The launch of EA Sports FC 26 has seen a plethora of bugs but none is so unusual as this one. A recurring issue has quickly soured the experience for many, the curious and frustrating absence of major club kits in the game’s Ultimate Team transfer market. For a game series that relies heavily on team customization and collector culture, the scarcity of fundamental items like the Barcelona, Liverpool, Bayern, Real Madrid and Man City kits has sparked widespread player confusion.
Rarest kit in the game (even though is the WSL team one)
— bateson87 (@bateson87) October 2, 2025
No idea whats going on with kits on UT this year pic.twitter.com/dz0jyRGTUv
The issue isn’t a small one, entire leagues appear to be ghost towns for kit collectors. Reports across social media and official forums confirm that many top tier club kits, even for teams explicitly partnered with EA Sports, are virtually extinct on the market. Trying to find a Real Madrid or PSG shirt feels like an impossible quest, while some lower division teams oddly appear in abundance or not at all. As one user states he was trying to purchase Schalke’s jersey for 3 hours and yet he could not find one.
Try to get Schalke Jerseys bro. Sniped 3 hours without getting one
— Marvin (@MarvinN04_) October 2, 2025
Many players and forum commentators believe it’s a profound packaging error. The kits simply aren’t dropping in packs at the correct rates, or at all for some teams, leading to an artificially restricted supply. This is supported by anecdotal evidence of certain kits like a handful of Premier League or Championship clubs being excessively common, suggesting a broken distribution algorithm. Some early reports suggested that a patch had begun to address the issue, leading to a temporary appearance of some missing items, but overall scarcity remains a huge problem.
For the average gamer, the missing kits aren’t just a minor cosmetic annoyance, they disrupt the core loop of Ultimate Team. Building a squad and making it feel like your club is central to the mode’s appeal, and a team running out in generic, unloved kits feels incomplete. Furthermore, the early days of FUT often involve players quickly selling high demand kits to build up a starting coin balance. With these items effectively absent, an entire early game coin making strategy has been eliminated, further frustrating those who prefer to engage with the market over buying in game currency.
