Best FPL Team 2026/27 — the Gameweek 7 Squad

The squad at the top of this page is the Onside model's best legal fifteen for the next deadline: two goalkeepers, five defenders, five midfielders and three forwards, no more than three from any club, inside £100m. The starting eleven, the bench order and the captain are marked on it, and the table under it lists all fifteen with price, ownership and projected points.

It is rebuilt from live prices and the projections for the next six gameweeks every time the page refreshes, so the names change when the evidence does: an injury, a price move, a turn in the fixtures. The same squad is the wildcard team on this week's wildcard page — both are built by the same code, so the two can never disagree.

Three rules, in order. The bench is the cheapest four who can still play: three of your fifteen are cover and will mostly not score, so every pound spent there is a pound not spent on the eleven. The rest of the money goes where the projected points are over the next six gameweeks — the horizon a squad actually lives in — not where last weekend's points were. And one seat goes to the model's first-choice captain for the coming gameweek, so the armband here and the captain picks page always name the same player.

The formation is whichever the projections favour that week rather than a fixed 3-4-3, and the limit of three players per club is FPL's own. It is a strong legal squad rather than a proven optimum, and we would rather say so than overclaim.

Which names fill the squad changes every week; its shape changes far less. Only the captain scores double, so the twenty-point weeks come from premiums, and a squad of uniformly mid-priced players has no ceiling. FPL is won on your best weeks rather than your average ones.

The table below is the shape most strong squads settle into. The live squad above is one instance of it, and where this week's evidence bends a band, the squad shows it.

The squad above owns some of the most-owned players in the game and leaves others out on purpose. Own the players almost everyone owns when the model rates them, because not owning one means a bad week every time he returns; take your risk in the cheaper slots, where a low-owned player who comes good gains you rank and one who does not costs you very little. The panel under the squad counts both: starters owned by 30% or more, and starters owned by under 10%.

For comparison, this is the template itself — the fifteen most-owned players in the game right now, in squad shape.

Unless you are on a wildcard or a free hit, copying all fifteen is rarely right for your team. Keep the players you already own who would make the squad anyway: selling and rebuying costs you the price rises you have banked, because you keep only half of any rise. Then use your free transfers on the biggest gaps in projected points, one or two at a time.

Save the squad into the builder from the button under it to swap players and check the budget, or paste your team ID into Rate My Team to have your own fifteen graded by the same model.