Fantasy Premier League Player Rankings: Gameweek 5

FPL GW5 rankings: updated Fantasy Premier League player projections for every position. See who to start, captain, buy and avoid ahead of Gameweek 5.

Updated on September 19, 2025 4:19PM EST

Fantasy Premier League Player Rankings: Gameweek 5

By:

Adam Zdroik

Updated on September 19, 2025 4:19PM EST

Fantasy Premier League Rankings

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Welcome to RotoWire's weekly rankings for the official Fantasy Premier League game. The players for our rankings are pulled straight from the predicted XIs found on our lineups page.

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MATCHES (ET)

7:30 am: Liverpool vs. Everton
10:00 am: Brighton & Hove Albion vs. Tottenham Hotspur
10:00 am: Burnley vs. Nottingham Forest
10:00 am: West Ham United vs. Crystal Palace
10:00 am: Wolverhampton vs. Leeds United
12:30 pm: Manchester United vs. Chelsea
3:00 pm: Fulham vs. Brentford
9:00 am: AFC Bournemouth vs. Newcastle United
9:00 am: Sunderland vs. Aston Villa
11:30 am: Arsenal vs. Manchester City

For detailed stats and odds, check out the
Fantasy Premier League: Gameweek 5 Cheat Sheet

PLAYER RANKINGS

Overall Rank	FW Rank	MID Rank	DEF Rank	GK Rank	Player	Team	Matchup	Pos	Price	TSB%	Pts
1		1			Mohamed Salah	LIV	LIV v. EVE	M	14.5	53.7	7.70
2		2			Cody Gakpo	LIV	LIV v. EVE	M	7.7	18.7	6.96
3	1				Erling Haaland	MCI	MCI at ARS	F	14.1	35.9	6.67
4		3			Cole Palmer	CHE	CHE at MUN	M	10.4	19.7	6.64
5	2				Hugo Ekitike	LIV	LIV v. EVE	F	8.8	29.6	6.62
6	3				Rodrigo Muniz	FUL	FUL v. BRE	F	5.5	2.4	6.62
7	4				Richarlison	TOT	TOT at BHA	F	6.7	13.4	6.61
8	5				Viktor Gyokeres	ARS	ARS v. MCI	F	9.0	25.6	6.48
9	6				Joao Pedro	CHE	CHE at MUN	F	7.8	66.8	6.47
10	7				Ollie Watkins	AVL	AVL at SUN	F	8.8	15.0	6.45
11		4			Florian Wirtz	LIV	LIV v. EVE	M	8.4	18.0	6.45
12	8				Nick Woltemade	NEW	NEW at BOU	F	7.0	2.6	6.44
13		5			Antoine Semenyo	BOU	BOU v. NEW	M	7.5	40.4	6.30
14	9				Jean-Philippe Mateta	CRY	CRY at WHU	F	7.6	12.0	6.29
15	10				Chris Wood	NFO	NFO at BRN	F	7.6	21.9	6.26
16	11				Evanilson	BOU	BOU v. NEW	F	7.0	2.7	6.25
17	12				Jarrod Bowen	WHU	WHU v. CRY	F	7.8	6.7	6.25
18		6			Harvey Barnes	NEW	NEW at BOU	M	6.5	1.0	6.25
19		7			Jacob Murphy	NEW	NEW at BOU	M	6.3	1.2	6.24
20	13				Danny Welbeck	BHA	BHA v. TOT	F	6.3	2.1	6.23
21		8			Yankuba Minteh	BHA	BHA v. TOT	M	5.9	0.8	6.17
22	14				Igor Thiago	BRE	BRE at FUL	F	6.0	1.7	6.17
23		9			Georginio Rutter	BHA	BHA v. TOT	M	5.8	0.6	6.14
24		10			Bruno Fernandes	MUN	MUN v. CHE	M	9.0	19.5	6.14
25			1		Daniel Munoz	CRY	CRY at WHU	D	5.6	13.9	6.13
26		11			Noni Madueke	ARS	ARS v. MCI	M	7.0	1.7	6.11
27		12			Kaoru Mitoma	BHA	BHA v. TOT	M	6.4	4.8	6.00
28		13			Mohammed Kudus	TOT	TOT at BHA	M	6.6	31.6	5.96
29		14			Kevin Schade	BRE	BRE at FUL	M	7.0	0.4	5.93
30		15			Eberechi Eze	ARS	ARS v. MCI	M	7.5	12.2	5.92
31	15				Thierno Barry	EVE	EVE at LIV	F	5.8	0.4	5.92
32		16			Xavi Simons	TOT	TOT at BHA	M	7.0	2.6	5.90
33		17			Morgan Gibbs-White	NFO	NFO at BRN	M	7.5	5.2	5.89
34		18			Jack Grealish	EVE	EVE at LIV	M	6.8	21.9	5.88
35		19			Jaidon Anthony	BRN	BRN v. NFO	M	5.5	1.2	5.87
36		20			Alex Iwobi	FUL	FUL v. BRE	M	6.5	1.4	5.86
37		21			Amad Diallo	MUN	MUN v. CHE	M	6.4	1.8	5.86
38	16				Wilson Isidor	SUN	SUN v. AVL	F	5.5	1.0	5.86
39	17				Lyle Foster	BRN	BRN v. NFO	F	5.0	1.2	5.83
40		22			Yeremy Pino	CRY	CRY at WHU	M	6.0	0.2	5.83
41		23			Bryan Mbeumo	MUN	MUN v. CHE	M	8.1	15.7	5.82
42		24			Marcus Tavernier	BOU	BOU v. NEW	M	5.5	1.7	5.81
43	18				Benjamin Sesko	MUN	MUN v. CHE	F	7.4	5.1	5.78
44		25			Harvey Elliott	AVL	AVL at SUN	M	5.4	0.5	5.74
45		26			David Brooks	BOU	BOU v. NEW	M	5.0	0.4	5.73
46		27			Dan Ndoye	NFO	NFO at BRN	M	6.1	3.3	5.72
47		28			Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall	EVE	EVE at LIV	M	5.0	4.9	5.71
48			2		Milos Kerkez	LIV	LIV v. EVE	D	6.0	5.6	5.70
49	19				Tolu Arokodare	WOL	WOL v. LEE	F	5.5	0.0	5.69
50	20				Dominic Calvert-Lewin	LEE	LEE at WOL	F	5.5	0.2	5.67
51		29			Morgan Rogers	AVL	AVL at SUN	M	7.0	7.9	5.62
52		30			Simon Adingra	SUN	SUN v. AVL	M	5.4	1.1	5.58
53		31			Estevao	CHE	CHE at MUN	M	6.5	2.3	5.53
54		32			Jhon Arias	WOL	WOL v. LEE	M	5.3	0.3	5.52
55			3		Tyrick Mitchell	CRY	CRY at WHU	D	5.0	1.9	5.52
56		33			Lucas Paqueta	WHU	WHU v. CRY	M	5.9	3.6	5.51
57		34			Chemsdine Talbi	SUN	SUN v. AVL	M	5.0	0.3	5.50
58		35			Jeremy Doku	MCI	MCI at ARS	M	6.4	1.3	5.47
59		36			Mikel Merino	ARS	ARS v. MCI	M	5.9	0.5	5.36
60		37			Marshall Munetsi	WOL	WOL v. LEE	M	5.5	0.1	5.36
61		38			Loum Tchaouna	BRN	BRN v. NFO	M	4.9	0.0	5.34
62			4		Nordi Mukiele	SUN	SUN v. AVL	D	4.0	0.6	5.33
63		39			Emile Smith Rowe	FUL	FUL v. BRE	M	5.9	0.7	5.31
64		40			Iliman Ndiaye	EVE	EVE at LIV	M	6.5	8.4	5.29
65			5		Pedro Porro	TOT	TOT at BHA	D	5.6	25.2	5.29
66		41			Crysencio Summerville	WHU	WHU v. CRY	M	5.5	0.1	5.28
67			6		Virgil van Dijk	LIV	LIV v. EVE	D	6.1	28.6	5.28
68		42			Anton Stach	LEE	LEE at WOL	M	5.0	0.5	5.27
69		43			Phil Foden	MCI	MCI at ARS	M	8.0	2.0	5.24
70			7		Adrien Truffert	BOU	BOU v. NEW	D	4.5	1.2	5.24
71		44			Kevin	FUL	FUL v. BRE	M	6.0	0.1	5.22
72			8		Ibrahima Konate	LIV	LIV v. EVE	D	5.5	3.2	5.19
73			9		Gabriel	ARS	ARS v. MCI	D	6.1	22.0	5.18
74			10		Riccardo Calafiori	ARS	ARS v. MCI	D	5.7	13.7	5.17
75		45			Ryan Sessegnon	FUL	FUL v. BRE	M	5.4	0.0	5.15
76			11		Lucas Digne	AVL	AVL at SUN	D	4.5	2.0	5.13
77			12		Jurrien Timber	ARS	ARS v. MCI	D	5.7	11.8	5.13
78			13		Trai Hume	SUN	SUN v. AVL	D	4.5	0.3	5.12
79		46			Mateus Fernandes	WHU	WHU v. CRY	M	5.5	0.0	5.12
80		47			Alexis Mac Allister	LIV	LIV v. EVE	M	6.4	1.5	5.10
81			14		James Hill	BOU	BOU v. NEW	D	4.0	0.9	5.10
82		48			Dominik Szoboszlai	LIV	LIV v. EVE	M	6.5	3.6	5.08
83			15		El Hadji Malick Diouf	WHU	WHU v. CRY	D	4.4	4.7	5.07
84		49			Callum Hudson-Odoi	NFO	NFO at BRN	M	6.0	1.5	5.03
85		50			Enzo Fernandez	CHE	CHE at MUN	M	6.6	13.2	5.03
86			16		Marc Guehi	CRY	CRY at WHU	D	4.7	21.7	5.03
87		51			Declan Rice	ARS	ARS v. MCI	M	6.5	8.8	5.03
88			17		Nikola Milenkovic	NFO	NFO at BRN	D	5.5	7.5	5.01
89		52			Mikkel Damsgaard	BRE	BRE at FUL	M	5.9	0.7	5.01
90			18		Gabriel Gudmundsson	LEE	LEE at WOL	D	4.0	5.0	5.01
91			19		Hugo Bueno	WOL	WOL v. LEE	D	4.4	0.1	5.00
92		53			Brenden Aaronson	LEE	LEE at WOL	M	5.4	0.1	4.99
93		54			Noah Okafor	LEE	LEE at WOL	M	5.5	0.0	4.97
94			20		Ethan Pinnock	BRE	BRE at FUL	D	4.4	0.1	4.96
95			21		Veljko Milosavljevic	BOU	BOU v. NEW	D	4.5	0.0	4.95
96			22		Maxence Lacroix	CRY	CRY at WHU	D	5.0	3.9	4.94
97		55			Tijjani Reijnders	MCI	MCI at ARS	M	5.7	31.0	4.94
98			23		Ladislav Krejci	WOL	WOL v. LEE	D	4.5	0.0	4.92
99		56			Alex Scott	BOU	BOU v. NEW	M	5.0	0.2	4.91
100			24		Kenny Tete	FUL	FUL v. BRE	D	4.5	0.2	4.89
101		57			Hannibal	BRN	BRN v. NFO	M	5.0	0.2	4.89
102		58			Rodri	MCI	MCI at ARS	M	6.4	0.7	4.88
103		59			Pape Sarr	TOT	TOT at BHA	M	5.0	2.9	4.88
104		60			Bruno Guimaraes	NEW	NEW at BOU	M	6.5	2.5	4.87
105		61			Emiliano Buendia	AVL	AVL at SUN	M	5.3	0.1	4.87
106		62			Elliot Anderson	NFO	NFO at BRN	M	5.5	5.3	4.83
107			25		Ferdi Kadioglu	BHA	BHA v. TOT	D	4.4	0.1	4.82
108		63			Casemiro	MUN	MUN v. CHE	M	5.5	0.2	4.81
109			26		Lewis Hall	NEW	NEW at BOU	D	5.4	1.4	4.81
110			27		Jayden Bogle	LEE	LEE at WOL	D	4.5	0.2	4.80
111			28		Trevoh Chalobah	CHE	CHE at MUN	D	5.1	8.5	4.80
112			29		Jackson Tchatchoua	WOL	WOL v. LEE	D	4.5	0.0	4.79
113			30		Marc Cucurella	CHE	CHE at MUN	D	6.2	28.0	4.79
114			31		Matty Cash	AVL	AVL at SUN	D	4.5	4.9	4.78
115			32		Emmanuel Agbadou	WOL	WOL v. LEE	D	4.5	0.4	4.78
116			33		Nico O'Reilly	MCI	MCI at ARS	D	4.9	0.1	4.77
117			34		William Saliba	ARS	ARS v. MCI	D	6.0	12.7	4.76
118			35		Marcos Senesi	BOU	BOU v. NEW	D	4.6	9.2	4.75
119		64			Daichi Kamada	CRY	CRY at WHU	M	5.0	0.1	4.73
120			36		Omar Alderete	SUN	SUN v. AVL	D	4.0	1.5	4.72
121		65			John McGinn	AVL	AVL at SUN	M	5.5	0.6	4.72
122		66			Joelinton	NEW	NEW at BOU	M	5.9	0.3	4.72
123		67			Martin Zubimendi	ARS	ARS v. MCI	M	5.4	3.1	4.71
124			37		Nathan Collins	BRE	BRE at FUL	D	5.0	1.5	4.71
125			38		Chris Richards	CRY	CRY at WHU	D	4.5	2.1	4.67
126			39		Max Kilman	WHU	WHU v. CRY	D	4.4	0.2	4.66
127			40		Pascal Struijk	LEE	LEE at WOL	D	4.5	0.4	4.66
128		68			Joao Gomes	WOL	WOL v. LEE	M	5.4	0.1	4.66
129			41		Nicolo Savona	NFO	NFO at BRN	D	4.5	0.0	4.63
130			42		Joachim Andersen	FUL	FUL v. BRE	D	4.5	3.3	4.62
131		69			Jordan Henderson	BRE	BRE at FUL	M	5.0	0.3	4.62
132			43		Quilindschy Hartman	BRN	BRN v. NFO	D	4.0	0.5	4.59
133			44		Patrick Dorgu	MUN	MUN v. CHE	D	4.5	5.8	4.59
134		70			Joao Palhinha	TOT	TOT at BHA	M	5.5	0.8	4.58
135		71			Carlos Baleba	BHA	BHA v. TOT	M	4.9	3.0	4.58
136			45		Toti Gomes	WOL	WOL v. LEE	D	4.4	0.1	4.57
137			46		Morato	NFO	NFO at BRN	D	4.4	0.1	4.55
138			47		Kyle Walker-Peters	WHU	WHU v. CRY	D	4.4	0.3	4.54
139		72			Bernardo Silva	MCI	MCI at ARS	M	6.4	0.6	4.53
140		73			Adam Wharton	CRY	CRY at WHU	M	5.0	0.4	4.53
141			48		Josko Gvardiol	MCI	MCI at ARS	D	5.8	3.2	4.52
142			49		Tosin Adarabioyo	CHE	CHE at MUN	D	4.5	1.2	4.52
143			50		Michael Kayode	BRE	BRE at FUL	D	4.5	0.4	4.50
144			51		Konstantinos Mavropanos	WHU	WHU v. CRY	D	4.4	0.1	4.50
145		74			Tyler Adams	BOU	BOU v. NEW	M	5.0	0.4	4.49
146		75			Sandro Tonali	NEW	NEW at BOU	M	5.4	1.3	4.49
147		76			Yasin Ayari	BHA	BHA v. TOT	M	4.9	0.2	4.48
148			52		Neco Williams	NFO	NFO at BRN	D	5.0	7.1	4.48
149			53		Ezri Konsa	AVL	AVL at SUN	D	4.5	12.8	4.48
150		77			James Ward-Prowse	WHU	WHU v. CRY	M	5.9	0.3	4.47
151			54		Reece James	CHE	CHE at MUN	D	5.5	4.6	4.46
152			55		Valentino Livramento	NEW	NEW at BOU	D	5.1	9.5	4.46
153			56		Yerson Mosquera	WOL	WOL v. LEE	D	4.4	0.1	4.46
154		78			Ao Tanaka	LEE	LEE at WOL	M	4.9	0.1	4.46
155		79			Pedro Neto	CHE	CHE at MUN	M	7.0	5.3	4.39
156			57		Tyrone Mings	AVL	AVL at SUN	D	4.5	1.4	4.37
157		80			Ryan Gravenberch	LIV	LIV v. EVE	M	5.5	0.7	4.36
158			58		Cristian Romero	TOT	TOT at BHA	D	5.0	6.2	4.36
159		81			Lucas Bergvall	TOT	TOT at BHA	M	5.4	0.3	4.36
160		82			Will Hughes	CRY	CRY at WHU	M	4.9	0.1	4.35
161			59		Kyle Walker	BRN	BRN v. NFO	D	4.5	1.7	4.33
162			60		Calvin Bassey	FUL	FUL v. BRE	D	4.5	0.5	4.30
163		83			Josh Cullen	BRN	BRN v. NFO	M	5.0	2.0	4.30
164				1	Caoimhin Kelleher	BRE	BRE at FUL	G	4.5	9.1	4.30
165		84			Ibrahim Sangare	NFO	NFO at BRN	M	5.0	0.1	4.27
166		85			Granit Xhaka	SUN	SUN v. AVL	M	5.0	2.8	4.27
167		86			Florentino Luis	BRN	BRN v. NFO	M	5.0	0.0	4.26
168			61		Maxime Esteve	BRN	BRN v. NFO	D	4.0	16.5	4.25
169			62		Sepp van den Berg	BRE	BRE at FUL	D	4.5	0.7	4.25
170		87			Habib Diarra	SUN	SUN v. AVL	M	5.5	0.1	4.24
171			63		Dan Burn	NEW	NEW at BOU	D	5.0	5.6	4.22
172		88			Moises Caicedo	CHE	CHE at MUN	M	5.6	8.7	4.21
173			64		Reinildo	SUN	SUN v. AVL	D	4.0	8.1	4.19
174		89			Idrissa Gueye	EVE	EVE at LIV	M	5.4	0.1	4.16
175		90			James Garner	EVE	EVE at LIV	M	5.0	0.4	4.14
176		91			Noah Sadiki	SUN	SUN v. AVL	M	5.0	0.0	4.14
177			65		Jan Paul van Hecke	BHA	BHA v. TOT	D	4.5	0.9	4.14
178		92			Sasa Lukic	FUL	FUL v. BRE	M	5.0	0.1	4.12
179			66		Matthijs De Ligt	MUN	MUN v. CHE	D	5.0	2.8	4.12
180			67		Malick Thiaw	NEW	NEW at BOU	D	5.0	0.1	4.12
181		93			Tim Iroegbunam	EVE	EVE at LIV	M	5.0	0.0	4.12
182			68		James Tarkowski	EVE	EVE at LIV	D	5.5	7.0	4.11
183			69		Abdukodir Khusanov	MCI	MCI at ARS	D	5.4	0.4	4.11
184			70		Destiny Udogie	TOT	TOT at BHA	D	4.4	0.5	4.10
185			71		Joel Veltman	BHA	BHA v. TOT	D	4.4	0.2	4.10
186			72		Joe Rodon	LEE	LEE at WOL	D	4.0	3.3	4.08
187			73		Michael Keane	EVE	EVE at LIV	D	4.5	0.6	4.08
188		94			Sander Berge	FUL	FUL v. BRE	M	5.0	0.1	4.07
189		95			Kobbie Mainoo	MUN	MUN v. CHE	M	4.9	0.5	4.05
190				2	Robin Roefs	SUN	SUN v. AVL	G	4.5	1.9	4.05
191		96			Yehor Yarmolyuk	BRE	BRE at FUL	M	5.0	0.1	4.05
192				3	David Raya	ARS	ARS v. MCI	G	5.5	23.4	4.02
193		97			Ethan Ampadu	LEE	LEE at WOL	M	4.9	0.0	4.01
194			74		Leny Yoro	MUN	MUN v. CHE	D	4.5	2.3	3.93
195			75		Keane Lewis-Potter	BRE	BRE at FUL	D	5.0	0.4	3.93
196				4	Alisson	LIV	LIV v. EVE	G	5.5	10.9	3.89
197			76		Micky van de Ven	TOT	TOT at BHA	D	4.7	30.9	3.89
198		98			Soungoutou Magassa	WHU	WHU v. CRY	M	5.0	0.0	3.88
199		99			Boubacar Kamara	AVL	AVL at SUN	M	4.9	0.1	3.82
200			77		Lewis Dunk	BHA	BHA v. TOT	D	4.5	1.2	3.81
201			78		Luke Shaw	MUN	MUN v. CHE	D	4.5	0.3	3.80
202			79		Ruben Dias	MCI	MCI at ARS	D	5.5	4.0	3.78
203			80		Jake O'Brien	EVE	EVE at LIV	D	5.0	0.5	3.77
204				5	Djordje Petrovic	BOU	BOU v. NEW	G	4.5	4.5	3.76
205				6	Karl Darlow	LEE	LEE at WOL	G	4.0	2.4	3.54
206				7	Martin Dubravka	BRN	BRN v. NFO	G	4.0	34.0	3.54
207				8	Nick Pope	NEW	NEW at BOU	G	5.0	6.0	3.51
208				9	Robert Sanchez	CHE	CHE at MUN	G	5.0	22.9	3.49
209				10	Dean Henderson	CRY	CRY at WHU	G	5.0	8.1	3.47
210				11	Altay Bayindir	MUN	MUN v. CHE	G	5.0	0.4	3.46
211				12	Jose Sa	WOL	WOL v. LEE	G	4.5	1.6	3.46
212			81		Hjalmar Ekdal	BRN	BRN v. NFO	D	4.0	1.3	3.43
213				13	Emiliano Martinez	AVL	AVL at SUN	G	5.0	2.0	3.27
214				14	Mads Hermansen	WHU	WHU v. CRY	G	4.5	0.3	3.25
215				15	Jordan Pickford	EVE	EVE at LIV	G	5.5	11.6	3.24
216				16	Gianluigi Donnarumma	MCI	MCI at ARS	G	5.5	2.4	3.20
217				17	Guglielmo Vicario	TOT	TOT at BHA	G	5.1	10.5	3.08
218				18	Bernd Leno	FUL	FUL v. BRE	G	5.0	1.6	3.03
219				19	Matz Sels	NFO	NFO at BRN	G	5.0	14.7	3.03
220				20	Bart Verbruggen	BHA	BHA v. TOT	G	4.5	5.5	2.98