Our Fantasy Premier League (FPL) 2024/25 end-of-season awards are underway, with the poll for best forwards open for voting in this article and on the sidebar.
Article by article, we’re assessing the leading candidates in each position and our focus now moves up front.
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Overall score, points per match and value in FPL were all factors we considered when compiling this seven-man shortlist. The rest we’ll leave up to you!
We’ll leave this poll open until Monday night at 23:59 BST, for those of you who prefer to see the season through to its climax before deciding.
We’ll also update this article after the final day for the voters who want to weigh up the complete picture.
ALEXANDER ISAK
- Points: 211
- Points per match: 6.2
- Start cost: £8.5m
- End cost: £9.4m
- Value (points per million): 22.4
Second only to Mohamed Salah (£13.6m) in both goals (23) and direct goal involvements (29), Alexander Isak (£9.4m) has enjoyed his most prolific season in 2024/25.
It started slow, with just one goal and an assist in his first eight matches. But once the floodgates opened, there was no letting up.
He registered four attacking returns (three goals, one assist) in consecutive matches against Chelsea, Arsenal and Nottingham Forest, before embarking on a particularly spectacular Gameweek 14-21 run in which he scored in all eight, totalling 11 goals, three assists, 17 bonus points and four double-digit hauls.
After what would have marked a respectable season for any average striker, Isak then scored two more braces in the space of four matches. His rate of returns has slowed during this battle with injury and fatigue, but four goals and an assist in his last eight still isn’t bad.
All in all, his output of 29 goals and assists, plus 36 bonus points, from 34 starts has propelled the Swede to the top of the FPL forwards overall points leaderboard.
CHRIS WOOD
- Points: 200
- Points per match: 5.6
- Start cost: £6.0m
- End cost: £7.2m
- Value (points per million): 27.8
Chasing the Newcastle United frontman down in the points standings is Chris Wood (£7.2m).
The Kiwi striker turns 34 this year but has just delivered his best-ever Premier League season, comfortably beating his previous leading goals tally (14) to propel Nottingham Forest into European football.
Like Isak, Wood’s returns have dried up a little during the season run-in, to the point where he has only netted twice since Gameweek 25.
But before that, he was remarkably consistent, combining four double-digit hauls – including a season-best 17 points thanks to his Gameweek 24 hat-trick – with plenty of seven to nine point showings as he tallied 21 attacking returns from his first 24 starts.
One key area where that has aided him as an FPL asset is bonus points, of which he has racked up the joint-most (41) of any forward and more than any player in the game bar Salah.
From a starting price of just £6.0m, Wood also represents the second-best value in terms of points per million (27.8) throughout the season.
ERLING HAALAND
- Points: 181
- Points per match: 5.8
- Start cost: £15.0m
- End cost: £14.9m
- Value (points per million): 12.1
In contrast to a few of the names on this list, Erling Haaland (£14.9m) began his 2024/25 campaign in blistering form, scoring an astonishing 10 goals in his first five league matches, including back-to-back hat-tricks.
That goal-scoring rate was never going to be sustained throughout an entire 38-game season but it’s still surprising to consider that in the 26 starts Haaland has made since then, he has only just doubled his goals tally.
His opening five-game run also accounted for three of five total double-digit tallies and 14 of his 26 bonus points.
Manchester City’s number nine did enjoy another prolific stretch before his recent six-game injury lay-off, having scored eight goals and assisted two in an 11-match period between Gameweeks 19 and 29.
25 attacking returns (22 goals and three assists) shouldn’t be sniffed at, but no matter which way you slice it, this will still be Haaland’s most unproductive Premier League campaign output-wise, paling in comparison to his 45 and 35 direct goal involvements in his previous two seasons.Â
Whether his output this year has justified his lofty price tag is also up for debate, with Haaland’s value in terms of points per million (12.1) sitting way down in the rankings compared to his peers. In fact, he’s only just ahead of Southampton’s Cameron Archer (£4.8m) in that regard.
MATHEUS CUNHA
- Points: 178
- Points per match: 5.4
- Start cost: £6.5m
- End cost: £7.0m
- Value (points per million): 25.4
The only one of these FPL forwards with a better minutes-per-chance rate than Haaland – as well as Salah – is Matheus Cunha (£7.0m).
The Brazilian has been an intriguing FPL prospect all season long.
The Old Gold suffered through their first 10 league matches, losing seven and drawing four, yet Cunha still managed to rack up five attacking returns and 10 bonus points. His own form continued via back-to-back double-digit hauls in his next two matches, grabbing three goals and two assists in wins against Southampton and Fulham.
In what became something of a pattern, Cunha then blanked for a few weeks before scoring in three straight matches, first against Ipswich Town, Leicester City and Man United before doing the same a few weeks later against Aston Villa, Liverpool and Bournemouth.
He then missed a chunk of games after being handed a second red card of the campaign, only to score on his return and follow that up with a further goal and three assists in the next two matches.
Not just the leading forward for shots (110), he’s also the top striker for chances created (57) by quite a distance. He has crafted the most big chances (13), too. That means seven assists have been accumulated, in addition to 41 bonus points.
Despite starting two fewer matches and playing 100 fewer minutes, he almost finished level on points with Haaland (178 v 181).
JEAN-PHILIPPE MATETA
- Points: 150
- Points per match: 4.1
- Start cost: £7.5m
- End cost: £7.5m
- Value (points per million): 20.0
Sitting some way back from the rest of our shortlist in terms of overall points, Jean-Philippe Mateta (£7.5m) earns his spot because of a spurt of brilliant mid-season form.
The notoriously streaky Frenchman had scored just four times prior to Gameweek 20, with two of those coming against Leicester.
Yet, in the space of eight matches, Mateta scored eight times and also grabbed his second assist of the season, picking up 13 bonus points and registering two of his three double-digit hauls in the process.
A horrible head injury sustained in the FA Cup match against Millwall sadly put an end to that run and Mateta was never quite the same in the league, scoring on just two more occasions.
Of course, it’s worth noting that his quieter stretch coincided with Crystal Palace’s run to FA Cup glory, which has seen their starting striker benched in two of their last four league outings and withdrawn early in the others.
A special mention here goes to Wolves’ Jørgen Strand Larsen (£5.2m), bagging seven goals during his first 26 appearances, followed by seven more – plus two assists – in his most recent eight.
YOANE WISSA
- Points: 185
- Points per match: 5.3
- Start cost: £6.0m
- End cost: £6.9m
- Value (points per million): 26.8
Sitting fourth in the FPL forwards’ points standings is Yoane Wissa (£6.9m).
The Brentford striker would be in third had one of his goals if not for a delay in the awarding of one of his 19 league goals – but we won’t get into that here.
This has been his best scoring season to date by some distance. The six double-digit hauls across the season – thanks to also racking up six assists – is second only to Isak among all forwards. 32 bonus points is the joint-fourth-highest tally, too.
All this without having spot-kick duties, too!
OLLIE WATKINS
- Points: 186
- Points per match: 4.9
- Start cost: £9.0m
- End cost: £9.2m
- Value (points per million): 20.2
Finally, he may not have hit the heights of 2023/24, where he registered 19 goals and 18 assists, but this has been by no means a bad season for Ollie Watkins (£9.2m).
Two disappointing blanks from limited minutes to start with were followed by a run of seven attacking returns (five goals, two assists) in the next six matches.
After then fighting off a mid-season challenge from the now departed Jhon Durán, Villa’s leading man tallied 12 more returns (eight goals, four assists) from a run of 13 starts. He registered a goal and assist across his last three appearances as Unai Emery’s men battle for a spot in next season’s Champions League.
Watkins’s eight assists make him FPL’s leading forward in that category, though a league-high 40 total big chances (of which he has scored 13) suggest he has been perhaps a tad unlucky – or wasteful – not to find the back of the net on more than 16 occasions.Â
Still, that’s his second-best return after last year and is good enough to rank third for FPL points, joint-third for double-digit hauls (five) and joint-fourth for bonus points (32) among forwards.
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