If you can tear yourself away from everything football live on TV During the Christmas holidays, you could bag some pretty awesome cards at Winter Wildcards.

Read on for the full schedule and what to expect from Winter Wildcards in FC 25.

FC 25 Winter Wildcard Schedule

There will be three weeks of Winter Wildcards in FC 25, meaning there will be a trilogy of teams you can try to collect.

The FC 25 Winter Wildcard schedule should look like this:

• Friday December 20 — Team 1 arrives at 6 p.m.
• Friday December 27 — Team 2 arrives at 6 p.m.
• Friday January 3 — Team 3 arrives at 6 p.m.

Long-time players will be used to this cadence by now, with Friday tea time being the usual slot when big updates are released.

If Team 1 meets this time frame, we expect subsequent weeks to do the same.

What to expect from FC 25 Winter Wildcards

As for what lies ahead, the most obvious thing is that new cards will be available in the packs of each of these teams.

Team 1 includes 26 current players, as well as 14 classics from the past (in the form of icons and heroes).

But that’s not all that’s happening! There is also SBC every day – think of it like an Advent calendar – allowing you to gather brilliant players if your team-building skills are up to par.

So far we’ve seen Leroy Sané, Nuno Mendes and Diego Forlán among the SBCs on offer.

EA also promised “all kinds of improvements”, including position changes, weekly skill/foot upgrades, statistical upgrades to 99 stats, playstyles, roles+, and roles++.

During the Winter Wildcards promotion, FC 25 Season 4 will begin on Thursday, December 26 at 8:00 GMT. The new season is called “Strength in Numbers” and will bring even more content to the game.

Overall, this should be a really fun way to spend the Christmas holidays! More information about the festivities can be found at the official website of the game.

FC 25 Winter Wildcards: All Cards Confirmed So Far

As confirmed in the social post above, the full FC 25 Winter Wildcards Team 1 roster looks like this:

• Ademola Lookman | CAM, Atalanta, Nigeria | OVR 89
• Alexandre Lacazette | ST, Lyon, France | OVR 89
• Antonio Di Natale | LW, Serie A, Italy | OVR 89
• Antonio Di Natale | ST, Serie A, Italy | OVR 89
• Branco van den Boomen | MDP, Ajax, Netherlands | OVR 86
• Carlos Alberto | CB, Brazil | OVR 92
• Carlos Alberto | MDP, Brazil | OVR 92
• Caroline Graham Hansen | RW, Barcelona, ​​Norway | OVR 93
• Dani Parejo | CB, Villarreal, Spain | OVR 88
• Dani Viviane | CB, Athletic Bilbao, Spain | OVR 87
• Declan Rice | CM, Arsenal, England | OVR 90
• Deniz Undav | ST, Stuttgart, Germany | OVR 87
• Dominique Janssen | CB, Manchester United, Netherlands | OVR 88
• Eden Hazard | LM, Premier League, Belgium | OVR 91
• Eren Dinkçi | RM, SC Freiburg, Germany | OVR 86
• Erling Haaland | CB, Manchester City, Norway | OVR 94
• Erling Haaland | ST, Manchester City, Norway | OVR 94
• Frankie de Jong | CDM, Barcelona, ​​Netherlands | OVR 91
• Frankie de Jong | CM, Barcelona, ​​Netherlands | OVR 91
• George Hagi | CAM, Romania | OVR 89
• Javier Mascherano | CB, La Liga, Argentina | OVR 89
• Javier Mascherano | MDP, Liga, Argentina | OVR 89
• Leroy Sane | RM, FC Bayern, Germany | OVR 89
• Liam Delap | ST, Ipswich Town, England | OVR 86
• Malik Tillman | CAM, PSV, United States | OVR 88
• Marc Guéhi | CB, Crystal Palace, England | OVR 87
• Mauro Icardi | ST, Galatasaray, Argentina | OVR 88
• Nuno Mendes | LB, Paris SG, Portugal | OVR 88
• Oussame Sahraoui | LM, Lille, Morocco | OVR 86
• Paul Scholes | CM, England | OVR 89
• Pedro Porro | RB, Tottenham, Spain | OVR 89
• Przemysław Frankowski | RB, RC Lens, Poland | OVR 86
• Ronaldo | ST, Brazil | OVR 90
• Ronaldo | ST, Brazil | OVR 95
• Rose Lavelle | LB, NJ/NY Gotham, United States | OVR 89
• Saeed Al-Owairan | RW, ROSHN Saudi League, Saudi Arabia | OVR 87
• Salem Al-Dawsari | LM, Al Hilal, Saudi Arabia | OVR 89
• Sergio Gomez | LB, Real Sociedad, Spain | OVR 87
• Socrates | ST, Brazil | OVR 90
• Vinicius Jr. | AG, Real Madrid, Brazil | OVR 93
• Vinicius Jr. | ST, Real Madrid, Brazil | OVR 93
• Willi Orbán | MDP, RB Leipzig | OVR 87
• Xavier | CM, Spain | OVR 91
• Yaya Toure | CDM, Premier League, Ivory Coast | OVR 90

They weren’t kidding when they called these “jokers”, were they? Haaland as a CB looks like pure chaos, but maybe it’s worth a try?

The next two teams will be announced Friday at 6 p.m. You will be able to see them in the game and on EA Sports FC social media accounts.

We’ll see you in the new year for more FC goodness! In the meantime, why not try our quiz below?

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