The 2025/26 Team of the Season

The eleven players who produced the most FPL points. Budget ignored. Reality respected.

The Team of the Season is not a buildable squad. There's no £100m budget, no three-per-club limit, no positional cap beyond a notional 3-4-3. What follows is the season's actual heat map, laid out by position. Who produced, where, and by how much.

Bruno Fernandes finished top with 235 points, but the structural detail underneath is what matters more for thinking about 2026/27. Three midfielders cleared 200 this season. Two defenders broke into the overall top fifteen. The forwards behind Haaland were closer together than usual, which makes the second forward slot a more open question than the table suggests. Midfield carried the year, and that's the pattern most worth carrying into squad-building decisions.

Below the pitch you'll find a player-by-player breakdown of the eleven, followed by full position leaderboards down to the top fifteen. The leaderboards are where the more useful 2026/27 thinking actually lives. The top three names in each bracket will be priced for top three production. The names ranked five through fifteen are where the value gets made or lost.

The XI

The numbers behind the XI

Each player's headline production, with a short note on what the data thinks made their season go. xG over-performance is flagged where it matters, because finishing well above expected goals is the part of a season that historically does not repeat cleanly.

Raya · Arsenal

The season's top-scoring goalkeeper at 162 points and 19 clean sheets, off a starting price of £5.5m. 29.5 points per million is the kind of goalkeeper return that pays for an upgrade elsewhere, and it was available to anyone who picked Arsenal's first choice in pre-season.

The top defender of the season at 209 points, on 18 clean sheets, 3 goals, 5 assists, and 277 CBIT. Started at £6.0m and finished at £7.3m. The clean sheets get the headlines, but the CBIT total is what made him the best defender of the year by a clear margin, because it added a second points stream onto a player whose first stream was already among the best in the league.

Second-best defender at 179 points. 14 clean sheets, 3 goals, 5 assists, 278 CBIT, all off a starting price of £4.5m. 39.8 points per million, which is the highest defender PPM in the entire dataset. If you owned him from gameweek one, your mini-league was won at the back.

Third-best defender at 175 points. 6 assists, 11 clean sheets, and the highest CBIT total of any defender in the league at 419. Started at £4.5m and stayed cheap for most of the way. Bournemouth produced the season's most consistent under-priced defenders, and Senesi was the centerpiece.

B.Fernandes · Man Utd

The top midfielder of the season and the top scorer overall at 235 points. 9 goals, 24 assists, 287 CBIT, on a starting price of £9.0m. One of the few players this season who was credibly captainable and credibly bench-able in the same week, depending on the fixture.

Second-best midfielder at 202 points. 17 goals, 6 assists, 236 CBIT, on a starting price of £7.0m. He outscored his expected goals by 5.9, which is the kind of overshoot that often regresses. But the price kept climbing through the season and the production held, which suggests the underlying role changed in a way the xG model didn't fully catch.

Gibbs-White · Nott'm Forest

Third-best midfielder at 188 points. 15 goals, 4 assists, 178 CBIT. He also ended the season at 9.2% ownership, which makes him the highest scorer on the Best Differentials page. That fact tells you most of what you need to know about how 2025/26 went for the managers who actually had him.

184 points and a top-five midfielder finish. 4 goals, 9 assists, and 376 CBIT, which is the second-highest defensive contribution total among midfielders this season. The role didn't change. The scoring system did. The result is a player most managers had pegged as a £6m enabler finishing among the best midfielders in the league.

Top forward and top scorer overall at 239 points, on 27 goals and 8 assists. xG overshoot of 1.5. Started at £14.0m and finished at £14.7m. The market kept buying him through the season, and the production held up well enough to justify the price every step of the way.

Third-best forward at 181 points. 22 goals from a single assist, which is a goal-to-assist ratio you almost never see at this level. Started at £6.0m and stayed cheap longer than he had any business doing. The best forward PPM of the season at 30.2.

Finished #3 among forwards with 177 points, 15 goals, 9 assists. Picked up 30 bonus points along the way, a sign of how often he was in the BPS top three on the night.

Position leaderboards (top 15)

The full position leaderboards. The top three names in each bracket usually price themselves. The players ranked five through fifteen are where the more useful 2026/27 takes actually live, because that's the band where the gap between price and production is widest.

Goalkeepers

#	Player	Club	Pts	CS	Cost	Rating	Grade
1	Raya	Arsenal	162	19	£6.2m	81	A+
2	Kelleher	Brentford	143	10	£4.8m	56	B
3	Roefs	Sunderland	136	10	£4.8m	45	B
4	Donnarumma	Man City	135	15	£5.6m	66	B+
5	Pickford	Everton	135	11	£5.6m	62	B+
6	Henderson	Crystal Palace	131	11	£5.1m	58	B
7	Verbruggen	Brighton	130	10	£4.6m	82	A+
8	Petrović	Bournemouth	124	11	£4.6m	66	B+
9	Leno	Fulham	122	9	£5.0m	57	B
10	Martinez	Aston Villa	120	7	£5.0m	34	C
11	Sánchez	Chelsea	113	9	£4.8m	23	C
12	Lammens	Man Utd	109	8	£5.1m	55	B
13	Sels	Nott'm Forest	105	7	£4.6m	39	C+
14	Dúbravka	Burnley	96	4	£4.0m	9	D+
15	Pope	Newcastle	96	7	£5.0m	—	F

Defenders

#	Player	Club	Pts	G	A	CS	CBIT	Cost	Rating	Grade
1	Gabriel	Arsenal	209	3	5	18	277	£7.3m	88	A+
2	Guéhi	Man City	179	3	5	14	278	£5.1m	65	B+
3	Senesi	Bournemouth	175	0	6	11	419	£5.2m	54	B
4	Virgil	Liverpool	175	6	1	10	352	£6.1m	69	A
5	Tarkowski	Everton	170	2	3	11	376	£5.8m	66	B+
6	Truffert	Bournemouth	165	1	6	11	301	£4.8m	70	A
7	O'Reilly	Man City	160	5	4	14	172	£5.3m	53	B
8	Matheus N.	Man City	154	1	8	12	195	£5.3m	53	B
9	Lacroix	Crystal Palace	154	1	2	11	370	£5.2m	25	D+
10	Mukiele	Sunderland	151	3	5	9	273	£4.6m	37	C
11	J.Timber	Arsenal	149	3	6	13	148	£6.0m	50	C+
12	Van Hecke	Brighton	148	3	3	10	317	£4.7m	84	A+
13	Saliba	Arsenal	137	1	0	15	193	£6.3m	—	D
14	Muñoz	Crystal Palace	136	4	4	10	196	£5.9m	42	C
15	Chalobah	Chelsea	136	3	1	9	265	£5.4m	—	D

Midfielders

#	Player	Club	Pts	G	A	CBIT	Cost	Rating	Grade
1	B.Fernandes	Man Utd	235	9	24	287	£10.4m	59	B+
2	Semenyo	Man City	202	17	6	236	£8.0m	21	C
3	Gibbs-White	Nott'm Forest	188	15	4	178	£7.6m	58	B+
4	Rice	Arsenal	184	4	9	376	£7.2m	78	A+
5	Anderson	Nott'm Forest	180	4	5	515	£5.7m	53	B+
6	Rogers	Aston Villa	169	10	8	230	£7.3m	82	A+
7	Wilson	Fulham	168	10	9	177	£5.8m	32	C
8	Szoboszlai	Liverpool	160	6	7	338	£7.1m	49	B
9	Garner	Everton	159	2	7	458	£5.2m	46	B
10	Enzo	Chelsea	157	10	5	244	£6.5m	51	B
11	Saka	Arsenal	157	7	10	184	£10.0m	30	C
12	Bruno G.	Newcastle	154	9	7	251	£6.9m	47	B
13	Dewsbury-Hall	Everton	151	8	7	230	£5.3m	72	A
14	Mbeumo	Man Utd	148	11	3	139	£8.3m	80	A+
15	E.Le Fée	Sunderland	147	5	6	319	£4.8m	67	A

Forwards

#	Player	Club	Pts	G	A	CBIT	Cost	Rating	Grade
1	Haaland	Man City	239	27	8	104	£14.7m	95	A+
2	Thiago	Brentford	181	22	1	214	£7.2m	63	A
3	João Pedro	Chelsea	177	15	9	138	£7.4m	30	C
4	Watkins	Aston Villa	167	16	4	94	£8.7m	—	F
5	Calvert-Lewin	Leeds	142	14	2	105	£5.8m	59	B+
6	Gyökeres	Arsenal	128	14	1	85	£9.1m	40	C+
7	Welbeck	Brighton	126	13	1	112	£6.3m	42	B
8	Ekitiké	Liverpool	125	11	4	85	£9.0m	—	F
9	Richarlison	Spurs	119	11	4	147	£6.5m	16	C
10	Evanilson	Bournemouth	115	6	7	135	£6.6m	82	A+
11	Mateta	Crystal Palace	114	12	0	125	£7.6m	11	D+
12	Igor Jesus	Nott'm Forest	114	6	6	123	£5.9m	3	D
13	Kroupi.Jr	Bournemouth	113	13	0	112	£4.7m	49	B
14	Šeško	Man Utd	111	11	2	64	£7.2m	9	D
15	Woltemade	Newcastle	108	8	4	105	£6.7m	7	D

What it means for 2026/27

Two takeaways from the eleven worth carrying into next season. First, midfield was the deepest bracket of the year by a real margin. There were more legitimately must-own candidates at midfielder than at any other position, and that kind of depth tends to pull pre-season money out of forwards and into the £6.5 to £9.5m midfield band. Expect the same shape when 2026/27 prices land.

Second, the defenders who made the eleven all did it on a combination of clean sheets and CBIT, not one or the other. Pure clean-sheet bets are no longer the best defender archetype. The highest-scoring defenders combined both streams, and that changes how a serious 2026/27 back four should be built. You're looking for defenders who can hold a clean sheet and contribute defensively in matches where they don't, which is a different filter than the one most managers used twelve months ago.

Open the Player Search tool when 2026/27 launches and filter by position. The rating fields in the leaderboards above translate directly into next-gameweek expected points the moment the new season starts.