What's Changed As Fpl Goes Live?

Fantasy Premier League (FPL) has returned for nan 2025-26 play and includes immoderate updated features.

As good arsenic value alterations and plentifulness of caller arrivals into nan league, location person besides been announcements of caller ways to people points and other chips to use to your squad passim nan campaign.

Here is simply a look astatine everything we cognize astir nan latest type of nan game.

A large alteration for nan caller play is players are now allowed 2 uses of each 4 chips.

They are: chair boost, free hit, triple skipper and wildcard. Players will now beryllium permitted 1 usage of each spot successful nan first half of nan play and different successful nan second.

Bench boost is wherever nan points of each 4 of a team's substitutes count towards a full people successful that gameweek.

Free hits let players to temporarily alteration arsenic galore players arsenic they wish successful a azygous gameweek, but their squad will beryllium reset to really it was successful nan pursuing week.

Triple skipper is wherever a team's captain's people is tripled alternatively of doubled for a azygous gameweek.

A wildcard allows a subordinate to make unlimited imperishable transfers to their squad successful a azygous gameweek.

Unlike past year, nan adjunct head spot will nary longer beryllium available.

Outfield players will now gain prize points based connected nan number of protect actions they make successful 1 match.

For defenders, clearances, blocks, interceptions and tackles each count arsenic protect involvements.

For midfielders and forwards, clearances, blocks, interceptions, tackles and shot recoveries are classified arsenic such.

For each 10 protect actions, a protect subordinate makes successful a azygous match, they will person 2 prize points. For midfielders and forwards, 2 points are awarded for each 12 actions made.

Had this been successful play for nan 2024-25 season, Everton's James Tarkowski would person been nan top-scoring subordinate for protect involvements. He would person earned 44 prize points - 4 much than immoderate different player.

Chelsea midfielder Moises Caicedo would person been nan best-performing midfielder successful this metric pinch 42 prize points - six much than immoderate different player.

There person besides been changes to really prize points are awarded.

Bonus points are fixed to nan champion 3 players successful each lucifer based connected nan Bonus Points System (BPS) that comprises of statistic from Opta.

Previously, goalkeepers would get 2 BPS points for each prevention made. For saves of shots from wrong nan box, that has now accrued to three, pinch shots from extracurricular remaining astatine two.

A saved punishment would person antecedently fixed a goalkeeper 9 BPS points. That has been reduced to 8 for nan save, but is balanced retired by an summation to shots from wrong of nan punishment area being saved.

All scored penalties are now worthy 12 BPS points, sloppy of a player's position. That was antecedently 18 and 24 points for midfielders and forwards respectively.

Making a goalline clearance has tripled successful worth from 3 BPS points to nine.

The last alteration to BPS points is tackles. All successful tackles are worthy 2 BPS points. Previously, 2 points were awarded nan number of nett tackles completed (tackles won minus tackles lost).

There person besides been changed into what is now being classed arsenic an assistance successful bid to let for more.

For assists that took a deflection disconnected a defender, assists will now beryllium awarded sloppy of whether nan assistance reached its intended target, providing it only took 1 touch disconnected a defender and was received by nan goalscorer wrong nan punishment area.

Unforced protect errors will besides now lead to an assistance being fixed by nan subordinate whose walk led to it, arsenic agelong arsenic nan protect correction successful mobility is not a missplaced pass.

Again, nan maximum 1 touch from a defender norm remains successful play.

Players will now besides gain an assistance if they gain a punishment aliases free-kick that is scored via a handball, sloppy of whether it was forced aliases unforced.

The 2025 Africa Cup of Nations will return spot during nan Premier League season.

To thief players navigate nan imaginable of losing a number of their players to nan tournament, each managers will person 5 free transfers for Gameweek 16, sloppy of really galore free transfers they had remaining successful nan erstwhile week.

Afcon will past from Gameweek 16 to Gameweek 22.

As is nan lawsuit each year, nan costs of players whitethorn change.

Liverpool winger Mohamed Salah and Manchester City striker Erling Haaland will costs £14.5m (from £12.5m past season) and £14m (from £15m) respectively this clip around.

England and Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford starts nan caller play astatine a value of £5.5m (£5m past season).

Manchester City left-back Rayan Ait-Nouri, who signed from Wolves past month, will beryllium priced astatine £6m (£4.5m past season).

Liverpool's nine grounds signing and Germany world Florian Wirtz will costs £8.5m astatine nan commencement of nan season.

Newcastle's Swedish striker Alexander Isak starts astatine £10.5m (£8.5m past season).

FPL has besides announced position changes for 11 players.

Liverpool's Cody Gakpo, Manchester City's Omar Marmoush, Manchester United's Matehus Cunha and Everton's Iliman Ndiaye person switched from forwards to midfielders.

West Ham skipper Jarrod Bowen has been switched from a midfielder to a forward, while Arsenal teen Myles Lewis-Skelly has been switched from a midfielder to a defender.

The afloat database of position changes tin beryllium recovered here, external.

As per erstwhile years, BBC Sport will beryllium moving its ain dedicated FPL convention for our readers to subordinate and compete against each other.

Details of really to subordinate will beryllium announced successful nan coming weeks.

This article is nan latest from BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team.

Ask Me Anything is simply a work dedicated to answering your questions.

We want to reward your clip by telling you things you do not cognize and reminding you of things you do.

The squad will find retired everything you request to cognize and beryllium capable to telephone upon a web of contacts including our experts and pundits.

We will beryllium answering your questions from nan bosom of nan BBC Sport newsroom, and going down nan scenes astatine immoderate of nan world's biggest sporting events.

Our sum will span nan BBC Sport website, app, societal media and YouTube accounts, positive BBC TV and radio.