FPL fixture difficulty ticker

Every Premier League club's next eight fixtures with FPL's official difficulty rating, sortable by who has the easiest run over the next 3, 5 or 8 gameweeks, and with blanks and doubles marked. Data as of 7 September 2026, Gameweek 3. The bubble map has the same numbers live, refreshed every 15 minutes.

Data as of 7 September 2026 · refreshes every 15 minutes

Gameweeks

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Team	GW4	GW5	GW6	GW7	GW8	Avg
COVCoventry City	BHA	nfo	NEW	tot	FUL	2.4
CRYCrystal Palace	IPS	lee	NFO	bha	NEW	2.6
NEWNewcastle	lee	HUL	cov	AVL	cry	2.6
ARSArsenal	sun	bha	LEE	nfo	EVE	2.8
CHEChelsea	HUL	bre	BOU	eve	TOT	2.8
FULFulham	liv	MUN	ips	HUL	cov	2.8
LIVLiverpool	FUL	bou	MCI	bre	BHA	2.8
NFONott'm Forest	avl	COV	cry	ARS	ips	3.0
AVLAston Villa	NFO	tot	BRE	new	MCI	3.2
BHABrighton	cov	ARS	sun	CRY	liv	3.2
EVEEverton	tot	IPS	hul	CHE	ars	3.2
HULHull City	che	new	EVE	ful	BRE	3.2
IPSIpswich Town	cry	eve	FUL	mci	NFO	3.2
MCIMan City	mun	SUN	liv	IPS	avl	3.2
MUNMan Utd	MCI	ful	TOT	lee	BOU	3.2
TOTSpurs	EVE	AVL	mun	COV	che	3.2
SUNSunderland	ARS	mci	BHA	bou	LEE	3.2
BOUBournemouth	BRE	LIV	che	SUN	mun	3.4
BREBrentford	bou	CHE	avl	LIV	hul	3.4
LEELeeds	NEW	CRY	ars	MUN	sun	3.4

UPPERCASE is home, lowercase is away. Green is an easier fixture, red a harder one, on FPL's own 1 to 5 scale. Avg is the mean difficulty of that team's fixtures in the window; the small number next to it appears when a team does not play exactly one match per gameweek.

Who to target: the best runs to Gameweek 8

The six teams with the easiest next five, and their three most owned players. Ownership is live on each player's page.

Coventry City2.4 avg

van Ewijk11.3% · £4.0m
Thomas8.6% · £4.0m
Rushworth1.0% · £4.5m

Crystal Palace2.6 avg

Hughes9.1% · £4.5m
Mitchell5.4% · £4.5m
Mateta2.1% · £6.4m

Newcastle2.6 avg

Wissa16.6% · £6.2m
Hall11.2% · £5.1m
Elanga10.9% · £6.1m

Arsenal2.8 avg

Calafiori47.0% · £5.7m
Raya38.7% · £6.0m
Gabriel25.1% · £8.0m

Chelsea2.8 avg

João Pedro72.0% · £7.7m
Rogers27.3% · £7.6m
Palmer21.1% · £9.6m

Fulham2.8 avg

Kusi-Asare6.4% · £4.5m
Gonzalo4.4% · £6.0m
Leno3.1% · £4.5m

How FPL fixture difficulty works

The colours are FPL's own Fixture Difficulty Rating, from 1 to 5, published per match and per side: the same fixture can be a 2 for the home team and a 4 for the visitor. We do not compute a difficulty of our own. It is a rough guide set before the season and adjusted by the game, not a projection of points, and it does not know that a team has lost its first-choice keeper in October.

What the ticker adds is the window. One fixture tells you almost nothing; a run of five is what makes a transfer worth its hit. Switch between 3, 5 and 8 gameweeks and the ordering changes completely, which is the whole point: the team with the best next two is rarely the team with the best next eight.

Blank and double gameweeks show up here before they show up anywhere else in your team. An empty cell means that club has no fixture that week, and two stacked cells mean two matches. Those are the weeks that decide a Bench Boost or a Free Hit, and they are why the ticker runs to eight gameweeks instead of five. To see how your own fifteen are affected, link your team ID on the map.

Home fixtures are in capitals, away in lower case. Every club name links to the map filtered to that squad, so you can see who is being bought there right now.

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