November (Captains, FC Pro Live)
flatSaturday, 07 November 2026 to Friday, 20 November 2026
The quietest stretch of the first half of the season. Icon SBCs and upgrade packs keep demand up for fodder and Icons.
What to do
Last window to offload Icon investments before Black Friday. From here on, build 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 -9.6 % on average. The percentages below were tested on cards that were not used to find the patterns.
- ▲goalkeepers: -3.8 %
- ▲goalkeepers out for one to two months: -2.8 %
- ▼Better left alone, cards on Fridays that have been out for a long time: -19.2 %
- ▼Better left alone, cards rated 88 to 90 that have been out for a long time: -17.5 %
No buying strategy came out positive in this phase. The best move was to sit on your coins.
Key dates
- Fri 13 Nov Captains (FC 26: 14 Nov)
- Fri 20 Nov FC Pro Live (FC 26: 21 Nov)
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) | +0.8 % / day |
| Gold meta (in demand) | -0.6 % / day |
| Team of the Week / inform | +0.1 % / day |
| Promo card | -1 % / day |
| Icon | -0.5 % / day |
| Hero | +0.2 % / day |