Early Access & Web App
falling hardFriday, 18 September 2026 to Thursday, 24 September 2026
Web App, EA Play trial and Ultimate Edition early access. Barely any coins are in circulation, so prices look high — but they drop every day as more and more packs get opened.
Sell everything you pack, straight away. No investments. The one exception: cards for your own club that you actually want to play — and even those will be cheaper next week.
What actually worked in this phase
From the FC 26 season, every card from 5,000 coins up, bought and sold again after 7 days, after the 5 % EA tax. Buying at random in this phase returned -12 % on average. The percentages below were tested on cards that were not used to find the patterns.
- ▲cards near their high: -5 %
- ▲meta gold cards: -5.8 %
- ▼Better left alone, cards with no price history from the week before, in the middle of their range: -16.9 %
- ▼Better left alone, cards in the middle of their range, fresh in packs: -16.9 %
No buying strategy came out positive in this phase. The best move was to sit on your coins.
Key dates
- Fri 18 Sep early access (Ultimate Edition)
- Web App & Companion App live
Expected daily move by card type
Baseline for an 85–87 rated card with normal hype, before day-of-week patterns and events.
| Gold (standard) | -3.7 % / day |
| Gold meta (in demand) | -2.4 % / day |
| Team of the Week / inform | -4 % / day |
| Promo card | -4 % / day |
| Icon | -0.2 % / day |
| Hero | -3 % / day |