Premier League Predictions & Fantasy 2026/27 — Play Free on ScoreCircle

The 2026/27 Premier League season on ScoreCircle

The 2026/27 Premier League brings 20 clubs, 38 gameweeks and 380 matches, starting on 21 August 2026 and finishing at the end of May 2027. Arsenal enter as defending champions after winning their first title in 22 years, with Manchester City, Manchester United, Aston Villa, Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham and Newcastle all chasing them down. Coventry City are back in the top flight for the first time in a quarter of a century — and they get the champions away on opening night.

ScoreCircle covers every single Premier League match for predictions: each fixture in each gameweek is there to call, from the Friday opener to the final-day decider. The fantasy mode runs on real Premier League player performance — goals, assists, clean sheets and minutes all feed your squad's score, gameweek after gameweek. Week by week your Circle's story builds: early bragging rights, mid-season comebacks, and a spring run-in where every point matters.

Why ScoreCircle is a free Premier League game worth your group chat

There are plenty of good Premier League games — and your group is probably split across several of them. FPL is a brilliant fantasy game, but it has no score predictions. Sky Super 6 does predictions, but no fantasy. Superbru offers both, but as separate products with a premium upsell. That split is the problem ScoreCircle exists to fix.

On ScoreCircle, a free Premier League prediction game and a full fantasy game live in the same private Circle, on the same leaderboard. Scores update live during matches. You can run as many Circles as you like from one account. There is no subscription and no gambling — it is a Premier League score predictor, free for every one of the 38 gameweeks. For your group it means one app, one link, one table everybody actually checks.

ScoreCircle vs FPL — what's the difference?

If you already play FPL, keep playing it — ScoreCircle is not asking you to choose. FPL is fantasy only; ScoreCircle has fantasy AND exact-score predictions, so the mates who find fantasy too much admin can still compete with you every single matchday. That is the gap most FPL mini-leagues quietly suffer from: half the group stops doing transfers by November, and the league goes dead.

FPL's social layer is a mini-league table. ScoreCircle's Circle puts your group front and centre: private by default, live during matches, and covering both games at once. Both platforms are free — ScoreCircle just adds the predictions layer FPL never had, with no gambling element at all. Plenty of Circles run happily alongside FPL with the same group of mates: fantasy football and predictions in the same app, plus the FPL habit you already have. As an FPL alternative — or an FPL companion — it costs nothing to find out which one your group becomes.

How predictions work in the Premier League

Before each match kicks off, you predict the exact scoreline. Predictions lock at kick-off, match by match — so Friday's game locks on Friday night while Sunday's stay open all weekend. Nail the exact score and you take maximum points (3 by default); call the correct result without the exact score and you score 1; get it wrong and you take nothing. Circles can also enable a bonus tier for near-misses.

Points stack across the whole gameweek — predict all ten fixtures and a good weekend really moves you. After Gameweek 1 closes, your Circle has its first leaderboard, and from there the season table builds across all 38 rounds. The beauty of a Premier League score predictor is volatility: one weekend of upsets — a promoted side beating a title contender, a 4–3 nobody saw coming — can completely flip the table and hand the quiet one in your group a week of unbearable smugness.

Premier League 2026/27 Gameweek 1 — get ready

Gameweek 1 runs from Friday 21 to Monday 24 August 2026, and it starts with a proper occasion: champions Arsenal against newly promoted Coventry City under the Friday night lights. Hull City host Manchester United on Saturday lunchtime, and Newcastle v Liverpool headlines Sunday. Gameweek 1 is the single best moment to start a Circle, because everyone starts on zero — join in October and the table has history; join now and it is anyone's game. Each match locks at its own kick-off, so get your predictions in through the week and watch the points land all weekend.

ScoreCircle is free for the full Premier League season

Worth saying plainly: ScoreCircle is free for the whole 2026/27 Premier League season. No credit card at sign-up. No trial that expires in October. No freemium wall in front of the good features. Predictions, fantasy, unlimited Circles, live scoring — all of it, free, for all 38 gameweeks. If you want the detail on how the games work, read how ScoreCircle works or see our FAQs.