

  6. Lanley Staurel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    1 year, 1 month 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....

  7. Tonyawesome69
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Kelleher at 4.5m... GK pick sorted

  8. Lanley Staurel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

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

      1. Lanley Staurel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

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

      2. Goro Majima
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

        Thanks for this, was having the same problem.

  9. The Philosopher
    • 6 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    App still not working?

  10. FPL Virgin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 1 month 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 😆

  11. Conners
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 1 month 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 Wild Rover
      • 16 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Same here

  12. Reddonkeyham 42
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    46671

  13. dan slo
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    37071
    Lads

  14. The Philosopher
    • 6 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Can't see my ID in the site?

    1. Reddonkeyham 42
      • 12 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Transfer history

      1. The Philosopher
        • 6 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

        Nothing in there

        1. moz_1983
          • 14 Years
          1 year, 1 month ago

          It's in the URL

  15. Moon Dog
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 1 Year
    1 year, 1 month 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...

  16. RUUD!
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

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

    1. Forza Papac
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Yup

  17. Forza Papac
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 1 month 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...'

  18. Codhead
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    314 🙂

  19. SM001
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Christ that new UI is hideous.

    1. x.jim.x
      • 11 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

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

  20. x.jim.x
    • 11 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

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

  21. Reddonkeyham 42
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

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

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

  22. -GK22-
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    How do I see ID?

    1. panda07
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Transfer history on the Pick Team page.

      1. -GK22-
        • 14 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

        Thanks got it 30699, million miles away from last years

  23. panda07
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    VVD £6m - straight in my team!

  24. SpaceCoyote97
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    1 year, 1 month 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
      • 4 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

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

    2. Andy_Social
      • 14 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

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

  25. Sheffield Wednesday
    • 6 Years
    1 year, 1 month 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
      • 12 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

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

  26. Zenith UK
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    1999, I'll take it

    1. SpaceCoyote97
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Tonight are you going to party like it?

    2. Sheffield Wednesday
      • 6 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Spacey

  27. Custard Gannet
    • 6 Years
    1 year, 1 month 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??

  28. bitm2007
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

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

  29. Jack Burton
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 1 month 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
      • 9 Years
      1 year, 1 month 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
        • 10 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

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

      2. Jack Burton
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

        Just saw auto renew cheers

  30. Nightcrawler
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    early thoughts are that

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

    1. Nightcrawler
      • 7 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      kudus too

      1. Zenith UK
        • 10 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

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

    2. Conners
      • 7 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Mbeumo seems very cheap.

      1. Andy_Social
        • 14 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

        I suspect FPL Towers know where he's headed.

    3. Andy_Social
      • 14 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

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