FPL Assistant Manager Chip: Why the Mystery Chip is Removed from the 2025/26 Season?

The Fantasy Premier League Mystery Chip that had intrigued one and all was revealed for the 2024/25 season. It was an Assistant Manager chip, which allowed you to bring in the likes of Pep Guardiola, Ruben Amorim, or Arne Slot into your Fantasy Premier League teams. They earned points based on wins, draws, goals, and clean sheets, as the players did.

This chip was available from Gameweek 24 in January until the end of the 2024/25 season. Once activated, choosing your Assistant Manager at the first instance did not cost a free transfer. However, if you changed your manager within the aforementioned three-week period, it came at the cost of a transfer, as with players. If a manager left their club, Fantasy managers who had selected that Assistant Manager continued to earn points based on the original club’s performance. Unfortunately, Fantasy Premier League has decided to scrap the Assistant Manager chip before the 2025/26 season.

FPL Assistant Manager Chip Scrapped from FPL 2025/26

Fantasy Premier League (FPL) has decided to scrap the Assistant Manager Chip for the upcoming season. According to many media reports and fantasy analysts, it was quite evident that Assistant Manager Chip may be excluded from the next season. This decision was made after many users found it difficult to execute it in the game. The chip’s complexity, particularly around scoring and its three-gameweek duration, alienated some players. Another source quoted that FPL surveyed about the chips and got negative feedback on the Assistant Manager Chip from users around the world, which resulted in the scrapping of the chip before the FPL 2025/26 season.

For the 2025/26 season, FPL replaced the FPL Assistant Manager Chip with an expanded chip system, offering two sets of the traditional chips (Wildcard, Free Hit, Bench Boost, and Triple Captain) to be used in each half of the season (Gameweeks 1–19 and 20–38).

How the FPL Assistant Manager Chip Scored Points?

The scoring for this is unique. The Assistant Manager gets points from the performances of their team. However, it will not be possible to captain them.

The scoring system is as follows:-

• Team win = 6 points
• Team draws = 3 points
• Goal scored by team = 1 point per goal
• Clean sheet from team = 2 points
• Table bonus: If your chosen manager faces a club ranked at least five places higher in the Premier League table at the start of the Gameweek, you get an extra 10 points for a win, so 16 in total, or an additional five points for a draw, so eight in total.

This last rule is interesting in particular as it raises a dilemma for Fantasy Premier League managers. While it is very exciting to go for the manager of a top team, say Pep Guardiola or Arne Slot or Mikel Arteta or Enzo Maresca. But at the same time, due to this rule that has been put into place, it might be more worthwhile to take the risk and go for someone lower down the table, and bet on them to come good during the three-game weeks you have chosen them for. This needs a careful evaluation of the schedules of all the teams, which is what makes it even more exciting. This puts the Fantasy Premier League managers in a conundrum about whether to play it safe or whether to go for a high-risk, high-reward strategy.

This is made even more interesting by the fact that the league table is so close this year. There are barely any points separating teams from each other, especially in the mid-table. This could provide people with a big chance of garnering these bonus points. For example, at the time of writing, before the start of Gameweek 21, there are just 10 points separating Bournemouth in 7th place, and West Ham who are in the 14th position on the table.

What could be the strategy?

This means that managers such as Ruben Amorim of Manchester United or Ange Postecoglou of Tottenham Hotspur could be great value, given the fact that these are big teams who sit lower down the table because of the fact that they have had a poor first half of the season. They are available for cheap too, with Amorim coming in at a paltry £0.8m while Postecoglou is only slightly higher at £1.1m. Also worth considering here are the likes of Graham Potter at West Ham and David Moyes at Everton. Both sides have performed way below the quality of their squads and with these two new managers at the helm, they could be set for an upturn in form.

The Assistant Manager chip might additionally provide a different strategy for Double Gameweeks (DGWs).

During a DGW, Premier League teams compete two times within a single Fantasy Gameweek. Therefore, by utilizing the Assistant Manager chip, you could accumulate points from four matches during a three game week period.

How Much Did the Managers Cost for the FPL Assistant Manager Chip Last Season?

Each manager has already been assigned a set price.