As content creators and players, we celebrate what EA SPORTS has built with EA FC 26 — but we also have to point out what still hurts the experience.
A game of this scale thrives on community feedback, and by speaking up, we can help make it the best experience possible.
These glitches and bugs impact EA FC 26 Career Mode, Kick Off, presentation, and overall Gameplay, breaking the realism and immersion we crave.
Let’s get into the list of 30 big bugs and hope the EA SPORTS FC development team is listening and work on all bugs as soon as!
EA FC 26 Bugs
1. Restricted Team Replacement
When you replace a team in Manager Career “Create Your Club”, only clubs related to your selected favourite appear. That blocks normal team switching and makes Create Your Club feel locked-down.
2. Adjustable Socks
You can’t change sock style for created players in Kick Off or academy players in Manager Career. It’s a small visual customization, but it’s part of club identity — restoring sock options would fix many kit complaints.
3. Victor Ibarbo Arms
ICON Victor Ibarbo appears as a selectable player in the “Club of ICONs & Heroes” Career Mode option in EA FC 26, with a real face but in a strange glitch he has incorrectly colored arms – a confusing discovery that breaks the immersion.
4. National Team Job Offers
Notification text for national team job offers shows wrong messages in Manager Career. Misleading UI hurts the immersion and can confuse save decisions — text keys need fixing.
5. UEFA Champions League Schedule
The Champions League match list appears upside-down in Career Mode (starting from GW8 and ending with GW1). This breaks planning for matchdays and contradicts real-life scheduling — reorder the fixture array to match the real calendar.
6. Serie B Schedule
Serie B fixtures in Career Mode show long runs of home games followed by long away stretches — clearly incorrect. Fixture distribution logic should be re-validated against the league scheduler.
7. Wrong Kits
Wrong kits appear for several teams (e.g., Arsenal Third, Feyenoord Away, Middlesbrough Home) across modes. Presentation errors like this reduce realism — the kit database needs asset mapping fixes.
8. Missing Sponsors
Some kits (Leicester, Elche, London City Lionesses, others) lack sponsors in Kick Off and Career Mode. Sponsors are important for authenticity.
9. Kicking the Ball Out
The CPU team you face in Kick Off and Career Mode kicks the ball out at the beginning of the match for no reason. It breaks matchflow and looks like a logic bug in kickoff AI.
10. Throw-In Scenes Glitch
Wrong scenes during the throw-ins if the ball is on the bench or any other place that is not where the ball should be. That’s a camera/trigger bug — EA must validate ball coordinates before firing throw-in animations.
11. Substitutions Invades the Pitch
Players with training kits invades the pitch during substitutions across modes. This is a swap/appearance-state bug; EA must ensure substitution events reapply proper match kits.
12. Missing Cutscenes for Substitutions
Missing cutscenes during substitutions if you do it when you have a goal kick, which happens in Kick Off, Career Mode, and other game modes.
13. Trophy Preview
Trophy previews sometimes show wrong visuals in Tournament and Career Mode victories. It spoils the celebration — EA must fix the trophy asset mapping for those competitions.
14. Number of Substitutions on Graphics
Only 7 substitutions are shown on the broadcast packages, although there are 9 on the bench. That happens in UEFA Champions League, Premier League, and others. EA must update broadcast templates to reflect current substitution rules.
15. Serie A Lineups
Serie A team lineups appear glitched on competition broadcast overlays in Kick Off and Career Mode. This undermines broadcast authenticity; the lineup rendering routine needs debugging for this competition.
16. UEFA Super Cup Host Venue
You can’t play the 2025 UEFA Super Cup in Bluenergy Stadium, although it hosts the final match in real life. The stadium is available in the game. Final venue mapping for that tournament needs correction.
17. Rush Goalkeepers
Two goalkeepers called Rush Goalkeeper are available to select for the England national team in Kick Off and Manager Career. EA must remove or rename these archetypes and fix the selection pool.
18. Zinedine Zidane
For an unknown reason, Zinedine Zidane is the only available legend as a Free Agent player in the game. You can add him to the France national team in Kick Off.
19. Missing Rain Weather in Stadiums
Some stadiums, including the Santiago Bernabéu, lack a rainy weather option in Kick Off and Career Mode. Weather presets should be platform- and stadium-complete so atmosphere options match reality.
20. Cannot Hear Goal Songs
Certain club goal songs play too low compared to crowd audio, making them inaudible. Goal audio mixing needs adjusting so songs punch through crowd noise and preserve club identity.
Other Big 10 Bugs
These are 20 of the 30 important problems the community wants fixed. To read the remaining ten bugs and more detail, check your prior article:
Final Whistle
EA SPORTS is doing a lot of great work with EA FC 26, but these bugs — from presentation and broadcast issues to scheduling and animation glitches — hurt the game’s realism and player enjoyment.
Many of the items above are asset links, UI keys, or simple state-checking fixes that should be high on the next Title Update or Squad Update list.
If you’re seeing any of these, record clips and report them through EA’s Player Feedback Portal — clear repros help get problems fixed faster. Let’s keep the feedback coming!
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