Best FPL team names

Here’s a fun, creative, and clever list of the Best FPL (Fantasy Premier League) Team Names — perfect whether you like puns, football references, or just want something original and witty to stand out in your league.

Classic Puns

• Inter YaNan
• Puyol Pants Down
• Ctrl Alt De Laet
• Hakuna Juan Mata
• Expected Toulouse
• Murder on Zidane’s Floor
• Kante Stop the Feeling
• Dyche Rollin’

Current Player Puns

• Haaland Oates
• Salah-d Days
• The Trent End
• Kane and Unable
• Saka Potatoes
• Son of a Pitch
• Rash Decisions (Rashford)
• Palmer’s Chocolates

Manager References

• Pep’s Bald Fraud
• Arteta Fact
• Ten Hag Commandments
• Klopp & Roll
• Conte’s Army
• Emery’s Hermits
• Moyes Boys

Team Name Puns

• Lallana Del Rey
• Giroud Awakening
• MyCock Hurts (Mykhaylo)
• Neves Gonna Give You Up
• Michu at the Disco
• Cech Yourself

Self-Deprecating

• Fake Madrid
• Brexit Means Brexit Ball
• Inter Yateeth (for bad picks)
• Getting Messi
• Hardly Athletic
• Unreal Sociopath
• Norfolk and Chance
• Expected Toulouse (xL)

Wildcard/Bench Boost Humor

• Wildcard Bitches
• 50 Shades of Grealish
• Saved by the Bellerin
• The Big Leb-Austin
• One Size Fitz Hall

Transfer Chaos

• 2 Girls 1 Schlupp
• Bali Acne (Balotelli reference)
• Show Me the Mane (Sadio)
• Pique Blinders
• Innocent Until Proven Gylfi

Clever Wordplay

• Men Behaving Chadli
• Giroud Sandstorm
• Crouch Potato
• Tiki Taka Bites Back
• Game of Throw-Ins

Movie/TV References

• The Sopranos (Pulisic, etc.)
• Jurassic Park the Bus
• Breaking Bale
• Game of Throw-Ins
• Reus Witherspoon
• The Godfather (Part Deeney)

Drinking/Party Theme

• Tequila Con Carne
• Kroenke’s Drunk Again
• Six Offenders & A Wedding
• Beer & Loathing

Classic British Humor

• Chicken Tikka Mo Salah
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Skrtl
• Only Fools and Horsemen
• Mitrovic’s Dog & Duck

Recent/Trendy

• Palmer’s Ballers
• Haaland’s Hungry
• Mudryk or Swim
• Darwin’s Theory
• Antony’s Disaster Class

Clean Sheet Jokes

• Kean to Impress
• Ramsdale My Beloved
• Ederson of the State
• Pope’s Blessing

Captain Choices

• Always Captain Salah
• Haaland C Gang
• Differential Dan
• Template Tim
• Kneejerker United

Rank Climbing

• Chasing Green Arrows
• Rage Transfer FC
• Wildcard Warriors
• FPL Towers Hates Me
• OR Breaker

Triple Captain Disasters

• TC Sane (insane reference)
• Bench Boost Regrets
• Free Hit Fiasco
• Chip Strategy Shambles

Price Changes

• 0.1 Short Always
• Priced Out FC
• Budget Ballers
• Value Vultures
• Template Followers

Bonus Points

• BPS Hunters
• Bonus Point Bandits
• 60 Minute Sub Pain
• Yellow Card Merchants

Anti-Fantasy Vibes

• Expected Fails
• Differential Disasters
• Kneejerked FC
• Casuals United
• Set and Forget (But Don’t)

Simple but Effective

• Pep Roulette Victims
• The Rant Thread
• FPL Twitter Told Me To
• Magnus Carlsen Wannabe
• Top 10k Dreams

Brexit Ball

• Brexit Ball FC
• Long Ball Merchants
• Pulis’s Preferred XI
• Route One to Victory

High IQ Puns

• Lewa Expectations (Lewandowski)
• Krul and Unusual
• Shaw Stopping
• Rice Rice Baby
• Bowen Arrow

Ownership Jokes

• 90% Owned Problems
• Template & Chill
• Essential FC
• Differential Dandies
• Casual Crushers

FPL Community

• Let’s Talk FPL FC
• FPL Focal Fans
• FPL Wire Subscribers
• The Scout Lies
• Andy’s Knees

Injury Nightmares

• Flagged & Furious
• Physio Room Regulars
• 75% Fit FC
• Press Conference Victims
• Pep’s Bald Lies

Points Chasing

• Chasing Last Week’s Points
• Hindsight Heroes
• Should’ve Captained Him
• Bench Points Galore
• Auto-Sub Saviors

Funny & Punny FPL Team Names

• Giroud Sandstorm
• Boom Xhakalaka
• Earth, Wind & Maguire
• Ctrl Alt De Laet
• Lallanas in Pyjamas
• Pique Blinders
• Cereal Killers
• Game of Throw-Ins
• Egg Fried Reus
• Goals Aloud

Player-Based Wordplay (2025 Favorites)

• Haaland Oats
• You Gotta Kane Me
• Don’tCallMeSchlupp
• In the Name of Toney
• Rash Decisions
• Who Ate All Depays
• Mount Everest
• Lord of the Ings
• Odegaardian Angels
• Ake Breaky Heart

Smart & Witty Choices

• Expected Toulouse
• Klopp Fiction
• Ctrl Alt De Bruyne
• Men Behaving Chadli
• Obi One Kenobi Nil
• Show Me Da Mane
• Deeney in a Bottle
• The Wizard of Özil
• Net Six & Chill
• Sons of Pitches

Edgy & Savage Team Names

• Red Card Society
• VARcelona
• Dirty Sanchez
• Murder on Zidane’s Floor
• Ref’s Gone Mad
• The Dispossessed
• No Kane, No Gain
• Full Metal Jack Grealish
• Saka Potatoes
• The Incrediballs

Cool & Confident Team Names

• Top of the Klopp
• The Invincibles 2.0
• Dream Eleven
• Ultimate XI
• Goal Diggers
• FPL Royalty
• The Bench Boosters
• Fantasy Phantoms
• Clean Sheet Crew
• The Captaincy Kings

Goalkeeper-Inspired

• Alisson Wonderland
• Saving Private Ryan
• De Gea Vu
• Pope Culture
• Catch Me If You Kepa

Cool FPL team name ideas

• Stranger Mings
• Come Digne with Mee
• Blink-1 Eto’o
• Game of Stones
• No Kane, No Gain (Fantasy Football
• Livin’ Saliba Loca
• Yoro Wissa Harry
• Mirror Signal Malouda
• The Slot Thickens
• Alisson Wonderland

The Clever Puns & Wordplay

These names show you’ve put some thought in and are always crowd-pleasers.

• Kante Touch This – The ultimate classic.
• Making a Trippier – A modern favorite.
• Rice, Rice, Baby – For the Declan Rice owners.
• Silent Counter Attack – A nod to the “Template Team” meta.
• Pukki Party – A legendary name from his breakout season.
• Willian Dollar Baby – A film reference and a pun.
• Odegaard of Dreams
• Son of a Gunners
• Mee and You and Kabasele – A deep-cut for defenders.
• Pep’s Bald Headache

The Funny & Ironic

For when you want to show you don’t take it too seriously (even though you do).

• Havertz Gone Wrong – Perfect for his frustrating spells.
• No Fuchs Given – A timeless, cheeky defender pun.
• Expected Toulouse – For the stat nerds.
• Net Spend FC – For the FPL managers who also play Fantasy Draft.
• Klopp Til It’s Over
• Pep Talked Me Into It – For when a Pep roulette decision backfires.
• My Wife Leaves FC – The self-deprecating classic.
• Glass Orn
• Taxi for De Bruyne? – A classic football phrase.

Pop Culture References

Show off your interests outside of football.

• Game of Throw-Ins
• Breaking Shearer’s Record – A Breaking Bad twist.
• Lord of the Ings – When Danny Ings is your savior.
• Pulisic in Boots – Puss in Boots.
• Stranger Mings – Stranger Things.
• The Shawshank Redemption – For Luke Shaw fans.
• Forgetting Timo Werner – A Forgetting Sarah Marshall nod to his Chelsea days.
• The Big Sadio – The Big Lebowski.

Player-Specific Names

Perfect for showing allegiance to a specific player or club.

For Erling Haaland:

• Haaland Land
• The Robot Revolution
• Haal-and Seek

For Mohamed Salah:

• Salah Ding
• Egyptian King
• Mo Salah, Mo Problems

For Bukayo Saka:

• Saka Potter
• Starboy Saka
• Saka Sunday

For Trent Alexander-Arnold:

• TAA-ctic
• Trent’s Attacking Returns
• The Scouser in Your House

For Cole Palmer:

• Cold Palmer
• Palmer-nator
• Cole World (No Blank)

The Self-Deprecating & Painful

For when your season is already going wrong, but you have a sense of humor about it.

• Template Team – The brutally honest choice.
• Bench Boost Blunder
• Taking the Mitoma – A nod to a frustrating but talented player.
• Wildcard Gone Wild
• Captain’s Pickle – For when your (C) choice fails.
• Points Hit for Nothing
• I Kneejerked Too Much

The Ambitious & Confident

Let everyone in your mini-league know you mean business.

• Shearer Never Dies
• FPL Champion 2024/25 – Manifest your destiny.
• Miles Ahead
• The Triple Captain
• Ballon d’FPL

Player Puns (Current)

• Haalandaise Sauce (Erling Haaland)
• Kinder Mbeumo (Bryan Mbeumo)
• Snoop Udogie Dogg (Destiny Udogie)
• Major League Saka (Bukayo Saka)
• Livin’ Saliba Loca (William Saliba)
• Onana What’s My Name (Andre Onana)
• Under My Cucurella (Marc Cucurella)
• MacAwoniyi Cheese (Taiwo Awoniyi)
• McGinn and Tonic (John McGinn)
• Botman Begins (Sven Botman)
• Rice, Rice, Baby (Declan Rice)
• Palmer Violets (Cole Palmer)
• Stranger Mings (Tyrone Mings)
• Wirtz Case Scenario (Florian Wirtz)

Manager Puns

• Ange Management (Ange Postecoglou)
• Backstreet Moyes (David Moyes)
• Slot Machine (Arne Slot)
• Hakuna Mateta (Mikel Arteta)
• Thomas the Frank Engine (Thomas Frank)

Classic Puns & Other Funny Names

• No Kane No Gain (A classic from the Harry Kane era)
• Pique Blinders
• Blink-1 Eto’o
• Alisson Wonderland
• Cesc and the City
• Klopps and Robbers
• Game of Throw-ins
• Neville Wears Prada
• Tea & Busquets
• Bendtner Over

Funny FPL Team Names

• Player Pun Classics
• Saka Potatoes
• Thomas the Frank Engine
• HaCunhaMateta
• Kai Me a River
• Isak Newton
• Manager & Club Shenanigans
• Slot Machine
• Ange L’Delight
• The Slot Thickens
• Don’t Pick Ford
• Nuno Reverse U
• Wirtz Mania
• Wirtz Case Scenario
• Can’t Get Any Wirtz
• Famous Last Wirtz
• Big Juicy Bratwirtz
• Squidwirtz
• Fresh X Finds
• Hacuna Matata
• Jian Bantra
• Doku Who
• Seelt and PEPer
• Old Havertz Kai Hard
• Wild Cards
• Calafiornication
• Gyok Tuah
• Beef Cherki
• Zirkzee and I Know It!
• xGesus