Draft once.
Manage all season.
Win the Title.
Everything you need to understand Top Four, from the preseason snake draft to Top 4 playoffs, the cup steal, and the scoring systems you pick on draft day.
Try the 2025/26 draft
From draft day to the final whistle.
One preseason draft
Before the season starts, your league holds a single snake draft: 6 to 12 teams, 16-player exclusive squads. Then you manage that roster all year.
Set weekly lineups
Each gameweek: 1 GK, 3 DEF, 3 MID, 2 FWD, and 2 FLEX from the 16-player squad you drafted.
Compete head-to-head
Weekly H2H matchups against league rivals. Climb the table toward a Top 4 playoff spot.
Trades & waivers
Deal with rivals or claim free agents off the wire. Improve your team without redrafting.
Draft day hits different.
Then the season is yours.
Before a ball is kicked, your league drafts in snake order: 6 to 12 teams, 16 exclusive players each. Defenders and mids go early when scarcity demands it. That squad is yours all year. Then lineups, trades, and waiver wars.
- ✓One draft, full season
Draft day happens before the season. The 16-player squad you build is yours from August through May. No redraft each gameweek.
- ✓Back your football judgment
The best managers read profiles and roles before kick-off: who dominates duels, who creates, who controls tempo.
- ✓Scarcity beats raw points
Forwards may score the most, but elite defenders and midfielders go early when talent drops off fast at a position.
- ✓Trades and waivers
Injuries, form swings, fixture runs. Reshape your squad mid-season by trading with league mates or winning waiver claims.
Weekly lineups from your squad. Trade with league mates when you need a shake-up. Claim the best available player on waivers. Your preseason reads matter, but so does how you manage the season.
New XI every week
New XI every week.
Same squad all season.
Every gameweek you set 1 GK · 3 DEF · 3 MID · 2 FWD · 2 FLEX from the roster you drafted. Two FLEX spots let you start extra outfielders (defender, midfielder, or forward). Your call each week.
- ✓16-player squad: 11 starters and 5 on the bench each gameweek.
- ✓Each week: 1 GK, 3 DEF, 3 MID, 2 FWD, and 2 FLEX from any outfield position.
- ✓Two FLEX spots: start an extra defender, midfielder, or forward each week.
- ✓Same drafted squad all season. Only your starting XI changes.
Make the Top 4.
Fight for the championship.
Regular-season table position gets you there, or win the cup and steal your spot. Then the Top 4 playoffs decide who becomes Top Four Champion. Finishing first in the league table is not the title.
- ✓Head-to-head league
Weekly H2H matchups all season. League standings fill the Top 4, but finishing first is not the championship.
- ✓Win the cup, steal your spot
Knockout cup running alongside the league. Win it to become Cup Champion and lock in a Top 4 playoff place.
- ✓Top 4 playoffs
Four teams. Semi-finals, then a final. The playoff winner becomes Top Four Champion, not the regular-season leader.
Top Four Champion: wins the Top 4 playoff final. Cup Champion: wins the knockout cup; also earns a guaranteed Top 4 playoff spot.
Finish high enough in the regular-season standings to claim a Top 4 playoff spot.
Win the knockout cup and steal a guaranteed Top 4 place, even if the table says otherwise.
Not another
fantasy clone.
Season-long exclusive squads. Full-match scoring beyond goals and assists. Football knowledge matters on draft day and every gameweek after, not weekly redrafts or chasing the same template.
Traditional fantasy
- Weekly transfers and price changes
- Everyone can own the same stars
- Chasing templates and ownership %
- No real draft, just budget juggling
- Points lean on goals and assists
Top Four
- One preseason draft: 16-player exclusive squads
- Weekly head-to-head league matchups
- Top 4 playoffs decide the championship
- Win the cup to steal your Top 4 spot
- Full-match scoring beyond goals and assists
- Football judgment beats templates
Top Four Fantasy is not affiliated with the Premier League, the FA, or any football club.
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