Don't miss tonight's deadline for 24/25 Fantasy Premier League!

The deadline for registering your team for Gameweek One of 2024/25 Fantasy Premier League (FPL) game is imminent (18:30 BST TONIGHT, Friday 16th August)!

But fear not, for we’ve summed up everything you need to know about FPL in the fresh 2024/25 season below – including which Palace players are bound to send you soaring in your league rankings.

Ready to get started? Good – you’re just in the nick of time! The game is LIVE for everyone to access now.

One of 11 million FPL veterans out there? You can skip this section.

Newcomer? Welcome to the game!

The Premier League have created a comprehensive beginners’ guide here, but in essence, FPL is an online game in which you choose a squad of Premier League players – to a budget, with each player assigned a pre-determined value – and then you collect points depending on how they perform each week.

For example, if – sorry, when – you choose Ebere Eze and he scores a goal, you collect points. Likewise, goalkeepers and defenders earn points for clean sheets, and midfielders tend to rack up most of theirs from assists.

As well as a starting XI and four substitutes, each week you pick a captain, who earns double points, and a vice-captain, who fills in when your captain misses a Gameweek (round of matches).

You can also make specific numbers of transfers in between each Gameweek to switch your team around during the season, and the usage of ‘chips’ throw further twists in along the way.

Over the course of 38 Gameweeks, you rack up points and – all being well – finish top of your friends’ or colleagues’ leagues (more likely) or the global rankings (less likely – as we say, you’re up against 11 million players!).

Forward Jean-Philippe Mateta is Palace’s most expensive player, with his price tag increasing by 50% from £5.0m last season to £7.5m in 2024/25.

The deserved rise comes after his strong finish to the previous campaign, which saw him net 13 goals in the final 13 games of the season.

Mateta was in over 800,000 FPL manager’s sides for the final game of 2023/24, where he scored a mammoth 20 points thanks to his hat-trick against Aston Villa.

New summer signing Daichi Kamada is classed as a midfielder in the game and has a £5.5m price tag. If he matches his best season under Oliver Glasner back in 2022/23, where he got nine goals and seven assists in the Bundesliga, he could potentially break the 100 points barrier.

Fellow new arrival Ismaila Sarr is well versed already in the Premier League, bagging 10 times already over two seasons in the competition for Watford, and costs just £6.0m.

Midfield maestro Eberechi Eze comes in with a £7.0m price tag ahead of the new campaign, £0.5m up from his previous price tag last season. He ended the 23/24 campaign as Palace’s second-highest points scorer, with 136 to his name.

Adam Wharton maintains his £5.0m price tag which he was given after signing back in January 2024. In his first 15 games for the Eagles, Wharton racked up 50 points with three assists to his name. A full season could easily see the midfielder become an interesting differential option who is also capable of scoring in excess of 100 points.

At the back, England star Marc Guéhi has a £4.5m price tag - the same as what he started with last season. His campaign last season was hampered by injury, though he would potentially be in for a number of clean sheet points this time around.

Colombia stars Jefferson Lerma and Daniel Muñoz both come in at £5.0m apiece. For Lerma, he holds his value and could be a solid points scorer in midfield, while Muñoz has seen his price rise by £0.5m - owing to his four assists and five clean sheets in his first 16 games for the Eagles.

The game is similar to last season, although you can now store up to five free transfers by saving one each Gameweek. This is up from the previous limit of two.

You get one free transfer in each Gameweek, and if you don't use it, you can bank it and carry it into the following Gameweek.

You could, for instance, opt to not make any transfers in the first five Gameweeks. In Gameweek 6, you would have five free transfers to use.

As well as having the ability to save up to five free transfers, managers that utilise their transfer-based chips (Free Hit or Wildcard) to change their team will also maintain their banked transfers if they have any. The use of chips used to reset the number of banked transfers in previous weeks.

There will be two wildcards available in each half of the season as normal, one at the very start of the campaign and the second from Gameweek 19, as well as the Bench Boost chip which sees managers register points from their bench in one Gameweek.

A new ‘Mystery Chip,’ will also be available in January 2025, details about this are sparse but it will complement the existing chips in the game.

Those are all the new rule modifications in this season’s game and all the prices of our Palace stars, so start thinking about who you would want to put in your side now!

As well as the official Crystal Palace supporters league, which you join automatically upon registering your favourite club as the Eagles, Palace for Life Foundation's FPL league is back this season!

For the second season running, the Foundation are running a mini-league for Palace for Life supporters, like you, to compete in for your chance to win a signed 24/25 home shirt!

All you need to do to join is donate £10 by filling in the form here. From there, you’ll receive an email with details on how to join the league. This £10 contribution goes a long way in helping the Foundation and club continue our work throughout south London, empowering young people and inspiring them to lead healthier lives.

Good luck!