New entrants

For new entrants wishing to take part, if you do not have a Fantasy Premier League account already you will need to sign up via fantasy.premierleague.com or via the dedicated app available via the Play Store or Apple Store. It is free to sign up for this, but you will need to be 18 or over.

How it works

If you’ve played before you will be aware of Fantasy Premier League. But for anyone not familiar with it, you are given a £100m budget to pick a squad of 15 players for the upcoming Premier League season.

In each round of games, you need to pick a starting 11 from the 15 players that you believe will score you the highest amount of points that round.

You get more points the more goals, assists, and clean sheets your players get. If a player in your starting 11 does not play, a player from your bench will automatically be substituted in.

After each round, you are given the opportunity to transfer a player out for free, two if you do not use your free transfer from the round before. You can transfer out more than that in a round but you may be subject to a points deduction.

You also get two wildcards over the course of the season where you can transform your whole squad with no penalty points.

As well as that you get one, “Free Hit”, which is where you can change your whole squad for one round only before your previous squad is brought back for the following round, “Bench Boost”, where the points your players that are sat on the bench get are included in your total score for that round and last of all you get a “Triple Captain”, an option where your captain for one particular round gets three times the amount of points they actually score in that round.

Each round you have a deadline in which you can submit your starting eleven. This is usually an hour before the first game of the round starts.