FPL 2025/26: Top players for goal involvement

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	B, Vs
No Change	Mateta	CRY	B
No Change	Thiago	BRE	A
No Change	Welbeck	BHA	B
No Change	Woltemade	NEW	B

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Jurriën Timber
Muñoz
Konaté
Thiaw

Saka
Bruno Fernandes
Minteh

Woltemade
Haaland
Mateta

Dubravka
Acheampong
Potts
Andrey Santos

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Price Change Predictions

Risers

Fallers

Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Woltemade	NEW	7.4m	128.8%	Very Likely
Van Hecke	BHA	4.4m	103.6%	Very Likely
Lammens	MUN	5.0m	100.5%	Very Likely
J.Timber	ARS	6.4m	89.8%	Maybe
Casemiro	MUN	5.5m	95.6%	Maybe
Raya	ARS	5.9m	78.0%	Unlikely
Guéhi	CRY	5.1m	72.7%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	89.3%	Unlikely
Roefs	SUN	4.7m	84.9%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	5.0m	84.6%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	83.4%	Unlikely
Tavernier	BOU	5.5m	85.5%	Unlikely
Szoboszlai	LIV	6.6m	83.3%	Unlikely
Petrović	BOU	4.5m	81.2%	Unlikely
Foden	MCI	8.3m	64.5%	Unlikely
Matheus N.	MCI	5.3m	75.4%	Unlikely
J.Palhinha	TOT	5.5m	78.0%	Unlikely
Neto	CHE	7.2m	60.6%	Unlikely
Rogers	AVL	6.9m	77.4%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	71.3%	Unlikely
Gvardiol	MCI	5.8m	68.5%	Unlikely
De Ligt	MUN	5.0m	72.9%	Unlikely
Saka	ARS	10.1m	61.9%	Unlikely
Amad	MUN	6.3m	65.2%	Unlikely
Sánchez	CHE	4.8m	62.8%	Unlikely
King	FUL	4.5m	62.5%	Unlikely
O.Dango	BRE	6.0m	55.7%	Unlikely
Ballard	SUN	4.6m	55.2%	Unlikely
Schade	BRE	7.0m	54.9%	Unlikely
Lacroix	CRY	5.1m	47.2%	Unlikely
Donnarumma	MCI	5.7m	53.9%	Unlikely
Chalobah	CHE	5.2m	48.1%	Unlikely
Sessegnon	FUL	5.4m	48.1%	Unlikely
Burn	NEW	5.1m	36.5%	Unlikely
Gusto	CHE	4.9m	45.9%	Unlikely
Barnes	NEW	6.4m	37.5%	Unlikely
Livramento	NEW	4.9m	38.9%	Unlikely
Anderson	NFO	5.4m	41.7%	Unlikely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.4m	37.4%	Unlikely
Kroupi.Jr	BOU	4.6m	44.1%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Mbeumo	MUN	8.6m	97.2%	Likely
Caicedo	CHE	5.9m	110.5%	Very Likely
Strand Larsen	WOL	6.3m	95.6%	Likely
Rodney	CRY	4.5m	99.4%	Likely
Vicario	TOT	5.0m	96.6%	Maybe
Pinnock	BRE	4.3m	96.0%	Maybe
Tel	TOT	6.3m	94.4%	Maybe
Coppola	BHA	4.3m	95.0%	Maybe
Dixon	EVE	3.9m	94.4%	Unlikely
Okafor	LEE	5.5m	94.4%	Unlikely
Lewis	MCI	4.8m	92.0%	Unlikely
J.Araujo	BOU	3.9m	93.2%	Unlikely
Maguire	MUN	4.4m	91.8%	Unlikely
George	CHE	4.9m	90.8%	Unlikely
Kerkez	LIV	5.7m	90.4%	Unlikely
Welch	EVE	3.9m	91.9%	Unlikely
Mainoo	MUN	4.7m	90.6%	Unlikely
Travers	EVE	4.4m	90.9%	Unlikely
Ortega Moreno	MCI	4.8m	90.3%	Unlikely
Georginio	BHA	5.7m	79.5%	Unlikely
Kelleher	BRE	4.5m	88.8%	Unlikely
Boateng	BUR	4.8m	89.7%	Unlikely
Darlow	LEE	4.0m	86.4%	Unlikely
Mac Allister	LIV	6.3m	84.0%	Unlikely
Arrizabalaga	ARS	4.2m	84.0%	Unlikely
Gruev	LEE	4.8m	80.9%	Unlikely
Neave	NEW	4.4m	82.7%	Unlikely
Knight	BHA	4.5m	83.5%	Unlikely
Baleba	BHA	4.7m	82.1%	Unlikely
McGill	BHA	4.0m	83.1%	Unlikely
Cox	BRE	4.0m	83.9%	Unlikely
Colwill	CHE	4.8m	83.1%	Unlikely
Young	AVL	4.4m	80.6%	Unlikely
M.Bizot	AVL	4.3m	85.6%	Unlikely
Abbott	NFO	3.9m	84.9%	Unlikely
Akinmboni	BOU	3.9m	81.1%	Unlikely
Matete	SUN	4.4m	81.5%	Unlikely
Christie	BOU	5.0m	79.0%	Unlikely
Sonne	BUR	3.9m	81.1%	Unlikely
Gannon-Doak	BOU	4.9m	80.4%	Unlikely

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	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	C, Vs
No Change	Alisson	LIV	C, Vs
No Change	Donnarumma	MCI	C, Vs, Sus
Up	Ramsdale	NEW	C
No Change	Sels	NFO	C, Vs
No Change	Dubravka	BUR	C, £

Last updated: 2 Dec, 2025 3:14pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	van Dijk	LIV	B, Vs
No Change	Muñoz	CRY	A, Sus
No Change	Jurriën Timber	ARS	C, Vs
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	A, Vs
No Change	de Ligt	MUN	C, Vs
Up	Thiaw	NEW	A
No Change	Andersen	FUL	A
No Change	Milenkovic	NFO	C, Vs
No Change	van Hecke	BHA	B, £
No Change	Mukiele	SUN	C, £

Last updated: 2 Dec, 2025 2:34pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Saka	ARS	A, Vs
No Change	Bruno Fernandes	MUN	A, Vs
No Change	Foden	MCI	A, Vs
No Change	Semenyo	BOU	C
Up	Gakpo	LIV	A, Vs
No Change	Minteh	BHA	A
Up	Anderson	NFO	A, Vs, £
No Change	Fernández	CHE	B
Up	Bruno Guimarães	NEW	B

Last updated: 2 Dec, 2025 2:44pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	B, Vs
No Change	Mateta	CRY	B
No Change	Thiago	BRE	A
No Change	Welbeck	BHA	B
No Change	Woltemade	NEW	B

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FPL 2025/26: Top players for goal involvement last season

9 July 2025 32 comments

Skonto Rigga

It won’t be long now until Fantasy Premier League (FPL) relaunches for the new season.

From penalty takers to those with favourable fixtures, various factors influence the selection of a Gameweek 1 squad.

Front and centre of any FPL team, of course, are the goalscorers and assist makers.

A look at the 2024/25 Golden Boot race is one easy way of sussing out the net-bulgers extraordinaire (one for Second Mentions). ‘Top assists’ columns can be easily sourced, too.

But what about the players who, for example, had spells out injured last season? Or those who belatedly established themselves in their managers’ starting XIs? These individuals won’t feature high up any end-of-season goal/assist tables.

Which brings us to: our ‘goal involvement’ percentages.

WHERE CAN YOU FIND ‘GOAL INVOLVEMENT’?

First off, head to the Player Stats section of our Members Area.

Then, select the ‘Involvement’ tab in any of the following, depending on your preference: defenders, midfielders, forwards or outfield players.

The columns you are looking for are on the far right of each table (highlighted in red):

BUT WHAT IS ‘GOAL INVOLVEMENT’?

There are two figures provided in the above table.

GI% = Goal Involvement: The percentage of their team’s goals that a player has scored or assisted (Opta assists only). The figure only counts team goals scored while the player was on the pitch.

FGI% = FPL Goal Involvement: The percentage of their team’s goals that a player has scored or assisted (Opta assists and Fantasy assists). The figure only counts team goals scored while the player was on the pitch.

For the uninitiated, Fantasy assists are given for things like shot rebounds, penalty awards, deflected crosses that reach their intended destinations etc.

It’s this latter column that we’ll mostly focus on in this article.

WHO WERE THE LEADING PLAYERS FOR FPL GOAL INVOLVEMENT IN 2024/25?

We’ve omitted players from the three relegated clubs in this article. Anyone who featured for under 1,000 minutes is also excluded, so we can separate the Salahs from the small-sample Osulas.

And here we are, with an arbitrary-sounding top 35…

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FPL Virgin
4 months, 28 days ago
Like with minutes per shot, I was the first to highlight the importance of FPL goal involvement:

https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2020/02/12/the-secret-formula-to-crack-fpl
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1. TorresMagic™
  4 months, 28 days ago
  FPL cracked you, though.
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2. White Pony
  4 months, 28 days ago
  Not enough downvote buttons.
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Count of Monte Hristo
4 months, 28 days ago
R9 being interviewed pre-match, such a humble guy and a gentleman. One of the greatest to ever play the game.
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All de Gea no iDier
4 months, 28 days ago
Humility is such a rare commodity.
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1. thattreblefeeling
  4 months, 28 days ago
  True and delusions of grandeur is common place nowadays
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CoracAld2831
4 months, 28 days ago
Real Madrid getting rack dolled so far.

10 minutes and it's 2-0 to PSG already.
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1. CoracAld2831
  4 months, 28 days ago
  *rag
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  1. CoracAld2831
    4 months, 28 days ago
    It's 3-0 at 41st.
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Bobby Digital
4 months, 28 days ago
PSG setup is so fluid. A joy to watch...
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1. CoracAld2831
  4 months, 28 days ago
  Best football club in the world currently.
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TheBiffas
4 months, 28 days ago
Raul Asencio is so poor. Huijsen a big miss
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1. Freshy
  4 months, 28 days ago
  Rudiger past it too
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  1. TheBiffas
    4 months, 28 days ago
    Yeah they probably need another CB this summer
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CoracAld2831
4 months, 28 days ago
Great performance by PSG.

Absolute dominance.
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1. Desperate Dan
  4 months, 28 days ago
  When does FPL start?
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  1. Freshy
    4 months, 28 days ago
    Prolly get some early player price leaks for a couple of days first
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    1. Desperate Dan
      4 months, 28 days ago
      I don't like that just put the whole thing up.
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      1. CoracAld2831
        4 months, 28 days ago
        They won't.
        
        They like a slow build.
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  2. CoracAld2831
    4 months, 28 days ago
    After the game launches.
    
    In a space of 10 to 14 days probably.
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  3. RedLightning
    4 months, 28 days ago
    Probably sometime next week or the week after.
    
    FPL is still doing essential updates to prepare for the 2025-26 Premier League season, and it has already taken three days longer than last time so there must be some big changes coming. We know there’s going to be a new AI AssMan powered by Microsoft’s CoPilot, but there are likely to be other changes too.
    
    They could start revealing selected new prices fairly soon after the update has finished. They have been doing this for a few years now to build up anticipation as the launch gets closer and this year is unlikely to be any different, but they won't want to go ahead with the launch until the changes have been tested to their satisfaction, and they may also be waiting for a few more transfers to complete before finalising the new prices.
    
    See https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2025/06/30/fpl-is-updating-for-2025-26-how-long-did-it-take-to-relaunch-last-year for what happened last time.
    
    I know that some of us are getting a bit impatient, but that's how it is.
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I Member
4 months, 28 days ago
Joao Pedro GW1 who says no?
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1. Freshy
  4 months, 28 days ago
  Delap has a motor out of possession.
  Would you rather burn Delap up than throw on JP
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  1. Freshy
    4 months, 28 days ago
    Would you rather burn Delap up THEN throw on JP
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2. sirmorbach
  4 months, 28 days ago
  Trap. And I'm falling.
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  1. Freshy
    4 months, 28 days ago
    Forest might be a striker trap too
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Freshy
4 months, 28 days ago
Chelsea are 19 - 2 - 4 in their last 25
Maybe the chaos is working
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1. The Hunt
  4 months, 28 days ago
  From just before Christmas time last year until late February this year they totally lost the plot and dropped away from challenging Liverpool at the top of the league down into seventh place behind Bournemouth. After regaining their form they were the second best team in the league again, won a European trophy and are now in the CWC final. Their opening six fixtures are all winnable and I think I'll be starting off with at least a couple of their players in my team.
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bso
4 months, 28 days ago
Haha Madrid got kicked in the balls lol.
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The Knights Template
4 months, 28 days ago
If Gyokeres doesn’t go to Arsenal, where is next on the list?
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1. Holmes
  4 months, 28 days ago
  Man Utd
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2. Men in green tights
  4 months, 28 days ago
  Burnley
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