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Pick the category, not the app
Nearly every "best fantasy football app" list compares things that are not competing. A draft platform and a card game are not alternatives to each other in any useful sense. Decide which of the four you want, and the choice inside it is nearly always obvious.
- Season-long squad games. Pick 15, keep them all year, transfer weekly. FPL, LaLiga Fantasy and Fantasy Football Europe live here.
- Draft leagues. Each player owned by one manager. Fantrax.
- Matchday games. A fresh line-up per round of European football. UCL Fantasy.
- Card games. You field what you own. Sorare.
| Game | Format | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Fantasy Premier League | Season-long, 20 English clubs, 15 players, £100m. The game everything else is measured against. | You only care about the Premier League and you want the biggest player base in the world. |
| Fantasy Football Europe | Season-long, 96 clubs across Europe's top five leagues, 15 players, £100m, FPL's rules. | You watch more than one league and want them all in one squad. Ours — read accordingly. |
| UEFA Champions League Fantasy | Matchday-based, 36 clubs, runs only while European football is on. | You want midweek football and the official European game. |
| LaLiga Fantasy | The official Spanish game, Spanish-first, with a live transfer market between managers. | You follow La Liga closely and read Spanish. |
| Fantacalcio | Italy's original fantasy game and a national institution, built around an auction draft. | You are in Italy, or in a group that already runs one. |
| Fantrax | Draft leagues with fully customisable scoring, dynasty and keeper formats. | You have six to twelve committed friends and want no template. |
| Sorare | Collectible-card game; you field players whose cards you own. | You want licensed cards you actually own, and you don't mind spending. |
- One pitch, five leagues. Set your eleven, your bench order and your captain in one place.
- Auto Pick builds a legal squad for you if you would rather start from something.
- Nothing to install. It opens in the browser and can be added to your home screen.
The honest bit
Which one we'd actually recommend
If you only watch the Premier League: Fantasy Premier League, and it isn't close. Thirteen million players, everyone you know is already in it, and a decade of tools built around it. We are not going to pretend otherwise on a page we control.
If you watch two or more of Europe's big leagues: ours. Fantasy Football Europe runs FPL's rules over 96 clubs instead of 20, so Kane, Haaland, Mbappé and Yamal are all in the same market and your squad can hold whichever of them you can afford. It's free and it plays in the browser.
If your league group is committed and hates the template: Fantrax, every time.
If you want to play on Tuesday nights: the official UEFA game.
Disclosure, plainly: Fantasy Football Europe is ours. We have tried to write this the way we would want a competitor to write it, and we have put the case for the other games where you can see it rather than in a footnote. If something here is wrong or out of date, we would genuinely rather fix it than keep it.
Questions
Straight answers
What is the best fantasy football app for soccer?
For most people it is still Fantasy Premier League, because that is where their friends are. The better question is which kind of game you want: season-long squad, draft league, matchday game or card collecting. Fantasy Football Europe is the pick if you want a season-long squad drawn from more than one league.
What is the best free fantasy soccer app?
FPL, UEFA's Champions League game, LaLiga Fantasy, Fantrax standard leagues and Fantasy Football Europe are all genuinely free with no paid tier.
Is there a fantasy football app that covers La Liga, Serie A and the Bundesliga?
Fantasy Football Europe covers all five of Europe's top leagues in one squad, in English. The official national games — LaLiga Fantasy and Fantacalcio — each cover one league and are published in Spanish and Italian first.
One squad.
Ninety-six clubs.
Free, no download, and about five minutes to find out whether it's your kind of game.