Help & Rules

Fantasy football for the South African Premier Soccer League, played like Fantasy Premier League. Pick a squad of 15 PSL players and score points from how they perform in real matches each gameweek.

No. SuperPSL is an independent fan game. It isn’t affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the Premier Soccer League, the Betway Premiership or any club. Club names, crests and player images belong to their owners.

It’s free to play: there are no entry fees, prizes or real-money stakes.

Matches are grouped by calendar week, Monday to Sunday (South African time). Most weeks hold one round of fixtures; when the schedule bunches up, a week can hold more, and your players score in every match they play that week.

90 minutes before the gameweek's first kickoff. Lineup changes, transfers and chips for that gameweek must be made before then.

Deadlines don't move once set, with one exception: see double and blank gameweeks. If a match is rescheduled, it counts in the gameweek it's played in instead.

PSL fixtures don't come in neat rounds, so in some gameweeks a club plays twice, and in others it doesn't play at all.

• Double gameweek: the club plays twice and its players score in both matches. The points add up, and your captain's points from both matches are doubled.
• Blank gameweek: the club has no match, so its players score 0. Bench them, or bring in players who do play.

A postponed match that's rescheduled counts in the gameweek it's played in, which becomes a double for both clubs.

If every match in a gameweek is postponed, there's nothing to play: you don't get a free transfer for it, and chips can't be played in it. If you'd already played a chip for it, you get the chip back once the deadline passes.

If a gameweek's round is postponed and only one to three catch-up matches are left in later weeks, they move to the next gameweek. That gameweek's deadline moves earlier, to 90 minutes before the first of them, and the gameweek they left becomes a blank. This only happens while both deadlines are still ahead.

No. Your team starts scoring from its first gameweek; earlier gameweeks show no points for your team.

• 15 players: 2 goalkeepers, 5 defenders, 5 midfielders and 3 forwards
• A total budget of R100m at current prices
• At most 3 players from any one club

Yes. Until your first deadline passes, transfers are unlimited and free. After that, normal transfer rules apply.

Choose 11 starters and put the other 4 on the bench in priority order. Your starters must form a valid formation:

• Exactly 1 goalkeeper
• At least 3 defenders
• At least 1 forward

Only your starters score, unless you play Bench Boost.

Pick a captain and a vice-captain from your starters. Your captain's points are doubled. If your captain doesn't play in the gameweek, your vice-captain's points are doubled instead once the gameweek's points are final.

Automatic substitutions: once the gameweek's points are final, about 12 hours after its last match, your bench players come on in priority order, as long as the bench player played and your formation stays valid. Playing means any minutes on the pitch, or getting a card.

Until then, your team stays exactly as you picked it, and your bench players don’t score.

There are no automatic substitutions when Bench Boost is active.

Your most recent lineup carries over automatically. When you create your squad, it starts with a lineup picked for you, which you can change in Pick Team.

Nobody — selling your captain or vice-captain removes the armband. Open Pick Team and choose a new one before the deadline, or nobody gets double points.

One per gameweek. Unused free transfers carry over to the next gameweek, up to a maximum of 5.

Each transfer beyond your free ones costs 4 points, taken off that gameweek's score. You can make at most 20 transfers in a gameweek (no limit with a Wildcard or Free Hit).

You buy at the current price. When you sell:

• If the price has dropped, you sell at the current price
• If the price has risen, you keep half the rise, rounded down to R0.1m

Your bank must cover the difference when you sign someone.

When a player is sold, released or loaned out to a club outside the PSL, he's marked as having left the club, with a red ! on your team. He can't be bought any more, but you can still sell him to free up his place.

A yellow ! means a player is doubtful, with his chance of playing in the next round (75%, 50% or 25%). A red ! means he's injured, suspended or unavailable. Tap him to read the latest news.

• A player taken off injured is flagged doubtful
• A player sent off is suspended for his club's next league match
• These flags clear once his club has played that match, unless there's newer news

Flags never stop you buying or picking a player, but Auto Pick and the starting XI we pick for you leave flagged players out where they can.

Each chip can be played once in each half of the season (Gameweeks 1–15, then Gameweek 16 onwards), and only one chip per gameweek. Play them before the deadline.

Play Bench Boost, Triple Captain and Free Hit from Pick Team. Play Wildcard and Free Hit when you confirm your transfers.

The Chips page shows which chips you can still play and when you played the others.

All your transfers that gameweek are free, and any hits you've already taken that gameweek are refunded. It can't be cancelled once played.

Unlimited free transfers for one gameweek. Your Free Hit team plays that gameweek, then your squad and your lineup return to how they were before once the deadline passes. It can't be played in consecutive gameweeks or cancelled once played.

Your captain's points are tripled instead of doubled. You can cancel it before the deadline.

Your bench players' points count too, and there are no automatic substitutions. You can cancel it before the deadline.

From each player's position and this season's matches: goals, assists, minutes, match ratings, and their club's league position. Prices range from R3.5m to R12.5m.

Prices follow the transfer market: players bought by many managers rise, players sold by many fall. A price moves at most R0.1m a day and R0.3m a gameweek.

Everyone is in the SuperPSL Fans league from the moment they create their squad, so you can see how you rank against every manager.

For an invitational league, ask its creator for the 8-character code and enter it under Leagues → Join with a code. You can be in up to 30 invitational leagues.

Managers are ranked by total points. Ties go to whoever made fewer transfers (transfers in Wildcard and Free Hit weeks don’t count). You can join or leave at any time.

You play one other manager each gameweek: 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw. Fixtures are drawn when the league’s first deadline passes, and then the league locks — nobody can join or leave.

In a league with an odd number of managers, the spare team plays the "average team", which scores the gameweek’s average.

If a manager deletes their account, the average team takes their place in every fixture, past and future.

Yes — tap a manager in your league's standings. Teams are revealed once a gameweek has been scored, never before the deadline.