FPL Challenge is BACK for 2025/26, and these are the first three challenges for the new season.
The majority of the challenges this season will require managers to select a six-a-side team, set out in any of the following formations: 1-2-2, 2-1-2, 2-2-1, 3-1-1, 1-3-1 and 1-1-3, featuring no budget restrictions.
Challenge 2 - The Promoted
Challenge 3 - The Shield
Gameweek 2: “The Promoted”
For Gameweek 2, the challenge focuses on this season’s promoted trio of Leeds United, Burnley and Sunderland.
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Only players from those three clubs can earn DOUBLE points, with a one player per club limit.
Gameweek 3: “The Shield”
When we reach Gameweek 3, the challenge centres around a brand-new FPL feature: Defensive Contributions.
This new avenue to points is included in the traditional FPL game mode, too. But in FPL Challenge, the defensive contribution threshold - a combined total of 10 clearances, blocks, interceptions and tackles (CBIT) in a single match for defenders, and 12CBIT for midfielders and forwards - being reached earns a player 10 points, instead of the usual two.
There is again a limit of with a one player per club.