FPL 2025/26 team names: How to change your team name and join a league in Fantasy 2025

Before the real test of picking a team to sweep the field begins, choosing a team name is enough of a challenge for many Fantasy Premier League 2025/26 players.

Fortunately, FPL have released a list of some of the best team names for inspiration, ranging from Lallana Del Rey to Kinder Mbeumo.

Once you’ve settled on one name, there’s also the issue of working out how to change your choice and join a league to take on friends and colleagues.

As millions play the game again this season, 101GreatGoals.com explains how to make key changes in Fantasy Premier League 2025/26.

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FPL names: How to change Fantasy team name

Players can change their team name by visiting this page on the official FPL site, where there is also an option to choose their favourite team and be entered into a supporter league.

The FPL warns players to “think carefully” about names and says entries that are “deemed inappropriate or offensive” may be rejected.

How to join an FPL league 2025

Players can create or join a league or cup by visiting the FPL Leagues tab and entering the code for the league they have been invited to join or choosing a public league.

A wide variety of ways to play are available, including classic scoring or a head-to-head version in which teams in leagues play ‘matches’ against each other in each round.

Premier League FPL: Best team names

Of all the decisions players make around the game, the FPL describe picking a team name as “the hardest of them all”.

Help is at hand with a list of 100 names released by organisers, which you can find here.

FPL team badges 2025/26

While most players spend an inordinate amount of time trying to come up with the wittiest team name, FPL is also encouraging players to think about their team badge.

The Premier League has entered a partnership with Adobe allowing managers to create badges using Adobe Express and its Firefly generative AI tool.

How have FPL bonus points changed for 2025/26 Fantasy?

The FPL Bonus Points System uses numbers supplied by stats experts Opta to create a ‘performance score’ for each players.

This season, there are changes to the points awards for goalkeeper saves, goalline clearances, penalty goals and successful tackles.

When it comes to saves, for example, goalkeepers will earn three points if an effort is from inside the area or two points if it’s from outside the box.

The number of points for a goalline clearance has been tripled from three to nine. Read more about the bonus point changes here.

When does the 2025/26 Premier League season start and end?

The first round of Premier League matches in 2025/26 will be on the weekend of August 16 2025, starting with Liverpool at home to Bournemouth on Friday, August 15.

The last round of matches this season will all start at the same time on May 24 2026. No rounds will take place within 60 hours of each other and there will be no fixture on December 24.

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