Fantasy Premier League Player Rankings: Gameweek 36

FPL GW36 rankings and projections: Fantasy Premier League player tiers for every position. Who to start, captain, buy and avoid in Gameweek 36.

Updated on May 8, 2026 10:20AM EST

Fantasy Premier League Player Rankings: Gameweek 36

By:

Adam Zdroik

Updated on May 8, 2026 10:20AM EST

Fantasy Premier League Rankings

FPL GW36 Player Rankings: Best Picks for Gameweek 36

Welcome to RotoWire's FPL GW36 player rankings for the official Fantasy Premier League game. Double Gameweek 36 features a full slate of fixtures with a bonus twist, Manchester City and Crystal Palace both have two games this week, giving their players a higher points ceiling than the rest of the field. FPL managers should factor in both fixtures when making transfer and captaincy decisions.

These rankings highlight the best picks for Gameweek 36, based on predicted starting lineups, form and upcoming fixtures pulled directly from our lineups page.

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FPL GW36 Fixtures (ET)

7:30 am: Liverpool vs. Chelsea
10:00 am: Brighton & Hove Albion vs. Wolverhampton
10:00 am: Fulham vs. AFC Bournemouth
10:00 am: Sunderland vs. Manchester United
12:30 pm: Manchester City vs. Brentford
9:00 am: Burnley vs. Aston Villa
9:00 am: Crystal Palace vs. Everton
9:00 am: Nottingham Forest vs. Newcastle United
11:30 am: West Ham United vs. Arsenal
3:00 pm: Tottenham Hotspur vs. Leeds United
3:00 pm: Manchester City vs. Crystal Palace

Predicted & Confirmed Lineups, Odds, Set-Piece Takers, Team & Player Stats
FPL GW36 Cheat Sheet: Lineups, Odds and Set-Piece Takers

FPL GW36 Player Rankings

Below are the full FPL GW36 player rankings based on projected lineups, form and fixtures.

These rankings can be used to guide transfers, captaincy decisions and overall squad planning for FPL Gameweek 36.

Overall Rank	FW Rank	MID Rank	DEF Rank	GK Rank	Player	Team	Matchup	Pos	Price	TSB%	Pts
1	1				Erling Haaland	MCI	MCI v. BRE	F	14.6	62.7	10.42
2		1			Rayan Cherki	MCI	MCI v. BRE	M	6.6	17.0	9.14
3		2			Jeremy Doku	MCI	MCI v. BRE	M	6.4	3.4	8.54
4				1	Gianluigi Donnarumma	MCI	MCI v. BRE	G	5.6	9.3	7.84
5			1		Nico O'Reilly	MCI	MCI v. BRE	D	5.2	18.6	7.79
6			2		Matheus Nunes	MCI	MCI v. BRE	D	5.3	3.0	7.73
7		3			Antoine Semenyo	MCI	MCI v. BRE	M	8.1	49.8	7.68
8			3		Marc Guehi	MCI	MCI v. BRE	D	5.1	32.8	7.65
9	2				Danny Welbeck	BHA	BHA v. WOL	F	6.3	8.2	6.71
10			4		Abdukodir Khusanov	MCI	MCI v. BRE	D	5.4	0.7	6.18
11		4			Bruno Fernandes	MUN	MUN at SUN	M	10.4	47.3	6.16
12		5			Bernardo Silva	MCI	MCI v. BRE	M	6.2	0.7	5.98
13		6			Kaoru Mitoma	BHA	BHA v. WOL	M	6.1	2.2	5.95
14		7			Yankuba Minteh	BHA	BHA v. WOL	M	5.5	2.4	5.94
15			5		Jeremie Frimpong	LIV	LIV v. CHE	D	5.7	5.1	5.88
16			6		Gabriel	ARS	ARS at WHU	D	7.2	44.7	5.79
17		8			Nico Gonzalez	MCI	MCI v. BRE	M	5.9	0.1	5.77
18	3				Viktor Gyokeres	ARS	ARS at WHU	F	8.9	13.4	5.74
19		9			Florian Wirtz	LIV	LIV v. CHE	M	8.3	9.0	5.68
20		10			Casemiro	MUN	MUN at SUN	M	5.8	4.9	5.68
21		11			Cody Gakpo	LIV	LIV v. CHE	M	7.3	5.6	5.66
22		12			Bukayo Saka	ARS	ARS at WHU	M	9.8	8.3	5.65
23	4				Richarlison	TOT	TOT v. LEE	F	6.3	5.8	5.63
24		13			Bryan Mbeumo	MUN	MUN at SUN	M	8.4	15.8	5.62
25			7		Maxence Lacroix	CRY	CRY v. EVE	D	5.2	6.7	5.56
26	5				Tammy Abraham	AVL	AVL at BRN	F	5.8	0.2	5.54
27		14			Dominik Szoboszlai	LIV	LIV v. CHE	M	7.0	12.4	5.53
28	6				Rodrigo Muniz	FUL	FUL v. BOU	F	5.3	0.7	5.51
29	7				Dominic Calvert-Lewin	LEE	LEE at TOT	F	5.8	13.3	5.50
30		15			Jack Hinshelwood	BHA	BHA v. WOL	M	5.1	0.6	5.49
31		16			Samuel Chukwueze	FUL	FUL v. BOU	M	5.3	0.1	5.49
32		17			Morgan Rogers	AVL	AVL at BRN	M	7.5	24.5	5.47
33	8				Will Osula	NEW	NEW at NFO	F	5.4	0.7	5.42
34		18			Martin Odegaard	ARS	ARS at WHU	M	7.8	1.6	5.41
35		19			James Garner	EVE	EVE at CRY	M	5.2	3.9	5.40
36		20			Cole Palmer	CHE	CHE at LIV	M	10.4	15.2	5.38
37		21			Harry Wilson	FUL	FUL v. BOU	M	5.9	19.4	5.36
38	9				Beto	EVE	EVE at CRY	F	5.0	2.9	5.33
39		22			Jefferson Lerma	CRY	CRY v. EVE	M	4.9	0.1	5.31
40		23			Alexis Mac Allister	LIV	LIV v. CHE	M	6.2	1.9	5.29
41			8		Ferdi Kadioglu	BHA	BHA v. WOL	D	4.4	1.1	5.27
42			9		Daniel Munoz	CRY	CRY v. EVE	D	5.9	9.4	5.26
43		24			Eberechi Eze	ARS	ARS at WHU	M	7.3	8.8	5.26
44			10		Piero Hincapie	ARS	ARS at WHU	D	5.1	1.0	5.25
45			11		Jaydee Canvot	CRY	CRY v. EVE	D	4.5	0.5	5.23
46		25			Declan Rice	ARS	ARS at WHU	M	7.2	24.0	5.23
47	10				Junior Kroupi	BOU	BOU at FUL	F	4.6	6.0	5.22
48		26			Joao Palhinha	TOT	TOT v. LEE	M	5.5	0.8	5.21
49	11				Evanilson	BOU	BOU at FUL	F	6.7	2.5	5.20
50			12		Michael Keane	EVE	EVE at CRY	D	4.5	2.6	5.18
51		27			Yeremy Pino	CRY	CRY v. EVE	M	5.8	0.2	5.17
52	12				Zian Flemming	BRN	BRN v. AVL	F	5.3	0.3	5.10
53			13		James Tarkowski	EVE	EVE at CRY	D	5.7	11.5	5.09
54		28			Youri Tielemans	AVL	AVL at BRN	M	5.9	0.7	5.05
55			14		Ian Maatsen	AVL	AVL at BRN	D	4.2	0.6	5.04
56		29			Mathys Tel	TOT	TOT v. LEE	M	6.2	0.2	5.00
57		30			Ao Tanaka	LEE	LEE at TOT	M	4.8	0.2	5.00
58		31			Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall	EVE	EVE at CRY	M	5.2	6.2	4.99
59		32			Granit Xhaka	SUN	SUN v. MUN	M	5.1	3.2	4.99
60	13				Jorgen Strand Larsen	CRY	CRY v. EVE	F	5.9	1.5	4.95
61			15		Jan Paul van Hecke	BHA	BHA v. WOL	D	4.6	10.3	4.95
62		33			Ross Barkley	AVL	AVL at BRN	M	4.8	0.1	4.94
63			16		Joel Veltman	BHA	BHA v. WOL	D	4.3	0.1	4.94
64			17		Patrick Dorgu	MUN	MUN at SUN	D	4.1	2.4	4.92
65		34			Amad Diallo	MUN	MUN at SUN	M	6.2	1.3	4.87
66			18		Jair Cunha	NFO	NFO v. NEW	D	4.2	0.1	4.86
67		35			Iliman Ndiaye	EVE	EVE at CRY	M	6.2	4.4	4.85
68	14				Taiwo Awoniyi	NFO	NFO v. NEW	F	5.2	0.3	4.82
69		36			Anton Stach	LEE	LEE at TOT	M	4.8	1.8	4.81
70		37			Pascal Gross	BHA	BHA v. WOL	M	5.5	2.7	4.80
71	15				Joao Pedro	CHE	CHE at LIV	F	7.5	39.9	4.80
72		38			Brennan Johnson	CRY	CRY v. EVE	M	6.5	2.4	4.79
73	16				Brian Brobbey	SUN	SUN v. MUN	F	5.3	1.1	4.79
74		39			Mateus Fernandes	WHU	WHU v. ARS	M	5.5	0.4	4.78
75	17				Igor Jesus	NFO	NFO v. NEW	F	5.9	2.3	4.78
76		40			Ethan Ampadu	LEE	LEE at TOT	M	4.9	0.6	4.77
77		41			Jadon Sancho	AVL	AVL at BRN	M	5.8	0.2	4.77
78		42			Rodrigo Bentancur	TOT	TOT v. LEE	M	5.2	0.2	4.75
79	18				Igor Thiago	BRE	BRE at MCI	F	7.4	34.0	4.75
80	19				Liam Delap	CHE	CHE at LIV	F	6.2	0.9	4.74
81		43			Rayan	BOU	BOU at FUL	M	5.4	1.4	4.73
82				2	Dean Henderson	CRY	CRY v. EVE	G	5.1	8.9	4.72
83	20				Randal Kolo Muani	TOT	TOT v. LEE	F	6.9	0.4	4.70
84		44			Marcus Tavernier	BOU	BOU at FUL	M	5.4	5.2	4.69
85		45			Hannibal	BRN	BRN v. AVL	M	4.7	0.1	4.68
86		46			Martin Zubimendi	ARS	ARS at WHU	M	5.0	3.0	4.68
87		47			Tim Iroegbunam	EVE	EVE at CRY	M	4.8	0.0	4.66
88		48			Moises Caicedo	CHE	CHE at LIV	M	5.7	7.2	4.66
89		49			Ryan Gravenberch	LIV	LIV v. CHE	M	5.4	3.8	4.65
90			19		Matty Cash	AVL	AVL at BRN	D	4.7	8.2	4.63
91			20		Virgil van Dijk	LIV	LIV v. CHE	D	6.1	31.7	4.62
92		50			Ryan Yates	NFO	NFO v. NEW	M	4.7	0.1	4.60
93	21				Jarrod Bowen	WHU	WHU v. ARS	F	7.8	14.2	4.59
94		51			Alex Scott	BOU	BOU at FUL	M	5.1	2.4	4.57
95			21		Olivier Boscagli	BHA	BHA v. WOL	D	4.2	0.2	4.56
96			22		Nordi Mukiele	SUN	SUN v. MUN	D	4.6	8.6	4.54
97		52			Jacob Murphy	NEW	NEW at NFO	M	5.9	0.6	4.54
98		53			Mikkel Damsgaard	BRE	BRE at MCI	M	5.6	0.7	4.48
99				3	Bart Verbruggen	BHA	BHA v. WOL	G	4.5	9.2	4.46
100			23		Harry Maguire	MUN	MUN at SUN	D	4.4	1.3	4.46
101			24		Cristhian Mosquera	ARS	ARS at WHU	D	5.3	0.2	4.46
102		54			Tyler Adams	BOU	BOU at FUL	M	4.9	0.3	4.44
103			25		Malick Thiaw	NEW	NEW at NFO	D	5.0	5.1	4.43
104		55			Carlos Baleba	BHA	BHA v. WOL	M	4.5	1.5	4.42
105		56			Enzo Fernandez	CHE	CHE at LIV	M	6.5	11.0	4.42
106		57			Bruno Guimaraes	NEW	NEW at NFO	M	6.8	4.9	4.42
107		58			Enzo Le Fee	SUN	SUN v. MUN	M	4.8	1.6	4.41
108		59			Noah Okafor	LEE	LEE at TOT	M	5.6	3.0	4.41
109			26		Joachim Andersen	FUL	FUL v. BOU	D	4.5	4.2	4.40
110		60			Curtis Jones	LIV	LIV v. CHE	M	5.4	0.1	4.39
111			27		Pedro Porro	TOT	TOT v. LEE	D	5.2	10.7	4.38
112			28		Tyrone Mings	AVL	AVL at BRN	D	4.3	0.6	4.37
113			29		Marcos Senesi	BOU	BOU at FUL	D	5.2	21.0	4.37
114			30		Sven Botman	NEW	NEW at NFO	D	4.9	0.4	4.35
115			31		Kevin Danso	TOT	TOT v. LEE	D	4.2	0.2	4.33
116			32		Omar Alderete	SUN	SUN v. MUN	D	4.1	5.7	4.33
117		61			Conor Gallagher	TOT	TOT v. LEE	M	5.0	0.1	4.32
118			33		Ibrahima Konate	LIV	LIV v. CHE	D	5.5	4.0	4.32
119			34		James Hill	BOU	BOU at FUL	D	4.2	7.6	4.31
120	22				Tolu Arokodare	WOL	WOL at BHA	F	5.2	0.1	4.30
121		62			Nicolas Dominguez	NFO	NFO v. NEW	M	5.0	0.0	4.29
122			35		Lisandro Martinez	MUN	MUN at SUN	D	4.8	0.4	4.28
123		63			Andre	WOL	WOL at BHA	M	5.2	0.1	4.26
124		64			Yehor Yarmolyuk	BRE	BRE at MCI	M	5.0	0.1	4.25
125		65			Kobbie Mainoo	MUN	MUN at SUN	M	4.7	1.1	4.24
126		66			Emile Smith Rowe	FUL	FUL v. BOU	M	5.6	0.5	4.23
127			36		Kieran Trippier	NEW	NEW at NFO	D	4.9	1.4	4.20
128		67			Kevin Schade	BRE	BRE at MCI	M	6.9	1.6	4.19
129		68			Loum Tchaouna	BRN	BRN v. AVL	M	4.8	0.0	4.19
130		69			James Ward-Prowse	BRN	BRN v. AVL	M	5.6	0.2	4.17
131			37		Morato	NFO	NFO v. NEW	D	4.3	0.1	4.17
132	23				Taty Castellanos	WHU	WHU v. ARS	F	5.5	0.2	4.16
133			38		Maxime Esteve	BRN	BRN v. AVL	D	3.9	6.9	4.14
134			39		Antonee Robinson	FUL	FUL v. BOU	D	4.9	0.8	4.13
135			40		Lamare Bogarde	AVL	AVL at BRN	D	4.0	0.5	4.12
136			41		William Saliba	ARS	ARS at WHU	D	6.1	15.4	4.10
137			42		Luca Netz	NFO	NFO v. NEW	D	4.5	0.0	4.10
138		70			Merlin Rohl	EVE	EVE at CRY	M	5.0	0.0	4.07
139		71			Sasa Lukic	FUL	FUL v. BOU	M	4.9	0.1	4.07
140		72			Jaidon Anthony	BRN	BRN v. AVL	M	5.0	1.8	4.07
141		73			Dilane Bakwa	NFO	NFO v. NEW	M	5.9	0.0	4.06
142		74			Andrey Santos	CHE	CHE at LIV	M	4.5	0.3	4.04
143	24				Mateus Mane	WOL	WOL at BHA	F	4.2	1.2	4.04
144			43		Neco Williams	NFO	NFO v. NEW	D	4.8	4.4	4.01
145		75			Chemsdine Talbi	SUN	SUN v. MUN	M	4.9	0.2	4.01
146		76			James McAtee	NFO	NFO v. NEW	M	5.0	0.1	3.98
147			44		Andrew Robertson	LIV	LIV v. CHE	D	5.7	1.1	3.97
148				4	Emiliano Martinez	AVL	AVL at BRN	G	5.1	4.7	3.95
149		77			Joao Gomes	WOL	WOL at BHA	M	5.3	0.3	3.94
150		78			Sander Berge	FUL	FUL v. BOU	M	4.9	0.1	3.92
151		79			Joelinton	NEW	NEW at NFO	M	5.9	0.3	3.90
152			45		Timothy Castagne	FUL	FUL v. BOU	D	4.3	0.1	3.85
153			46		Vitaliy Mykolenko	EVE	EVE at CRY	D	4.9	0.6	3.85
154			47		Micky van de Ven	TOT	TOT v. LEE	D	4.4	17.7	3.85
155		80			Justin Devenny	CRY	CRY v. EVE	M	4.3	1.1	3.78
156				6	Giorgi Mamardashvili	LIV	LIV v. CHE	G	4.1	0.6	3.78
157				5	David Raya	ARS	ARS at WHU	G	6.1	35.1	3.78
158			48		Noussair Mazraoui	MUN	MUN at SUN	D	4.9	0.2	3.78
159		81			Will Hughes	CRY	CRY v. EVE	M	4.7	0.1	3.77
160			49		Jake O'Brien	EVE	EVE at CRY	D	4.9	0.7	3.76
161			50		Luke Shaw	MUN	MUN at SUN	D	4.5	0.8	3.76
162			51		Victor Lindelof	AVL	AVL at BRN	D	4.5	0.1	3.76
163		82			Tomas Soucek	WHU	WHU v. ARS	M	5.7	0.4	3.76
164			52		Jaka Bijol	LEE	LEE at TOT	D	3.9	1.1	3.76
165		83			Habib Diarra	SUN	SUN v. MUN	M	5.3	0.1	3.75
166				7	Jordan Pickford	EVE	EVE at CRY	G	5.6	13.0	3.74
167		84			Sandro Tonali	NEW	NEW at NFO	M	5.3	1.1	3.72
168			53		Trevoh Chalobah	CHE	CHE at LIV	D	5.4	9.2	3.67
169		85			Joe Willock	NEW	NEW at NFO	M	5.0	0.1	3.66
170		86			Mathias Jensen	BRE	BRE at MCI	M	4.9	0.1	3.66
171			54		Hjalmar Ekdal	BRN	BRN v. AVL	D	3.8	0.7	3.64
172			55		Joe Rodon	LEE	LEE at TOT	D	3.9	2.9	3.63
173		87			Crysencio Summerville	WHU	WHU v. ARS	M	5.5	1.4	3.59
174			56		James Justin	LEE	LEE at TOT	D	4.0	2.1	3.59
175			57		Dan Burn	NEW	NEW at NFO	D	5.0	3.4	3.58
176				8	Antonin Kinsky	TOT	TOT v. LEE	G	3.9	1.7	3.57
177				9	Nick Pope	NEW	NEW at NFO	G	5.0	4.3	3.55
178			58		Bashir Humphreys	BRN	BRN v. AVL	D	3.9	0.1	3.50
179			59		Pascal Struijk	LEE	LEE at TOT	D	4.4	3.2	3.49
180			60		Calvin Bassey	FUL	FUL v. BOU	D	4.4	0.6	3.46
181				10	Senne Lammens	MUN	MUN at SUN	G	5.1	3.2	3.46
182			61		Adrien Truffert	BOU	BOU at FUL	D	4.7	4.6	3.44
183			62		Axel Disasi	WHU	WHU v. ARS	D	4.5	0.2	3.40
184			63		Jayden Bogle	LEE	LEE at TOT	D	4.4	0.7	3.39
185			64		Rodrigo Gomes	WOL	WOL at BHA	D	4.4	0.1	3.37
186			65		Destiny Udogie	TOT	TOT v. LEE	D	4.3	0.3	3.37
187			66		Quilindschy Hartman	BRN	BRN v. AVL	D	4.0	0.6	3.36
188		88			Noah Sadiki	SUN	SUN v. MUN	M	4.9	0.1	3.36
189			67		Konstantinos Mavropanos	WHU	WHU v. ARS	D	4.5	2.0	3.36
190				11	Matz Sels	NFO	NFO v. NEW	G	4.6	4.9	3.34
191				12	Martin Dubravka	BRN	BRN v. AVL	G	4.0	26.8	3.33
192				13	Bernd Leno	FUL	FUL v. BOU	G	4.9	2.0	3.28
193			68		Marc Cucurella	CHE	CHE at LIV	D	6.1	14.7	3.27
194	25				Pablo Felipe	WHU	WHU v. ARS	F	5.4	0.0	3.24
195			69		Reinildo	SUN	SUN v. MUN	D	3.8	2.9	3.19
196			70		Keane Lewis-Potter	BRE	BRE at MCI	D	4.8	1.5	3.19
197			71		Levi Colwill	CHE	CHE at LIV	D	4.7	0.1	3.16
198				14	Robin Roefs	SUN	SUN v. MUN	G	4.8	8.4	3.13
199				15	Djordje Petrovic	BOU	BOU at FUL	G	4.6	5.2	3.10
200			72		Chadi Riad	CRY	CRY v. EVE	D	4.0	0.0	3.08
201			73		El Hadji Malick Diouf	WHU	WHU v. ARS	D	4.1	2.4	3.01
202				16	Filip Jorgensen	CHE	CHE at LIV	G	4.3	0.2	2.92
203			74		Trai Hume	SUN	SUN v. MUN	D	4.5	0.3	2.89
204			75		Nathan Collins	BRE	BRE at MCI	D	4.9	2.6	2.86
205			76		Kyle Walker	BRN	BRN v. AVL	D	4.4	1.1	2.83
206				17	Karl Darlow	LEE	LEE at TOT	G	4.0	6.7	2.82
207			77		Adam Smith	BOU	BOU at FUL	D	4.4	0.2	2.80
208			78		Yerson Mosquera	WOL	WOL at BHA	D	4.3	0.1	2.79
209			79		Malo Gusto	CHE	CHE at LIV	D	4.9	1.9	2.75
210	26				Adam Armstrong	WOL	WOL at BHA	F	5.2	0.1	2.72
211				18	Daniel Bentley	WOL	WOL at BHA	G	3.9	0.5	2.71
212				19	Mads Hermansen	WHU	WHU v. ARS	G	4.2	0.8	2.70
213			80		Hugo Bueno	WOL	WOL at BHA	D	4.3	0.2	2.57
214			81		Santi Bueno	WOL	WOL at BHA	D	4.4	0.1	2.55
215				20	Caoimhin Kelleher	BRE	BRE at MCI	G	4.8	12.4	2.53
216			82		Toti Gomes	WOL	WOL at BHA	D	4.2	0.1	2.35
217			83		Kristoffer Ajer	BRE	BRE at MCI	D	4.4	0.2	2.22
218			84		Sepp van den Berg	BRE	BRE at MCI	D	4.5	1.2	2.19
219			85		Kyle Walker-Peters	WHU	WHU v. ARS	D	4.2	0.3	1.92
220			86		Michael Kayode	BRE	BRE at MCI	D	4.6	1.1	1.44

Final Thoughts

Gameweek 36 is a strong week for Man City and Crystal Palace assets, who both get an extra fixture and the points upside that comes with it. For everyone else, form and motivation are the key drivers with the end of the season approaching. Use these rankings to identify the best options across a full, competitive slate.