{"id":415567,"date":"2026-01-15T22:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/415567\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T22:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:36:10","slug":"ea-sports-fc-26-team-of-the-year-declan-rice-and-erling-haaland-among-premier-league-names-in-best-xi-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/415567\/","title":{"rendered":"EA SPORTS FC 26 Team of the Year: Declan Rice and Erling Haaland among Premier League names in best XI | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal duo Declan Rice and William Saliba, Manchester City’s Erling Haaland and Gianluigi Donnarumma, alongside Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk, have all been named in the EA SPORTS FC 26 Men’s Team of the Year.<\/p>\n

They join the likes of Ballon d’Or winner Ousmane Dembele, Kylian Mbappe, and Vitinha in being voted as the best players of the last 12 months.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Alessia Russo, Leah Williamson and Mariona Caldentey have been named in the best Women’s Team of the Year. Chelsea’s Lucy Bronze has also been named with Barcelona’s star trio of Aitana Bonmati, Alexia Putellas and Ewa Pajor.<\/p>\n

Both Bronze and Mbappe become the inaugural EA SPORTS FC TOTY Captains<\/p>\n

EA SPORTS FC 26 Men’s Team of the Year<\/p>\n

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\n EA SPORTS FC 26 Men’s Team of the Year<\/p>\n

Goalkeeper & Defenders<\/p>\n

Gianluigi Donnarumma – Manchester City & Italy
Jules Kound\u00e9 – FC Barcelona & France
William Saliba – Arsenal & France
Virgil van Dijk – Liverpool & Netherlands
Nuno Mendes – Paris Saint-Germain & Portugal<\/p>\n

Midfielders <\/p>\n

Pedri – FC Barcelona & Spain
Declan Rice – Arsenal & England
Vitinha – Paris Saint-Germain & Portugal<\/p>\n

Forwards <\/p>\n

Ousmane Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 – Paris Saint-Germain & France
Erling Haaland – Manchester City & Norway
Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 – Real Madrid & France<\/p>\n

EA SPORTS FC 26 Women’s Team of the Year <\/p>\n

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\n EA SPORTS FC 26 Women’s Team of the Year<\/p>\n

Goalkeeper & Defenders<\/p>\n

Christine Endler – OL Lyonnes & Chile
Lucy Bronze – Chelsea & England
Millie Bright – Chelsea & England
Leah Williamson – Arsenal & England
Selma Bacha – OL Lyonnes & France<\/p>\n

Midfielders<\/p>\n

Aitana Bonmat\u00ed – FC Barcelona & Spain
Mariona Caldentey – Arsenal & Spain
Alexia Putellas – FC Barcelona & Spain<\/p>\n

Forwards <\/p>\n

Cl\u00e0udia Pina – FC Barcelona & Spain
Ewa Pajor – FC Barcelona & Poland
Alessia Russo – Arsenal & England<\/p>\n

All Items across the TOTYs will be available in-game from January 16 onwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal duo Declan Rice and William Saliba, Manchester City’s Erling Haaland and Gianluigi Donnarumma, alongside Liverpool captain Virgil…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-415567","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\/415567","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=415567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}