{"id":133452,"date":"2025-09-10T19:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/133452\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T19:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:02:07","slug":"madrid-barcelona-lead-top-mens-and-womens-clubs-in-ea-fc-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/133452\/","title":{"rendered":"Madrid, Barcelona lead top men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s clubs in EA FC 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rating reveals for EA FC 26 have officially kicked off and while attention is mostly on the scores of individual athletes, EA Sports has also unveiled the top clubs of the game. In lieu of overall ratings, soccer teams have received a star-based rating with a maximum of five stars.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>Widely recognized as the world&#8217;s strongest competitions in the sport, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=164\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"99314f68-1c92-218b-b02b-67c50ff9bc3a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spain<\/a> and England&#8217;s leagues dominate the upper ranks in both men and women&#8217;s soccer. However, Germany&#8217;s leagues have fortified their positions as top contenders in both categories as well, while the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=660\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"e6b65d49-258c-b730-b7db-df75c6b1f714\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United States<\/a> continues to maintain an awesome presence in women&#8217;s soccer.<\/p>\n<p>Teams such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=86\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"66434654-a8ba-a04c-98e5-6bbd0dbbb780\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Real Madrid<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=83\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"58f7c4a9-c991-4ed4-fe5c-1f833cba75b8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=132\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"25b5e432-d3d2-939f-f73b-6e531a6fbd91\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bayern Munich<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=359\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"feb44e87-58fa-9597-2691-b3c32768ebe4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=363\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"c43a00b9-2826-72b3-77a0-62730abc936e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=360\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"6ebc2fd0-35d3-733b-5666-b75035a3bce9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=382\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"94fd5d7e-35b1-9d52-c9f2-4a37259bea36\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=160\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"79843c9e-0fe0-63b4-b591-9affc0dbd517\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> compete at the top in both categories. Their increased investments in women&#8217;s soccer are certainly paying off when it comes to increasing their club rating in EA FC.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the world&#8217;s top 16 clubs in men&#8217;s soccer according to EA FC 26:<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid, La Liga: 5 Stars<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona, La Liga: 5 Stars<\/p>\n<p>Paris Saint-Germain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/league\/_\/name\/FRA.1\" data-league-guid=\"b7217910-7773-3ea8-bc69-30c19c579306\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ligue 1<\/a>: 5 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=364\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"a47fbcec-c948-cf4c-9e41-3dfa37588c9c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/league\/_\/name\/ENG.1\" data-league-guid=\"6949f3af-300c-35f1-beab-b95669eedd38\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League<\/a>: 5 Stars<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City, Premier League: 5 Stars<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal, Premier League: 5 Stars<\/p>\n<p>Bayern Munich, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/league\/_\/name\/GER.1\" data-league-guid=\"30244926-00c4-3f69-8946-f8421c97ff71\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bundesliga<\/a>: 5 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=1068\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"f18017e3-5d72-38a9-ec4f-af985fb9d265\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atl\u00e9tico Madrid<\/a>, La Liga: 4.5 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=361\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"ec6b4352-98d3-424d-6214-778d79b47a01\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle United<\/a>, Premier League: 4.5 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=114\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"20179aab-ac9f-93cf-f139-404e49a3f3cb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Napoli<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/league\/_\/name\/ITA.1\" data-league-guid=\"9c1e0753-2757-3b78-a6ed-1b595caf8191\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Serie A<\/a>: 4.5 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=124\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"6cdd01c7-3938-6f1d-0c24-c7cf7da68d2b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Borussia Dortmund<\/a>, Bundesliga: 4.5 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=367\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"f987a4b2-f3f9-e7f6-eb7d-eda43893be5a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a>, Premier League: 4.5 Stars<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea, Premier League: 4.5 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=362\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"610557ff-e870-ea0e-a3b2-8244df325d22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aston Villa<\/a>, Premier League: 4.5 Stars<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United, Premier League: 4.5 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=131\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"483ec574-cb09-6d8f-e308-302d5d695d70\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bayer Leverkusen<\/a>, Bundesliga: 4.5 Stars<\/p>\n<p>The Premier League, La Liga, and Bundesliga lead the table in terms of appearances, while Ligue 1 and Serie A managed to get one club each into the top 16.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the best 16 clubs in women&#8217;s soccer as represented in EA FC 26:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=20091\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"11da6476-874f-3fe8-b621-20393997be4d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/league\/_\/name\/ESP.W.1\" data-league-guid=\"78df277d-c0b1-3caa-89b6-e5a8c2ac2e02\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liga F<\/a>: 5 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=19256\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"3db392d2-a448-93a9-8c76-bbe8b19e8a03\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OL Lyonnes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/league\/_\/name\/FRA.W.1\" data-league-guid=\"cde5cbd6-36a8-37e2-aa12-3ab19755568b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premi\u00e8re Ligue<\/a>: 5 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=19970\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"f6c1de4b-73c3-ba7f-207e-ec5927d015c5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a>, WSL: 5 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=19973\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"b01601fc-ede7-63f6-b94b-f08b2f98b476\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a>, WSL: 5 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=20103\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"acc95eff-24e5-3654-8716-e52356d02233\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bayern Munich<\/a>, Frauen-Bundesliga: 5 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=21128\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"78d4a88f-1e84-3815-8d06-8f57e84077d9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Real Madrid<\/a>, Liga F: 4.5 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=19257\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"05226548-2c4b-0170-ef96-91e0fe9ab498\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a>, WSL: 4.5 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=19258\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"e327be78-8fce-1082-1342-4ec71f0aa12a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paris Saint-Germain<\/a>, Premi\u00e8re Ligue: 4.5 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=20061\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"5d1de908-8705-f172-5351-5271a4f2e5a7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United<\/a>, WSL: 4.5 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=20107\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"5f7eb992-c0e9-feba-6f14-e82eacafbafe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VfL Wolfsburg<\/a>, Frauen-Bundesliga: 4.5 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=20907\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"fe4c7049-0000-3c2d-9e33-926cf8b95cad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Current<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/league\/_\/name\/USA.NWSL\" data-league-guid=\"5cfc4100-6528-4970-8370-21007a36fe3e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NWSL<\/a>: 4.5 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=15365\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"ceb0544b-1663-0efa-3eab-383896a3f48b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Spirit<\/a>, NWSL: 4 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team\/_\/id\/22092\/eintracht-frankfurt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eintracht Frankfurt<\/a>, Frauen-Bundesliga: 4 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=15364\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"39fc3225-8ec6-3dce-f7a7-f1b3874e1d82\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gotham FC<\/a>, NWSL: 4 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=20092\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"0a4b8084-78c4-3db8-99c3-4f6e00b6c584\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Juventus<\/a>, Serie A Femminile: 4 Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=18206\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"d4367787-d754-24d5-1cef-c9186323a7f7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Pride<\/a>, NWSL: 4 Stars<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s Premi\u00e8re Ligue is doing a bit better than its male counterpart, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=17640\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"b40064c7-ecaa-338f-74a8-a3eb43071ec3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spain<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=5159\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"54012d1b-24f0-7f9e-8e53-4372e84efd04\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> don&#8217;t dominate women&#8217;s soccer quite in the same way. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=2756\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"3002cdb6-4d2f-4a63-fb74-f789fa9067fb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Germany<\/a> is remarkably consistent with a trio of clubs on both lists. The U.S. continues to be a leading country in this category with a total of four top 16 contenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rating reveals for EA FC 26 have officially kicked off and while attention is mostly on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-133452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}