How ĐOGERI Reached FPL Number One: The Road to 735 Points

Snapshot: Sunday 1 November 2026, 20:32 UTC. ĐOGERI is number one in the official FPL overall standings with 735 points, three ahead of Jake Crow Sliced Jam. Gameweek 9 is still open: Newcastle–Everton is scheduled for Monday, and ranks and points can still change. None of ĐOGERI's GW9 players is involved in that match.

The route to the top started at 279,827th after GW1. It included a 136-point Bench Boost, a Free Hit that finished below the gameweek average, a single four-point hit, and a Wildcard that has just lifted the team from tenth to first.

We pulled fresh official standings, the team's history and transfers, and combined them with our production database's stored squads and player scores. Here is what actually happened, week by week. You can follow the latest snapshot on ĐOGERI's team page.

The climb from 279,827th to first

Gameweek	Points after hits	FPL average	Running total	Overall rank	Captain	Chip
GW1	74	50	74	279,827	Bruno Fernandes	—
GW2	136	81	210	1,138	Bruno Fernandes	Bench Boost
GW3	50	51	260	4,235	Haaland	Free Hit
GW4	100	69	360	812	Isak	—
GW5	56	48	416	714	Haaland	—
GW6	85	58	501	212	Rogers	—
GW7	100	59	601	7	Haaland	Triple Captain
GW8	52	45	653	10	Haaland	—
GW9, so far	82	42	735	1	Haaland	Wildcard

GW6's gross score was 89; the four-point transfer hit reduces it to 85. The FPL average is the game's published average score, not a hit-adjusted comparison. GW9's average and rank are still provisional.

The first big jump came early, but this wasn't a team that reached the top and simply stayed there. GW3 sent it backwards. GW4 brought the first top-1,000 finish, GW7 brought the first top-ten finish, and GW9 has supplied the move to first.

GW2: Bruno's 46 points, plus a 21-point bench

ĐOGERI made no transfers for GW2 and kept the armband on Bruno Fernandes. That captaincy had produced just four points in GW1. A week later, Bruno scored 23, doubled to 46.

The Bench Boost supplied another 21 points from Kinsky (1), Hume (6), Calvert-Lewin (8) and Davis (6). Groß and Haaland contributed 13 each. The result was 136 points against an 81-point average, taking the team from 279,827th to 1,138th.

It is useful to separate the chip from the full score. The bench added 21; the other 115 came from the selected XI, including captaincy. Both mattered, but the biggest individual contribution was Bruno's armband.

GW3: the Free Hit setback

The next move was much more aggressive: a Free Hit with 11 recorded player changes. Foden, Cherki, Isak and Wissa were among the arrivals. Haaland took over the captaincy.

It returned 50 points, one below the gameweek average, and the overall rank slipped to 4,235. Haaland's nine became 18; Isak added 13. Those two supplied most of the score.

That is a poor result relative to the field, but it doesn't prove that playing the Free Hit lost points. To make that claim, we would need to compare it with a credible alternative lineup from the underlying squad. The actual record tells us that this particular chip week interrupted the climb.

The Free Hit squad was temporary. Its changes should not be counted as permanent transfers, and the reversion afterwards was not another buying spree.

GW4–6: back into the top 1,000, then up to 212th

In GW4, ĐOGERI bought Isak permanently for Calvert-Lewin and replaced Bruno with Rogers. Isak was captained but scored only two points, doubled to four. The team still reached 100: Groß supplied 17, while Raya and Davis returned 14 apiece.

That week is a useful counterweight to GW2. The captain didn't deliver; the rest of the squad did. The overall rank improved to 812.

GW5's 56 points moved the team to 714th. New signing Branthwaite contributed eight, Groß scored 14, and Haaland's captaincy added 12.

The only hit so far came in GW6: Tzolis and Isak out, Palmer and Kostoulas in. Rogers was captain for 18 points, De Cuyper supplied 15 and João Pedro 12. An 89-point gross score became 85 after the hit, enough to climb to 212th.

GW7: Triple Captain takes the team into the top ten

Haaland scored 13 points in GW7. Triple Captain turned that into 39, helping ĐOGERI reach another 100-point gameweek and jump from 212th to seventh.

The chip's extra contribution was 13 points over ordinary captaincy, rather than all 39. Kostoulas also returned 12 and Raya nine, so there was support beyond the captain.

GW8 was quieter: 52 points, with Haaland contributing 16 and Konsa 14. That was above the 45-point average, but the rank still slipped from seventh to tenth. Beating the average manager does not necessarily mean beating the handful of teams around you at the top.

Every permanent transfer before the Wildcard

Outside the Free Hit and Wildcard, the history records seven transfers and one four-point hit.

Gameweek	Out	In	Hit that week
GW4	Calvert-Lewin; Bruno Fernandes	Isak; Rogers	0
GW5	Shaw	Branthwaite	0
GW6	Tzolis; Isak	Palmer; Kostoulas	4
GW7	Hume	Konsa	0
GW8	Branthwaite	Muharemović	0

There were no transfers for GW2. The public record gives us the moves and their timing, but not the manager's reasoning. We can describe the results without pretending to know why each decision was made.

GW9: five Wildcard signings, 43 points

The Wildcard was activated on Saturday morning before the GW9 deadline. It changed five players, keeping ten from the existing squad.

Sold	Bought	New signing's GW9 points so far
João Pedro	Nicolas Jackson	9
Mbeumo	Rayan	3
M. Sangaré	Manzambi	7
Calafiori	Van Hecke	15
Kostoulas	Evanilson	9

All five started. Together, they have supplied 43 of the team's 82 points. That is their contribution to the score, not a claim that the Wildcard gained 43 points over keeping the old team.

Van Hecke's 15 is the standout return. Jackson and Evanilson have delivered nine each, while the retained De Cuyper and Rogers also scored nine and Palmer eight. Haaland managed only two, doubled to four. This rise to number one has come despite a modest captain score.

The current team

The latest public squad is the GW9 deadline team, in a 3-4-3, with Haaland captain and Nicolas Jackson vice-captain. It is not a view of any private transfers made for GW10.

The starting XI is Kinsky; De Cuyper, Muharemović, Van Hecke; Manzambi, Rayan, Rogers, Palmer; Jackson, Haaland and Evanilson.

Raya is the reserve goalkeeper. The outfield bench order is Groß, Konsa, Davis. Those four have 18 points between them, including ten from Konsa, but none counts towards the team's 82. Even the current leader has returns sitting on the bench.

The GW9 history records a £102.4m squad value and £2.3m in the bank at the deadline. Those are recorded deadline values, not a current selling-value calculation.

Which chips have been used?

Chip	Gameweek	Team score	What the numbers show
Bench Boost	2	136	21 points from the four bench players
Free Hit	3	50	One below the 51-point average
Triple Captain	7	100	Haaland's 13 became 39; 13 more than normal captaincy
Wildcard	9	82 so far	Five new players have contributed 43

One of each chip has already been played. The two directly additive scoring chips, Bench Boost and Triple Captain, supplied 34 extra points on those selected lineups. Wildcard and Free Hit cannot be valued in the same simple way: their effect depends on what the manager would otherwise have done.

What about previous seasons?

The same entry's public history contains two earlier finishes:

Season	Points	Overall finish
2024/25	2,318	1,300,238
2025/26	2,277	286,996

That is an improvement in rank between the two completed seasons, followed by a much stronger start this time. It is not evidence of a long record of elite finishes, and a nine-gameweek lead is not a final-season result.

What this run tells us

The striking feature is the variety of routes to a good score. GW2 depended heavily on Bruno captaincy. GW4 reached 100 despite a four-point captain. GW7 used Triple Captain to break into the top ten. GW9's new signings have done the work while Haaland returned four.

There are mistakes and setbacks in the same record: the below-average Free Hit, the GW8 rank drop, and points left on the bench. The rise was not a sequence of perfect calls. It was a series of big weeks, enough useful returns around them, and only one transfer hit.

We are looking backwards at the team currently on top, so successful picks naturally dominate the story. Copying today's leader will not recreate the points already scored. For the changing standings, see Top FPL Teams; to work through your own next moves, open the FPL planner.

Sources: the official overall standings, entry history, transfer history and gameweek picks, checked against our stored production player scores. Standings and history captured on 1 November 2026 at 20:32 UTC; fixture status checked afterwards. All nine weekly player-score totals reconcile to the official team scores, and weekly scores minus hits reconcile to 735. GW9 is not yet signed off.