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EA FC 26 Christmas Event Trading Guide | How To Get Packs And Coins By SBCs, EVO And Lightning Rounds?

Category: FC 26 Posted: Dec 26, 2025 Views: 2242

Category: FC 26

Posted: Dec 26, 2025

Source:  IGGM

Views: 2242

Merry Christmas, players! We hope you and your family have a wonderful year ahead. EA FC 26 is also offering a wealth of activities during Christmas season, including the release of Winter Wildcards Team 2 and Team 3.

While you're spending time with your family, you might also want to take some time to work on your Ultimate Team. This is a great time to accumulate card packs and earn coins.

EA FC 26 Christmas Event Trading Guide | How To Get Packs And Coins By SBCs, EVO And Lightning Rounds?

How To Avoid Being Banned?

Before discussing trading and card packs, let's talk about the recent massive banning incident. Many players were banned from the transfer market and even had their accounts made inaccessible because the official anti-cheat bot flagged legitimate transactions as illegal coin transfers.

Although the official team has restored the accounts of players affected by this mass ban, this phenomenon of wrongful bans has not stopped. The main reason for these bans is related to Winter Wildcards players' transactions involving Icons. Even simply opening a Winter Wildcards player from a pack and selling it, or trading for one on the market, carries a risk of being banned.

Therefore, if you want to be absolutely safe, completely avoid Winter Wildcards and Icons cards. While you can appeal a ban, the process is extremely cumbersome. This issue is expected to be fixed soon, but the risk is currently high.

SBCs And Evolutions

During Christmas promo, FUT 26 launched many SBCs and Evolution challenges. Players have limited coins and fodder, so which ones are worth doing, and which can be ignored?

SBCs

Thibaut Courtois Winter Wildcards SBC

Completing this SBC rewards you with 90 OVR Thibaut Courtois, which not only has all the goalkeeper playstyles in the game but also excellent goalkeeper styles like Ball-Playing Keeper++, Goalkeeper++, and Sweeper Keeper++. The number of coins required to complete the challenge is also low, not exceeding 70,000 FC 26 coins.

This SBC is highly recommended, as it features the best goalkeeper currently available. Due to its existence, demand for other goalkeepers will plummet, so you should avoid investing in goalkeepers in the short term.

Moïse Bombito Winter Wildcards SBC

Completing this SBC requires three challenges and approximately 75,000 coins. 87 OVR Moïse Bombito is also a very strong CB, but not top-tier. Therefore, its priority is not high.

Robin Le Normand Winter Wildcards SBC

This SBC doesn't require many coins, but 87 OVR Robin Le Normand isn't as strong as Thibaut Courtois. Its quality is decent, but it's only recommended if you have a surplus of coins.

How To Get Packs By Upgrade?

Currently, your main purpose in completing SBCs isn't to upgrade your lineup, but to use up fodder to obtain packs and then open them for new cards.

  • 83+ TOTW Upgrade is also worth doing, as it replenishes your Club's TOTW cards, which are currently in high demand.
  • WW Daily Login Upgrade, which provides gold card packs, is also well worth completing.
  • Both 2x 85+ Upgrade and 10x 82+ Upgrades are currently available, with the latter potentially better, but there's a daily limit.
  • If you want to acquire consumables while maintaining a gold flow, Premium Mixed Leagues Upgrade is the best option.
  • 78+ Player Pick is of average quality but has no limit on the number of attempts; complete it if you want to use up common players.
  • 5 of 10 78+ Player Pick is of lower quality but yields 5 cards that can be recycled into SBC.

All Big Packs obtained through these methods should be saved until Friday before opening them. New players acquired through Player Pick must be processed immediately, otherwise it will affect your subsequent actions, so you need to weigh this carefully.

Evolution

This is a pretty good free evolution, and I recommend you take the time to complete it. It significantly improves a player's rating and grants Finesse Shot and Low Driven Shot, two very useful playstyles. This evolution can be used simply to enhance a player or as the starting point for an evolution chain.

Furthermore, many current evolutions don't improve ratings but increase playstyles and stats, so it's strongly recommended that players invest time in researching and completing evolutions. This is currently the best way to obtain top-tier, cost-effective players.

You can use websites or tools to study other people's completed evolution chains for inspiration. Learn how to create cards with top-tier attributes and playstyles from silver and bronze cards.

10M FC 26 Coins Christmas Giveaways

How To Trade?

The above evolutions and SBCs will consume a lot of coins and fodder, but you can quickly replenish them by trading on Fridays and Saturdays.

In the hour after Lightning Rounds launch, players will open a lot of packs, and many cards will flood the transfer market, causing their value to drop. Your target is Gold Fodder players with an overall rate of 86-88.

One hour after Lightning Pack, you can bid on these players for 1,000 to 2,000 coins less than normal. After winning, wait for their value to return to normal and then sell them to profit from the difference.

This is expected on Friday night, or at the latest Saturday night. This is when the supply of new cards is at its highest, and the value of a large number of cards may have bottomed out, making it the best time to trade. However, don't rush in blindly. Add the cards you're interested in to your watchlist, track supply and demand trends, and acquire them when demand seems to rebound on Friday and Saturday nights.

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