FC 27's Fan-Voted TOTW Card Has the Community Arguing
Published 2026-09-25 · DB.Coins Blog
The first fan-voted in-form in FC history
One of FC 27's quietest new features has turned into one of its loudest arguments. For the first six Team of the Week squads of Season 1, EA is letting the community vote one player into the squad — a slot marked in-game with a Community Player tag.
TOTW 1 went live on 18 September alongside early access, headlined by a 91-rated Lamine Yamal and an 89-rated Melchie Dumornay in a 23-player squad. But the card everyone actually talked about was Felix Nmecha, the 86-rated Dortmund midfielder who became the first player in series history to earn an in-form through a public vote. TOTW 2 followed on 23 September with a 91 Michael Olise leading it, plus Raphinha and Sophia Wilson at 89 and Salah and Marquinhos at 88 — and a second Community Player alongside them.
How the vote actually works
- Voting happens on EA's official Ratings Hub, and you need to be logged into an EA account.
- Every player in the FC 27 ratings database is eligible — not a shortlist.
- Voting opens each Tuesday and closes Monday at 11:59pm PT, which is roughly 12:30pm IST on Tuesday for us in India.
- You vote on who gets in, not on the rating. EA still sets the card's OVR and stats from real-world form.
Where the community split opens up
Players on Reddit and X broadly like the idea — after years of being told what the squad is, being asked is a genuine change, and the first winner going to a Bundesliga midfielder rather than a superstar was read as proof the vote isn't just a rubber stamp for the biggest name.
The pushback is about one line in EA's own wording: the highest vote total does not automatically guarantee selection, and the final Community Player is decided using a combination of EA and community votes. That has a chunk of the community arguing it's a soft vote — that EA keeps a veto and the fan input is advisory decoration. The counter-argument doing the rounds is just as reasonable: an open ballot across the entire database with no shortlist is an obvious target for meme campaigns, and a filter is the only thing stopping six weeks of joke selections.
There's a third camp that thinks the whole thing is a footnote. It's one slot out of 23, for six weeks only, and the other 22 cards are still EA's call based on weekend form.
What it means for your coins
This is where it stops being a debate and starts being a market. A few things worth tracking:
| Factor | Effect on price |
| Community Player marker | A cosmetic tag on a card that only ever exists six times — collector demand, not meta demand |
| Holographic versions | Live from TOTW 1; 87 and below are Regular, 88 and above Pristine, and both are tradeable |
| In-forms leaving packs | When a new squad drops, last week's cards exit packs but stay tradeable — supply stops, price usually drifts up |
| Streamlined SBC item score | TOTW rarity and Holographic bonuses stack, so these cards double as high-score fodder |
The practical read: a Community Player card is likely to be a mid-rated, non-meta item that is scarce rather than good. That combination — limited print, six-week window, extra rarity bonuses for the new SBC scoring — is exactly the profile that gets quietly expensive four to six weeks in, once launch supply dries up. If a cheap one lands in your club right now, think twice before quick-selling it.
Equally, don't overpay chasing hype in launch week. Prices across the board are still settling after the 25 September full release, and holding through that correction has historically been the cheaper play.
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