FC 26 Winter Wildcards: Release date speculation and what to expect

If you're gearing up for Christmas, then you'll want to be ready for the start of the FC 26 Winter Wildcards promo.

Offering new cards for some of this season's biggest and best players, as well as many Icons of the game, the cards from this event could end up carrying you right through to the summer.

Before this event's SBCs drop, make sure you've stocked up on some fodder with some cheap high-rated FUT cards.

With that covered, let's take a look at when the FC 26 Winter Wildcards promo begins, as well as all the confirmed and leaked cards to come.

When is the FC 26 Winter Wildcards start date?

The Winter Wildcards promo is expected to release in FC 26 on Friday 19th December 2025.

This coincides with the end of the ongoing Unbreakables promo, and will see the release of Team 1 for this year's event.

As for exact timings, we can likely see the update go live at 6pm GMT, as this is typically when we see new events begin in FC 26.

What to expect from FC 26 Winter Wildcards: All leaked cards

At the time of writing, there are only four players confirmed to be getting a card in this year's Winter Wildcards.

The first of these is Gianfranco Zola, while Jill Scott, Claudio Pizarro and Iván Zamorano were later confirmed via social media.

Aside from these four, we do have a list of leaked cards reportedly set to feature in Winter Wildcards Team 1, courtesy of Fut Sheriff on Twitter.

Here's a list of all the leaked Winter Wildcards players in FC 26 that we know about so far:

• Ousmane Dembélé | PSG | France
• Federico Valverde | Real Madrid | Uruguay
• Gabriel Magalhães | Arsenal | Brazil
• Alexis Mac Allister | Liverpool | Argentina
• Jonathan Tah | Bayern Munich | Germany
• Clàudia Pina | Barcelona | Spain
• Selma Bacha | Lyon | France
• Trinity Rodman | Washington Spirit | USA
• Rafael Leão | AC Milan | Portugal
• Kingsley Coman | Al-Nassr | France
• Armand Laurienté | Sassuolo | France
• Gerónimo Rulli | Marseille | Argentina
• Gerard Moreno | Villareal | Spain
• Joshua King | Al-Khaleej | Norway
• Zinedine Zidane | France
• Ronaldinho | Brazil
• Ibrahimović | Sweden
• Julie Foudy | USA
• Luís Figo | Portugal
• Jürgen Kohler | Germany
• Iván Córdoba | Colombia

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