Gameweek 9 saw the Triple Captain chip widely used – but it was still not the most popular window of 2024/25 so far.
In this article, we look at Fantasy Premier League (FPL) chip usage this season and make a long-overdue check-in with LiveFPL.
HOW MANY MANAGERS USED THE TRIPLE CAPTAIN CHIP IN GAMEWEEK 9?
There were 330,035 Triple Captain chips deployed in Gameweek 9.
Erling Haaland (£15.4m) made up the bulk of that number:
| Name | Team | Total |
| Haaland | MCI | 308,746 |
| Palmer | CHE | 5,144 |
| Salah | LIV | 3,022 |
| Mbeumo | BRE | 2,962 |
| Watkins | AVL | 2,529 |
MOST POPULAR TRIPLE CAPTAINS OF 2024/25 SO FAR
Gameweek 2 remains the most popular Triple Captain window of 2024/25 to date, when not far off 500k managers handed Haaland the responsibility.
The ‘single Gameweek’ approach has found great success so far, with double-digit hauls in the three most popular windows before Gameweek 9:
| Name | Gameweek | Total | Score |
| Haaland | GW2 | 477,386 | 17 |
| Haaland | GW9 | 308,746 | ? |
| Haaland | GW4 | 113,379 | 13 |
| Haaland | GW3 | 95,891 | 17 |
| Haaland | GW8 | 87,632 | 2 |
Most Triple-Captained players of all time
Gameweek 2 was, in fact, the fifth-most-popular Triple Captain window of all time:
| Season | Gameweek | Player | Total | Score |
| 2023/24 | GW25 | Haaland | 1,332,615 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | GW26 | Salah | 1,013,162 | 28 |
| 2022/23 | GW34 | Haaland | 717,593 | 16 |
| 2022/23 | GW22 | Rashford | 557,362 | 20 |
| 2024/25 | GW2 | Haaland | 477,386 | 17 |
CHIP USAGE: OVERALL V TOP 10K
The top 10k is often a more reliable gauge of ‘active’ FPL managers, with the overall figure skewed by long-deserted ghost teams – even at this early stage of 2024/25.
Triple Captain usage is not far off 50% in the top 10,000, compared to 18.1% overall.
Almost three-quarters of the top 10k have used their Wildcard.
WHAT IS HAALAND’S EFFECTIVE OWNERSHIP IN GAMEWEEK 9?
Haaland’s Gameweek 9 effective ownership figure (EO) is over 150% in all of the below rank tiers:
No other player’s Gameweek 9 EO is higher than 100% at any rank tier. If you captained Haaland this week, you can safely cheer on your other players as well as the big Norwegian…
GET IN-GAME DATA AT LIVE FPL
