Time Warp & TOTY Nominees
fallingFriday, 01 January 2027 to Thursday, 07 January 2027
TOTY voting opens. The market starts hoarding coins for Team of the Year.
What to do
Now is the deadline: sell every investment you don't intend to hold through TOTY.
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 -10.7 % on average. The percentages below were tested on cards that were not used to find the patterns.
- ▲midfielders rated 88 to 90: -7 %
- ▲Icons that rose the week before: -7.5 %
- ▼Better left alone, meta gold cards rated 85 to 87: -14.7 %
- ▼Better left alone, cards on Wednesdays, well below their high: -15.6 %
No buying strategy came out positive in this phase. The best move was to sit on your coins.
Key dates
- Fri 1 Jan Time Warp (FC 26: 2 Jan)
- TOTY nominees + voting
Market events in this phase
- Fri 01/01 Time Warp & TOTY NomineesThe starting gun for saving up for Team of the Year.
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) | +1.9 % / day |
| Gold meta (in demand) | -0.4 % / day |
| Team of the Week / inform | +0.4 % / day |
| Promo card | -1 % / day |
| Icon | -0.6 % / day |
| Hero | -0.5 % / day |