FPL chip usage: who has played what
How many of the game's 10.6 million managers have played each chip, gameweek by gameweek, with the average and highest score of every team in the game. Not a sample: these are the official counts for the whole game. Data as of 9 September 2026, Gameweek 3. Updated after each gameweek is checked.
In Gameweek 3 of the 2026/27 Fantasy Premier League season, out of the game's 10,625,160 managers, 1,787,071 played Triple Captain, 709,478 played Wildcard, 421,239 played Free Hit and 144,735 played Bench Boost. The average score across every team in the game was 51 points and the highest was 119 (9 September 2026).
Wildcard
988,705
9.3% of all teams · unlimited transfers for one gameweek, no points hit
Busiest week: GW3, 709,478
Free Hit
500,102
4.7% of all teams · a one-week team that reverts afterwards
Busiest week: GW3, 421,239
Bench Boost
1,298,001
12.2% of all teams · the four bench players score as well
Busiest week: GW1, 814,606
Triple Captain
2,271,833
21.4% of all teams · the captain scores triple instead of double
Busiest week: GW3, 1,787,071
Every gameweek, the whole game
| GW | Wildcard | Free Hit | Bench Boost | Triple Captain | Assistant Manager | Average | Highest | Transfers | Most captained |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GW1 | — | — | 814,606 | 250,816 | — | 50 | 131 | 0 | Haaland |
| GW2 | 279,227 | 78,863 | 338,660 | 233,946 | — | 81 | 161 | 11,562,127 | Haaland |
| GW3 | 709,478 | 421,239 | 144,735 | 1,787,071 | — | 51 | 119 | 27,412,065 | Haaland |
Where these numbers come from
Every figure on this page counts the entire game: all 10,625,160 registered Fantasy Premier League teams. It is not a sample of ten thousand managers and it is not an estimate. FPL publishes these counts in its own data feed after each gameweek is checked, and then shows them on no screen of its own.
That is what makes chip numbers worth looking at. Ownership tells you what people bought; chip usage tells you what people committed, and a chip can only be spent once. A Triple Captain week with two million plays means two million managers have one fewer card for the rest of the season, and that is what makes a differential in Gameweek 30 possible.
What we cannot tell you
How many managers still hold each chip. FPL publishes what was played, not what is left, and the two are not the same number: teams that were registered but never played, and the two Wildcards a season gets, both distort it. We would rather say so than publish a figure we have made up. The transfers column is FPL's own count of every transfer made in the game that week, hits included.
Live ownership for every player is on the map, and your mini-league shows which chips your own rivals have active right now.
The questions people ask
- How many FPL managers have played their Wildcard?
- 988,705 Wildcards have been played in the 2026/27 Fantasy Premier League season up to and including Gameweek 3, out of 10,625,160 managers in the game — 9.3% of all teams. Every manager gets one Wildcard for the first half of the season and another for the second, so the two halves are counted separately.
- Which gameweek do most managers play Triple Captain?
- The most-used Triple Captain gameweek so far this season is Gameweek 3, when 1,787,071 managers played it (16.8% of the game).
- What was the average FPL score in Gameweek 3?
- The average score across all 10,625,160 Fantasy Premier League teams in Gameweek 3 was 51 points, and the highest score in the world was 119. Managers made 27,412,065 transfers that gameweek.
FPLBubbles is an independent tool and is not affiliated with the Premier League or Fantasy Premier League. Data from the public FPL API.