FPL prices for 2026/27 are out. The interesting question is not who is expensive — it is who is expensive relative to what they actually produced.
So we joined the two seasons in our database: every player's final 2025/26 points against their 2026/27 starting price. That join is only possible because FPL keeps a stable code for each player across seasons, even though it reissues the visible IDs every summer. What follows is the output of that query, not a shortlist we assembled by feel.
One caveat before the tables. Last season's points are a fact; next season's are not. A player who moved club, changed manager or lost a penalty role will not repeat their number, and eight clubs have new managers. Read this as a map of where FPL has and hasn't priced in last year's output — not as a projection. The projections are a separate thing, built from a model rather than from history.
The best value in the game is defensive
Points per £1.0m of 2026/27 price, using 2025/26 points, minimum 100 points:
| Player | Pos | 2026/27 price | 2025/26 pts | Pts per £m |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyrick Mitchell | DEF | £4.5m | 135 | 30.0 |
| Adrien Truffert | DEF | £5.5m | 165 | 30.0 |
| Marc Guéhi | DEF | £6.0m | 179 | 29.8 |
| Jan Paul van Hecke | DEF | £5.0m | 148 | 29.6 |
| Marcos Senesi | DEF | £6.0m | 175 | 29.2 |
| Bart Verbruggen | GK | £4.5m | 130 | 28.9 |
| Caoimhín Kelleher | GK | £5.0m | 143 | 28.6 |
| James Tarkowski | DEF | £6.0m | 170 | 28.3 |
| Elliot Anderson | MID | £6.5m | 180 | 27.7 |
| Đorđe Petrović | GK | £4.5m | 124 | 27.6 |
Nine of the top ten are defenders or goalkeepers. That is what a full season of defensive contribution points does to the value table — and it is why FPL repriced the position.
The first outfield attacker does not appear until well below this cut. If you are hunting efficiency rather than ceiling, the back half of the pitch is still where it lives, even after the price rises.
The premium market halved
Last season five players cost more than £9.5m. This season there are two:
- Erling Haaland, £15.5m — the highest price in FPL history, on 239 points.
- Bruno Fernandes, £12.0m — up £1.6m from his final 2025/26 price, on 235 points.
Everyone else is £9.5m or below. With Mohamed Salah out of the league, the structural question that shaped squads for years — Haaland, Salah, or both — has collapsed into a single decision about a single player at an unprecedented price.
Haaland is currently in 74.1% of squads. Bruno is in 48.1%.
The biggest risers
Comparing each player's final 2025/26 price to their 2026/27 starting price:
| Player | Pos | End 25/26 | Start 26/27 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junior Kroupi | MID | £4.7m | £7.5m | +£2.8m |
| Patrick Dorgu | MID | £4.1m | £6.0m | +£1.9m |
| Rio Ngumoha | MID | £4.3m | £6.0m | +£1.7m |
| Bruno Fernandes | MID | £10.4m | £12.0m | +£1.6m |
| James Hill | DEF | £4.2m | £5.5m | +£1.3m |
Kroupi is the standout. He opened 2025/26 priced at £4.5m — we can check that directly, because we store each player's price in every gameweek — and starts 2026/27 at £7.5m. Anyone who owned him early banked the rise; anyone buying now pays for it in full.
Rio Ngumoha is the one to look at twice. His £1.7m rise came on 43 points. FPL is pricing expectation there, not production.
Where the cheap goalkeepers are
Three keepers priced at £4.5m returned more than 120 points last season: Bart Verbruggen (Brighton, 130), Đorđe Petrović (Bournemouth, 124) and Bernd Leno (Fulham, 122). Martin Dubravka is cheaper still at £4.0m and already the most-owned budget option in the game at 24.7%, though on 96 points last season.
David Raya at £6.0m is the first £6.0m keeper since 2021/22, and at 29.9% owned he is the most-selected goalkeeper in the game. That makes the position a genuine fork: pay up for the Arsenal clean-sheet share, or take a £4.5m starter and spend the £1.5m outfield.
We can price these players from the database; we cannot tell you from it who will actually start. That one is on the pre-season team news.
The £4.0m defender floor
Every defender at all three promoted clubs is priced at exactly £4.0m — ten at Coventry City, ten at Hull City, seven at Ipswich Town. No exceptions, no gradations.
For squad-building that matters more than it looks. A playing £4.0m defender is the cheapest possible way to fill a bench slot or a fifth defensive place, and this season there are 27 candidates. Whether any of them start is the part the price does not tell you.
Penalties at the budget end
Penalty duty is the most reliable cheap route to points, and several confirmed first-choice takers start at £6.5m or less:
| Player | Club | Pos | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jean-Philippe Mateta | Crystal Palace | FWD | £6.5m |
| Iliman Ndiaye | Everton | MID | £6.0m |
| Dominic Calvert-Lewin | Leeds | FWD | £6.0m |
| Dominic Solanke | Spurs | FWD | £6.0m |
| Danny Welbeck | Brighton | FWD | £6.0m |
| Chris Wood | Nott'm Forest | FWD | £6.0m |
Ownership across that group ranges from 17.6% (Calvert-Lewin) down to 1.9% (Wood) — a wide spread for players on comparable duty at an identical price.
Using this
Every player in these tables has a page with their full history, and the full sortable database is in the Player Explorer — you can rank by any column, including the defensive-contribution numbers that drove most of this year's repricing. The Assistant Manager will build a £100.0m squad against the model rather than against last season.
Part of the FPL 2026/27 pre-season guide.