FPL Power Rankings 2026/27

These rankings answer two questions an FPL manager needs answered about every club: how good are they, and how kind are the next few weeks. The first comes from results. The table orders the clubs exactly as the league does, by points, then goal difference, then goals scored, computed from every finished fixture. The second comes from the fixture list: the average of FPL's own difficulty ratings across each club's next five games.

Neither is an opinion, and neither is typed by hand. Both are read from the FPL game on every refresh, so the ranking below is the current one.

Goals scored is the attacking signal: a club that scores freely lifts the returns of its forwards, its attacking midfielders and the full-backs who get forward. Goals conceded is the defensive one, and clean sheets follow it closely enough to make it the first thing to check before buying a goalkeeper or defender.

Early in a season both columns rest on a handful of matches, and one heavy defeat can distort them. Use them alongside the player-level numbers on the position guides, which show expected goals and expected goals conceded, a steadier read than the scoreline alone.

The strongest FPL investments sit where a high league position meets a low run average: a club that is winning and is about to face opponents FPL rates as easy. That is where double-ups pay, because the goals and the clean sheets tend to arrive together.

Scan the table for clubs in the top half whose run average is lower than most of the league, then open that club's guide or the double-up board to see which of their players the rest of the game already owns.

The less obvious opportunity is a club lower down the table with a gentle set of fixtures ahead. Their players are usually cheap and lightly owned, and a soft run can turn a struggling side's best attacker into a short-term differential.

Be more careful with their defenders. A team that concedes often can still keep clean sheets against weak opposition, but the odds are worse than the fixture colour suggests, so an attacking pick is usually the better way into the run.

The table changes after every match and the fixture runs change every gameweek, as the next game drops off the front and a new one joins the end. The ranking is most useful in the days before a deadline and before a wildcard, when you are deciding which clubs to be heavy in for the next month.

Check it against your squad: if most of your players sit at clubs with hard runs ahead, that is the moment to plan transfers rather than react to the blanks.