Double Gameweek Schedule

A double gameweek is when at least one club plays twice within a single FPL gameweek. It happens when a fixture postponed earlier in the season — usually for a cup run or the weather — is rescheduled into a week that already has a round of matches.

It is not the same as a midweek round. Two gameweeks falling in one calendar week is common and changes nothing; a double gameweek means one club, two matches, one deadline. Every player from that club can score twice.

The reverse is a blank gameweek: a club with no fixture at all, usually because their opponents are in a cup semi-final. Their players score nothing, which is why blanks tend to arrive alongside doubles and why chips are saved for both.

Doubles cannot be confirmed until the postponed fixtures have dates, and those dates depend on cup results. In practice the picture becomes clear from around February, once the FA Cup and League Cup have thinned out, and most fall between GW24 and GW37 — though a weather postponement can create one at any point, as an early double in 2023/24 showed.

There are also markedly fewer than there used to be. The last 3 seasons have averaged 4.3 double gameweeks against 7.7 for the 3 before them — a fall of 3.3 a season. The FA Cup quarter-finals moving to their own weekend is the main cause: fewer postponements means fewer fixtures to reschedule, and therefore fewer doubles. A season like 2021/22, with 10, now looks like an outlier rather than the norm.

A triple gameweek — one club playing three times — is rare enough to be an event. Manchester United had one in 2020/21, facing Aston Villa away and then Leicester and Liverpool at home.

It is worth less than it sounds. Those three matches came in five days, United rotated heavily, and the side that faced Leicester was visibly weakened. Fixture congestion cuts both ways: more matches means more chances to score and more chance of being rested.

Our predicted lineups are the best guide to who will actually play through a congested run.

Plan ahead with our fixture difficulty matrix, check projections on the points predictor, or see who is in form on our player form table.