Who To Pick From Bournemouth
Bournemouth carry a 26-player squad into the 2026-27 Premier League season, headlined by Djordje Petrović, Tyler Adams, Justin Kluivert. Their strongest eleven averages 80 OVR. Full roster with positions and ratings below.
Drafting from Bournemouth
Bournemouth are a tidy 80 with a spread of 4, which puts them among the flattest squads in the game, level with Newcastle, Brentford and Crystal Palace. A squad of 26, 2 of them elite, and a top five that runs 82, 82, 81, 81, 80: Djordje Petrović in goal, Tyler Adams in front of the back four, Justin Kluivert on the left, Evanilson through the middle and Bafodé Diakité at centre-half. No cliff edge, no summit. Tenth on power in a four-way tie, and it feels it.
Read the group numbers, though, and one line jumps out. Bournemouth's best position is defensive midfield at 82, and that group contains one player. Tyler Adams is not the head of a strong department, he is the department. Land him and you have the best thing this club owns; miss him and the position falls to whoever is nominally covering it. Set against that, the centre-halves number four and average 74, with only the right-backs below them, which is an awkward pair of facts to hold at once: a position carrying as many bodies as any at the club sits near the bottom for quality, and Diakité's 80 is doing a great deal of lifting on his own.
That decides the legend. Nathan Ake at 90 is a centre-half, and he is sixteen points above the average of the group he would be joining, which is the largest single repair available to a Bournemouth eleven. Dominic Solanke at 91 and Callum Wilson at 90 are the better forwards, but Evanilson at 81 already gives you a usable one and neither of them touches the back four. The 6 Englishmen, 3 Frenchmen, 2 Serbs and 2 Brazilians round out a squad you draft for its floor, not its ceiling.
Bournemouth — Premier League legends
The icons who defined Bournemouth in the Premier League era, drafted in the PL LEGENDS game mode — managed by Eddie Howe, Andoni Iraola.
| Legend | Pos | Era | OVR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dominic Solanke | FWD | CURRENT '20+ | 🔒 |
| Callum Wilson | FWD | MODERN '10-'19 | 🔒 |
| Nathan Ake | DEF | MODERN '10-'19 | 🔒 |
| Joshua King | FWD | MODERN '10-'19 | 🔒 |
| Ryan Fraser | FWD | MODERN '10-'19 | 🔒 |
| Asmir Begovic | GK | MODERN '10-'19 | 🔒 |
| Harry Arter | MID | MODERN '10-'19 | 🔒 |
| Junior Stanislas | MID | MODERN '10-'19 | 🔒 |
| Steve Cook | DEF | MODERN '10-'19 | 🔒 |
| Simon Francis | DEF | MODERN '10-'19 | 🔒 |
| David Brooks | MID | CURRENT '20+ | 🔒 |
| Charlie Daniels | DEF | MODERN '10-'19 | 🔒 |
| Marc Pugh | FWD | MODERN '10-'19 | 🔒 |
| Eddie Howe MGR | MGR | MODERN '10-'19 | 🔒 |
| Andoni Iraola MGR | MGR | CURRENT '20+ | 🔒 |
🔒 Legend ratings are a PREMIUM feature — they stay locked until you unlock inside Perfect Eleven. The current squad below is free.
Bournemouth squad list 2026-27
| Player | Pos | OVR |
|---|---|---|
| Djordje Petrović | GK | 82 |
| Fraser Forster | GK | 70 |
| Michele Di Gregorio | GK | 70 |
| Bafodé Diakité | DEF | 80 |
| Adrien Truffert | DEF | 79 |
| Julián Araujo | DEF | 77 |
| Adam Smith | DEF | 73 |
| James Hill | DEF | 72 |
| Veljko Milosavljević | DEF | 72 |
| Silva | DEF | 71 |
| Juanlu Sánchez | DEF | 70 |
| Tyler Adams | MID | 82 |
| Lewis Cook | MID | 79 |
| Ben Gannon-Doak | MID | 79 |
| Ryan Christie | MID | 78 |
| Marcus Tavernier | MID | 78 |
| Alex Scott | MID | 77 |
| David Brooks | MID | 75 |
| Alex Tóth | MID | 74 |
| Justin Kluivert | FWD | 81 |
| Evanilson | FWD | 81 |
| Rayan | FWD | 79 |
| Amine Adli | FWD | 78 |
| Eli Junior Kroupi | FWD | 77 |
| Álvaro Rodríguez | FWD | 74 |
| Daniel Jebbison | FWD | 71 |
Bournemouth best XI 2026-27
The highest-rated player in every slot of a 4-3-3 — 79 OVR on average. With one pick per club, you get one of these eleven, not the lot.
- Goalkeeper: Djordje Petrović (82)
- Defence: Bafodé Diakité (80), Adrien Truffert (79), Julián Araujo (77), Adam Smith (73)
- Midfield: Tyler Adams (82), Lewis Cook (79), Ben Gannon-Doak (79)
- Attack: Justin Kluivert (81), Evanilson (81), Rayan (79)
Clubs rated around Bournemouth
Bournemouth rank joint 10 of 20 by the average of their best eleven, as in the power rankings. The clubs either side:
- Everton 80 OVR · ranked joint 10
- Brighton 80 OVR · ranked joint 10
- Crystal Palace 80 OVR · ranked joint 10
- Sunderland 79 OVR · ranked joint 14
How these ratings work
Every player carries a single overall rating used across the game. A club's strength here is the average of its best eleven — which is what the power rankings order by, and what your drafted XI is graded against. Ratings are editorial: set player by player, with new signings given a provisional rating until they are reviewed. How our ratings work.
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