Post-TOTY Rebound
rising fastFriday, 22 January 2027 to Thursday, 04 February 2027
The strongest rebound of the season. Icons and meta cards gain 25–45 % within two weeks.
What to do
Sell in batches. From 30 Jan the air gets thin, because Future Stars is around the corner.
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 -4.3 % on average. The percentages below were tested on cards that were not used to find the patterns.
- ▲cards rated 88 to 90 on Fridays: +2.1 %
- ▲meta gold cards rated 85 to 87: +1.4 %
- ▼Better left alone, cards that lost more than 15 % the week before and have been out for a long time: -21.8 %
- ▼Better left alone, cards that lost more than 15 % the week before: -20.4 %
Market events in this phase
- Fri 22/01 TOTY Full SquadThe last TOTY shock; the recovery starts after this.
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) | +2.8 % / day |
| Gold meta (in demand) | +2.3 % / day |
| Team of the Week / inform | +2.2 % / day |
| Promo card | +1 % / day |
| Icon | +0.5 % / day |
| Hero | +1.5 % / day |