EA FC 26 TOTY Warm Up Guide | How to Get More Packs And Use Them Effectively?
Category: FC 26 Posted: Jan 15, 2026 Views: 3501
Team of The Year officially begins this Friday, January 16th. There will be a large number of high-quality SBCs to consume your Fiddler cards, making the card packs offered by TOTY Warm Up quite important.
Before that, there's a TOTY Warm Up event to allow players to accumulate card packs in advance. In addition, FC 26 has also updated with a Warming Up Evolution. Let's take a look at the details.

TOTY Warm Up Live Event
Although the card packs offered by TOTY Warm Up are free, it doesn't mean you can easily get them. You also need to participate in TOTY Warm Up Live Event to win packs and Evolutions. This event is a no-holds-barred casual tournament, meaning the competition will be very intense.
To participate in this event, your squad must contain at least four players with an OVR of 88 or higher, and the highest OVR for the entire squad cannot exceed 86. You need to complete 6 tasks during the event to earn reward packs. Note that you shouldn't open the packs immediately after receiving them, as Team of The Year players haven't been added to the packs yet. You need to accumulate packs before the players are officially released.
TOTY players are not released all at once, but in batches by position. A typical release calendar is as follows:
- Friday: Attacking players (forwards/wingers)
- Sunday: Midfielders
- Monday or Tuesday: Defenders and goalkeepers
- Wednesday or Thursday: Full TOTY squad (Men & Women)
- Next Friday: Honorable Mentions and Icons
Note TOTY Warm Up Live Event Both the rewards and the objective are time-limited, so you'd better complete them before TOTY officially starts.
TOTY Warm Up Tasks
You have 6 objective tasks to complete, and after completing all of them, you'll receive a grand prize.
Play 1
- Task: Play one game of TOTY Warm Up Live Event.
- Reward: x1 5x 81+ Rare Gold Players Pack (Untradeable)
Score 1
- Task: Score one goal in a TOTY Warm Up Live Event.
- Reward: x1 Cosmetic Evolution (Untradeable)
Play 3
- Task: Play 3 games of TOTY Warm Up Live Event.
- Reward: x1 5x 82+ Rare Gold Players Pack (Untradeable)
Score in 6
- Task: Score in 6 games of TOTY Warm Up Live Event.
- Reward: x1 PS/PS+ Evolution (Untradeable)
Win 6
- Task: Win 6 games of TOTY Warm Up Live Event Mode
- Reward: x1 2x 84+ Rare Gold Players Pack (Untradeable)
Score in 12
- Task: Score a goal in 12 matches of TOTY Warm Up Live Event
- Reward: x1 2x 84+ Rare Gold Players Pack (Untradeable)
Grand Prize
- x1 10x 84+ Rare Gold Players Pack (Untradeable)
Warming Up Evolution
Warming Up Evolution launches alongside the above mode. It's not a free evolution, and it requires 10,000 FC 26 coins. It upgrades a player card to a maximum rating of 87, offering balanced attribute enhancements.
Requirements
- Overall: Max 86
- Not Rarity: World Tour Silver Stars
- Not Position: GK
Total Upgrades
- Overall: +1 | Max 87
- Pace: +2 | Max 87
- Shooting: +1 | Max 87
- Passing: +2 | Max 87
- Dribbling: +2 | Max 87
- Defending: +1 | Max 87
- Physical: +1 | Max 87
This evolution won't drastically change your players, and it's best suited for players with already well-balanced attributes. Players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Fermín López Marín (Team of the Week) are popular choices. However, since this evolution isn't very powerful, you can ignore it.
How to Get More Card Packs?
For TOTY, the card packs provided by TOTY Warm Up alone aren't enough. You need to selectively accumulate more card packs and open them at the most opportune times to have a chance to obtain top-tier players.
You should ideally complete the daily Bronze, Silver, and Gold Common Player Upgrade SBCs and 80+ Player Pick SBCs.
After Team of The Year starts, FUT 26 New league-specific upgrade SBCs will be introduced. These SBCs typically only require submitting 11 Gold Rare players or a certain number of Common + Rare players.
You can focus your resources on completing these league-specific SBCs, as they only return players from the corresponding league, making them more targeted and the best way to acquire specific league Team of The Year players.
They can reward you with high-rated players and some coins. You should focus on more difficult leagues, such as Portuguese Primeira Liga, and Pro League.
For each SBC, you mainly rely on game objectives, card pack rewards, and Player Picks to collect most of them. If you don't have enough, you can trade, but don't exceed 3 players. This method ensures that the rewards you get from completing SBCs outweigh the cost of trading players.
You can put players that can't be used in League SBCs into specific Player Selection SBCs. This is an efficient way to obtain 83, 84, and 85+ rated players, which are key materials for completing TOTY-related advanced SBCs (such as SBCs requiring an 84-rated squad).
In short, you need to hoard all card packs containing 82+ OVR and players. These packs should be saved until the entire TOTY squad is released before opening them. For all card packs with 81+ and lower ratings, you can open them now to get some fodder cards to support your continued completion of various SBCs.
TOTY Warm Up Live Event is just a prelude, and the real fun starts on Friday. Good luck opening packs in Team of The Year!
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