How many people play Fantasy Premier League?
The Butler has done the headcount: the official world total, all 254 country leagues, every figure read on the same day.
About 10.3M managers are registered for the 2026/27 Fantasy Premier League season, 10,318,580 at the last count. The previous season ended with 13,107,732 registered managers.
Updated: Season: 2026/27
Highlights
Every manager is placed in a country league automatically, so all of the counts below were read the same way on the same day and can be compared directly.
- Egypt is the largest country league after England, on 720,112 managers, and Nigeria follows on 383,939.
- The United States is the 4th largest country league with 368,208 managers, 3.6% of the global total.
- 54 African countries hold 2,706,308 managers between them, 95.3% of what England holds on its own.
- The four UK nations (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) hold 3,194,433 managers together, 31.0% of the global total.
- Against population, Iceland has the most managers per 1,000 people at 57, ahead of Ireland on 52 and England on 48, counting only country leagues with at least 10,000 managers.
Is FPL growing?
FPL ended the 2019/20 season with 7,628,968 registered managers and the 2025/26 season with 13,107,732, a rise of 71.8% across the 7 seasons below. Every row in the table is a season end total, which is why the 2026/27 figure on this page sits under them: it is counted early in the season and only grows from here, so it is a floor rather than a finished number.
| Season | Registered managers at season end | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/20 | 7,628,968 | n/a |
| 2020/21 | 8,240,321 | +8.0% |
| 2021/22 | 9,167,407 | +11.3% |
| 2022/23 | 11,447,257 | +24.9% |
| 2023/24 | 10,905,021 | -4.7% |
| 2024/25 | 11,501,826 | +5.5% |
| 2025/26 | 13,107,732 | +14.0% |
Registered managers by country
Every FPL manager is placed automatically in their country league, so each country total below is an exact membership count rather than an estimate. The 254 country leagues counted here hold 9,902,349 managers between them, 96.0% of the global total, and the remainder are registered managers who sit in no country league at all.
| # | Country | Registered managers | Share of global total | Per 1,000 people |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | England | 2,838,668 | 27.51% | 48 |
| 2 | Egypt | 720,112 | 6.98% | 6.2 |
| 3 | Nigeria | 383,939 | 3.72% | 1.7 |
| 4 | United States | 368,208 | 3.57% | 1.1 |
| 5 | Kenya | 315,600 | 3.06% | 5.6 |
| 6 | Ireland | 283,230 | 2.74% | 52 |
| 7 | Malaysia | 274,243 | 2.66% | 7.7 |
| 8 | South Africa | 230,227 | 2.23% | 3.6 |
| 9 | India | 229,770 | 2.23% | 0.2 |
| 10 | Australia | 215,721 | 2.09% | 7.9 |
| 11 | Norway | 208,834 | 2.02% | 37 |
| 12 | Algeria | 200,118 | 1.94% | 4.3 |
| 13 | Iraq | 187,802 | 1.82% | 4.1 |
| 14 | Sweden | 165,632 | 1.61% | 16 |
| 15 | Scotland | 160,228 | 1.55% | 29 |
| 16 | Indonesia | 153,195 | 1.48% | 0.5 |
| 17 | Saudi Arabia | 152,965 | 1.48% | 4.3 |
| 18 | Morocco | 144,593 | 1.40% | 3.8 |
| 19 | Thailand | 133,470 | 1.29% | 1.9 |
| 20 | Ghana | 124,966 | 1.21% | 3.6 |
| 21 | Wales | 122,149 | 1.18% | 38 |
| 22 | Canada | 97,441 | 0.94% | 2.4 |
| 23 | Sudan | 84,168 | 0.82% | 1.7 |
| 24 | Uganda | 76,687 | 0.74% | 1.5 |
| 25 | Poland | 73,447 | 0.71% | 2.0 |
| 26 | Northern Ireland | 73,388 | 0.71% | 38 |
| 27 | Zimbabwe | 69,545 | 0.67% | 4.2 |
| 28 | Denmark | 68,550 | 0.66% | 11 |
| 29 | United Arab Emirates | 64,595 | 0.63% | 5.9 |
| 30 | Tunisia | 63,360 | 0.61% | 5.2 |
| 31 | Kuwait | 56,718 | 0.55% | 12 |
| 32 | Singapore | 55,375 | 0.54% | 9.2 |
| 33 | Ethiopia | 54,792 | 0.53% | 0.4 |
| 34 | Serbia | 49,726 | 0.48% | 7.5 |
| 35 | Nepal | 43,803 | 0.42% | 1.5 |
| 36 | Finland | 43,031 | 0.42% | 7.7 |
| 37 | Netherlands | 41,203 | 0.40% | 2.3 |
| 38 | Hong Kong | 38,167 | 0.37% | 5.1 |
| 39 | New Zealand | 38,025 | 0.37% | 7.2 |
| 40 | Belgium | 34,047 | 0.33% | 2.9 |
| 41 | Bangladesh | 32,090 | 0.31% | 0.2 |
| 42 | Libya | 31,561 | 0.31% | 4.3 |
| 43 | Zambia | 31,104 | 0.30% | 1.5 |
| 44 | Tanzania | 30,198 | 0.29% | 0.4 |
| 45 | Portugal | 30,104 | 0.29% | 2.8 |
| 46 | Germany | 29,884 | 0.29% | 0.4 |
| 47 | Croatia | 28,281 | 0.27% | 7.3 |
| 48 | Jordan | 27,699 | 0.27% | 2.4 |
| 49 | Bulgaria | 24,389 | 0.24% | 3.8 |
| 50 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 23,960 | 0.23% | 7.6 |
| 51 | Iran | 23,824 | 0.23% | 0.3 |
| 52 | France | 23,286 | 0.23% | 0.3 |
| 53 | Lebanon | 22,732 | 0.22% | 3.9 |
| 54 | Greece | 22,423 | 0.22% | 2.2 |
| 55 | Qatar | 22,413 | 0.22% | 7.8 |
| 56 | Iceland | 22,212 | 0.22% | 57 |
| 57 | Czech Republic | 20,985 | 0.20% | 1.9 |
| 58 | Mauritius | 20,858 | 0.20% | 17 |
| 59 | Somalia | 20,067 | 0.19% | 1.1 |
| 60 | Spain | 19,747 | 0.19% | 0.4 |
| 61 | Syria | 18,769 | 0.18% | 0.8 |
| 62 | Bahrain | 18,497 | 0.18% | 12 |
| 63 | Switzerland | 18,324 | 0.18% | 2.0 |
| 64 | Turkey | 17,953 | 0.17% | 0.2 |
| 65 | Israel | 17,507 | 0.17% | 1.8 |
| 66 | Namibia | 17,092 | 0.17% | 5.6 |
| 67 | Hungary | 16,246 | 0.16% | 1.7 |
| 68 | Cyprus | 15,930 | 0.15% | 12 |
| 69 | Oman | 15,324 | 0.15% | 2.9 |
| 70 | Slovakia | 13,876 | 0.13% | 2.6 |
| 71 | Pakistan | 13,684 | 0.13% | 0.1 |
| 72 | Sierra Leone | 13,165 | 0.13% | 1.5 |
| 73 | Romania | 13,071 | 0.13% | 0.7 |
| 74 | Argentina | 12,806 | 0.12% | 0.3 |
| 75 | Jamaica | 12,452 | 0.12% | 4.4 |
| 76 | Mexico | 12,411 | 0.12% | 0.1 |
| 77 | North Macedonia | 12,331 | 0.12% | 6.8 |
| 78 | Maldives | 11,961 | 0.12% | 23 |
| 79 | Vietnam | 11,951 | 0.12% | 0.1 |
| 80 | Malawi | 11,838 | 0.11% | 0.5 |
| 81 | Myanmar | 11,388 | 0.11% | 0.2 |
| 82 | Trinidad and Tobago | 10,389 | 0.10% | 7.6 |
| 83 | Yemen | 10,267 | 0.10% | 0.3 |
| 84 | Italy | 10,264 | 0.10% | 0.2 |
| 85 | Japan | 10,038 | 0.10% | 0.1 |
| 86 | Slovenia | 9,872 | 0.10% | 4.6 |
| 87 | Colombia | 9,807 | 0.10% | 0.2 |
| 88 | Austria | 9,657 | 0.09% | 1.1 |
| 89 | Botswana | 8,833 | 0.09% | 3.5 |
| 90 | Malta | 8,712 | 0.08% | 15 |
| 91 | Kazakhstan | 8,388 | 0.08% | 0.4 |
| 92 | China | 8,230 | 0.08% | 0.0 |
| 93 | Ukraine | 8,186 | 0.08% | 0.2 |
| 94 | Cameroon | 8,004 | 0.08% | 0.3 |
| 95 | Chile | 7,929 | 0.08% | 0.4 |
| 96 | Brunei | 6,793 | 0.07% | 15 |
| 97 | Palestine | 6,295 | 0.06% | 1.2 |
| 98 | Brazil | 6,163 | 0.06% | 0.0 |
| 99 | Uzbekistan | 6,131 | 0.06% | 0.2 |
| 100 | Mauritania | 6,077 | 0.06% | 1.2 |
| 101 | Albania | 6,069 | 0.06% | 2.6 |
| 102 | United Kingdom | 5,805 | 0.06% | 0.1 |
| 103 | Rwanda | 5,479 | 0.05% | 0.4 |
| 104 | South Sudan | 5,339 | 0.05% | 0.4 |
| 105 | Estonia | 5,225 | 0.05% | 3.8 |
| 106 | Montenegro | 5,054 | 0.05% | 8.1 |
| 107 | Isle of Man | 4,762 | 0.05% | 57 |
| 108 | Jersey | 4,709 | 0.05% | n/a |
| 109 | Lithuania | 4,596 | 0.04% | 1.6 |
| 110 | Georgia | 4,433 | 0.04% | 1.2 |
| 111 | Bhutan | 4,372 | 0.04% | 5.5 |
| 112 | Gambia | 4,361 | 0.04% | 1.6 |
| 113 | Senegal | 4,292 | 0.04% | 0.2 |
| 114 | South Korea | 4,058 | 0.04% | 0.1 |
| 115 | Venezuela | 3,958 | 0.04% | 0.1 |
| 116 | Azerbaijan | 3,840 | 0.04% | 0.4 |
| 117 | Barbados | 3,491 | 0.03% | 12 |
| 118 | Guernsey | 3,169 | 0.03% | n/a |
| 119 | Angola | 3,027 | 0.03% | 0.1 |
| 120 | Uruguay | 3,025 | 0.03% | 0.9 |
| 121 | Mongolia | 2,856 | 0.03% | 0.8 |
| 122 | Ecuador | 2,826 | 0.03% | 0.2 |
| 123 | Sri Lanka | 2,761 | 0.03% | 0.1 |
| 124 | Mozambique | 2,677 | 0.03% | 0.1 |
| 125 | Afghanistan | 2,617 | 0.03% | 0.1 |
| 126 | Latvia | 2,601 | 0.03% | 1.4 |
| 127 | Philippines | 2,592 | 0.03% | 0.0 |
| 128 | Peru | 2,528 | 0.02% | 0.1 |
| 129 | Eswatini | 2,517 | 0.02% | 2.0 |
| 130 | Cambodia | 2,365 | 0.02% | 0.1 |
| 131 | Kosovo | 2,309 | 0.02% | 1.4 |
| 132 | Bermuda | 2,284 | 0.02% | 35 |
| 133 | Faroe Islands | 2,160 | 0.02% | 40 |
| 134 | Gibraltar | 2,100 | 0.02% | 53 |
| 135 | Luxembourg | 1,951 | 0.02% | 2.9 |
| 136 | Armenia | 1,628 | 0.02% | 0.5 |
| 137 | Chinese Taipei | 1,557 | 0.02% | n/a |
| 138 | Costa Rica | 1,554 | 0.02% | 0.3 |
| 139 | Antarctica | 1,536 | 0.01% | n/a |
| 140 | Aland Islands | 1,496 | 0.01% | n/a |
| 141 | Liberia | 1,484 | 0.01% | 0.3 |
| 142 | Cayman Islands | 1,362 | 0.01% | 18 |
| 143 | Paraguay | 1,320 | 0.01% | 0.2 |
| 144 | Aruba | 1,302 | 0.01% | 12 |
| 145 | Fiji | 1,300 | 0.01% | 1.4 |
| 146 | St. Lucia | 1,284 | 0.01% | 7.1 |
| 147 | Lesotho | 1,249 | 0.01% | 0.5 |
| 148 | United States Minor Outlying Islands | 1,247 | 0.01% | n/a |
| 149 | American Samoa | 1,183 | 0.01% | 25 |
| 150 | Ivory Coast | 1,140 | 0.01% | 0.0 |
| 151 | Laos | 1,118 | 0.01% | 0.1 |
| 152 | Antigua and Barbuda | 1,095 | 0.01% | 12 |
| 153 | Macao, China | 1,031 | 0.01% | 1.5 |
| 154 | Panama | 955 | 0.01% | 0.2 |
| 155 | Guatemala | 928 | 0.01% | 0.1 |
| 156 | Andorra | 919 | 0.01% | 11 |
| 157 | Congo, Democratic Republic of | 857 | 0.01% | 0.0 |
| 158 | Guyana | 850 | 0.01% | 1.0 |
| 159 | Christmas Island | 842 | 0.01% | n/a |
| 160 | Kyrgyzstan | 817 | 0.01% | 0.1 |
| 161 | Seychelles | 811 | 0.01% | 6.7 |
| 162 | Chad | 809 | 0.01% | 0.0 |
| 163 | Honduras | 774 | 0.01% | 0.1 |
| 164 | Bolivia | 720 | 0.01% | 0.1 |
| 165 | Puerto Rico | 667 | 0.01% | 0.2 |
| 166 | Moldova | 655 | 0.01% | 0.3 |
| 167 | El Salvador | 628 | 0.01% | 0.1 |
| 168 | Turkmenistan | 600 | 0.01% | 0.1 |
| 169 | British Virgin Islands | 593 | 0.01% | 15 |
| 170 | Bahamas | 583 | 0.01% | 1.5 |
| 171 | North Korea | 560 | 0.01% | 0.0 |
| 172 | Eritrea | 556 | 0.01% | 0.2 |
| 173 | Djibouti | 549 | 0.01% | 0.5 |
| 174 | Dominica | 542 | 0.01% | 8.2 |
| 175 | Wallis and Futuna Islands | 539 | 0.01% | n/a |
| 176 | Dominican Republic | 528 | 0.01% | 0.0 |
| 177 | Cape Verde | 519 | 0.01% | 1.0 |
| 178 | Holy See | 519 | 0.01% | n/a |
| 179 | Belarus | 517 | 0.01% | 0.1 |
| 180 | Norfolk Island | 510 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 181 | St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 506 | 0.00% | 5.0 |
| 182 | Cuba | 504 | 0.00% | 0.0 |
| 183 | Heard and McDonald Islands | 476 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 184 | Anguilla | 474 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 185 | Benin | 471 | 0.00% | 0.0 |
| 186 | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | 468 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 187 | Monaco | 464 | 0.00% | 12 |
| 188 | Grenada | 457 | 0.00% | 3.9 |
| 189 | Niger | 439 | 0.00% | 0.0 |
| 190 | Tuvalu | 429 | 0.00% | 44 |
| 191 | Western Sahara | 421 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 192 | US Virgin Islands | 416 | 0.00% | 4.0 |
| 193 | Greenland | 414 | 0.00% | 7.3 |
| 194 | Tajikistan | 397 | 0.00% | 0.0 |
| 195 | Falkland Islands | 393 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 196 | Niue | 387 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 197 | Svalbard & Jan Mayen Islands | 384 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 198 | St. Kitts and Nevis | 382 | 0.00% | 8.2 |
| 199 | Nicaragua | 381 | 0.00% | 0.1 |
| 200 | Northern Mariana Islands | 361 | 0.00% | 8.2 |
| 201 | Mali | 351 | 0.00% | 0.0 |
| 202 | Belize | 344 | 0.00% | 0.8 |
| 203 | Pitcairn Island | 341 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 204 | Vanuatu | 333 | 0.00% | 1.0 |
| 205 | Haiti | 321 | 0.00% | 0.0 |
| 206 | Papua New Guinea | 315 | 0.00% | 0.0 |
| 207 | Burkina Faso | 290 | 0.00% | 0.0 |
| 208 | British Indian Ocean Territory | 289 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 209 | Kiribati | 278 | 0.00% | 2.1 |
| 210 | Nauru | 275 | 0.00% | 23 |
| 211 | Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba | 270 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 212 | Togo | 266 | 0.00% | 0.0 |
| 213 | Curacao | 266 | 0.00% | 1.7 |
| 214 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 263 | 0.00% | 5.7 |
| 215 | Burundi | 261 | 0.00% | 0.0 |
| 216 | Madagascar | 258 | 0.00% | 0.0 |
| 217 | Tokelau | 257 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 218 | Guinea | 249 | 0.00% | 0.0 |
| 219 | Cocos Islands | 243 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 220 | Timor-Leste | 238 | 0.00% | 0.2 |
| 221 | St. Helena | 225 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 222 | Bouvet Island | 217 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 223 | Suriname | 213 | 0.00% | 0.3 |
| 224 | Cook Islands | 211 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 225 | Solomon Islands | 209 | 0.00% | 0.3 |
| 226 | San Marino | 205 | 0.00% | 6.0 |
| 227 | Equatorial Guinea | 204 | 0.00% | 0.1 |
| 228 | Sint Maarten | 202 | 0.00% | 4.7 |
| 229 | Congo | 198 | 0.00% | 0.0 |
| 230 | Sao Tome and Principe | 192 | 0.00% | 0.8 |
| 231 | Marshall Islands | 189 | 0.00% | 5.0 |
| 232 | Mayotte | 189 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 233 | Saint Barthelemy | 189 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 234 | Reunion | 188 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 235 | Palau | 183 | 0.00% | 10 |
| 236 | Liechtenstein | 177 | 0.00% | 4.4 |
| 237 | Gabon | 172 | 0.00% | 0.1 |
| 238 | St. Pierre and Miquelon | 169 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 239 | Guam | 164 | 0.00% | 1.0 |
| 240 | Montserrat | 158 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 241 | Micronesia | 151 | 0.00% | 1.3 |
| 242 | Comoros | 141 | 0.00% | 0.2 |
| 243 | New Caledonia | 136 | 0.00% | 0.5 |
| 244 | Central African Republic | 133 | 0.00% | 0.0 |
| 245 | Samoa | 120 | 0.00% | 0.6 |
| 246 | Guadaloupe | 118 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 247 | French Polynesia | 117 | 0.00% | 0.4 |
| 248 | French Southern Territories | 116 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 249 | Tonga | 116 | 0.00% | 1.1 |
| 250 | Guinea-Bissau | 113 | 0.00% | 0.1 |
| 251 | Martinique | 111 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 252 | Saint Martin | 102 | 0.00% | 3.9 |
| 253 | French Guiana | 82 | 0.00% | n/a |
| 254 | Netherlands Antilles | 0 | 0.00% | n/a |
Why are there so many country leagues?
The United Nations has 193 member states, yet FPL runs 254 country leagues, 61 more. The list follows the international country-code standard rather than a political map, so every territory with its own code gets its own league. The four UK nations (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) each have one, and a separate United Kingdom league holds 5,805 managers who picked that instead. Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey appear as leagues of their own, as do overseas territories such as Gibraltar, Faroe Islands, Greenland and Hong Kong.
Some codes belong to places where almost nobody lives. Antarctica has 1,536 registered managers, the smallest league, Netherlands Antilles, has 0, and 101 of the 254 leagues have fewer than 1,000 managers. Every one of them is still counted here, which is why the country table on this page runs so long.
What the number counts
A registered manager is a team entered for the 2026/27 season, not a person confirmed to still be playing in May. Registrations keep climbing through the season, so 10,318,580 is a floor rather than a ceiling.
Questions and answers
How many people play FPL in England?
2,838,668 managers from England are registered for the 2026/27 season, 27.5% of the global player base and the largest single country league. That is 48 managers per 1,000 people.
How many people play FPL in Norway?
208,834 managers from Norway are registered for the 2026/27 season, which makes it the 11th largest country league. Measured against population that is 37 managers per 1,000 people, among the highest rates anywhere.
Is FPL growing?
Yes. Registered managers rose from 7,628,968 at the end of 2019/20 to 13,107,732 at the end of 2025/26, a rise of 71.8%. The 2026/27 season stands at 10,318,580 registered managers so far, counted early in the season.
Which country has the most FPL players outside the UK?
Egypt, with 720,112 registered managers for the 2026/27 season, 7.0% of the global total. That makes it the 2nd largest country league in the world.
How many people play FPL in the United States?
368,208 managers from the United States are registered for the 2026/27 season, 3.6% of the global total. It is the 4th largest country league in the world.
How many people play FPL in Sweden?
165,632 managers from Sweden are registered for the 2026/27 season, 1.6% of the global total. That makes it the 14th largest country league.
How many people play FPL in Denmark?
68,550 managers from Denmark are registered for the 2026/27 season, 0.7% of the global total. That makes it the 28th largest country league.
Why does FPL have 254 country leagues?
Because FPL uses the international country-code list rather than the 193 UN member states. Every code gets a league, so the four UK nations, crown dependencies such as Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey and overseas territories such as Gibraltar, Faroe Islands, Greenland and Hong Kong are all counted separately, and even Antarctica has 1,536 registered managers.
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