Where the 2024/25 Champions League could bring FPL Rotation

Soon after this international break, the UEFA Champions League (UCL) returns with its new format – one with even more midweek matches for Fantasy Premier League (FPL) managers to consider. With that in mind we take a look at FPL rotation.

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Manchester City, Arsenal, Liverpool and Aston Villa will have eight group games, rather than six. This could have the knock-on effect of squad rotation for FPL, perhaps more than Europa League and Europa Conference League competitors Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United and Chelsea.

With that in mind, we thought it’d be worth checking out the congested schedules of those teams up until the end of October. In the next week or so, November TV fixtures should be announced.

OVERVIEW

GW = FPL Gameweek – UCL = Champions League – EFL = League Cup

ARSENAL

Sunday 15 Sept (14:00 BST) | GW4 vs Tottenham Hotspur (a)
Thursday 19 Sept (20:00) | UCL vs Atalanta (a)
Sunday 22 Sept (16:30) | GW5 vs Manchester City (a)
Wednesday 25 Sept (19:45) | EFL vs Bolton Wanderers (h)
Saturday 28 Sept (15:00) | GW6 vs Leicester City (h)
Tuesday 1 Oct (20:00) | UCL vs Paris Saint-Germain (h)
Saturday 5 Oct (15:00) | GW7 vs Southampton (h)
Saturday 19 Oct (17:30) | GW8 vs Bournemouth (a)
Tuesday 22 Oct (20:00) | UCL vs Shakhtar Donetsk (h)
Sunday 27 Oct (16:30) | GW9 vs Liverpool (h)

Mikel Arteta will be praying for his international players to return in one piece, as Arsenal immediately have a gruelling seven-day journey that visits each of Spurs, Atalanta and Man City. That trip to Italy is an immediate example of the new UCL format introducing Thursday night matches.

Things ease up after that, with four successive Emirates Stadium outings starting with Bolton Wanderers in the cup.

All this does is emphasise that it might be worth refraining from Gunners assets until their Gameweek 6 fixture swing. Hosting newly promoted sides before and after Paris Saint-Germain could be a worry for Bukayo Saka (£10.1m) owners but on either side of those is the EFL Cup and October internationals.

Maybe Kai Havertz (£8.1m) or their highly-owned defenders see minutes carefully managed.

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