Every player · CHE · 2026-27

Reece James DEF

Chelsea · 2026-27 · status: available · selected by 7.9% of FPL managers

Minutes

202

Starts

FPL points

Price

£5.4m

Goals

Assists

0.17

0.12

James is a defender for Chelsea. In 2026-27 he has played 202 minutes across 2 appearances. That is 0.00 goals and assists per 90 minutes, down on his 2025-26 rate. His page charts every Premier League season the data covers — 8 in all since 2019-20, 10,614 minutes and 10 goals.

Season by season

2026-27 against his past seasons · per 90 minutes

How this season compares with the ones before it. 2026-27 is drawn dashed — it is only 3 appearances old.

Past seasons are the totals the FPL API records for him league-wide: it does not say which club a season was played at, so a line can cross clubs, and a season spent outside the Premier League leaves a gap rather than a bridged line. Expected goals and assists begin in 2022-23; before that the API published none, so those seasons are blank rather than zero. Minutes per club match is minutes over 38 for a past season.

Season	Min	Starts	G	A	xG	xA	CS	FPL pts	FPL pts/90
2019-20	1510	0	0	2	0.00	0.00	5	61	3.64
2020-21	2367	0	1	3	0.00	0.00	9	112	4.26
2021-22	1863	0	5	9	0.00	0.00	7	141	6.81
2022-23	1242	14	1	2	1.06	2.93	2	44	3.19
2023-24	416	5	0	2	0.30	1.36	0	11	2.38
2024-25	1057	12	1	2	0.45	1.15	3	54	4.60
2025-26	1957	20	2	6	1.04	3.20	8	115	5.29
2026-27	202	2	0	0	0.17	0.12	0	2	0.89

Playing time

minutes per club match · 2025-26 → 2026-27

Min / club match, 2026-27

67.3 of 90 · 202 min in 3 matches

Min / club match, 2025-26 (any club)

51.5 1957 min over 38

Min / club match trend

▲ +15.8 trend

Playing time = minutes ÷ the club's matches played, so a starter reads near 90 and a substitute reads his true share. 2026-27: 3 club matches so far. 2025-26: minutes over 38 matches for any Premier League club — the FPL API does not attribute a past season to a club, so a player who moved is measured at his previous club. The trend needs 450+ minutes last season and 90+ this season.

Ball-winning

defensive contribution per 90 · 2026-27 vs 2025-26

DefCon / 90, 2026-27

4.01 9 in 202 min

DefCon / 90, 2025-26

5.89

DefCon / 90 trend

▼ -1.88 trend

Tackles

0 this season only

Recoveries

11 this season only

Clearances, blocks, interceptions

9 this season only

Defensive contribution is the Fantasy Premier League's composite of ball-winning actions: for defenders, clearances + blocks + interceptions + tackles; for midfielders and forwards, the same plus ball recoveries. Tackles, recoveries and clearances-blocks-interceptions are this-season counts only: the API's past-season totals carry just the composite, so no trend is available for those three.

The trend

2026-27 vs 2025-26 · per 90 minutes

Trend = this season's rate minus last season's (2026-27: 202 min; 2025-26: 1957 min).

Rate	2026-27	2025-26	Trend
xGI/90	0.13	0.19	-0.06
Goals/90	0.00	0.09	-0.09
Assists/90	0.00	0.28	-0.28
xG/90	0.08	0.05	+0.03
xA/90	0.05	0.15	-0.10
DefCon/90	4.01	5.89	-1.88
FPL pts/90	0.89	5.29	-4.40
xGC/90	1.57	1.32	+0.25
Goals conceded/90	2.23	0.92	+1.31

Gameweek by gameweek

2026-27 · 3 appearances logged

GW	Opp	Result	Min	xG	xA	Pts
GW1	A FUL	W 3–2	90	0.10	0.07	0
GW2	H BHA	W 4–3	22	0.00	0.00	1
GW3	A ARS	L 1–2	90	0.06	0.05	1

Where the numbers come from. Every figure on this page is read from the official Fantasy Premier League API (bootstrap-static for season totals, element-summary/142/ for the gameweek log and previous seasons). Nothing is estimated or hand-entered; a blank reads "—". Per-90 rates are the total × 90 ÷ minutes. "Points" are FPL fantasy points, the game's own scoring. Expected goals (xG), expected assists (xA) and expected goals conceded (xGC) are the values the FPL API publishes. Minutes per club match = minutes ÷ the club's matches played (this season from the club bundle; last season over 38 matches, any club). Defensive contribution is the FPL composite described above; tackles, recoveries and CBI are this-season counts with no trend.