Head-to-Head Leagues
Your division, every result, and the promotion race in one place.
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How the competition works
- Every division contains 20 managers. Each manager plays the other 19 twice across the 38 Gameweeks.
- Your match score is your FPL Gameweek score after transfer-point deductions. A win earns three H2H points, a draw one, and a loss none.
- Overall FPL rank, then fewer transfers, separates managers level on H2H points.
- At season end, five managers are promoted from each eligible division and ten are relegated, subject to the top and bottom of the pyramid.
- If a division needs a final place, Mr Average scores the rounded average of the real managers in that division.
Joining the H2H Leagues
The current FPL entry league is FFS H2H Entry, code 990fx0. New managers enter at the bottom of the pyramid. Returning managers are matched to their previous H2H identity so their promotion or relegation history carries forward.
The 2026/27 entry list has now closed. Entries received after the cutoff will begin the following campaign.
Using the division centre
- Find your manager: search once across the entire competition by manager name or Team ID.
- Standings: view wins, draws, losses, match points, form and overall rank for any division.
- Fixtures & results: switch Gameweek to see your next opponent or a completed score.
- Updates: results are prepared after FPL marks the Gameweek complete and the FFS data checks have passed.
Previous Winners of the Head-to-Head Leagues
The reigning Head-to-Head Leagues Champion is Alex Tyc.
Alex moved into first place in Gameweek 36 before beating James Wong-You in a winner-takes-it-all clash on the final day to clinch the title. Long-time leader Liam McAllister, who had been top for 16 Gameweeks before being overtaken by Alex, suffered a loss of form down the final straight to finish seventh.
Alex improved upon his showing from the previous season when he ended a point behind overall winner Adam Ferguson. Like Alex, Adam’s recent record is exceptional with victory in 2023/24 sandwiched between a podium finish in 2022/23 and fourth place last time out. In fact, Adam has made the top five in each of the last four seasons.
In 2022/23 the gold medal went to Ignazio La Rosa.
Ignazio secured the title in dramatic fashion. In second place heading into Gameweek 38, he won on the final day to overtake Sameer Sohail and beat a total of 9,509 people to snatch the crown.
Sameer, the front-runner for 31 Gameweeks across the season, lost his last round tie to the inaugural winner of the Head-to-Head Leagues Craig Johnson (aka Bouncebackability), the champion in 2019/20. Remarkably, Craig has finished outside the top ten just once, gaining a top-five place on three occasions.
Martin Stubbs was the winner in 2021/22.
Martin had taken an early lead only for Justin Spiegel to gradually reduce the gap, overtaking Martin as they approached the finishing line. Entering a climactic Gameweek 38, Justin looked set for glory but defeat saw Martin leapfrog him at the death.
An equally tense conclusion saw Ville Tuominen (aka Santigold) emerge the victor in 2020/21. Three points behind Aleksander Våge Nilsen with one game to go, Ville triumphed on FPL Rank after results went in his favour.
A History of the Head-to-Head Leagues
The original incarnation of the Fantasy Football Scout Head-to-Head Leagues was way back in the 2009/10 season. Their introduction coincided with the launch of private head-to-head leagues on Fantasy Premier League, following on from the appearance of public head-to-head leagues a year earlier.
Leicester City fan Andy, one of the very first contributors to the site, took advantage of this new feature to set up five leagues. To begin with, they all acted as qualification leagues ahead of implementing a tiered system for the 2010/11 campaign.
But Andy hadn’t anticipated the competition being quite so popular, so he later added a reserve league to accommodate all those who wanted to take part. All six leagues served as qualifiers for the main event the following year.
The end-of-season summary mentions matzi11a qualifying for the top tier, more on Mat later, and future Head-to-Head Leagues winner Bouncebackability gets a nod for topping the Scout League in the “Can You Kick It? FA Cup Challenge“.
Heads will roll
Seven leagues plus a reserve league were announced for the first season proper. There was also the novel idea of a “golden ticket”, used to fill up any unclaimed places. This saw ShipstonTrev, who finished 51st in the world the previous season, jump straight into the top division.
Despite being 15 years ago, you may recognise a few of the participants from that original season still active on the boards today.
Jason Gomez (aka crazy88s) became the very first Head-to-Head Leagues Champion, while Pro Pundit Zophar gained promotion from the oversubscribed Reserve League.
Growing pains
The organisers added two extra leagues for the start of the following campaign, bringing the total to nine leagues plus the Reserve League.
Together with a handful of unclaimed places, this created room for 60 new entries. That number included golden ticket-winner Impressive Tackle, who earned a place in ‘H2H 1’ after coming 14th in the overall standings.
The high-flying newcomer would go on to take the title at his first attempt.
The eagle-eyed among you will notice a few familiar names in the tables above, including YouTube host Joe (then called Jonty), Last Man Standing organiser TorresMagic, Fantasy Football Scout founder Mark, and CEO El Fozzie, among others.
Propping up the ‘H2H 7’ table is MIR, who would later play a crucial role in restarting the competition because, sadly, 2011/12 proved to be the last edition of the original Head-to-Head Leagues.
The community on Fantasy Football Scout had continued to grow at a rapid rate, making the pen-and-paper approach to running the leagues too onerous.
But the story doesn’t finish there!
Chapter Two – It’s a Long and Winding Road
Community member Doosra, ably supported by Ginkapo, picked up the baton, starting a head-to-head leagues for site regulars.
Together they launched the ‘It’s a Long and Winding Road‘ website, which featured a classic league and seven private head-to-head leagues, entitled “Stairway to Heaven“. And, if that wasn’t enough, the proactive pair also came up with a 128-team knockout cup competition, called the FA Cup of Tea. A local tea distribution company provided sponsorship.
The first of these invite-only versions of the tournament took place in 2012/13. Former site moderator Evs won ‘Clound Nine’, the imaginatively-named top division in ‘Stairway to Heaven’, with Joe (aka Jonty) triumphing in ‘Le Corbusier’, the second tier league.
Joe then went one better the following year, adding the ‘Cloud Nine’ title to his trophy cabinet.
Doosra and Ginkapo were both guests on the Scoutcast during this time. While Ginkapo professed his love for Aleksandar Kolarov, Doosra’s appearance in episode 97 featured the extraordinary true story of him rescuing Joe’s dog. A much-loved member of the community, Doosra is also the subject of, I suspect, the most upvoted comment this site has known.
Despite the FA Cup of Tea and classic league continuing until 2016/17, the head-to-head leagues appear to have wound down by then. The task of administering the leagues proved too time consuming.
A new approach was needed.
Chapter Three – The wait is over
The spark arrived in 2019 when MIR, aka Mark Reynolds, contacted then Community Manager Geoff Dance (formerly known as Pukka) about restarting the competition. It soon became clear, however, that the Head-to-Head leagues required a radical rethink if they were going to be fully inclusive and manageable.
Nearly 6,000 managers applied to join the 2019/20 competition, necessitating a new structure. Mark and Geoff together with Mat, came up with the idea of having an increasing number of equally-weighted divisions within each league. Thereby reducing the total number of leagues from 300 to eight.
Mat, aka matzi11a from the very first edition of the tournament, deserves the biggest thanks, because it was his ingenuity that allowed the Head-to-Head Leagues to break free of the old hands-on approach. He successfully automated the creation of the leagues and, cleverly, found a way to match managers across different seasons.
A word of gratitude must also go to our scribes, Richard and Roy, aka RedLightning and Lord, who graciously give up their time to cover all the H2H ups and downs in their articles.
The character of the Head-to-Head Leagues has undoubtedly changed given the volume of people taking part but the challenge, if anything, has increased. There will be no one-hit wonders winning the largest community-run Fantasy Premier League competition.