FUT Gallery
Your players now leave a mark. The FUT Gallery keeps a record of the Player Items that have passed through your Club, from the striker who carried your FUT Champions Finals run to the winger you moved on after one bad month.
It isn't only a scrapbook. Most Items you pick up through Packs, the Transfer Market, Objectives, SBCs and other Football Ultimate Team rewards can join your Gallery, and they keep counting towards Gallery Sets even after they've gone. Sold on the Transfer Market, submitted into an SBC, it doesn't matter. They still push your Gallery Level up and still earn you rewards.
Two exceptions: Loan Items aren't eligible, and Evolution Items appear as the base Item they were before you started the Evo.
Streamlined SBCs
SBCs have been part of Football Ultimate Team™ for the best part of a decade, and anyone who's built one knows the routine: chemistry, positions, squad rating, all at once, all before you see the reward.
That depth still has its place. But for Player and Upgrade SBCs, FC 27 offers a faster route. Streamlined SBCs drop the full squad build entirely. You see the eligible Items in your Club, pick the ones you want to submit, and you're done. The decisions that matter stay in; the repetitive part goes.
Evolutions and Pathways
Evolutions return with more room to plan. The headline addition is Pathways, which turns a fixed upgrade route into a choice.
Rather than every Evo running in one direction, some now branch. One option might sharpen dribbling and add a PlayStyle like Technical. Another might build defensive awareness and add something like Jockey. So the same player can become two quite different footballers depending on which way you take her.
There's also Evolution Chain Preview, giving you a look at where a chain leads before you commit to it.
Read more about Ultimate Team in EA SPORTS FC™ 27 on the official site.