Everything that's changed in FPL for 2026/27
FPL is back in the next few days, and the official account has spent this week trickling out the changes for 2026/27. None of it is a wholesale overhaul. It is more a set of tweaks to how the game feels and how you make decisions. Here is what has actually been confirmed, and where it matters.
Live scoring, finally
Your rank, your mini-leagues, your head-to-heads and your cup ties will now update while the games are still on. If your captain scores in the fifth minute, you see the points and you watch your rank move. Bonus gets a little caveat: it only starts showing from the 20th minute, presumably because the early BPS picture is noisy and jumps around before players separate.
Honestly this is about a decade late. Third-party sites have done live rank for years. The one thing worth flagging is the mental side of it. Plenty of people cope with a bad gameweek by simply not looking until it is over. That gets harder when the official app is doing it for you in real time.
The price predictor moves in-house
You no longer need a separate website to see who is about to rise or fall. It is built into the FPL site now, updating at midnight UK time, with a status like “very likely to rise” or “likely to drop” and a progress percentage next to each player. It also shows your purchase and selling price in the same place, which used to be buried a couple of clicks deep.
It is still a guide, not a promise, and the percentages shift through the evening. The bigger effect is on everyone else. For years the engaged managers had an edge simply because they knew which tools to check. Now the casual in your mini-league sees the exact same information. Expect early gameweeks, and Gameweek 2 in particular, to be more volatile than usual as more people jump on price rises they can suddenly see coming.
Bonus points: a reshuffle, not a nerf
This is the change people will argue about most, so here is the detail. Players no longer lose a BPS point for being tackled, which helps the dribblers who used to get punished for it. The most tackled players last season were Morgan Rogers (156), Jarrod Bowen, Antoine Semenyo and Jeremy Doku, so they claw a bit back. Defenders now earn one BPS for every three clearances, blocks and interceptions instead of every two, so centre-backs have to work harder for the same score. Goalkeepers get two BPS for any save now, not just shots, plus one for saving a big chance, which pushes a penalty save up to eight.
| Action | 2025/26 | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|
| Being tackled | −1 BPS | no penalty |
| Clearances, blocks, interceptions | 1 BPS per 2 | 1 BPS per 3 |
| Keeper save, inside the box | +3 BPS | +3 BPS |
| Keeper save, outside the box | +2 BPS | no bonus |
| Keeper save, any other (e.g. deflected cross) | no bonus | +2 BPS |
| Keeper saves a big chance | no bonus | +1 BPS |
| Keeper saves a penalty | +8 BPS | +8 BPS |
The community reran last season under the new rules and the takeaway was that it rebalances rather than removes: roughly plus 69 points spread across midfielders, forwards and full-backs, and minus 77 taken off centre-backs. On the individual level it is smaller than the headlines suggest. Gabriel, the biggest loser in most of the number-crunching, drops somewhere in the region of six to ten points across a whole season. Defensive Contribution scoring itself is untouched, so the centre-back who racks up DefCon is still fine. Full-backs and goalkeepers just come back into the conversation, which is the point.
The bits that are easy to miss
The gameweek now locks at 9am the day after the final match, so Opta has time to review the data and your score is not frozen with a stat still hanging. Chips are unchanged: two full sets, one to spend across the first half of the season and one across the second. There is no AFCON this year, so no bonus batch of free transfers in January, though you can still bank up to five. And your rank now shows as a percentage as well as a number, which is a fairer read given how many people play these days.
Players who changed position
A handful of position switches are worth knowing before prices land.
| Player | Was | Now |
|---|---|---|
| Eli Kroupi Jr (Bournemouth) | Forward | Midfielder |
| Myles Lewis-Skelly (Arsenal) | Defender | Midfielder |
| Patrick Dorgu (Man Utd) | Defender | Midfielder |
| Keane Lewis-Potter (Brentford) | Defender | Midfielder |
| Omar Marmoush (Man City) | Midfielder | Forward |
Kroupi Jr is the one everyone is talking about. He scored 13 last season and now counts as a midfielder. None of it means much until we see the prices, but a cheap attacking mid with a forward’s goal record is always worth a second look.
Prices start dropping from Wednesday, one fan vote at a time, and the game itself is not far behind. Want to see how your rivals set up when it does? You can look up any FPL manager on the front page and track their moves all season.