Questions UK players send us

The in-game currency of Ultimate Team, now officially Ultimate Team Coins in EA SPORTS FC 27. A club earns them by playing and selling, and spends them on players and other items on the Transfer Market. EA’s agreement states they have no cash value. They are separate from FC Points, which are bought from EA and cannot be turned into coins.

Work through the Foundations objectives first. The chain rewards coins, packs and players, and its first three groups open the Transfer Market, fully within a day on consoles and two days on PC once they are done. From then on every match adds a little, and items you do not need can be listed for sale or quick-sold.

Through the weekly competitions and the market. Rivals pays by division with rewards released on Thursdays, Champions pays for its fifteen-match finals, and Squad Battles pays for matches against computer-run squads. EA says rewards in FC 27 hold more coins and more tradeable packs than before, so selling what you pull is a larger part of the income.

Because forum posts are single experiences. One player bought for years with no penalty, another lost market access after one order, and neither knows how EA decides. EA publishes its rules and its list of penalties, but not its detection. Treat forum threads as anecdotes, check dates, and give more weight to EA’s own help pages for anything about rules.

Possibly. The checkout charges in euros, and a UK bank or card provider converts the amount into pounds at its own rate. Some add a foreign-transaction fee on top, others do not; your card’s terms say which. That conversion happens on your bank’s side, after the checkout has shown you the euro total including the payment-method fee.

Write to checkout support within 21 days of paying and include the order reference printed on your receipt. They handle the request under their own policy, as the payment was made on their page. We are a separate website and never receive your money, so we cannot return it, but we will point you to the right place if you write to us.