EA Sports FC 27 Season 2: FC Heritage Explained — Player Items, Daily Knockout and FUT Gallery

EA Sports FC 27's Ultimate Team has moved into its second season of the year, and it's built entirely around looking backward. Season 2: FC Heritage arrived alongside an October 22, 2026 update on the official FC 27 news hub, and instead of chasing the newest wonderkids it leans on Hall of FUT favorites, retired promos and community-voted squad staples. If you've logged in to find a bronze-and-copper "FC HERITAGE" banner on the Ultimate Team home screen and weren't sure what changed, here's every confirmed detail: the new Player Items, the two season ladders, the returning Daily Knockout Tournament, the five-event FC Heritage Circuit, and the FUT Gallery's first major expansion.

1. What Is EA Sports FC 27 Season 2: FC Heritage?

EA describes FC Heritage as a season-wide celebration of Ultimate Team nostalgia. In EA's own words, "Season 2: FC Heritage honours the community favourites, squad staples, and iconic Campaigns" that have defined past versions of the mode. Rather than introducing a single flashy promo, the season spreads nostalgia-themed content across four separate systems: a new tier of Player Items, two progression ladders, a recurring competitive tournament, and a single-player event chain, all tied together by a matching expansion to the FUT Gallery collection feature.

2. FC Heritage Player Items Explained

The season's headline addition is a new class of Player Items modeled directly on the Hall of FUT, the mode's long-running archive of iconic one-off cards. According to EA, FC Heritage Player Items "honour players tied to memorable FUT items and moments," and the pool isn't limited to retired legends — EA has confirmed that active players can also receive one of these items if they're tied to a moment the community still talks about. Rather than being sold directly in packs, FC Heritage Player Items are earned through the Season Pass, time-limited Live Events, and other in-season activities, which is consistent with how EA has distributed season-exclusive cards in previous Ultimate Team cycles.

3. The Standard and Premium Ladders

FC Heritage content is handed out through two season-long ladders, each worth up to 16 FC Heritage Player Items across their full length:

• Standard Ladder: opens with Botafogo's Allan as an early-level reward and climbs to a Level 30 finale built around Charlotte FC's Allan Saint-Maximin.
• Premium Pass: includes Abha's Nabil Fekir and Real Madrid's Athenea at earlier levels, with a Level 30 finale centered on Manchester United's Marcus Rashford.

Beyond the headline Player Items, EA says both ladders also pay out retro Ultimate Scream item shells, themed Evolutions, and standard Pack rewards as you climb. If you want the full breakdown of how Evolutions work this year before you spend any upgrade materials on a Heritage-themed one, our guide to EA Sports FC 27's reworked Evolutions and SBC system covers the mechanics in detail.

4. The Daily Knockout Tournament Returns

Season 2 also brings back the Daily Knockout Tournament, a competitive PvP bracket that runs weekly for the length of the season rather than being a one-off event. EA's season notes confirm weekly rewards include an FC Heritage Player Item, Coins, and untradeable Packs, so it's one of the more reliable ways to chase the season's exclusive cards if you'd rather play head-to-head matches than grind the ladders through Squad Battles or Division Rivals.

5. The FC Heritage Circuit: Five Single-Player Events

For players who'd rather earn season rewards offline, EA has built a FC Heritage Circuit — a chain of five single-player Live Events that unlock in sequence as you work through them:

1. Kick Off Event — an entry event where you choose your own difficulty level.
2. Ultimate Scream — set at Semi-Pro difficulty, revisiting the Halloween-themed promo that ran earlier this season.
3. Hall of FUT: Unleashed — a Professional-difficulty event built around the Hall of FUT concept that inspired the season.
4. Thunderstruck — a World Class-difficulty event.
5. A final three-round tournament that escalates from Professional through World Class difficulty before ending in a Legendary-difficulty final.

Each Circuit event pays out FC Heritage Player Items, Coins, and untradeable Packs on completion, mirroring the Daily Knockout Tournament's reward structure. If you're not sure what the original Ultimate Scream promo looked like before this Circuit stop revisits it, we covered that event in full in our Ultimate Scream explainer from earlier this season.

6. The FUT Gallery's First Major Expansion

FUT Gallery — the collection-based mode EA introduced at FC 27's launch — gets its first major content drop alongside FC Heritage. EA confirmed the expansion adds more than 60 new Sets, including League and Club Sets built around MLS, the NWSL, and the Roshn Saudi League. As with the Gallery's existing structure, submitting the right combination of items into a Set raises your overall Gallery Level, which in turn unlocks additional rewards separate from the Heritage ladders.

7. How FC Heritage Fits Into the Rest of the Season

None of this content exists in isolation. The Heritage ladders reward Evolutions you can apply to cards earned elsewhere, the Circuit deliberately revisits October's Ultimate Scream promo instead of inventing a new theme, and the Gallery expansion plugs into a collection system every Ultimate Team player has been building since launch. If you haven't spent much time in the game's social hub yet, our guide to The Grounds, Clubs and Archetypes is a good primer before you jump into Ultimate Team's season content. Fans of the game's growing roster of former stars may also want to revisit our look at the new ICONs arriving in Career Mode, since several of the names honoured by Hall of FUT crossover between Ultimate Team and the offline game.

Quick Tips Recap

• FC Heritage is a season-long system, not a single promo — expect its ladders, Circuit and Daily Knockout Tournament to run for the length of Season 2.
• The Standard Ladder's Level 30 finale is Allan Saint-Maximin; the Premium Pass's is Marcus Rashford, with Nabil Fekir and Athenea as notable mid-ladder items.
• Play the Daily Knockout Tournament weekly rather than hoarding it — rewards reset on a weekly cycle.
• Work through the FC Heritage Circuit's five events in order; difficulty escalates from Kick Off up to a Legendary final.
• Check FUT Gallery for the new MLS, NWSL and Roshn Saudi League Sets — submitting items there raises your Gallery Level independently of the Heritage ladders.

Official Resources

• EA Sports FC 27 — Season 2: FC Heritage (official news post)
• EA Sports FC 27 official game page
• EA Sports FC 27 news hub (all official patch and season updates)

For more on what else has changed in Ultimate Team this year, browse our full walkthroughs and guides archive.