17 Jun, 2025
Do you want to learn how the infamous Free Hit chip works in FPL? If that’s a yes, you’re in the right place! Keep reading to discover all you need to know about the Free Hit chip, including the rules, how to activate it, the best strategies, mistakes to avoid and key FAQ’s!
In Fantasy Premier League, the Free Hit chip permits managers to make limitless transfers for a solitary Gameweek. When the Free Hit chip is activated, FPL managers may make as many transfers as they desire, without penalty, but these changes only remain for that single Gameweek, and your team will return to it’s previous iteration after the Gameweek finishes.
Managers have one Free Hit a season that is available to use from Gameweek 2 onwards.
Activating your Free Hit chip is straightforward, just follow these steps:
One of the most popular times to use your Free Hit chip is during a “blank Gameweek”. A blank Gameweek is a GW in which multiple teams are not playing, because of FA or EFL Cup fixtures that they must play, with their league games being rescheduled for later dates. The teams often not playing in a blank Gameweek are the Premier League’s better teams, particularly top half teams – as they tend to get further in the Cup competitions. Given many of FPL’s best assets come from these teams, these blank Gameweeks can leave our teams looking bare bones with only a few players actually featuring in games.
Activating the Free Hit chip in a blank Gameweek allows managers to flip a tough situation, in which many of your key players do not have a game that week, into one where managers could gain a big differential over opponents. Managers should assess how many of their players have a game that week – if your team cannot field more than 7 players that week, using your Free Hit might be wise. Managers will need to assess what the best teams, players and matchups are to target for that week and that week only – long term value is not a part of the calculation.
One more ideal chance to utilise the Free Hit is during double Gameweeks, where certain teams have 2 matches within 1 Gameweek. The argument for activating your Free Hit chip during a double Gameweek is that you can load up your team for that week with who you believe are the best available players who have 2 games that week, elevating the potential for major hauls, without spending points on multiple transfers. Doing this creates a very high ceiling for your points return in the double Gameweek without making major changes to your team for ensuing Gameweeks.
Targeting players who are in good form and have attractive fixtures for that double Gameweek could provide major returns and allow managers to rectify any early season mistakes with incredibly high scoring weeks that give them a major push up the rankings.
At times, your squad might be suffer multiple injuries and/or suspensions, leaving things looking less than rosy. In these situations, the Free Hit chip could be useful if there are particular teams and fixtures you want to attack, but ideally you are able to manage any injury or suspension without wasting a chip.
Another strategy for utilisating the Free Hit chip is to take advantage of a Gameweek where top teams are all facing bottom half of the league teams. For example, if teams such as Man City, Arsenal or Liverpool have appealing fixtures in the same week, you can utilise the Free Hit to stack up on their best players for the Gameweek, leaving all of your budget for these premium assets on premium teams. This is a riskier strategy as it hinges on you perfectly anticipating exactly what players and matchups to target and everything playing out as you would anticipate – which is very often not how sports work. Utilising your Free Hit chip during a blank GW or double GW provides a higher chance of positive results and providing maximum value.
The Free Hit chip is an important chip every season and should be utilised with thought, planning and intentional strategic purposes. It is a very useful chip to improve your teams outlook during double or blank Gameweeks. Similarly to the Triple Captain chip, it can provide a huge differential between you and your opponents that can send you shooting up your mini-league tables and the overall rankings if utilised correctly.
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