BBC Sport ranks Fantasy Premier League’s greatest icons

BBC Sport has published a retrospective ranking of Fantasy Premier League’s most iconic players, assessing candidates through statistical output, value, positional classification, popularity and nostalgia.

Fantasy Premier League began in the 2002–03 season and has since grown into a global game with millions of players. According to the article, 52 players have reached 200 points in a season at least once.

Mohamed Salah is identified as the standout premium pick. BBC Sport describes his 344 points in 2024–25 as an all-time FPL record and reports that he is the only player to have exceeded 300 points, doing so twice.

Cole Palmer’s 2023–24 campaign is described, based on starting price, as the game’s best-ever value season. He began at £5m, finished with 244 points and recorded an FPL-record £5.5m price rise.

The retrospective also features Harry Kane, Charlie Adam, Michel Vorm, Stuart Dallas, Michail Antonio, John Lundstram, Riyad Mahrez and Michu. Mahrez scored 240 points from a £5.5m starting price during Leicester’s 2015–16 title-winning season, while Michu is presented as a defining one-season cult hero.

BBC Sport says the ranking was compiled with input from FPL expert Thomas Woods and research by Fantasy Football Scout. The supplied article does not include all 10 ranking positions, so the published list is best read as a selection of reported historical comparisons rather than a complete, independently verified record.