FPL Fixture Difficulty Rating (FDR)

Every Premier League club’s next six fixtures, colour coded by how hard each one is. Green is a fixture to target, red is one to avoid, and the shades between carry the cases that are less clear cut.

Fixtures are the one thing in FPL you can see coming. A player in good form against three difficult opponents will usually return less than an ordinary one with an easy run, which is why planning two or three gameweeks ahead beats reacting to last week’s scores.

Use the buttons above the table to switch between the next 1 and 6 gameweeks, and sort by average difficulty to see who has the kindest run.

How the colours are worked out

Five colours, and they describe the opponent rather than the team you are looking at. Chelsea at home to Bournemouth is rated the same as Brighton at home to Bournemouth, because the fixture is the same difficulty whoever is facing it. Any side away at Man City is red for the same reason.

Most fixtures land somewhere in the middle rather than at either extreme, and that is deliberate. There is a real gap between Man City away and Chelsea away, and between Bournemouth at home and Ipswich at home — flattening those into the same green or the same red would hide the distinction that matters.

Once you know which fixtures to target, our points predictor shows who is likely to benefit, and the predicted lineups confirm they will start.