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FC 27 Goalkeeper Glitch Sparks Outrage: How Ultimate Team's Own-Goal Bug Could Ruin Matches and Shake Up Transfer Market?

Category: FC 27

Posted: Oct 13, 2026

Views: 35

FC 27's Ultimate Team was supposed to be a fair competitive arena for players to build their teams and compete in Division Rivals, but the appearance of a goalkeeper glitch turned your own goalkeeper into the opponent's twelfth teammate.

When an AI-controlled goalkeeper scores an own goal, the outcome of a match, the distribution of ranking rewards, and even transfer market prices become unpredictable. Why is this bug called game-breaking, and how does it affect the entire competitive ecosystem and transfer market? Let's take a look.

Goalkeeper's Own-Goal Bug

FC 27 Goalkeeper Glitch Sparks Outrage: How Ultimate Team's Own-Goal Bug Could Ruin Matches and Shake Up Transfer Market?

The trigger for this goalkeeper glitch is not complicated: after kickoff, the player switches to the forward player, dribbles towards the opponent's goal, and then passes the ball to the opposing goalkeeper - the AI-controlled goalkeeper will intentionally score an own goal.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in Ultimate Team mode on PlayStation 5 platform.

This isn't the first controversial issue since FUT 27's release. Previous bugs included a visual bug showing female soccer players celebrating in the locker room and on the field wearing only underwear, and a severe malfunction of the ground pass mechanism.

However, most of the previous bugs were visual or experiential, while this goalkeeper glitch directly undermines the fairness of the game - anyone who knows how to do it can steal victory at a very low cost.

Impact on Fairness

This glitch is called game-breaking because it affects not just one mode, but almost all competitive modes. In Division Rivals, FUT Champions, and Draft, the opponent only needs one action to score, and the conceded team doesn't even have time to react.

Even more problematic is that such actions are technically difficult to classify as violations. The player simply makes a normal pass, but the AI ​​goalkeeper reacts absurdly. Therefore, the official stance is that they cannot simply ban the accounts involved as easily as they would with cheat software - from an operational perspective, these players did not use third-party tools or modify game files.

History often repeats itself. FIFA 23 had a bug where goalkeepers frequently scored own goals; AI ​​goalkeeper would inexplicably send harmless back passes and weak shots into their own net.

FC 24 also experienced a serious bug where goalkeepers could not be substituted after being sent off with a red card, leaving opponents with open penalty spots. The studio spent over a month fixing this with a Title Update. Each similar incident erodes players' trust in the developer's quality control capabilities.

The Chain Reaction of the Market Economy

FC 27 Division Rivals

One of the most direct impacts of this glitch is its impact on Ultimate Team transfer market. In FC 27, Elite Division upgrade reward for Division Rivals is a whopping 122,500 FC 27 coins. This means that many players who rapidly climbed ranks using glitch will receive a huge amount of coins on reward distribution days - coins that should not have entered the market. When a large influx of new coins enters the market, the supply and demand relationship will drastically change. The price of high-end player cards may rise in the short term due to increased purchasing power, but then the surge in supply will cause a price crash when players begin selling players from their existing rosters to upgrade.

Mid-tier meta FC 27 players, such as Salah and Karchaoui, are likely to see their prices correct as players' demand for upgrades decreases.

An unusually abundant supply of coins already existed in the market at the early stages of FIFA 27's release. If the extra coins caused by glitch flood in during Wednesday's reward distribution, market volatility will be even more pronounced.

For players who have invested real money or significant time in building their teams, the sense of loss from this uncertainty will be particularly strong. Some content creators, upon learning of glitch, immediately sold multiple FC 27 players from their rosters to mitigate risk - this panic selling will further exacerbate downward pressure on the market.

Official Response and Lessons Learned

With the widespread dissemination of the goalkeeper glitch, the official social media account stated that they are investigating FUT Champions matchmaking issue and plan to release a fix before the weekend. However, this statement addresses matchmaking issues, not the goalkeeper bug itself.

Previously, in the closed beta feedback update, the developers stated they wouldn't rush into large-scale game balance adjustments in the early stages, hoping to allow the overall game experience time to stabilize. However, facing a game-breaking glitch that could directly determine the outcome of a match, simply maintaining the existing adjustment schedule is clearly insufficient to alleviate player concerns.

In the competitive gaming world, League of Legends' approach to overpowered heroes is often cited as a comparison: when a hero severely impacts balance, they are disabled until the bug is fixed.

Similarly, for a competitive football game, facing a serious bug that could directly influence the match result, the player community generally believes the developers should take more decisive measures - such as temporarily disabling matchmaking until the bug is fixed.

Player Community Sentiments and Reflections

From goalkeeper anomalies to passing mechanic malfunctions, similar issues have repeatedly occurred in the FC series, with fixes often taking weeks or even months. For a game that releases at a high price every year and consistently generates micro transaction revenue through Ultimate Team mode, players have reason to expect higher quality standards.

When bugs can directly influence ranked match results, and even affect coin rewards and the player market, the value of competitive achievements inevitably becomes questionable. Perhaps the best attitude players should have towards this game is to return to the game itself: use their favorite players and enjoy the fun of football, rather than being dictated by wins and losses.

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