Auction fantasy football guides

Auction fantasy football gives every manager the same budget and lets the league decide each player's price. Each player has one owner.

Learn how a Premier League auction league moves from league setup and auction night to team selection, scoring and transfers.

Compare Auction League with Fantasy Premier League on player ownership, pricing, squad building and the social format.

Compare auction and draft fantasy football, including player access, draft order, budgets and unique squads.

Auction League scores goals, assists, clean sheets and other clear match events. Learn what the standard game includes.

Set up a private Premier League auction league for 6 to 20 managers, from invitations to the final squad entry.

A practical fantasy football auction rules template. Agree the player pool, squad format, bidding process, record keeper and season rules before auction day.

Agree one bidding channel, rehearse a connection failure and check final squads before handing over your remote auction results.

A garden, deckchairs, pizza and six hours of bidding. How we run our fantasy football auction day, with practical advice for planning your own.

A practical 2026/27 Premier League auction preview. Use it to turn a changing summer, new roles and player uncertainty into better questions before you bid.

Five young Premier League players to keep on a 2026/27 scouting watchlist, and the evidence you need before turning interest into an auction bid.

Find potential auction bolters by tracking a new role, a route to minutes and a price that leaves room for error. Avoid buying a story before the evidence arrives.

Work out your next bid ceiling, protect money for empty squad places and update a £100m auction plan after every purchase.

Build a player shortlist from minutes, role, scoring and replacement options. Separate a useful football fact from an unsupported auction price.

Turn a long player list into useful auction choices. Group alternatives, record role risks and decide what to do when a position starts running out.

Use Fantrax auction research without importing the wrong player values. Check scoring categories, squad positions and transfer rules before following a tip.

Compare a star-led £100m squad with a spread budget. See what an expensive purchase leaves for the remaining places before you bid.

Decide when to nominate a target, test a position or offer a rival's likely purchase. Work through the risk of winning your own nomination.

Respond to expensive early sales without abandoning your plan. Track remaining budgets, empty places and the alternatives that still fit your squad.

Keep one auction record, reconcile player ownership and budgets, and check the supported import before the season starts.

Learn how managers can bid for unowned players or agree manager swaps after auction night.

Assess a free agent against the player you would release, reserve money for future rounds and check that your full bid set can succeed together.

Compare the teams before and after a proposed swap, find a reason for both managers to accept and check Auction League's approval rules.

A clear guide to the organiser's work before auction night and during a season in Auction League.

Set an auction league calendar that covers research, auction day, transfer decisions, five-a-side, the final table and your end-of-season night.

Use a pre-auction five-a-side game to start the day, include the group and still leave enough time and energy for the fantasy football auction.

Set up a light-hearted auction-league fines committee with written rules, a spending limit and an easy way to keep the joke fun for everyone.

Ten light auction-league forfeit ideas for groups that want a running joke without turning a football ritual into a punishment.

Plan and spend an auction league end-of-season kitty fairly, whether it is £100 or more than £1,000, without turning the balance into a row.