2025/26 - English Team of the Season

(Same rules as before but England-qualified players only.)

GK - Jordan Pickford (Aardvark Abacus)*

DEF - Marc Guehi (The Fabulous Artisans), Trevoh Chalobah (Claymore Athletic FC), Lewis Dunk (Aardvarks), Reece James (Real Muppets)

MID - Morgan Gibbs-White (GC TotW), Morgan Rogers (Aardvarks), Harvey Barnes (The Wateringhole Society), Eberechi Eze (The Cow-Faced Juniors)

ATT - Ollie Watkins (Aardvarks), Danny Welbeck (The CFJs)

Subs: Nick Pope (YTFIB); Ryan Sessegnon (Markian United); Cole Palmer (Trusted By Millions); Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Nil Satis Nisi Optimum)

* Pickford and Pope had the same number of counters but as the Aardvarks keeper saved a penalty he gets the nod. It might be important.

Ten out of last year's 16** are back in this year's selection. Trent Alexander-Arnold and Jamie Vardy moved abroad, Levi Colwill, James Maddison and Jarrad Branthwaite all missed long spells with injury while Jarrod Bowen just missed out (see below).

And as it's a World Cup year, shall we get the squad up to 26 with these?

Jarrod Bowen (Artisans), Dan Burn (San Dimas High School), Michael Keane (Nil Satis), Tyrick Mitchell (San Dimas), Adam Smith (YTFIB), Callum Wilson (Wheel Madrid), Lewis Hall (Muppets), Myles Lewis- Skelly (GC TotW), James Tarkowski (Muppets), Djed Spence (Wheels), Anthony Gordon (Cheese Makers)

World beaters?

** I couldn't split the defensive subs.

2025/26 Team of the Season

(All awards are made on basis of contributions in all WSFFL competitions. Where there is a tie, contributions in league matches take precedence. Then I'll try to separate them by goals scored. Then by lower transfer fee or likelihood of appearing on Celebrity Traitors. If you see two or more names in a position I still couldn't split them. And I always do these in 4-4-2. I'm a traditionalist like that.)

GK -  David Raya Martin (Cheese Makers)

DEF - Gabriel (The Cow-Faced Juniors), William Saliba (The Wateringhole Society), Riccardo Calafiori (The Fabulous Artisans), Jurrien Timber (Real Muppets)

MID - Morgan Gibbs-White (GC TotW), Harry Wilson (SGU), Morgan Rogers (Aardvark Abacus), Bryan Mbeumo (Cheese)

ATT - Erling Haaland (Muppets), Igor Thiago (Claymore Athletic FC) 

Subs: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Trusted); Marc Guehi (Artisans); Enzo Fernandez (SGU) ; Joao Pedro (Cheese)

Raya, Saliba, Mbeumo and Haaland were all in last year's team. Two defenders from the champions give an indication of how the title was won.

Haaland and Gabriel make the XI for the fourth time, it's a third appearance for Raya and Saliba. 

2025/26 Players of the Season

(Awards are made on basis of contributions, 'counters', in all WSFFL competitions. Where there is a tie, contributions in league matches take precedence.)

Player of the Season, Golden Boot, Attacker of the Season

Erling Haaland (Real Muppets) - 24 goals

For the fourth season running the Norwegian comes out on top. Slowed down a bit in the new year or might have threatened his 2022/23 record of 34.

Golden Gloves

David Raya Martin (Cheese Makers) - 21 clean sheets

It's three wins in a row for the Cheese keeper. This time with the best goalkeeping tally since 2008/9.

Defender of the Season

Gabriel (The Cow-Faced Juniors) - Three goals, 18 clean sheets

Surprisingly the first time the Brazilian has won this award. The most counters for a defender since 2021/22.

Midfielder of the Season

Morgan Gibbs-White (Garth Crooks' Team of the Week) - 12 goals

A low-scoring season for midfielders but that's not to take anything away from a brilliant campaign by Ollie's star man.

Young Player of the Season

Alex Jimenez (The Cow-Faced Juniors) - one goal, eight clean sheets

Look, I'm just here to report on this particular fantasy football league.

£500k Player of the season

Marc Guehi (The Fabulous Artisans) - Three goals, 12 clean sheets

A big part of Ben's title winning campaign and the first winner since 2014/15 without the surname Kane, Alexander-Arnold, Sterling or Foden.

Signing of the Season

Viktor Gyokeres (The Cow-Faced Juniors) - 14 goals

The most expensive player in the history of the game struggled to settle but started to prove his worth later in the season.

2025/26 Co-Ord Round-Up Part One - Transfer Dealings

Last year, for the second time, I confidently predicted that the 2025/26 season would be our first billion fantasy spend transfer spend year. This time I was right. Both transfer income and expenditure was up on the previous season.

(I'm less inclined to put team details on here as some of the numbers involved are eye-watering.)

Income

2023/24's record was broken - but only by £220,000 which is £150m up on last year.

Expenditure

The previous record was broken, not by a little but a by just short of half a billion fantasy pounds.

Overall

Collectively our teams lost getting on for £220m. A lot but nowhere the record of £452m.

Twelve teams made losses on their transfer business last season.

Total transfer income from the 2006/07 season is now through the £10bn barrier and heading towards £11bn. Expenditure now exceeds £13bn. 

Will we see a correction next season or a further emptying of the wallets?

(Bear in mind that these figures might be wrong. But they won't be wrong by much. Hardly at all in fact.)

Overall League Table 2001 - 2026

	The Combined WSFFL League Table
	Seasons 2001-2026
	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Aardvark Abacus	750	410	126	214	1721	1187	534	1356
2	Trusted By Millions	750	377	130	243	1665	1275	390	1261
3	The Cow-Faced Juniors (1)	750	365	133	252	1616	1297	319	1228
4	Claymore Athletic FC	750	359	129	262	1681	1380	301	1206
5	GC TotW (9)	750	350	145	255	1630	1316	314	1195
6	The Fabulous Artisans (2)	750	354	117	279	1453	1337	116	1179
7	Real Muppets	750	344	145	261	1539	1297	242	1177
8	Markian United (8)	750	317	136	297	1461	1365	96	1087
9	San Dimas High School	750	310	143	297	1363	1391	-28	1073
10	Stanley and Gracie United (3)	750	294	133	323	1281	1433	-152	1015
11	Cheese Makers (6)	750	285	148	317	1232	1350	-118	1003
12	The Wateringhole Society (5)	750	280	133	337	1276	1413	-137	973
13	Mega Buck Bandits	750	249	135	366	1105	1377	-272	882
14	Wheel Madrid (4)	750	223	144	383	1078	1512	-434	813
15	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	750	219	129	402	1016	1479	-463	786
16	YTFIB (7)	750	187	128	435	873	1581	-708	689
	TOTAL	12000	4923	2154	4923	21990	21990	0	16923
	(1) includes results from Kylie Bumcheeks and Eleven Imaginary Boys
	(2) includes results from Prettier Than You and SCP Marmosets
	(3) includes results from Viola's Pier, Thommo's Titans, Melwood FC
	Dynamo Kev and Athletico Phoenix, formerly Stanley Athletic FC
	(4) includes results from Short Straw Rovers and Final Fantasy XI
	(5) includes results from Elland Road Big Boys and The Dead Parrots
	(6) includes results from 22-Legged Groove Machine and Bassett Allsorts
	(7) formerly York's Returning Glory
	(8) includes results from You Know Your Boston Rock FC and FCK2
	(9) includes results from FW LGXI

Week 30 Results - Aardvarks take third

Cheese Makers 2 v 0 San Dimas High School 

Mega Buck Bandits 1 v 0 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

Real Muppets 2 v 0 Markian United

Stanley and Gracie United 3 v 4 Aardvark Abacus 

The Fabulous Artisans 1 v 3 Trusted By Millions 

The Wateringhole Society 0 v 1 The Cow-Faced Juniors

Wheel Madrid 3 v 1 Garth Crooks' Team of the Week

YTFIB 2 v 4 Claymore Athletic FC

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	30	19	5	6	64	39	25	62
2	Real Muppets	30	19	3	8	69	44	25	60
3	Aardvark Abacus	30	16	6	8	61	46	15	54
4	The Cow-Faced Juniors	30	15	7	8	70	48	22	52
5	The Wateringhole Society	30	16	2	12	71	56	15	50
6	Stanley and Gracie United	30	14	8	8	63	52	11	50
7	Cheese Makers	30	14	7	9	68	53	15	49
8	Trusted By Millions	30	13	5	12	62	49	13	44
9	Claymore Athletic FC	30	12	4	14	55	57	-2	40
10	Garth Crooks' Team of the Week	30	11	5	14	42	52	-10	38
11	San Dimas High School	30	8	12	10	41	57	-16	36
12	Markian United	30	9	7	14	50	50	0	34
13	Mega Buck Bandits	30	10	4	16	41	58	-17	34
14	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	30	7	6	17	35	70	-35	27
15	YTFIB	30	7	5	18	40	66	-26	26
16	Wheel Madrid	30	4	6	20	29	64	-35	18

After finishing second in the league four times the Fabulous Artisans finally lifted the championship trophy. Ben will be grateful that he built up such a lead as final day defeat to Trusted meant he picked up just one point from his last four games. The Artisans title win was based on an outstanding defence. No team picked up more clean sheets which accounted for two-thirds of his counters. 

The Muppets are the first side to finish runners-up after a title win the year before since Fred in 2018. The Artisans’ drop-off meant that Ryan’s team was one win short of retaining the title. Back to back defeats to SGU and Cheese Makers in weeks 24 and 25 left them with too much to do. Injury to Jurrien Timber and an Erling Haaland scoring drop-off were unhelpful in the latter stages of the season.

After a worst-ever finish of 11th last season the Aardvarks bounced back to third with a last day win over SGU in a seven-goal thriller. Ady’s team finished strongest of all (five wins in a row) in a tight tussle for the minor placings.

The CFJs are unbeaten in the league since Week 20 but four draws in that run ended their hopes of making the top three for a fourth straight year. They did pick up the PCMT though.

No team scored more counters than The Wateringhole Society but Kiran’s team faded this year winning just four of their last 14 league games.

SGU looked set for third place two minutes into the second half and leading the Aardvarks 3-0 but they couldn’t hold on. Aaron’s team have finished sixth or seventh for the last five years.

Cheese Makers stuck an incredible 15-game unbeaten together but the damage had been done by a poor start. They do have their first trophy, the Charity Shield, to show for their season.

Apart from that record-breaking 10-0 win over Nil Satis it was a rotten start to the season for Trusted. Beef’s team turned 13 points at halfway into 44 at the end to take the last top-half spot.

Claymore probably deserved better than ninth if we look at bare numbers. Clive’s team never really found their groove, with their best unbeaten run only stretching to three games.

GC TotW finished two places better but one point worse than last season. Go figure. Morgan Gibbs-White starred for Ollie as Mohamed Salah faded.

San Dimas fell out of their usual 8th or 9th place to 11th. Somehow won the FA Cup but scored the fewest actual goals of any team in the league. Easy to see where improvements need to be made.

Markian were fourth after Week eight but a run of just two wins in 13 games from December to March killed off any hopes of a decent finish for Ian.

Mega Bucks were in the top half as late as Week 17 before settling into their usual late season malaise. Dave has just one finish that doesn’t start with a 1 in the last 19 seasons.

Nil Satis have just one top ten finish in the last 15 seasons. This season did show promise until week 17, he picked up just four more points after that.

YTFIB spent the first five weeks out of the bottom three before slipping into familiar territory. Probably a bit unlucky to be this low and four wins out of five from week 21 handed bottom spot to...

… Wheel Madrid for the second season running. Shorn of last season’s top scorer and this season’s record signing it was always looking difficult. But Paul’s team also recorded the fewest clean sheets.