The 2022/23 FPL Season is here & in this blog, we analyze the opening eight gameweek premier league fixtures for the season & identify teams having the best fixtures to start the 2022/23 season. Analyzing until GW8 is a good way because of the fact that there is an international break right after GW8.
Link to all our 2022/23 FPL Pre Season articles including a transfer tracker of all new signings, all team pre-season friendly updates, team previews, drafts, essential players, fixture analysis, position-wise analysis, and more. Completely free to access as well!
Do check out: FPL Rotational Pairs & Combinations for the 2022/23 FPL Season
2022/23 Premier League Fixutres:
Keynotes:
- International break after GW8
- Midweek between GW2 and GW3 will be UECL qualifiers for West Ham
- Midweek between GW3 and GW4 will be UECL qualifiers for West Ham and Carabao cup for teams not playing in Europe(13 teams)
- Gameweek 5 is in the middle of the week between GW4 and GW6
- All midweeks from GW6 till GW8 and GW9 till GW11 will have UCL/UEL/UECL
- GW12 is in a midweek between GW11 and GW13
- Midweek between GW13 and GW15 will UCL/UEL/UECL
- Midweek between GW15 and GW16 will be Carabao cup third round
- PL goes on a 44-day break after GW16 for World Cup(Refer: 2022/23 FPL Season: Key Dates, Information, and Timeline)
Arsenal
Home: 4 Away: 4 Top six: 1(First eight games)
Arsenal play the first game of the season on Friday night, August 5th vs Palace. Arsenal don’t play any team that finished above them in the opening eight games with just Man United from the top six in GW6. The fixtures look great for Arsenal in the opening eight games and a double up or even triple up looks good.
Further Read: 2022/23 FPL Season: Key Dates, Information, and Timeline
Man City
Man City start their title defence against West Ham at the London Stadium, the fixtures are really good for City with Spurs their first big six-game in GW7. Haaland, a city mid, and a fullback look the way to go for us FPL managers.
Home: 4 Away: 4Top six: 1 (First eight games)
Further Read: 2022/23 Premier League Transfer Updates | FPL Impact of New Signings
Man United
Man United play Brighton in GW1 and then face Liverpool in GW3. United also have Leicester in GW5 and Arsenal in GW6. I’ll be skeptical of united assets to begin the season and they are a wait-and-watch based on the fixtures.
Home: 4 Away: 4 Top six: 2(First eight games)
Spurs
Spurs have a mixed set of fixtures in the opening eight games. They play two promoted teams in the first eight games but also face Chelsea(GW2) and Man City(GW7) in the opening seven games. But it’s too hard to look past Kane/Son for their opening game vs Southampton against whom the duo generally score a lot of goals.
Home: 4 Away: 4 Top six: 2 (First eight games)
Further Read: List of Premier League Players Who’ll Not be Going to the 2022 World Cup
Chelsea
Chelsea start against Everton in GW1, they lost the fixture in Goodison park towards the end of the season but will look to come back with a win this time. Chelsea have a tricky set of fixtures with two games vs the big six in the opening eight games and also fixtures against West Ham, and Leicester in the first eight gameweeks. One Chelsea defender for the initial gameweeks seems the best idea for now.
Home: 4 Away: 4 Top six: 2 (First eight games)
Further Read: 2022/23 FPL Pre Season: All Clubs Friendlies Fixtures, Updates & Results
Liverpool
Liverpool just like Man City have great fixtures and Fulham in GW1 is one of the best fixtures that FPL managers could have asked for, Salah captain in GW1 will now look even more promising. Liverpool play two promoted teams in the first four games, Man united away in GW3 might not be as tough as it once used to be in the past. Chelsea in GW8 should be the first real test and a triple-up on Liverpool assets is absolutely essential.
Home: 4 Away: 4 Top six: 2 (First eight games)
Further Read: 2022/23 FPL Season: Key Dates, Information, and Timeline
Summary of the top six fixtures till GW8: Liverpool, Man City, and Arsenal have the best starts. Chelsea and Spurs have a mixed bag of fixtures, the same goes for Man United too.
Leicester City
Leicester are a complete avoid for the first few weeks as they face four top six teams in the first eight games, the other four games aren’t as easy as well with fixtures against Villa and Brighton. Brentford and Southampton are the only two good fixtures for the foxes in the opening eight games. Easy avoid for the beginning of the FPL season.
Home: Away: Top six: (First eight games)
Further Read: 2022/23 FPL Season: Key Dates, Information, and Timeline
Brighton
Brighton start the season against Man United and they recently defeated them 4-0 towards the end of last season. The opening game is the only tough one in the first eight games for Brighton with no other top six teams during the period.
Brighton also play two promoted teams in the first eight games. A Brighton defender and a mid could be a good choice to consider. If Sanchez is 4.5 then he should be an automatic choice.
Home: 4 Away: 4 Top six: 1 (First eight games)
Further Read: List of Premier League Players Who’ll Not be Going to the 2022 World Cup
West Ham
The hammers will have a tough start to the season with a game against current PL Champions, Man City. The hammers also have London rivals Chelsea and Spurs back to back in GW5 and GW6. The first eight games don’t look that good for West Ham with some quality sides in Villa and Brighton coming up as well.
Home: 4 Away: 4 Top six: 3(First eight games)
Further Read: 2022/23 FPL Pre Season: All Clubs Friendlies Fixtures, Updates & Results
Aston Villa
Aston Villa who have been proactive in the transfer market have a great first three fixtures facing Bournemouth, Everton, and Palace. It’s the next four which get tricky for Villa with West Ham, Arsenal, Man City, and Leicester. We could consider the Villa assets for the first few games and then move them on to other assets who’ll emerge as FPL options
Home: 4 Away: 4 Top six: 2 (First eight games)
Further Read: 2022/23 FPL Season: Key Dates, Information, and Timeline
Wolves
Wolves have a decent run of fixtures until GW6 but GW7 and GW8 is too harsh on them with back-to-back games against Man City and Liverpool. Having said that Wolves options could be good choices for the initial six games with two fixtures against the promoted teams plus a Southampton fixture.
Home: 4 Away: 4 Top six: 3 (First eight games)
Further Read: List of Premier League Players Who’ll Not be Going to the 2022 World Cup
Crystal Palace
Palace, unfortunately, have a tough start to the season with games against Arsenal, Liverpool, and Man City in the first four games. But Palace have always been good against the big teams so you cannot write them off. Palace also rotate nicely with Wolves assets and a rotational pair could emerge from here.
Home: 4 Away: 4 Top six: 4 (First eight games)
Further Read: 2022/23 FPL Pre Season: All Clubs Friendlies Fixtures, Updates & Results
Brentford
Brentford have a good run of games from GW3 to GW8 and face only two top six teams in the first eight games. Toney, and Raya could all the decent options.
Home: 4 Away: 4 Top six: 2 (First eight games)
Further Read: 2022/23 FPL Season: Key Dates, Information, and Timeline
Southampton
Saints have a mixed bag of fixtures with three top six teams in the first five games. The fixtures ease out after GW5 but Saints have some dearth of quality FPL options(Bar JWP) and could instead be the team to be targetted for FPL points in the initial few games.
Home: Away: Top six: (First eight games)
Further Read: 2022/23 FPL Pre Season: All Clubs Friendlies Fixtures, Updates & Results
Newcastle
Newcastle in my opinion have one of the best set of opening fixtures outside the top six starting with Forest in GW1, they do play Man City and Liverpool in the first eight games but have some great games in the remaining six.
Home: 4 Away: 4 Top six: 2 (First eight games)
Further Read: 2022/23 FPL Pre Season: All Clubs Friendlies Fixtures, Updates & Results
Leeds
Leeds have made some quality signings in the summer window and have been blessed with a kind opening few gameweeks. Leeds take on only two of the top six in the first eight games and have some winnable fixtures in the opening few gameweeks. Depending on how Marsch sets up players like Rasmus Kristensen could be good option.
Home: Away: Top six: (First eight games)
Further Read: List of Premier League Players Who’ll Not be Going to the 2022 World Cup
Everton
Everton start with Chelsea and have three winnable fixtures against Forest, Brentford, and Leeds from GW2 to GW5. Their fixtures take a turn from GW6 with Liverpool, Arsenal, and West Ham.
Home: 4 Away: 4 Top six: 3 (First eight games)
Further Read: 2022/23 FPL Pre Season: All Clubs Friendlies Fixtures, Updates & Results
Fulham
Fulham just like Bournemouth have a tough run of fixtures, to begin with, and will face four of the top six in the first seven games with the first kind fixture is against fellow promoted side Forest in GW8. Fulham assets are surely an avoid at all costs for the initial period.
Home: 4 Away: 4 Top six: 4 (First eight games)
Further Read: 2022/23 FPL Season: Key Dates, Information, and Timeline
Bournemouth
Poor Bournemouth couldn’t have asked for a tougher start to their return to the Premier League and face three top six teams continuously from GW2to4. Their fixtures somewhat become clear after GW4 with a game against Forest in GW6, overall the Cherries are surely an avoid for the first few games.
Home: 4 Away: 4 Top six: 3 (First eight games)
Further Read: List of Premier League Players Who’ll Not be Going to the 2022 World Cup
Nottingham Forest
Forest have the best opening fixtures amongst the three promoted teams with only two games against the top six. Forest also play the two other promoted teams in the first eight games. A forest defender/GK plus an attacker could be good enablers.
Home: 4 Away: 4 Top six: 2 (First eight games)
Further Read: 2022/23 FPL Pre Season: All Clubs Friendlies Fixtures, Updates & Results
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