FPL Free Hit Explained
What the Free Hit does, the rules, when to use it, and a Free Hit team for the coming gameweek.
Updated twice a day by Dave, FPL Dave · 2 November 2026
In one line
Unlimited free transfers for one gameweek; your old team comes back at the next deadline.
The model's Free Hit team for GW9
The best legal fifteen within £100m on Gameweek 9's projections alone. Starting eleven: Raya, Van Hecke, Hill, Silva, Gabriel, Mbeumo, Palmer, Rudoni, Tavernier, Haaland, Thiago.
The rules in short
- Unlimited free transfers for one gameweek; at the next deadline your previous squad comes back.
- Two per season: one from GW2 to GW19 (not in GW1), one from GW20 to GW38. An unused first one is lost.
- Only one chip per gameweek.
- Your saved free transfers are kept.
- The budget is your squad's selling value plus money in the bank, as for normal transfers.
Gameweeks to save it for
No double or blank gameweek is confirmed yet. The double and blank gameweek page updates as soon as fixtures move.
Free Hits played this season
The most were played in GW3: 421,239.
All the chips and when to play them: FPL chip strategy.
How this page is made
The chip counts and fixtures are the official game's own, rebuilt twice a day; the Free Hit team is picked by the FPL Dave model. Built by FPL Dave, a free Fantasy Premier League toolkit with its own projection model, whose record is published on the accuracy page every week. All times are UK time, the clock FPL deadlines and price changes run on; the pages are for FPL managers in the UK and everywhere else the game is played.