How should draws be scored?

Either as a third outcome to pick or as a result that pays nobody. Three-way predictions fit football better: roughly a quarter of Premier League matches finish level, so a two-way competition effectively discards a large chunk of the fixture list. Two-way is easier to introduce to a room new to prediction leagues, but expect the question by Christmas.

What happens when a fixture is postponed?

You choose the rule before gameweek one: void the fixture for that round, carry it into the round it's eventually played, or score it retrospectively when it happens. Postponements are routine in a season built around European fixtures and domestic cups, so this is a rule you will use, not a hypothetical.

Do the kick-off times show in Irish time?

Yes. Fixtures, lock countdowns and reminders all render in your players' time zone. For a room in Ireland that is the same clock the match is played on, and for colleagues abroad each person sees their own local time.

Can we run the Premier League alongside the GAA?

Yes. The Premier League runs from August to May and the inter county championship from April to July, so the two overlap across the spring. Run them as separate competitions on one hub with one player list. The pricing page lists how many competitions each plan runs at once.

Free for up to 25 players with no credit card. Paid plans are billed in euro and step up with the number of players, and the pricing page has each plan's price and cap. Over a 38-gameweek season, branding and your own domain are the usual reason to move up rather than player numbers.

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Premier League predictions

Thirty-eight gameweeks, and five of them land midweek.

A Premier League prediction league that survives a season shaped around European football, a compressed Christmas and a Monday night game after everyone has stopped checking. Fixtures, locks and scoring under your branding, on Irish time.

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The 2026-27 Premier League, at a glance.

Clubs and matches: 20 clubs, 38 gameweeks, 380 matches. Every club plays every other club home and away.
Opening round: Friday 21 August 2026. A week later than usual, giving clubs 33 clear days after the FIFA World Cup 26 final.
Season shape: 33 weekends and five midweek match rounds. The weekend rhythm breaks five separate times across the season.
Christmas: No two match rounds within 60 hours over Christmas and New Year, so the St Stephen's Day pile-up is spaced out but still tight.
Final day: Sunday 30 May 2027. All ten matches kick off simultaneously, so the last gameweek is a single lock rather than a spread.
The draw: A live third outcome in every fixture. A level scoreline is a normal result in football, not a once-a-season curiosity.
Irish kick-off times: Ireland and England share a clock, so a 3pm Saturday kick-off is 3pm on your players' phones and a Monday night game locks on Monday night.

What a gameweek looks like from Ireland.

Fixtures arrive with times and locks attached.

Every match in the gameweek appears in your hub from the live data feed, with kick-off times and lock countdowns in your players' time zone. Nobody copies a fixture list into a spreadsheet on a Thursday night.
Predictions lock at each kick-off, across three or four days.

A Premier League gameweek can run from Friday night to Monday night. Fixtures close individually, so a late Monday game stays open long after the Saturday ones are done. Reminders land 24 hours before the first lock and again 75 minutes before.
Results score on the final whistle and the table moves with them.

Scores post as each match ends, so by the time the Saturday evening games are over the table has already moved. The recap is there on Monday morning, before anyone has asked who is top.

The arguments every Premier League prediction league has.

Football is a three-outcome game, and the Premier League calendar breaks the one-round-a-weekend assumption five times a season. Most of the rules worth writing down come from those two facts.

The draw is a third outcome, and it changes all the maths.

Two-way predictions, where a draw counts as a loss for everyone, reward backing favourites and make half the fixture list uninteresting. Three-way predictions, home, draw or away, make the draw a real call and reward people who actually watch. Plenty of organisers start two-way and switch by Christmas. Decide up front whether a correct draw is worth more than a correct favourite, because it probably should be.

Five midweek rounds compress your deadlines without warning.

The 2026-27 season carries 33 weekends and five midweek match rounds. Five times a season, a round opens on a Tuesday and closes on a Thursday. Your players' habit is built around a weekend, so those five rounds are where participation drops hardest. Push an extra reminder into every one of them.

Postponements are normal, and they need a rule.

Cup runs, European commitments and weather move fixtures out of their gameweek all season. Decide now whether a postponed match is voided for that round, carried into the round it's eventually played in, or scored retrospectively when it happens. The third option is the fairest and the most confusing, so if you choose it, say so clearly in gameweek one.

Goal difference is too small to be a weekly scoring mechanic.

Most Premier League matches are decided by one or two goals, so a margin prediction has a usable range of about zero to four. That makes it a decent season tiebreaker on cumulative accuracy and a poor way to score a round. Use margin the way it's designed: on one designated fixture per round, settling the season rather than deciding it week to week.

The Friday and Monday games are where people get caught.

A round that opens on a Friday night locks that match before most people have thought about the weekend, and a Monday game gets forgotten by anyone who stopped checking on Sunday. Fixture-level locks plus a reminder 24 hours out are what stop a prediction league from quietly losing its field in September.

Formats that suit a 38-gameweek season.

Three-way predictions

Home, draw or away in every fixture. The format that fits football, and the one that keeps the mid-table fixtures worth thinking about.

Two-way predictions

Pick a winner, a draw pays nobody. Simpler to explain to a room that has never played a prediction league, at the cost of making a third of the season a formality.

Last man standing

One club a gameweek, never twice. With 20 clubs and 38 gameweeks, a last man standing competition can genuinely run into spring.

Cup and knockout brackets

The domestic cups and the European competitions are knockout tournaments sitting alongside the league. Run them as brackets on the same hub and pick up the weeks the league is idle.

Why run your Premier League predictions on Fanzava.

Your logo, your colours, your domain.

White label on every paid plan. Pro and above add a custom domain and a custom email sender, so the Friday reminder arrives from your brand rather than from a platform nobody recognises.

Every club your office supports, in one room.

Ireland follows English football club by club, and every office has its Liverpool, United and Arsenal corners. Groups turn that into a leaderboard of its own, running alongside the overall table.

A season that runs from August to the end of May.

Nine months of weekly contact, running straight through the GAA off-season and alongside the Six Nations. It keeps your players coming back for longer than any tournament can.

Groups, rivalries and somewhere to put the slagging.

Supporters' club groups, office groups, branch groups, each with their own leaderboard running alongside the overall one. The Banter Board keeps Monday morning off your inbox.

Questions Premier League organisers ask.

How should draws be scored?: Either as a third outcome to pick or as a result that pays nobody. Three-way predictions fit football better: roughly a quarter of Premier League matches finish level, so a two-way competition effectively discards a large chunk of the fixture list. Two-way is easier to introduce to a room new to prediction leagues, but expect the question by Christmas.
What happens when a fixture is postponed?: You choose the rule before gameweek one: void the fixture for that round, carry it into the round it's eventually played, or score it retrospectively when it happens. Postponements are routine in a season built around European fixtures and domestic cups, so this is a rule you will use, not a hypothetical.
Do the kick-off times show in Irish time?: Yes. Fixtures, lock countdowns and reminders all render in your players' time zone. For a room in Ireland that is the same clock the match is played on, and for colleagues abroad each person sees their own local time.
Can we run the Premier League alongside the GAA?: Yes. The Premier League runs from August to May and the inter county championship from April to July, so the two overlap across the spring. Run them as separate competitions on one hub with one player list. The pricing page lists how many competitions each plan runs at once.
What does it cost?: Free for up to 25 players with no credit card. Paid plans are billed in euro and step up with the number of players, and the pricing page has each plan's price and cap. Over a 38-gameweek season, branding and your own domain are the usual reason to move up rather than player numbers.

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