Fantasy Premier League: Every major change announced ahead of 2026/27

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·21 Juli 2026

Fantasy Premier League: Every major change announced ahead of 2026/27

Fantasy Premier League is gearing up for its return in 2026/27, with a number of changes announced this week ahead of next season.

Alterations have been made to how you follow your weekly progress, the Bonus Points System (BPS), when the gameweek locks down, and more. Price predictions have also been added to the game.

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You can find all of the important updates below.

Fantasy Premier League key changes ahead of 2026/27 season:

Player price predictions

The price change system has been one of the most frustrating aspects of Fantasy Premier League over the years. It’s never been clear what the threshold for price changes is, with many increases and decreases feeling rather arbitrary.

And in a game where your budget is limited to £100m, every £0.1m matters, especially in the first few months of the season.

To help combat some of the uncertainty around price changes, FPL have finally implement price predictions. This will show which players are most likely to change in price ahead of the next price change deadline, which is daily at midnight UK time.

Price predictions are coming to FPL 🤩
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Manager used to have to use third-party websites and tools to get a picture of which players would rise or fall in price, but now it’s all in one place. Although it would be preferable to know which players will definitely change in price rather than merely a prediction, this is a step in the right direction.

Live updates to mini-leagues

FPL managers can now follow their progress in real time, rather than having to wait until the end of the day to discover their new rank and mini-league position.

Projected bonus points will also be added to your players’ scores after 20 minutes of each match and will change across the rest of the contest.

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Bonus Points System tweaked

The BPS determines which players get bonus points in each match, with the top three performing players getting one, two or three additional points.

FPL has made some changes to this system to limit the amount of overlap with defensive contribution points (or, as we like to call them, DEFCONS) and improve the bonus-point prospects of goalkeepers, full-backs and attacking players.

The following changes have been implemented:

Players receive 1 BPS for every three clearances, blocks and interceptions (CBI), instead of instead of getting 1 BPS for every two CBI last season.
Players are no longer punished for being tackled by an opponent. In previous seasons, players were handed a BPS reduction of -1 every time they were tackled.
Goalkeepers will continue to earn 3 BPS for saving a shot from inside the box, but the 2BPS for shots outside the box has been removed.
Goalkeepers will now earn 2 BPS for any saves made, including ones made on a cross which deflects off a team-mate.
Goalkeepers will now earn an additional 1 BPS for saving a “big chance”, which is a situation where the player is expected to score.
To account for this change, the reward for penalty saves has been reduced from 8 BPS to 7 BPS, because they earn that extra 1 BPS back from the new “save from a big chance” metric.

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Later lockdown

The gameweek ‘lockdown’ is when the scores become final and there can be no tweaks made to points for goals, assists, bonus points, etc., even if these are changed in the official statistics.

The lockdown previously happened an hour after the final match of the gameweek, but this has been extended 9AM UK time on the day after the final match of the gameweek.

Extending this deadline allows more time for post-match Opta review data to be reflected in the Bonus Points System and DEFCONS. This will result in more accurate data used in the final scores.

Compare FPL career history

You can now compare your career history with all other FPL managers in the world. It’s now possible to see your career average across all seasons, and what that means as a percentage compared with everyone else.

For instance, last season I ranked 33,186th, which put me in the top 0.3% of FPL managers.

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No changes to chips

Whereas last season saw a massive change to the chips system, this year there be no changes made. FPL managers will have Wildcard, Free Hit, Triple Captain and Bench Boost chip to use in each half of the campaign, meaning eight chips in total.

The first set of chips must be played before the Gameweek 19 deadline passes at 1.30PM GMT on Saturday, 2nd January. They cannot be carried over into the second half of 2026/27.

Managers will still be able to roll up to five free transfers, which will carry over even if you use your Wildcard or Free Hit.

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