EA FC 27 Season 2: FC Heritage Dates & What Resets
Updated for Season 2 · October 2026 · last reviewed
Ultimate Team Season 2 — FC Heritage — went live on 22 October 2026, the day Season 1 — Ones to Watch — closed, and EA dates it through 3 December 2026. FC Heritage brings new Standard and Premium Ladders with FC Heritage Player Items, the FC Heritage Circuit of five Single Player Live Events, the returning PvP Daily Knockout Tournament and more than 60 new FUT Gallery Sets; EA's FC 27 roadmap also lists Ultimate Scream, UEFA Road to the Knockouts, Hall of FUT Unleashed and Black Friday Thunderstruck for October–November. This page is the permanent season tracker: current dates, exactly what resets between UT seasons, how the weekly Champions cycle works now that FC 27 dropped the Division 6 rule, and what the rollover means for your Rivals division.
Season 2 dates
Season 2 — FC Heritage — started on 22 October 2026, when Season 1 — Ones to Watch (17 September – 22 October 2026) — ended on the date EA's Launch Update Pitch Notes gave. EA's FC 27 Launch Rewards page dates Season 2 from 22 October to 3 December 2026 and Season 3 from 3 December 2026 to 14 January 2027, in line with the roadmap's October–November and December–January windows.
What actually resets between UT seasons
Unlike ladder shooters, FC does not knock you down divisions when a new UT season starts. What resets in Division Rivals is the protection around your rank: checkpoints and their loss counters clear at the season rollover, your weekly score starts over, and the Limited Checkpoints that stop relegation have to be re-earned. In practice that means the first games of a new season carry real relegation risk that end-of-season games did not — lose early and there is no cushion under you yet. The title change is the bigger reset: nothing carried over from FC 26 except your starting Rivals division, seeded from your FC 26 record, so every FC 27 ladder began from scratch on 17 September.
The weekly clock: Champions qualification
The sharper reset in this game is weekly, not seasonal — and FC 27 changed the gate. Champions qualification now runs on points alone: a Champions Qualification Points target (the in-game Champions screen shows the current one), earned through Rivals and Squad Battles, with no Division 6 requirement (EA: "your Division will no longer determine whether you can play toward qualification"). Unused points carry into the next week, higher divisions earn faster, and the Weekend League itself locks its rewards every single week. Miss a weekend and that reward tier is simply gone — which is why our Weekend League subscription exists for players who want every week banked without playing every weekend.
The rollover window: the first weeks of Season 2
A season rollover is the moment Division Rivals is least forgiving: checkpoints and their loss counters cleared on 22 October, so every division you hold has no cushion under it until you re-earn one, and early losses can relegate you in a way late-season losses could not. That makes the first weeks of Season 2 the highest-leverage window of the season — every Rivals division you bank now is protected again once its checkpoint is re-earned, every Squad Battles week pays qualification points as well as rewards, and every Champions finish you lock in early feeds the next qualification. FC 26 orders placed before FC 27's launch were completed in full on FC 26; anything on FC 26 itself is now a custom order — describe it and verified boosters bid on it.
Season history and what's next
Season 2 is FC 27's second Ultimate Team season. Season 1 (Ones to Watch) ran 17 September – 22 October 2026 and opened the title's content arc, after FC 26's final two seasons — Season 9 (World Tour: Spain, Portugal & Morocco '30, 9 July – 13 August 2026) and Season 10 (the Pre-Season, 13 August – 17 September 2026). From here the clock is EA's: each new season is announced on ea.com shortly before the previous season's in-game timer runs out, and this page rolls over with it — dates and reset rules get tracked here the same way, season by season.
Frequently asked questions
On 3 December 2026, when Season 3 begins — those are the Season 2 dates on EA's FC 27 Launch Rewards page (Season 3: 3 December 2026 – 14 January 2027). Season 1 — Ones to Watch — ended on 22 October 2026.
Your division stays, but its protection does not: checkpoints and loss counters clear at every season rollover and your weekly score restarts. Early-season losses can relegate you in a way late-season losses could not.
Not directly — FC 27 started a fresh Ultimate Team ladder on 17 September 2026. Your record matters indirectly: your starting Rivals division was seeded from your FC 26 record, and FC 26's Pre-Season pass paid out FC 27 head-start rewards.
On points alone. You earn Champions Qualification Points through Division Rivals and, new in FC 27, Squad Battles; bank the target (the in-game Champions screen shows the current one) and you are in, from any division — the Division 6 rule was removed. Unused points carry over to the following week, but each weekend's rewards lock when that weekend ends.
FC 27's second Ultimate Team season, live since 22 October 2026 and built around Ultimate Team's own history: FC Heritage Player Items through the Season Pass and Live Events, the five-stage FC Heritage Circuit, the PvP Daily Knockout Tournament and more than 60 new FUT Gallery Sets. EA's roadmap adds Ultimate Scream, UEFA Road to the Knockouts, Hall of FUT Unleashed and Black Friday Thunderstruck for October–November.