FPL Set-Piece and Penalty Takers 2026/27: All 20 Clubs
Every Premier League club's penalty, corner and direct free-kick taker for 2026/27, with new prices. Find the cheap set-piece specialists before your rivals do.
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Data current as of: 4 September 2026, before the Gameweek 3 deadline. Coverage: All 20 clubs, primary and secondary duties. Duties and prices are current, and were last checked against the live squad lists on 4 September 2026. Summer transfers have changed five clubs’ penalty orders since this post first ran in July.
Set-piece duty is the cheapest edge in FPL. A penalty is worth roughly 0.76 expected goals, a direct free kick 0.05 to 0.10, and corners feed about a quarter of all goals in the league. None of that is priced properly at launch, because the game prices players on last season’s points, not on the job they are about to be handed.
That gap is where the value sits. Below is every club’s duty list for 2026/27, then the specific players whose price does not reflect what they are about to be trusted with.
Penalty takers, all 20 clubs
Confidence is how firm the duty is. 3/3 means the club has effectively confirmed it, 2/3 means it is the expected order without a firm statement, 1/3 means it is a best guess at the backup.
| Club | Pen #1 | Pos | Price | Conf | Pen #2 | Conf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARS | Saka | MID | £9.5m | 3/3 | Gyökeres | 2/3 |
| AVL | Buendía | MID | £6.0m | 3/3 | Watkins | 2/3 |
| BHA | O’Riley | MID | £5.5m | 2/3 | n/a | n/a |
| BOU | Kluivert | MID | £6.0m | 3/3 | Kroupi.Jr | 2/3 |
| BRE | Thiago | FWD | £8.0m | 3/3 | Schade | 2/3 |
| CHE | Palmer | MID | £9.6m | 3/3 | Estêvão | 1/3 |
| COV | Wright | FWD | £5.4m | 3/3 | Torp | 2/3 |
| CRY | Mateta | FWD | £6.4m | 3/3 | Sarr | 2/3 |
| EVE | Garner | MID | £6.0m | 2/3 | Beto | 1/3 |
| FUL | Robinson | DEF | £4.5m | 3/3 | Iwobi | 2/3 |
| HUL | McBurnie | FWD | £5.5m | 3/3 | Crooks | 2/3 |
| IPS | Clarke | MID | £5.5m | 3/3 | Philogene | 2/3 |
| LEE | Calvert-Lewin | FWD | £6.0m | 3/3 | Nmecha | 2/3 |
| LIV | Szoboszlai | MID | £7.0m | 3/3 | Gakpo | 2/3 |
| MCI | Haaland | FWD | £15.5m | 3/3 | Doku | 1/3 |
| MUN | B.Fernandes | MID | £12.0m | 3/3 | Mbeumo | 2/3 |
| NEW | Woltemade | FWD | £5.9m | 2/3 | Osula | 1/3 |
| NFO | Wood | FWD | £5.9m | 3/3 | Gibbs-White | 2/3 |
| SUN | Diarra | MID | £5.5m | 3/3 | E.Le Fée | 2/3 |
| TOT | Solanke | FWD | £5.9m | 3/3 | Kudus | 2/3 |
Corners and direct free kicks
| Club | Corners #1 | Pos | Price | Direct FK #1 | Pos | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARS | Rice | MID | £7.5m | Rice | MID | £7.5m |
| AVL | Cash | DEF | £4.5m | Buendía | MID | £6.0m |
| BHA | Groß | MID | £5.5m | De Cuyper | DEF | £4.7m |
| BOU | Tavernier | MID | £6.0m | Enes Ünal | FWD | £5.5m |
| BRE | Jensen | MID | £5.5m | Lewis-Potter | MID | £5.5m |
| CHE | James | DEF | £5.5m | James | DEF | £5.5m |
| COV | Grimes | MID | £5.0m | Torp | MID | £5.4m |
| CRY | Wharton | MID | £5.5m | Yeremy | MID | £5.5m |
| EVE | Garner | MID | £6.0m | Garner | MID | £6.0m |
| FUL | Iwobi | MID | £5.5m | Iwobi | MID | £5.5m |
| HUL | Slater | MID | £4.5m | Giles | DEF | £4.0m |
| IPS | Davis | DEF | £4.0m | Núñez | MID | £5.0m |
| LEE | Stach | MID | £6.0m | Stach | MID | £6.0m |
| LIV | Szoboszlai | MID | £7.0m | Szoboszlai | MID | £7.0m |
| MCI | Cherki | MID | £7.7m | Cherki | MID | £7.7m |
| MUN | B.Fernandes | MID | £12.0m | B.Fernandes | MID | £12.0m |
| NEW | Hall | DEF | £5.1m | Hall | DEF | £5.1m |
| NFO | Hutchinson | MID | £5.4m | Gibbs-White | MID | £7.9m |
| SUN | Xhaka | MID | £5.5m | Xhaka | MID | £5.5m |
| TOT | Tel | MID | £5.9m | Pedro Porro | DEF | £5.5m |
The two players on all three duties
Only two players in the league hold first-choice penalties, corners and direct free kicks.
B.Fernandes (MUN, £12.0m) is one of them, which is most of the argument for a £12.0m midfielder. He turned that workload into 24 assists and 235 points last season, the highest assist tally in the game.
Szoboszlai (LIV, £7.0m) is the other, and he is half the price. He scored 160 points from 3,232 minutes last season without the penalty duty he now has. A nailed Liverpool midfielder on every dead ball at £7.0m is the single best structural pick in the game right now.
The £4.5m defender on penalties
Robinson (FUL, £4.5m) is a defender, and he is Fulham’s first-choice penalty taker at 3/3 confidence. That is not a typo and it is not a rotation guess. He played 1,487 minutes and returned 65 points last season with no penalties at all.
At the cheapest defensive price point, a starting full-back with clean sheet upside and spot kicks is a genuinely different asset from every other £4.5m defender. The risk is his minutes, not his duty.
Defenders on corners and free kicks
Set-piece duty turns a budget defender into an attacking returner. These are the primary duty holders who play at the back:
| Player | Club | Price | Duty | Last season |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davis | IPS | £4.0m | Corners | Promoted, no PL data |
| Giles | HUL | £4.0m | Direct FK | Promoted, no PL data |
| Cash | AVL | £4.5m | Corners | 117 pts, 3 goals, 3 assists |
| De Cuyper | BHA | £4.7m | Direct FK | 3 assists |
| Hall | NEW | £5.1m | Corners and FK | 79 pts, 2,176 mins |
| James | CHE | £5.5m | Corners and FK | 115 pts, 6 assists |
| Pedro Porro | TOT | £5.5m | Direct FK | 117 pts, 3 assists |
Cash (AVL, £4.5m) is the standout on price. He played 3,016 minutes last season for 117 points and eight clean sheets, and he takes the corners. At the second-cheapest defensive price bracket that is a starter with a genuine assist route.
Hall (NEW, £5.1m) takes both corners and direct free kicks for Newcastle. His 79 points last season understate the role he is walking into.
The cheap penalty takers
Four clubs have a first-choice penalty taker priced at £5.5m or less:
- Wright (COV, £5.4m), a forward at a promoted club
- McBurnie (HUL, £5.5m), same profile at Hull
- Clarke (IPS, £5.5m), Ipswich midfielder
- Diarra (SUN, £5.5m), Sunderland midfielder
Promoted-club penalty takers carry real risk. The team has to win penalties to make the duty worth anything, and Coventry, Hull and Ipswich have no Premier League baseline to judge. Diarra (SUN, £5.5m) is the safer version of the same idea, at a club that survived last season with 6 assists from him in 1,403 minutes.
Where the duty is shared
Two clubs are worth flagging as unresolved.
Arsenal have Saka (ARS, £9.5m) on penalties at 3/3 but Gyökeres (ARS, £7.3m) listed second at 2/3, and Rice (ARS, £7.5m) on both corners and free kicks. Rice returned 184 points and 18 clean sheets last season, and the dead-ball workload is a reason he stays underpriced as a midfielder.
Everton no longer split theirs. Ndiaye left for Manchester City, and Garner (EVE, £6.0m) now holds corners, direct free kicks and the top spot in the penalty order, though the penalty duty sits at 2/3 rather than confirmed. Garner played 3,413 minutes last season, more than any other Everton outfielder, for 159 points. He is the closest thing in the league to a third player on all three duties.
Check this again before the deadline
Duties move. A manager hands the ball to someone else, a new signing arrives, and the list changes. Five clubs’ penalty orders have already changed since July, all of them through transfers: Brighton, Chelsea, Everton, Manchester City and Newcastle. Everything above reflects the picture as of 4 September 2026, before the Gameweek 3 deadline. Check team news again before you lock your squad, especially at the promoted clubs where the sample is still two matches deep.
The duties that will not move are the obvious ones. Haaland, Palmer, Saka and B.Fernandes are not losing their spot kicks. The value is one tier below that, in the £4.5m to £6.0m band where the price has not caught up with the job.
Once you have your squad, run it through the transfer suggestions tool to see which of your picks are carrying set-piece duty and which are pure clean sheet punts.