EA has not announced the FC 27 TOTY release date yet. Our pick is Friday 15 January 2027 at 18:00 UTC: Team of the Year landed on the third Friday of January three years running (19 Jan 2024, 17 Jan 2025, 16 Jan 2026), and 15 January 2027 is both the third Friday and the day after EA's confirmed Season 4 start. The bigger change is the Warm Up: EA says FC 27's TOTY Warm Up is a "Series" with no new Special Items added to packs. EA SPORTS FC 27 is currently in Season 2: FC Heritage (22 October to 3 December 2026), so TOTY is about nine weeks away.
That gap is the useful part. Nine weeks is enough time to build a TOTY coin stack from Rivals rewards and smart selling, and also enough time to burn your coins on Black Friday and Season 3 content before the one promo that matters most arrives. Below: every TOTY date we can verify, what EA has actually said about FC 27, what a "Series" means for packs, and a week-by-week coin plan.
TLDR: FC 27 TOTY in 30 seconds. Release date: not announced by EA. Our projection: Fri 15 Jan 2027, 18:00 UTC, with Fri 22 Jan as the fallback. Pattern: TOTY arrived on the third Friday of January in FC 24, FC 25 and FC 26. Warm Up: FC 25 and FC 26 started it on the Tuesday before, so expect around Tue 12 Jan 2027. EA-confirmed: FC 27 replaces about five Campaign weeks with Series such as TOTY Warm Up and TOTS Warm Up, with no new Special Items added to packs, and the first Series arrives in Season 3 (December). Season 3: 3 Dec 2026 to 14 Jan 2027. Coin plan: sell into November and early December demand, hold coins through Christmas, keep 9 Rivals reward drops banked.
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When is the FC 27 TOTY release date?
There is no EA date yet. EA announced FC 26's Team of the Year in January 2026 itself, so do not expect an official date before the new year. What we do have is three straight years of the same slot.
| Game | TOTY release (packs) | Warm Up started | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| FC 24 | Fri 19 Jan 2024, 18:00 GMT | Not used for this table | VG247 release-time report, 19 Jan 2024 |
| FC 25 | Fri 17 Jan 2025 | Tue 14 Jan 2025 | EA's FC 25 TOTY Warm-up article, 14 Jan 2025 |
| FC 26 | Fri 16 Jan 2026 | Tue 13 Jan 2026 | EA's FC 26 TOTY Warm Up (13 Jan) and Team of the Year (15 Jan) articles |
| FC 27 | Fri 15 Jan 2027 (projection) | Tue 12 Jan 2027 (projection) | Pattern only, not EA-confirmed |
Each of those Fridays was the third Friday of its January. In 2027, 1 January is a Friday, so the third Friday is 15 January. EA's FC 25 Warm Up article was explicit about the gap: "Team of the Year kicks off this Friday, but the Warm Up starts now!" That article is dated Tuesday 14 January 2025. FC 26 repeated it: Warm Up article on Tuesday 13 January, TOTY Honourable Mention Evolutions "From 16 January".
Why 15 January fits FC 27 especially well: EA's own Launch Rewards page lists Season 4 from 14 January 2027. A Thursday season start followed by a Friday TOTY release is exactly how FC 27 has run promos so far: content drops at 18:00 UTC, seasons turn over on Thursdays.
The risk case: the 2027 calendar runs early. 15 January is the earliest date a third Friday can fall on, so this is the first year the pattern lands this soon. If EA prefers to keep the whole Warm Up inside Season 4 instead of straddling the season change, a Friday 22 January release is the fallback. Our editorial call is roughly 60/40 for the 15th over the 22nd; a December TOTY would break all three years of precedent.
What has EA actually confirmed about TOTY in FC 27?
Only one thing, and it is not a date. EA's FC 27 Launch Update Pitch Notes say:
"As previously announced, there will also be approximately five fewer Campaign weeks across FC 27. Those weeks will instead feature Series, including themed periods of content such as TOTY Warm Up and TOTS Warm Up, with no new Special Items added to Packs. The first Series of FC 27 will arrive during Season 3 in December." (EA SPORTS FC Team, Launch Update Pitch Notes)
What that confirms:
- TOTY Warm Up exists in FC 27, and it is a Series, not a Campaign.
- No new Special Items are added to packs during a Series.
- About 5 Campaign weeks across the year are replaced by Series.
- The first Series lands in Season 3, in December.
What it does not confirm: the TOTY release date, voting dates, nominees, whether TOTY itself (as opposed to its Warm Up) is a Campaign, or that the December Series is TOTY Warm Up. Read the quote carefully: EA names TOTY Warm Up as an example of a Series and separately says the first Series is in December. If the pattern holds, TOTY Warm Up lands in January, inside the last days of Season 3, so the December Series could be something else entirely. We will update this page when EA names it.
What does a "Series" mean for TOTY Warm Up?
In FC 26, Warm Up week already leaned on non-pack content. EA's FC 26 Warm Up article (13 January 2026) lists "a new Live Event, fresh Evolutions, more Squad Building Challenges, themed Objectives", a TOTY Daily Login SBC from 13 to 30 January, and Classic XI Heroes turning into TOTY Honourable Mentions Heroes.
FC 27 makes that formal. During a Series, packs get no new Special Items, so everything new that week has to come from:
- Evolutions. FC 25 ran 6 chained TOTY HM Evolutions to build your own HM centre-back. FC 26 ran a chained HM midfield Evo whose final OVR was 89, with a second PlayStyle+ step from 23 January.
- SBCs and Objectives, including login and daily-play rewards.
- Live Events in single player.
Two practical consequences. First, if FC 27 follows FC 25 and FC 26, Warm Up week is an Evo week, so keep an eligible mid-80s player of your favourite position untouched instead of feeding it into an SBC in December. Second, our working hypothesis (not an EA statement): packs still give fodder and existing specials during a Series, but with no new Special Items the week's SBCs lean harder on cards already in clubs and on the market, which could lift fodder prices. Our FC 27 Item Score table shows which ratings are the cheapest per point.
When does FC 27 TOTY voting open?
Not announced. In FC 26, EA's X account told players to "cast your votes on January 7" (an EA post embedded in Dexerto's FC 26 TOTY coverage), nine days before the 16 January release. Applied to FC 27, that points to voting opening around 6 January 2027. Treat it as a pattern, not a promise.
Voting matters for your coins only in one way: the nominee list tells you which base and special cards of those players will spike when their TOTY item is confirmed. Speculating on nominees is a gamble; we do not recommend building your TOTY budget on it.
How many coins should you save for FC 27 TOTY?
There are no FC 27 TOTY prices yet, and we will not guess individual cards. What we can do is size the budget from FC 27 numbers that exist today.
What top FC 27 cards cost right now. The highest-rated TOTW 9 card, Khadija Shaw (91), was listed around 339,000 coins on console on release night (NokaFut, 11 November; our TOTW 9 breakdown). FC 26's TOTY reached 97 OVR on its top cards (GamesRadar's FC 26 TOTY guide), so expect the headline TOTY items to sit well above anything in packs today.
| Your TOTY goal | Discretionary budget by 12 Jan | Assumption |
|---|---|---|
| Warm Up Evos and a handful of SBCs, no packs | 150,000 to 300,000 coins | Several SBCs at today's 1.16 to 1.28 coins per Item Score point; Warm Up content is not announced, so this will not cover everything |
| One TOTY Honourable Mention or lower TOTY item | 500,000 to 1,000,000 coins | Rated above today's specials; a 91 TOTW is already 339,000 |
| A headline TOTY attacker | 2,000,000+ coins | The highest-rated items of the year, usually the most expensive |
These are our editorial estimates from current FC 27 prices, not EA figures and not a price forecast for any card.
Where the coins come from. Rivals rewards release on Thursdays at 06:59 UTC (EA Help). Between today and Friday 15 January there are 9 more weekly drops after today's (19 and 26 Nov; 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31 Dec; 7 and 14 Jan). EA's launch example of Division 1 Upgraded Rewards includes 95,000 coins plus packs; lower divisions pay less. EA also says Champions and Rivals have "the potential to reward several times more Coins" per match than the roughly 500 to 600 of FC 26. Our Rivals rewards by division post has the weekly numbers.
The biggest lever is selling, not grinding. As our TOTW 9 data showed, an 80-rated TOTW card sold on the market is worth far more than the same card submitted into an SBC. Every tradeable special you are not using between now and January is a TOTY coin you have not banked yet.
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When should you buy and sell before TOTY?
Right now the market is cheap, not expensive. NokaFut's 30-day console indexes, captured 12 November around 06:00 UTC (14 October = 100):
| Index | 12 Nov (approx.) | 30-day peak | Off the peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base ICONs | about 102 | about 124 (30 Oct) | about -18% |
| 83-rated fodder | about 83 | about 130 (3 Nov) | about -36% |
| 81-rated fodder | about 89 | 148 (4 Nov) | about -40% |
| 100 cheapest regular cards | about 97 | about 118 (3 Nov) | about -18% |
Source: NokaFut market indexes, console only. NokaFut recalculates these series as listings change, so two captures a few minutes apart differed by up to about 1 point; read the table as direction, not decimals. Fodder has already fallen hard from its early-November peak. That makes the next nine weeks a classic accumulate-then-sell window. Our dated plan:
| Date | What happens | Coin move |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 19 Nov | GTA 6 release (PS5, Xbox Series X/S) | Player count may dip and prices may soften: buy fodder you will need in January |
| Around Fri 27 Nov | Black Friday promo (FC 26 precedent: 28 Nov) | Pack-heavy weekend: do not sell into it, buy after the first crash |
| Thu 3 Dec | Season 3 starts (EA-confirmed) | New Season Pass: free coins and items, sell duplicates early |
| December | First FC 27 Series (EA-confirmed) | No new pack specials that week: a good time to list surplus fodder |
| Around 6 Jan | TOTY voting (pattern) | Hold. Do not chase nominees |
| Around Tue 12 Jan | TOTY Warm Up (pattern) | Spend fodder on Warm Up Evos and SBCs |
| Thu 14 Jan | Season 4 starts (EA-confirmed) | Last Rivals drop before TOTY |
| Fri 15 Jan (projection) | TOTY release | Buy your TOTY target after the first-day price spike, not at 18:01 |
Our FC 27 GTA 6 and Black Friday market post covers the first two weeks in detail, and the weekly market cycle explains why Thursday and Friday nights move prices. For the Black Friday sale itself, see our FC 27 Black Friday post.
Will FC 27 TOTY be in packs if Warm Up is not?
Very likely yes, but EA has not said so. EA's Series quote covers the Warm Up only. In FC 24, FC 25 and FC 26 the TOTY items themselves came in packs (VG247 reported the first FC 24 batch "available in Ultimate Team packs now" on release day), and nothing in the FC 27 notes says TOTY is becoming a Series. Assume TOTY week has pack items and the Warm Up days before it do not.
That split is the whole timing trick. If the Warm Up adds no pack specials and TOTY adds the best ones of the year, the days just before TOTY are when packs feel worst and coins feel most valuable. Do not open your saved packs during Warm Up.
Who should save for TOTY, and who should not bother?
- Save hard if you play Rivals or Champions every week and already have a squad you are happy with: your weekly rewards cover most of the budget by January.
- Save some if you mainly play Squad Battles or Evolutions: aim for the Warm Up tier (150,000 to 300,000) and enjoy the free Evos.
- Skip the chase if you are a late starter. Use our late starter guide and build a strong squad first; if you can wait, buying after TOTY release week avoids day-one prices.
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FAQ
When is the FC 27 TOTY release date? EA has not announced it. TOTY released on the third Friday of January in FC 24, FC 25 and FC 26, so our projection is Friday 15 January 2027 at 18:00 UTC, with Friday 22 January as the fallback.
When does FC 27 TOTY Warm Up start? Not announced. In FC 25 and FC 26 it started on the Tuesday before TOTY (14 January 2025, 13 January 2026), which points to around Tuesday 12 January 2027. EA has confirmed that FC 27's TOTY Warm Up is a Series with no new Special Items added to packs.
Is TOTY in Season 3 or Season 4 of FC 27? Season 3 runs 3 December 2026 to 14 January 2027 and Season 4 starts 14 January 2027 (EA). A 15 January TOTY would land on the second day of Season 4, with its Warm Up at the end of Season 3.
When does FC 27 TOTY voting open? Not announced. In FC 26 voting opened on 7 January, nine days before release, so expect early January.
What is a Series in FC 27? A themed content period that replaces a Campaign week. EA says Series such as TOTY Warm Up and TOTS Warm Up add no new Special Items to packs, and the first one arrives in Season 3, in December.
How many coins do I need for FC 27 TOTY? Our editorial estimate: 150,000 to 300,000 for Warm Up Evos and a few SBCs, 500,000 to 1,000,000 for one lower TOTY item, and 2,000,000+ for a headline TOTY attacker. A 91-rated TOTW 9 card already costs about 339,000 on console.
Sources
- EA: FC 27 Launch Update Pitch Notes (Series, TOTY Warm Up, first Series in Season 3)
- EA: FC 27 Launch Rewards (Season 1 to 5 dates)
- EA news articles (previous games, cited by title, not linked): FC 26 Team of the Year (15 Jan 2026), FC 26 TOTY Warm Up (13 Jan 2026), FC 25 TOTY Warm-up (14 Jan 2025)
- EA Help: Ultimate Team Rivals (Thursday 06:59 UTC rewards)
- NokaFut FC 27 market indexes, 12 November 2026
- Press coverage of previous games (cited by title, not linked): VG247 (FC 24 release time), GamesRadar (FC 26 release day and ratings), Dexerto (FC 26 voting date, embedded EA post)
Last updated 12 November 2026. FC 27 phase: Season 2: FC Heritage. We will update this page when EA announces the TOTY date.
