FPL Season Review: How Brentford players performed in 2025/26 | OneFootball

Brentford teamed up with Fantasy Football Scout to help bring you hints, tips and advice during the 2025/26 Fantasy Premier League (FPL) season.

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Season Review

Another FPL campaign is done and dusted following Gameweek 38. Erling Haaland finished first for both points (239) and goals (27).

However, it wasn’t enough for Manchester City to stop Arsenal winning their first title in 22 years. The Gunners’ watertight defence secured 19 clean sheets, which meant that doubling up on the likes of David Raya, Gabriel Magalhães, and Jurriën Timber was a popular strategy.

In fact, the Brazilian centre-back’s 209 points almost became the best ever FPL total at the back, though the addition of defensive contribution points undoubtedly played a role in this.

This season’s big change, ‘DefCon’ points widened the pool of appealing players to own. It brought significant benefits to the likes of Elliot Anderson, Marcos Senesi and James Tarkowski among others.

As well as Senesi, another excellent Bournemouth asset was Antoine Semenyo, who racked up 10 goals and five assists for the Cherries, before moving to Manchester City in January and netting another seven.

However, Bruno Fernandes needs a special mention. Not only did he scoop numerous individual awards and 12 double-digit Fantasy hauls, an extraordinary run of 12 assists in 11 matches saw him end the season a mere four points behind Haaland.

Apart from these, 2025/26 was mostly about jumping on players during their great bursts of form. Phil Foden had a magnificent run from Gameweeks 13 to 16, there was a productive winter for Harry Wilson, and João Pedro - the most-owned player early on - actually had his best spell between Gameweeks 22 and 29.

Furthermore, there was a strong finish for Nottingham Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White who netted nine goals in his last nine starts of the season.

Best of the Bees

As for Brentford, Keith Andrews’ side defied most observers’ pre-season expectations by finishing ninth.

It all began with some strong home form, winning five of the first seven at Gtech Community Stadium. Yet, between late December and late February, there were five away wins from six.

Taking all 38 matches into account, only Man City and Arsenal registered more Opta-defined big chances (114). Plus, of the 34,382 overall FPL points, Brentford were responsible for the fifth-most of these (1,747).

With that in mind, let’s pick out some of this FPL campaign’s most memorable Brentford assets.

Igor Thiago

It was a superb season for centre-forward Thiago, who was second only to Haaland for goals (22), shots inside the box (80), attempts on target (43) and expected goals (20.57).

An injury-ravaged debut campaign in west London led to last summer’s low initial pricing of £6.0m. He’s since made a mockery of that, at one stage rising to £7.4m.

Gameweek 6’s brace against Manchester United began a run of nine strikes in eight, until a goalless half-dozen led to 2.5 million sales across several weeks. Thiago cruelly punished his doubters with a hat-trick at Everton, then a brace against Sunderland.

At his peak, Thiago found himself in around 4.9 million FPL squads. He took nine penalties – scoring eight - and had a strong high xG per shot (0.24).

Dango Ouattara

Five of the Bees’ spot-kicks were won by Ouattara. A budget-friendly midfielder, his Gameweek 37 brace at home to Crystal Palace proved an incredible differential haul for his ownership.

These 15 points were his season’s best score, pipping Gameweek 2’s tally of 13 versus Aston Villa.

From Gameweek 25 onwards, only Fernandes and Jarrod Bowen created more big chances than his nine.

Kevin Schade

On the other flank was Schade. A final-day equaliser at Liverpool saw the German pip Ouattara for goals (eight).

Interestingly, two of the eight players to score 20+ points in a single match belong to Brentford: Schade and Keane Lewis-Potter. Coming from a Gameweek 18 hat-trick against Bournemouth, it was the German international’s only double-digit haul.

Of all FPL midfielders, he ranked first for headed attempts (26), joint-first for big chances (22) and fifth for shots inside the box (56). One to put on the 2026/27 pre-season watchlist, for sure.

Caoimhín Kelleher

Kelleher, who arrived from Liverpool in search of more first-team minutes last summer, ended up being the second-best goalkeeper for points (143) and the only one to stop multiple penalties - three, to be precise.

Having started the season with just two clean sheets in 16, a run of four shutouts in seven from Gameweeks 29 to 35 saw the Republic of Ireland no.1 rise up the keeper standings.

He’s also notched the second-most saves (110), nine of which occurred in a 4-1 win over Bournemouth.