Matt Lucas and Elis James – along with fellow football fanatic and comedian Andrew Mensah – will be back with a second season of the critically acclaimed, iconic comedy series Fantasy Football League, returning to Sky Max and NOW on the Friday 2nd February.
The second series of Fantasy Football League will continue to delight fans old and new as it honours the format of the cult original series, with Matt and Elis combing over the week’s football news sharing hilarious clips and anecdotes. Also returning is the much-loved ‘Phoenix From The Flames’ segment – where a famous moment from footballing history is recreated with an array of legendary players. Already lined up for the upcoming series are Jack Wilshere, Gabby Agbonlahor, Wes Morgan, Pedro Mendes, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Jermain Defore, Emile Heskey and Emanuel Petit.
Each week, a pair of celebrity guest managers will sit on the Fantasy Football League sofa to chat about their love of the beautiful game and reveal hilarious personal stories around their diehard football fandom. Mo Gilligan will join Matt, Elis and Andrew for episode one, while other well-known faces appearing on the second series will include Danny Dyer, Jill Scott, Alex Brooker, Stuart Broad, Phil Dunster, Emma Hayes, Tony Adams, Katherine Ryan, Alex Horne and more.
See some series one highlights HERE
The series was commissioned by Phil Edgar-Jones, Director of Sky Arts and Entertainment, alongside Dwayne Eaton, Commissioning Executive at Sky for Zai Bennett, Managing Director of Content at Sky. Produced by Avalon (Taskmaster, Starstruck, The Russell Howard Hour, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver), Fantasy Football League will be Series Produced by Spencer Millman (TV Burp, The Inbetweeners 2) and the Series Director is Peter Orton (Fantasy Football League, TV Burp, The Russell Howard Hour).
To join in and compete with the celebrity guest managers each week, sign up to the League using code a7qb7a via the official Fantasy Premier League app – find more information on the website.
