When is the FPL 2025/26 launch date?
Already thinking about the FPL 2025/26 season? Us too, so let’s use the timeline of past summers to estimate the game’s launch date.
Fantasy Football Scout is a good place to keep up with this summer’s player transfers, where things are slightly different this year.
FIFA have set up a small window before the Club World Cup that allows all clubs to make transfers until Tuesday 10 June.
But the summer transaction period can’t last longer than 12 weeks, meaning there needs to be a few days of closure before it reopens on Monday 16 June, ending properly on Monday 1 September.
DO WE KNOW THE PREMIER LEAGUE FIXTURES?
The Premier League fixtures will be released on Wednesday 18 June at 09:00 BST.
Once this happens, we’ll take a comprehensive look at the schedule and its opening fixture runs.
WHEN DOES THE 2025/26 PREMIER LEAGUE SEASON START?
The 2025/26 Premier League season is scheduled to get underway on Friday 15 August.
We’ll get international breaks in September, October, November and March, with the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) between late December and mid-January.
Like last season, the FA Cup fifth round takes place on a weekend. These, plus the quarter-finals, will all be exclusive of Premier League fixtures. This means there’ll be fewer Blank and Double Gameweeks than pre-2024/25.
Consisting of 33 weekend and five midweek match rounds, everything culminates with Gameweek 38, contested on Sunday 24 May.
WHEN WILL FPL 2025/26 LAUNCH?
PREVIOUS SEASONS
The million-dollar question and one we’re all waiting for an answer to, as those at FPL Towers never advertise the date.
What usually happens is they’ll tease us with a slow social media release of key player prices to build anticipation. The site then runs an update and officially goes live.
Recent launches have looked like this:
| SEASON | LAUNCH DATE | DAYS BEFORE GAMEWEEK 1 |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 17 July | 30 |
| 2023/24 | 5 July | 37 |
| 2022/23 | 5 July | 31 |
| 2021/22 | 23 June | 51 |
| 2020/21** | 15 August | 28 |
| 2019/20 | 27 June | 43 |
| 2018/19 | 5 July | 36 |
| 2017/18 | 12 July | 30 |
| 2016/17 | 19 July | 25 |
** This 2020/21 season was different because of the Covid pandemic
Last season, it was slightly later than in previous years due to Euro 2024. The average of these eight – not including the exceptional 2020/21 circumstances – is 35 days before the opener.
Working backwards from the Friday night opener, that would make this equivalent 2025/26 FPL launch be Friday 11 July.
However, this is two days before the Club World Cup final, so perhaps Monday 14 July is a better estimate.
Either way, hang in there!
