Ipswich Town FPL Guide GW9 2026/27
Best FPL picks, captain options, budget enablers, DEFCON routes and differentials: synced to official prices.
By FootballDream Admin · Last updated · Prices synced from the official FPL API
- DEFCON: centre-backs and full-backs who rack up tackles, blocks, clearances and interceptions now have a second scoring route beyond clean sheets.
- Fixtures: check Ipswich's opening run on the FPL fixture list and the GW9 preview above before locking premiums.
- Prices: every Ipswich price is on FPL prices : then play free on Gameweek Fantasy.
- Differentials: looking for a low-owned Ipswich pick? Check FPL Differentials.
📊Fantasy Overview
Ipswich Town are 10th on 9 points after 7 games (LWLWL). Last time out they lost to Manchester City 2–3 away in GW7. Next up in GW9: away at Hull City, Sat 31 Oct, 15:00 GMT, difficulty 2/5. Top FPL scorers so far: Emersonn (£5.5m, 31 pts), Julio Enciso (£5.5m, 29 pts), Leif Davis (£4.0m, 28 pts). Open predicted XI → · GW9 preview →
Ipswich Town field one of the lowest-priced squads in the game, and that's still the entire fantasy function — with one new exception. Dara O'Shea has departed to Fulham. The exception is Dango Ouattara, arriving from Brentford at £6.4m: comfortably the most expensive name in the squad, and a genuinely different kind of pick from everything else here. Beyond him, the squad tops out at £5.5m, where Jaden Philogene, Jack Clarke, Fatawu Issahaku and Emersonn sit.
👥Full Squad & Prices
⭐Premium Picks
Ouattara's arrival at £6.4m is the closest thing Ipswich have had to a premium pick all season — pace and direct attacking threat from a full-back slot, priced well above anything else in this squad. Below him, Jaden Philogene, Jack Clarke and Fatawu Issahaku (all £5.4m) are the attacking midfielders with the most individual quality and the likeliest sources of a return. None of the rest is a genuine premium pick, and none should occupy a starting slot in your squad unless the fixtures are unusually kind.
💷Budget Enablers
This is still the main reason to look at Ipswich. Goalkeepers from £4.0m. Leif Davis is the pick of the £4.0m defenders for set-piece delivery. These remain the cheapest enablers available anywhere, Ouattara aside.
🎽Captaincy Options
Still not a captaincy squad, even with Ouattara's arrival. One attacking full-back doesn't change a side that remains one of the lowest-scoring attacks in the division, so there's no real scenario where an Ipswich asset justifies a doubled score. Their players belong in your squad as £4.0m bench and defensive filler that funds a premium striker elsewhere — keep the armband well away from them.
🎯Differential Picks
Ownership runs low enough across this squad that basically any Ipswich starter counts as a differential. Issahaku and Philogene at £5.4m are the two most likely to produce a surprise haul from wide. Zian Flemming has joined as a new forward option alongside Emersonn, both at £5.6m.
⚠️Players to Avoid
Don't pick Ipswich defenders expecting clean sheets — at £4.0m they're the cheapest in the game precisely because those clean sheets are rare, so own them as enablers and nothing more. I'd avoid chasing Ipswich attacking returns altogether.