EA Sports FC 25 Gets the First Paid Battle Pass of the Franchise

While popular football game EA Sports FC 25 has plenty of monetisation already through its buy-in price as well as the existence of the Ultimate Team game mode, EA has now released the first paid season pass for the game as well.

As caught by VGC, EA Sports FC 25 now has the Season Seven Premium Pass, priced at 500,000 coins, or 1,000 FC points. This roughly translates to a price of around $10. Through this new season pass, players can play the game and complete objectives to earn a variety of rewards.

The 40 tiers of the season pass include Ultimate Team packs, Evolutions, player items, and even cosmetic items as some of the rewards that players will be able to earn. Among the individual players that can be earned through the season pass are TOTS Flashback Lisandro Martinez, TOTS Flashback Federico Chiesa, and TOTS Honorable Mention Dries Mertens, among many others.

As is usually the case with season passes, there is also a free track available for EA Sports FC 25 players that may not want to spend additional money on these rewards. The free season pass will be like any other season pass that has been present in the franchise in the past.

EA Sports FC 25 was released on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch back in September 2024. Since then, the game has seen quite a bit of success, even topping sales charts across the UK and the US. However, not all may have been well with sales of the game.

According to a report from back in January, EA Sports FC 25 had seemingly missed internal revenue expectations. The football game, along with other EA titles like Dragon Age: The Veilguard, have ultimately contributed around $6 billion in EA’s market value loss.

Speaking about how important the Ultimate Team game mode tends to be for EA’s revenue projections, MoffetNathanson analysts said, “Ultimate Team has come to be viewed as a near Swiss clock of interactive media bookings growth. If it is stagnant, it puts enormous pressure on EA to fill the void.”

In light of the title’s missing of projected revenue, EA has revised its 2025 projects down from $7.5-$7.8 billion to $7-$7.15 billion.

For more details about EA Sports FC 25, check out our review from back when the game came out, where we gave it a score of 8 out of 10. We praised improvements to the youth development mechanics in the game’s career mode, as well as the introduction of player roles. However, we also criticised the half-baked nature of features like transfers, player morale, and press interactions.

Moving forward, EA also seems keen on bringing its sports titles, including EA Sports FC, to the Nintendo Switch 2. While the company hasn’t revealed too many details of what kind of features we can expect from a Switch 2 release of EA Sports FC, it has said that it will include as many features “as the hardware allows.”