EA FC 26 Ultimate TOTS Is Live: Final Squad + End of an Era

The Team of the Season event is closing with its two biggest drops at once. Ultimate TOTS, the all-star reprint of the entire campaign, is live in packs right now, and the End of an Era series is giving retiring legends like Mohamed Salah and Antoine Griezmann farewell cards through SBCs and objectives. The clock matters more than the content this time: TOTS wraps on June 12, and several of the best rewards expire with it. Here is everything in the final drop, and what the ending means for your club and the market.

What the final TOTS squad brings back

Ultimate TOTS is a re-release wave rather than a new squad: the best performers from every weekly TOTS return to packs together for the final week. That includes all of the campaign's 97-rated items, both Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, and a band of 96 to 92 rated returns featuring Kylian Mbappé, Declan Rice and Gabriel. The headliners span the whole campaign:

Quality floors make this the strongest pack week of the cycle on paper: every TOTS item carries a minimum of three PlayStyles+, and each league's headline card got four. That density is exactly why the squad-quality ceiling in Champs jumps this week.

End of an Era: the farewell wave

Running beside the reprints is the more sentimental drop. End of an Era honours players retiring from the game with boosted farewell items, delivered through SBCs and objectives rather than packs, which makes most of them realistically earnable:

Julian Brandt and Niklas Süle are also in the series with stats unconfirmed at the time of writing. If one of these names anchors your club's identity, this is the last themed card they will ever get, which is exactly the kind of item that holds sentimental value long after its stats age.

Why the next 48 hours matter

Everything TOTS-stamped is on a June 12 timer. The practical checklist: finish any TOTS SBCs you have half-built before they expire, clear the remaining TOTS objectives, and make your End of an Era picks now rather than on deadline day, when fodder prices spike from everyone completing at once. Our fodder loop exists for precisely this week, and the rating-combination table in it will save you real coins on the EOAE submissions.

The earnable routes: getting finale cards without packs

Most of this week's value is claimable rather than packable, and the order you work through it matters:

• Objectives first. The TOTS and End of an Era objective sets are pure playtime, and several pay tradeable pack rewards on top of the card. Clear them before deadline congestion, since some demand multiple wins across modes.
• EOAE SBCs second. Price them against your fodder reserve before starting, and use the threshold combinations from the fodder guide rather than brute-forcing same-rated squads. A 92 to 93 rated farewell card for fodder you farmed free is the finale's best deal.
• Token spending last. Festival Tokens keep accruing through all of this, and the token store regularly stocks TOTS-adjacent rewards. Spend after the dust settles, not during the hype spike, because store inventory rotates while your tokens do not expire mid-event.

One sequencing warning for deadline day: everyone completes expiring SBCs in the final hours, which spikes fodder prices on June 12 itself. Submitting a day early is routinely cheaper than submitting at the buzzer for identical rewards.

What the PlayStyles+ floor does to this weekend's meta

The quality jump is not just collector appeal. With every returning TOTS carrying at least three PlayStyles+ and league headliners carrying four, the effective skill ceiling of weekend lobbies rises immediately: more Rapid+ wingers, more Anticipate+ defenders, more Finesse Shot+ forwards in the same match. If you run a budget squad, expect the pace gap to feel wider this weekend than last, and lean harder on structure over chases, exactly the adjustment logic in our 4-2-3-1 setup. The window is also temporary: after June 12 the reprint supply freezes, lobbies stabilise, and the Festival's lighter card pool takes over.

What the ending does to the market

TOTS ending is a market event in itself, and it cuts two ways. While the reprint wave is in packs, supply is at its absolute season peak, which holds TOTS prices down and keeps meta golds at their lows, the situation our budget players guide is built around. After June 12, TOTS items stop being packable, and historically that is when the desirable ones firm up in price, because supply freezes while demand continues. If a specific TOTS card is your endgame target, the final packable days are typically the cheapest window you will get. If you are selling, the calculus inverts: dumping mid-flood is selling at the bottom.

What takes over after June 12

The handover is already scheduled. The Festival of Football becomes the sole content track, with Path to Glory live until June 19, Greats of the Game bringing the Kempes and Rivellino ICONs from June 19 to 26, and the campaign chain running through Summer Stars in late July. The free Pelé and the token economy continue regardless, and our Festival of Football guide covers how to play each window. For the full date map, the promo calendar stays current.

Our cross-check: confirmed versus leaked

News weeks blur the line between reveals and leaks, so we separated them. The Ultimate TOTS structure, the return of the 97s with Messi and Ronaldo, and the PlayStyles+ floors are corroborated across EA's official TOTS pages and the major trackers. The End of an Era names and ratings above match across Operation Sports and the squad databases, with Brandt and Süle the only entries still carrying unconfirmed stats, which is why we list them without numbers. Where sources disagreed on fodder-tier contents of the Ultimate reprint, we left those claims out entirely rather than print a leak as fact.

Frequently asked questions

When does TOTS end in FC 26?

June 12, 2026. Ultimate TOTS and the End of an Era content run until then, along with the expiring TOTS SBCs and objectives.

What is End of an Era in FC 26?

A farewell card series for players retiring from the game, delivered through SBCs and objectives during the final TOTS week. Confirmed items include Salah at 95, Griezmann at 94 and Robertson at 93.

Are Ultimate TOTS packs worth opening?

The card pool is the strongest of the season, but the odds on any specific 97 remain long. Completing objectives and earnable SBCs first is the value play; store packs are entertainment spending, not an investment.

Bottom line: claim what expires, buy your endgame TOTS target before the packable window closes, treat EOAE as the affordable sentimental pick of the finale, and let the Festival carry you into the summer. The rest of the week's coverage lives in our news section, alongside the World's Game update breakdown that set this whole summer up.