FPL 2026/27 Rate My Team
Welcome to FPL 2026/27 Rate My Team
Hello everyone and welcome to any new joiners for the coming season. We hope you’ve all enjoyed the summer time and some well deserved time off, or well, some time off either way!
A new season is dawning and already just shy of two weeks from now we’ll see Arsenal kick off the season against newly promoted Coventry City on Fri. 21st of August at the Emirates stadium. ‘The battle of set-pieces’ as one could call it; Coventry is probably the only team who have matched the Gunners on net goal difference from set pieces. Alas, that was not in the big boys’ league.
Before then there’s the community shield on Sun 16th where Gunners are facing Manchester City, the highlight of which will likely be their respective starting line-ups (including whether you-know-who might start or follow from a live-stream on a yacht somewhere).
Anyhow. We’ve had to remind ourselves that we are now at the helm of the 2026/27 season. Seasons come and go as they say. As it happens, so do managers. There’s wholesome 9 new EPL managers (11 if we include Carrick and Se Zerbi) and just five of them were in place at the start of the 2024/25 season. And that’s a pain in the… Ahem. That’s not making the expected lineups nor picking a starting team any easier, is what we were saying…
When it comes to our beloved FPL game there’s been a few changes to the game and player positions, we recommend you give it a quick read
here. The biggest change is probably that they have added their own price predictor. However, the good news is they’re keeping the chips as they were – one less thing to think about!
The bad news is that the bench boost is then very much still a thing. Oh well. On that note, some seem to be going BB1 (Bloody Bugger off #1) and others seem quite keen on BB2 (Bloody bugger off again!); each with their elaborate reasoning, which, in short, can be summarized as ‘at least I’ve then used that bloody bugger of a chip’.
We aim to keep going, and keep going we shall. We suggest you all get started in the comments with helpful observations, recommendations and sharing your teams (or asking for help on your drafts of course). In the meantime we will work on preparing the site team and the season to come.
The new season has also brought a tremendous amount of new signings, including some known characters such as Tonali (5.5 to Spurs), Rogers (7.5 to Chels), Bruno G. (7.0 to Arsenal) and Senesi (6.0 to Spurs); as well as some new players to the EPL such as C. Tzolis (6.5 mid to Arsenal), M. Sangare (5.5 mid to Bees) and Florentino (5.0 mid to Ipswich) to name a few. Unfortunately we’re running out of both space and time and so, if we can find the time, we will try and put some words to the new signings on another day.
As ever then please feel free to use the opportunity in the comments below to post as many ‘RATE MY TEAM’ attempts as you wish and to then hopefully also help other members by reciprocating.
Good luck to you all! May you all pick a worse team than us!
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Also, below find some helpful links and look-up sites for the detailed fantasy-manager.
The offfcial FPL-site FDR overview and list of new signings, and;
fbref.com – a useful place to lookup player stats and historical game time,
Opta stats – also a good resource for data.
Fantasy Football 247 League Codes:

This is our main public FF247 League for the 2026/27 season, which anyone is welcome to join and can be accessed using the code below or this auto-join link
League Code: z5d6ib
View league standings
Our Regulars League* for 2026/27 is sponsored by FF247. The total cash prize pool is £300. The first 4 places are paid out in a tiered system.
To enter this one you need to be an active and recognised site member and you need to e-mail us for the league code:
jamie251069@yahoo.co.uk
Our FF247 Cup is also included and attracts a prize of £50 for the winner.
*terms and conditions apply and the FF247 Management reserve the right to review membership of this league on an ongoing basis which is dependent upon regular comment / community activity.
All prizes must be claimed within 30 days of the final GW.
Both leagues will be closed to new entrants on 01/02/27.
bees393
Where is Ivan??? Can’t still be laying on the beach?
OddDane
Or Raz, though he could easily be on the beach
bees393
Haha, yes, where is Raz?
ODT
Raz rage quit last year. I’d be surprised if he does more than lurk this year.
Terminators
Don’t forget everyone, this time tomorrow the fpl site will be crammed so don’t leave it too late to tinker!
kickers
Hi everyone
How’s this looking as my first draft?
Cheers
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ODT
Damn near identical to mine. Cash to Hume or Rodon perhaps?
kickers
Must be good then
kickers
Mbeumo in for wirtz? And if so who do I downgrade please?
chelseachick_uk
Hey,
What we thinking about this?
On the fizz. Nothing is that deep
CC
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bees393
Nice to see something different CC! I think Kelleher by himself could pose you a problem. Raya alone or two 4.5 GK? Keep your eye on MC defense. They were abysmal in the Community Shield. Otherwise all looks good.
Best of luck this season!
Rogueblood
Don’t think Guehi or Rogers is nailed GW1 could swap to gvardiol and a different mid
chelseachick_uk
Thank you both! Good luck to you two aswell
AJW
Good stuff CC.
AJW
Am going for the quadruple Arsenal trick to start the season personally (Cali, Konsa, Tsolis & Odegaard!), so it may force not to make trades early on, cos you’ve got to throw out one before you do anything else!
I did try the Chelsea double with JP and Palmer, bit gave in and sold him!
Have a great season!
Terminators
Konsa isn’t going to play GW1 surely, I think the rotation is going to be crazy at Arsenal.
hammerfan_lm
Is anyone doing the FPL challenge this season?
IvanTheTerrible
For extra fun join the ML at FF247 Challenge League
Code: jfhiw1
Simple and easy to pick just 6 players every week with different challenges.
https://fplchallenge.premierleague.com/en/manage/1
bees393
There you are Ivan! I was wondering where you were
No fpl challenge for me. Coping with regular fpl is about all I can manage lol.
IvanTheTerrible
Bees, it is on the same FPL site and it takes less than 5 minutes to set up a team with unlimited budget every week. You should try it
hammerfan_lm
I have joined the chalenge league lol
Loud Atlas
Thanks for setting this up, Ivan. Hope you’re having a fun summer.