Brighton & Hove Albion FPL Guide 2026/27

• DEFCON: centre-backs and full-backs who rack up tackles, blocks, clearances and interceptions now have a second scoring route beyond clean sheets.
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Brighton have no premium assets at all: Jack Hinshelwood and new arrival Babajide David top the squad at £6.0m, with Kaoru Mitoma and Yankuba Minteh just behind at £5.9m, and everything else cheaper still. Danny Welbeck, previously joint-top of that bracket, has since joined Chelsea. The defence is almost entirely £4.5m, Verbruggen and Dunk both included. What Brighton actually offer fantasy managers is a deep pool of £5.0-5.5m attackers with genuine quality, any of whom can produce a haul — set against the heaviest rotation of any mid-table side in the league.

• ↑ OUTDanny Welbeck, To Chelsea. Removes one body from a crowded forward line, which marginally improves the odds for Kostoulas, Rutter, Tzimas and Ferguson.
• ↑ OUTCarl Rushworth, To Coventry City. Bart Verbruggen is now the clear first-choice goalkeeper at £4.5m.
• ↓ INBabajide David, From Hull City at £6.0m FWD. Adds competition in a crowded forward line alongside Rutter, Kostoulas, Tzimas and Ferguson. Check starting lineups before buying.

There's no real premium bracket here — £6.0m is the hard ceiling. Mitoma is the pick of the bunch, a direct wide attacker who both creates and finishes, with Minteh offering similar threat from the other flank. Hinshelwood at £6.0m has the most secure midfield role. With Welbeck sold to Chelsea, Rutter at £5.5m is now the most experienced forward, and Babajide David, in from Hull at £6.0m, adds fresh competition up top. None of this demands a premium slot, which is precisely the appeal.

Brighton's defence is cheap right across the board. Verbruggen at £4.5m is the first-choice budget goalkeeper, with Steele at £4.0m the purest bench filler in the game since Carl Rushworth left for Coventry, and Dunk, Kadioglu, Julio, Boscagli, Coppola, De Cuyper and Costinha all sitting at £4.5m. Kadioglu and De Cuyper are the two with real attacking upside. Vušković, Struijk and Wieffer at £5.0m are the slightly pricier but more established alternatives.

Brighton simply aren't a captaincy side. Nothing above £6.0m, and a manager who rotates aggressively enough that you can captain someone who's off the pitch by the hour mark. In a genuinely soft home fixture, Mitoma is the most defensible differential armband — but in an ordinary week, put the captaincy on a premium forward somewhere else.

This squad is unusually rich in them. Kostoulas, Rutter, Tzimas and O'Riley all sit at £5.5m, with Ferguson, Gómez and Buonanotte at £5.0m — genuine attacking talent at next to no ownership (Carlos Baleba has since moved on to Manchester United). Ayari at £5.4m and Gross at £5.6m are the set-piece routes. Any one of these can win you a gameweek the moment they get a run of starts.

Rotation is the defining problem here, worse than almost anywhere else in the league. Brighton now carry five forwards priced £5.0-6.0m — David, Kostoulas, Rutter, Tzimas and Ferguson — competing for one or two places, and the midfield is just as congested. Never buy a Brighton attacker without checking the last two lineups, and don't own two from the same unit at once. Their £4.5m defenders rotate too, so treat them as enablers rather than reliable clean-sheet picks.