Retro Fantasy Premier League

High scores & stats from FPL since it launched in 2002 - illustrated in the modern FPL style.

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On this day 🗓️

19th Oct 2002: Everton 2-1 Arsenal
A 16-year-old Wayne Rooney scored his first Premier League goal - a spectacular 30-yard winner in the 89th minute to end Arsenal's 30-match unbeaten league run.

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Captaincy pick ✅
Attacking assets returning ✅

This was the best team of Gameweek 7 in #FPL 2002/03.

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When #FPL was launched in 2002, Ruud van Nistelrooy was the most expensive player in the game at £11.5m.

His price rose to £11.8m at the end of the season.

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Massive thanks to FPL Discovery and the Way Back Machine!

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Origins of #FPL (a thread):

Fantasy football was invented in 1990 by Italian journalist Riccardo Albini.

In the summer of 1994, the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport provided the rankings necessary to calculate fantasy teams' scores.

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The Fantasy Gods saw all that they had made, and it was very good. And then they rested.

With over 8 million players, Fantasy Premier League is the biggest Fantasy Football game in the world.

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