Nov 18, 2025, 12:40 PM ET<\/p>\n
A team captain always enters the stadium with a little bit of extra pressure on their shoulders. EA Sports FC 26 is celebrating the exemplary athletes who’ve already served as captains of some of the world’s strongest national teams with Festival of Football, bringing another set of powerful cards into FC Ultimate Team.<\/p>\n
Kylian Mbapp\u00e9<\/a> leads the squad with a 92 OVR item that surpasses even the two Player of the Month cards he’s already claimed in the ongoing season, boasting 98 Speed, 93 Dribbling and 92 Shooting. Fellow striker Harry Kane<\/a> is on his heels with 91 OVR, making this the Englishman’s best card so far with 94 Shooting and immense Speed gains.<\/p>\n Completing the podium is Virgil van Dijk<\/a> with 90 OVR and a stalwart combo of 90 Defending and 88 Physical.<\/p>\n All captains represented in Festival of Football come with enhanced Team Chemistry enabling players to create nation-based squads around them more easily.<\/p>\n Here is the full roster of Festival of Football team captains in EA FC 26:<\/p>\n Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, Paris Saint-Germain<\/a>: 92 OVR<\/p>\n Harry Kane, Bayern Munich<\/a>: 91 OVR<\/p>\n Virgil van Dijk, Liverpool<\/a>: 90 OVR<\/p>\n Gianluigi Donnarumma<\/a>, Manchester City<\/a>: 89 OVR<\/p>\n Ewa Pajor<\/a>, Barcelona<\/a>: 89 OVR<\/p>\n Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a>, Al Nassr<\/a>: 89 OVR<\/p>\n Lindsey Heaps<\/a>, Lyon<\/a>: 88 OVR<\/p>\n Robert Lewandowski<\/a>, FC Barcelona: 88 OVR<\/p>\n Leah Williamson<\/a>, Arsenal<\/a>: 88 OVR<\/p>\n Irene Paredes<\/a>, Barcelona: 88 OVR<\/p>\n Naomi Girma<\/a>, Chelsea<\/a>: 87 OVR<\/p>\n Dominik Szoboszlai<\/a>, Liverpool: 87 OVR<\/p>\n \u00c1lvaro Morata<\/a>, Como<\/a> 1907: 87 OVR<\/p>\n Bernardo Silva<\/a>, Manchester City: 87 OVR<\/p>\n Martin \u00d8degaard<\/a>, Arsenal: 87 OVR<\/p>\n Ada Hegerberg<\/a>, Lyon: 87 OVR<\/p>\n Caroline Weir<\/a>, Real Madrid<\/a>: 87 OVR<\/p>\n Pernille Harder<\/a>, FC Bayern Munich: 87 OVR<\/p>\n Andrew Robertson<\/a>, Liverpool: 86 OVR<\/p>\n Giovanni Di Lorenzo<\/a>, SSC Napoli<\/a>: 86 OVR<\/p>\n Nicol\u00e1s Otamendi<\/a>, Benfica<\/a>: 86 OVR<\/p>\n Nicolae Stanciu<\/a>, Genoa CFC: 86 OVR<\/p>\n Kosovare Asllani<\/a>, London City Lionesses<\/a>: 86 OVR<\/p>\n Griedge Mbock Bathy<\/a>, Paris Saint-Germain: 86 OVR<\/p>\n Jessie Fleming<\/a>, Portland Timbers<\/a>-Thorns: 86 OVR<\/p>\n Edson \u00c1lvarez<\/a>, Fenerbah\u00e7e: 86 OVR<\/p>\n Aur\u00e9lien Tchouam\u00e9ni<\/a>, Real Madrid: 86 OVR<\/p>\n Gl\u00f3d\u00eds Vigg\u00f3sd\u00f3ttir<\/a>, Bayern Munich: 86 OVR<\/p>\n Jordan Ayew<\/a>, Leicester City<\/a>: 85 OVR<\/p>\n Jordan Henderson<\/a>, Brentford<\/a>: 85 OVR<\/p>\n Lukas Hradecky<\/a>, AS Monaco<\/a>: 85 OVR<\/p>\n Tim Ream<\/a>, Charlotte FC<\/a>: 85 OVR<\/p>\n Piotr Zielinski<\/a>, Inter Milan: 85 OVR<\/p>\n Pierre-Emile H\u00f8jberg<\/a>, Marseille<\/a>: 85 OVR<\/p>\n Sherida Spitse<\/a>, Ajax Amsterdam<\/a>: 85 OVR<\/p>\n Nathan Collins<\/a>, Brentford: 85 OVR<\/p>\n Orri \u00d3skarsson<\/a>, Real Sociedad<\/a>: 85 OVR<\/p>\n Aldana Cometti<\/a>, FC Fleury 91<\/a>: 85 OVR<\/p>\n Ben Davies<\/a>, Tottenham Hotspur<\/a>: 84 OVR<\/p>\n Mykola Matviyenko<\/a>, Shakhtar Donetsk<\/a>: 84 OVR<\/p>\n Rebeca Bernal<\/a>, Washington Spirit<\/a>: 84 OVR<\/p>\n Dolores Silva<\/a>, Levante<\/a>: 84 OVR<\/p>\n Trai Hume<\/a>, Sunderland<\/a>: 84 OVR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 18, 2025, 12:40 PM ET A team captain always enters the stadium with a little bit of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-293095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293095","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=293095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}