Christmas
risingThursday, 24 December 2026 to Thursday, 31 December 2026
New consoles, new players, FUT Points as gifts. Demand for meta cards and Icons picks up noticeably.
What to do
Sell your meta investments between 24 and 27 Dec. That's the peak before the TOTY crash. After that, stay in coins.
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 +0.4 % on average. The percentages below were tested on cards that were not used to find the patterns.
- ▲cards on Saturdays, well below their high: +7.6 %
- ▲cards on Saturdays: +7 %
- ▼Better left alone, midfielders on Thursdays: -5.4 %
- ▼Better left alone, Icons on Thursdays: -4.9 %
Key dates
- 24–26 Dec demand peak
- From 28 Dec the first TOTY nerves
Market events in this phase
- Thu 24/12 ChristmasNew players and FUT Points as gifts; demand for meta cards rises.
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) | +3.9 % / day |
| Gold meta (in demand) | +2 % / day |
| Team of the Week / inform | +1.2 % / day |
| Promo card | 0 % / day |
| Icon | +1.1 % / day |
| Hero | +0.8 % / day |