Fulham: An FPL Team to Watch Before Their Two Easiest Fixtures of the Season

Fulham go into the international break 19th in the Premier League on 2 points from five games (0-2-3, goal difference −3) — not usually the profile of a team anyone's watching in Fantasy Premier League (FPL). But run their upcoming fixtures through our Fixture Difficulty Rating (FDR) and something changes: three of their next six matches are against the league's only three promoted sides, and gameweeks 6 and 7 are, by some margin, the two easiest fixtures they'll get all season.

The run: three of the next four are against the promoted sides

Marco Silva's side come back from the break to face Ipswich Town, Hull City and Coventry City in three of their next four matches — the only three clubs to come up from the Championship this season, and, unsurprisingly, the three teams rated most likely to go down right now.

Gameweek	Opponent	Venue	Our FDR	FPL's own FDR
6 (10 Oct)	Ipswich Town	Away	3	2
7 (17 Oct)	Hull City	Home	2	2
8 (24 Oct)	Coventry City	Away	3	2
9 (31 Oct)	Aston Villa	Away	4	3
10 (7 Nov)	Newcastle	Home	3	3
11 (21 Nov)	Man City	Away	5	5

That home game against Hull in gameweek 7 is Fulham's single easiest fixture across the entire ten-gameweek window our model currently prices — nothing else in that stretch drops below a 3. It's worth noting where our model and FPL's own fixed rating actually disagree, too: FPL treats all three promoted-side games as an equal "2", because its rating is set mechanically from each opponent's preseason strength. Our model agrees on Hull at home, but nudges the two away trips (Ipswich, Coventry) up to a "3" — it's pricing in that Fulham's own attack has been part of the problem so far (joint-third-worst goal difference in the league), not just who's on the other side of the pitch. See how the two ratings are built for the full methodology.

The international break shouldn't cost Fulham anything

Every international break carries a familiar FPL risk: a player comes back carrying a knock, or arrives undercooked after a long-haul trip. Fulham are one of the squads least exposed to that. Nothing in our data flags a single Fulham player as away on international duty this window — the closest thing to a genuine absence is Cairney, who's already out with a knee injury (expected back 10 October) for reasons that have nothing to do with the break. For a club whose squad is light on full internationals to begin with, that's a real, if quiet, advantage over sides who'll get key players back short of match sharpness.

Gonzalo García is the name getting the attention

Gonzalo — the summer signing from Real Madrid — is Fulham's most-owned asset by some distance at 3.9% (next is Leno at 3.3%, then King at 2.5%). He's started and finished all five games so far (425 minutes), which tells you Muniz — Fulham's incumbent striker, restricted to 38 minutes — has been dropped to the bench. At £6.0m, Gonzalo has 14 points, 1 goal, and an expected goals tally of 2.33 from those 425 minutes — a genuinely promising underlying rate for a rookie Premier League striker still finding his feet in a struggling side.

The transfer market has noticed: gameweek 5 alone brought 58,930 transfers in against 29,639 out, a net gain of nearly 29,300, and his price-rise progress sits at 53.9% of the way to a rise. He's the closest thing Fulham have to a template pick right now, and the timing — first-choice striker walking into fixtures against the league's weakest defenses — is exactly why he's trending.

Fulham's popular defenders are doing less than last season, not more

It's tempting to assume a run against weaker attacks means clean sheets and DEFCON points are coming for Fulham's backline. The underlying numbers say the opposite is more likely.

Robinson and Castagne are Fulham's two most-picked defenders (1.5% and 0.9% owned). Both are producing fewer defensive contribution actions per 90 minutes than they did last season:

Player	2025/26 DC per 90	2026/27 DC per 90 (5 GWs)	Direction
Robinson	8.23	6.50	Down ~21%
Castagne	7.15	6.40	Down ~10%
Bassey	7.29	5.80	Down ~20%

The DEFCON threshold for defenders is 10 qualifying actions in a match to earn the extra 2 points — none of these three are within reach of that on their current per-90 rate, and all three are trending the wrong way versus last season (you can watch who reaches the threshold in each match on FPL DEFCON live). If you're buying a Fulham defender for DEFCON upside off the back of this fixture run, the data doesn't back that reasoning up. The case for Castagne specifically is his attacking output instead: 2 assists and 20 points already, comfortably Fulham's best-returning defender, at a Fulham defence that's actually getting less defensively active, not more.

Fulham's best performers so far this season

Player	Position	Price	Points	PPG	Form	Ownership
King	MID	£5.5m	24	4.8	4.2	2.5%
Castagne	DEF	£4.5m	20	4.0	3.5	0.9%
Leno	GKP	£4.5m	18	3.6	4.0	3.3%
Gonzalo	FWD	£6.0m	14	2.8	2.0	3.9%
Iwobi	MID	£5.4m	14	2.8	3.0	0.7%

King is Fulham's standout: top scorer, top points-per-game, best BPS total (109) in the squad, and the single biggest net transfer swing of any Fulham player in gameweek 5 (+62,047). His price-rise progress is at 82.5% — the closest of anyone at the club to an imminent rise.

Three Fulham players to target, one per position

Defender — Castagne, £4.5m, 0.9% owned. 20 points from 5 games (4.0 PPG), already on 2 assists with 0.67 xG + 0.39 xA combined. The best-returning Fulham defender by a distance, at a price that barely dents a budget, and a genuine differential given how few managers own him.

Midfielder — King, £5.5m, 2.5% owned. Fulham's top scorer and best points-per-game return in the squad (4.8), leading the team in bonus points (3) and BPS (109; follow it match by match on FPL bonus points live), with the strongest transfer and price-rise momentum of any Fulham asset right now. The clearest "buy before the price goes up" case at the club.

Forward — Gonzalo, £6.0m, 3.9% owned. Fulham's most-owned player and now their nailed-on starting striker, with an expected-goals rate (2.33 from 425 minutes) that's well ahead of his goal return so far — the kind of gap that tends to close upward, not down, especially walking into fixtures against Ipswich and Coventry.

Verdict

Fulham's league position doesn't sell itself, and their popular defenders are producing less defensively than last season, not more, so this isn't a clean-sheet-hunting piece. But the fixture list backing three FPL assets — Castagne, King and Gonzalo — genuinely does ease up right when the international break ends, and each of the three is already showing form, underlying numbers or transfer momentum independent of the fixtures. If you're building toward gameweek 6, this is the point to have Fulham exposure in place before the price and ownership numbers move any further.