Excitement continues to build for the 2025–26 season and keen Fantasy Premier League (FPL) managers will already be mentally building their squads for the first week of the upcoming campaign.

Over 11.5 million people took part in FPL during the 2024–25 season as Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah shattered the record points total—previously held by himself for the 2017–18 season—and managers will be offered a fresh start heading into the new term.

No matter the performance of your wittily-named team last season, 2025–26 offers a new dawn and just as much stress and drama as in previous years.

Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the new FPL season.

The 2024–25 Premier League season feels mere minutes ago but the new term is already coming into view. The fixtures for 2025–26 were officially announced on June 18, allowing FPL managers to identify which teams to target and which to ignore based on their early season runs.

The first game of the Premier League season sees reigning champions Liverpool take on Bournemouth on Friday, August 15. The remaining nine fixtures of the opening round are played across the subsequent weekend and Monday.

There will be 38 gameweeks across the FPL campaign, concluding with the final round of fixtures on May 24, 2026.

The official launch date for 2025–26 FPL is yet to be revealed, with the Premier League often shadow dropping their announcement of when the game goes live. However, based on previous years, we don’t appear too far away from building our first drafts.