Season 2026/27 · South Africa

You don't play.
Your teams do.

Benched deals you a portfolio of Premier League sides — some good, some hopeless. Then you sit down and watch the season happen to you.

2–10 players · free · no draft night required

Bird's-eye illustration of five spectators on a row of bench seats casting long shadows

Three steps. That's it.

How it works
01

Join a pool

Your mate sends a code. You add your name. Cap is ten seats, no late arrivals after the deadline.

02

Teams get dealt

No auction, no picking favourites. Ranked top to bottom, then dealt out in bands — everyone gets a mix from every tier of the table.

03

Follow the table

Your teams play, you don't. Points land every gameweek. Complain loudly in the group chat.

Twenty teams, one bench

The draw

Ranked top to bottom, dealt in bands

ARS
MCI
LIV
MUN
CHE
TOT
AVL
BHA
BOU
EVE
NEW
BRE
NFO
CRY
LEE
FUL
SUN
COV
IPS
HUL

With four players, band one deals one seat each from the four strongest clubs, band two the next four, and so on. The band size just scales with however many are in your pool.

The house

Somebody has to take the leftovers.

Teams get ranked top to bottom and dealt out in bands sized to the pool — six players means bands of six, so everyone gets one club from every tier. Twenty teams, six players: everyone gets three, and the last two go to the house.

The house isn't a player. It just piles up points nobody can claim. Quit mid-season and your teams move across to it — future points only. Whatever you'd already earned stays on your name.

Unclaimed seats · GW7

TOT
MUN
COV
BRE
The house88
Benched logo: three stadium bench seats above the wordmark BENCHED

Three seats, one bench, no substitutions. It's a pool for people who watch football, not people who think they could manage it.