Fantasy Football

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Granite City Fantasy Football is a mini league created by Aberdeen Cyrenians in association with Aberdeen FC Community Trust.

Individual sign up

£10

For just £10, you’ll get your own team in the league and the chance to call every shot: pick your squad, back your city, and chase the top spot your way.

Business/corporate/group sign up

£100

Enter as a business, team, community group, or friends and turn your ticket into a fun season-long challenge. Rotate the manager, vote on transfers, create friendly rivalries, or add a small prize or fundraiser to keep everyone involved.

All proceeds go directly to charity with a 50/50 split.

The league is a Prize competition where the outcome is determined by participants’ skill, judgement and knowledge.  Winners will be determined by performance according to the published scoring rules listed below, but may be subject to any updates made by William Hill.  Prizes are fixed in advance and are not dependent on the number of entrants or the amount raised.

William Hill Premiership Fantasy Football Game rules 2026/27

Getting started

- Build your 15-player fantasy squad using a budget of £100m.
- Your players score fantasy points based on their real-life performances in William Hill Premiership matches.
- Every manager is automatically entered into the overall league, but you can also create or join private mini-leagues.

Deadline

Your team must be finalised before the kick-off of the first match in each Gameweek. For example, the Gameweek 1 deadline is 8pm on Friday 31 July ahead of Dundee United v Rangers. Any changes made post-deadline won't kick in until the following Gameweek.

Overall league & private mini-leagues

Every manager is automatically entered into the overall league. You can also create your own private mini-league or join friends' mini-leagues. Managers in private leagues can select the same players.

Squad rules

Each manager has:

- A £100m budget
- A 15-player squad
- 11 starting players
- 4 substitutes

You can build your squad within the following positional limits:

- Goalkeepers: 1-2
- Defenders: 3-6
- Midfielders: 3-6
- Forwards: 1-5

You may select a maximum of 3 players from any one club.

If one of your players transfers to another William Hill Premiership club during the season, you may keep him in your squad. However, if this means you now have more than 3 players from the same club, the transferred player will not score any fantasy points until you reduce your squad back to the three-player limit.

Choosing your formation and team

Before every Gameweek choose:

- your formation
- your starting XI
- your 4 substitutes

Available formations:

- 4-4-2
- 4-3-3
- 3-4-3
- 3-5-2
- 5-3-2
- 4-5-1
- 5-4-1

Your substitutes score half points. Your formation automatically carries forward into the next Gameweek until you change it.

Important

If you fail to select all 15 players, your entire Gameweek score is halved.

Transfers

- Before Gameweek 1: You may make unlimited transfers until the Gameweek 1 deadline.
- After every Gameweek: You receive 3 free transfers if you picked a captain during the past Gameweek.
- Unused transfers roll over.

Example: If you use 1 of your 3 free transfers before Gameweek 2, the remaining 2 transfers will roll over, giving you 5 available transfers before Gameweek 3.

All transfers must remain within your budget, squad rules and club limits. The number of transfers you have available will be visible within the transfer count area of your profile.

Player prices

Player prices rise and fall throughout the season based on real-life performances. Buying players before their price rises can increase the value of your squad. Selling players after their value has increased may increase your available budget.

Managers will receive the full value increase when selling a player.

Captain

Choose one player from your starting XI as captain.

Your captain receives:

- Double points
- PLUS an additional 20-point bonus

Important: Make sure you select a captain every Gameweek. If you don't, you'll miss out on your captain's double points, the 20-point bonus, and your three free transfers for the following Gameweek.

Supersub

Choose one of your 4 substitutes to be your Supersub. If he starts on the bench in the real match then comes onto the pitch any fantasy points he gets are tripled.

Example: You choose a player as your Supersub and they start on the bench in the real match. They come on as a substitute and score 8 fantasy points, which are then tripled, giving you 24 fantasy points. However, if your chosen Supersub unexpectedly starts the real match, they no longer qualify for the Supersub bonus and will instead score half points, like every other substitute.

Scoring

Players earn fantasy points based on their real-life performances in William Hill Premiership matches. The table below shows how points are awarded for each action.

FANTASY SCORING SYSTEM

Goals conceded

Goalkeepers & defenders: -1 point

Saves (including penalty saves)

Goalkeepers: 1 point

Clean sheet*

Goalkeepers: 4 points
Defenders: 4 points
Midfielders: 1 point

Goal scored (including by penalty)

Goalkeepers: 15 points
Defenders: 15 points
Midfielders: 12 points
Forwards: 10 points

Assist

6 points for all positions

Own goal

-2 points for all positions

Yellow card

-1 point for all positions

Red card

-2 points for all positions

Shot on target

1 point for all positions

Minutes played >60min

1 point for all positions

Tackle

1 point for all positions

* Clean sheet points are awarded based on the team's final result, not on how long an individual player was on the pitch.

If a goalkeeper, defender or midfielder plays any part in a match and their team keeps a clean sheet, they will receive the clean sheet points. If their team concedes at any point during the match, no player from that team will receive clean sheet points, even if they had already been substituted or only came on as a substitute.

Example:

* A defender plays the first 60 minutes before being substituted while their team is leading 2-0. If the team later concedes, they do not receive clean sheet points.

* A defender comes on in the 89th minute while their team is leading 1-0. If the team finishes the match without conceding, they do receive clean sheet points.

Rearranged fixtures

Unlike some fantasy games, William Hill Premiership Fantasy does not use Blank Gameweeks or Double Gameweeks. Instead, rearranged fixtures are handled using the rules below.

Postponed fixtures

If a match is postponed, your team for that Gameweek remains locked at the original deadline. When the fixture is eventually played, the players' fantasy points are added to your original Gameweek score, not the Gameweek in which the rearranged match takes place.

Example: Celtic v Dundee is postponed from Gameweek 5 and rearranged for Gameweek 11. You keep Callum McGregor in your Gameweek 5 team and he scores 12 fantasy points when the match is eventually played. Those 12 points are added to your Gameweek 5 total, meaning your Gameweek 5 score remains incomplete until the postponed fixture has been played.

Should you select a player in your starting lineup for Gameweek 5 in September and the match is postponed until November, you won't be able to replace said player in your team in November when the match takes place.

Fixtures brought forward

If a fixture is played before its scheduled Gameweek, the real match does not count towards fantasy scoring. Instead, when the original Gameweek arrives, every eligible player involved in that fixture will score 2 fantasy points, regardless of their performance in the real match.

Example: A fixture originally scheduled for Gameweek 12 is brought forward and played during Gameweek 6. The real match takes place in Gameweek 6, but no fantasy points are awarded at that time. When Gameweek 12 arrives, players from both teams will each score 2 fantasy points instead of receiving points based on their real-life performance.