These are my additional internal rules for the Telegraph Fantasy Football 2026/27 Premier League (plus domestic cups) game.
The Telegraph has released its rules for this seasons TFF Premier League game of which full details can be found via this link: TFF Guidelines
If after reading the Telegraphs game information & rules along with these additional internal Super League rules you wish to play in the ‘BLM PREMIERSHIP’ Super League, then please feel free to sign up and join my Super League online.
The rules and everything are as the Telegraph states them… they run everything… the only difference with this Super League is I am charging £40 per team to join my Super League.
Now my internal fee of £40 may sound like a lot but it works out at approximately £1 per week for the duration of the football season. This internal entry fee is to facilitate making our own cash prizes for the winners and to promote competition within our own Fantasy Football Super League.
There is just three payment options:
All entry fees up front - either in cash (if you see me in person) or if not and you don’t know the score regards paying me remotely then please PM from here (TFP) and I will inform you of the options.
So, what exactly do you get for your money - well £1 of the £40 (per team) internal Super League entry fee goes towards the administration of all my games. This is the only game each year I take an admin fee from and goes towards subsidising all my games that I do. This helps towards my costs for all sorts of admin - phone calls, printing, sending out winners’ medals etc. not to mention having to chase the Telegraph up to sort things out when problems or issues arise, as they invariably do. Also, this fee helps offset when I am out of pocket, as I have been some years regarding paying the final prizes in this game when finances do not work out or someone’s payment was reversed.
The other £39 per entrant goes into the prize fund and is paid back out as prizes.
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Now the final prize positions are given as percentages because the final prize amounts will be affected by the number of entrants I get, what the highest weekly score of the season is (because prize is £1 per point of that score) and if anyone defaults (i.e. any peeps that simply don’t pay up after joining etc., - any occurrences of this nature won’t be tolerated. Alas reading the T&C’s it seems a mini league chairman no longer has the ability to remove teams from a private league once the season gets underway.
All team entry fees are requested to be paid once you have joined the league. To be clear NO ONE can win a prize before they have paid the internal entry fee so should anyone who has not paid up post the highest weekly score then that weekly chart prize is forfeited and so is that scores eligibility to win the highest season weeks score prize. That money just stays in the pot to increase the final end of season prize amounts for the eventual winners in the other prize positions.
Any tie for final prize positions at the end of the season will be decided by the Telegraphs Tie-Break rules. I will pay out on how TFF list you (so if TFF list you in a joint position this will result in an adding together of the prizes’ due for those tied positions and then them being split equally between the tying managers - but only if teams are listed in the same prize position. It is worth noting the Telegraph changes game operator from time to time and some seem to not like ties (going on past experience). They indeed seem to have criteria to split you - here is a link to this seasons Tie-Breaks rules: Tie-Breaks
I have had a look at the rules for this season and it does not look like they are having spin off leagues this year (Goals/Starting XI) - which truly sucks. As TFF has changed game operator this year and built a new website I am guessing they did this as pushed for time. Because of this I have had to completely change the league prize structure for this season.
View TFF full terms and conditions here: TFF Terms & Conditions
The ‘BLM’ CUP competition. Every team entered into the ‘BLM PREMIERSHIP’ Super League will automatically be entered into the ‘BLM’ CUP. All the teams in the ‘BLM PREMIERSHIP’ before the real FA Cup 3rd Round starts will be entered into a random draw. I use Draft Logics Cup Fixture Generator for this (Cup Fixture Generator) and screen record the cup draws to show all is random and above board. I then post the video on this thread at The Fan Pub forum so anyone can watch the draw here. Those who I have an e-mail address for will be sent a link to each rounds draw video when I publish it here. The Cup will work on a knock out basis. I will produce a list of the ties and e-mail this out to everyone in the league (I have an e-mail address for) so you can see whom you’re up against. For this reason, do keep me advised of your current e-mail address if you’re a new player to my Super League or have changed it since last season (or if you did not get e-mails last season - as that means I do not have your e-mail address saved in my mailing list group for this league so please tell me to add you).
Cup draw videos will be posted in this TFP Forum thread as the season progresses after each draw has been made. Also results of each round to.
So, when the FA Cup 3rd Round starts (the round when Premiership & Championship teams come into it), that week’s scores only will decide who goes through to the next round. Basically, whoever has the highest score for that one week only, out of the two teams drawn against each other goes through. On occasions there may be an odd number of teams in which case the last fixture generated will be a three-way tie and the two teams with the highest score that FA Cup week will go through to the next round. In the event of draws, to decide which team goes through to the next round, the scores will be compared for the following week (and so on if need be) until there is a difference in scores. The team with the higher score will go through, the other will be out. As soon as a round is completed a draw will be made for those teams left in the next round of the cup and those ties will take place on the next FA Cup week. Our Cup competition is trying to mirror the real FA Cup competition. Non-FA Cup games can also score you points in our cup game if you are lucky enough to have any Premier League or League Cup games (with your fantasy players in) taking place in the same scoring week as the FA Cup games.
However, you can pretty much be assured when it is an FA Cup weekend it is also a Cup scoring week in our own Super League Cup competition (for those left in it). Based on previous seasons experiences there may be times when we have to miss out a round (or in the future add an extra round) to get our number of teams down to just eight, to match the real FA Cup quarter-finals, semi-finals and final. In any event it will be done fairly, notice will be given in time for managers to make adjustments if they wish / need to (i.e. transfers) but when the real FA Cup quarter-finals take place we will also only have 8 teams left in our Cup competition.
Also, to make the 8 teams needed for the Quarter-finals there may be the need for the preceding round to be an all v all round between all the remaining teams left if there are not enough teams left to make separate games and still leave 8 teams afterwards. For instance, if I have 12 teams then separate games would leave me with only 6 teams so in this case it would be an all v all round with the 4 lowest scoring teams that Cup week going out and the remaining 8 going through to the Quarter-finals.
My league is only open to new entries until the start of TFF Week 2. This is to make sure it is fair and an even playing field for all, no waiting to see what kind of start you got off to and sticking what you think is your best team in then.
Finally, there is no league of league prize again this season - I think this is because the Telegraph is a free to play game these days, (no buying of credits needed), so naturally they have had to reign in their national prizes. However, this now means people outside of the UK can play too (but new this year they have now made it an adult only game with a minimum age of 18 to play). Players from outside of the UK and CI are not eligible to win the Telegraphs national prizes. However, in my private BLM PREMIERSHIP super league your fine to win my cash prizes wherever you are in the world as long as you paid the entry fee when joining.
Super League Name: BLM PREMIERSHIP
Super League Passcode: XJEV9V
best regards,
bluelionman / Noel Symonds
Fan Pub Founding Member
symbol next to you when I have received payment for your team entry!
