FC 28 TOTS Guide — Team of the Season Event, Trading & Pack Strategy

What Is TOTS?

Team of the Season celebrates the best-performing players from each league during the current football season. Each league gets its own TOTS squad with dramatically upgraded cards — 93-99 overall. It's the promo that effectively ends the regular FUT cycle and makes almost every previous special card obsolete.

Typical TOTS Schedule

Market Crash Guide

Pre-TOTS (2-4 Weeks Before)

• Sell everything — Your entire squad, all investments, all special cards
• Only exception — Keep cards you packed untradeable
• Convert to coins — Liquid coins let you buy the best cards at rock bottom

During TOTS

• Market drops progressively each week as better cards release
• PL TOTS week = first major crash wave
• Ultimate TOTS = absolute market bottom
• Buy gradually — don't spend all coins in week 1

Post-TOTS

• Prices stabilize but don't recover much
• Late TOTS cards (Ligue 1, Serie A) actually rise 15-30% after leaving packs
• Gold cards remain permanently crashed

TOTS Trading Strategy

• Sell fodder before TOTS — Pre-TOTS SBCs drive prices up
• Buy TOTS cards during their own week — PL TOTS cheapest during PL TOTS week
• Invest in Ligue 1/Serie A TOTS — Released late, fewer opened, rise after event
• Snipe underpriced TOTS — First-hour listings are often too cheap
• Buy guaranteed TOTS SBC fodder — EA always releases guaranteed TOTS SBCs

Pack Strategy

• Save packs 4-6 weeks before TOTS — Stockpile from objectives/rewards
• Open during PL TOTS or Ultimate TOTS — Best cards available
• Do every guaranteed TOTS SBC — Usually costs 80-100K, guaranteed TOTS card
• Complete TOTS objectives — Free TOTS tokens and cards from gameplay
• Don't buy packs with coins — TOTS cards crash fast, better to buy directly

TOTS Market Strategy

The Team of the Season market follows predictable patterns that smart traders exploit every year. Before TOTS launches, the general market enters a sustained crash as players sell their squads in anticipation of the upgraded cards. This pre-TOTS crash typically begins two to three weeks before the event and accelerates in the final week. If you want to buy non-TOTS meta cards at their cheapest, this crash window is the best opportunity of the entire game cycle after TOTY. Gold meta players from the Premier League and La Liga often drop forty to fifty percent from their pre-crash prices during this period.

During the active TOTS weeks, each major league release triggers a new wave of pack openings that floods the market with supply. TOTS attackers from each league are most expensive during their first hour of release and then decline steadily over the following days as more supply enters the market. If you want a specific TOTS card, patience pays massive dividends. Waiting until the final day of that league's TOTS period before purchasing typically saves you thirty to forty percent compared to buying on release day. The absolute cheapest window for most TOTS cards is during the Ultimate TOTS phase when all previous TOTS cards return to packs simultaneously and supply reaches its maximum level for the entire event.

Building Your TOTS Squad on a Budget

You do not need to spend millions of coins to build a competitive TOTS squad. Each league release includes several affordable TOTS cards that offer exceptional value for their price. Focus on TOTS midfielders and defenders from less popular leagues like the Eredivisie, Liga Portugal, and the Turkish Super Lig because these cards receive the same massive stat boosts as their Premier League counterparts but cost a fraction of the price due to lower demand from the player base.

Pair one or two premium TOTS cards from major leagues with budget TOTS options from smaller leagues to create a hybrid squad that performs at an elite level without bankrupting your coin balance. TOTS goalkeeper and centre-back pairings from Serie A or Bundesliga are particularly cost-effective because defensive positions receive less hype than attacking ones even though they impact your results equally. A well-constructed budget TOTS squad with smart hybrid chemistry links can compete with teams that cost five times as much in Weekend League and Division Rivals throughout the entire endgame cycle of FC 28. Strategic positioning of your budget and premium TOTS cards creates the optimal balance between squad strength and financial sustainability for long-term competitive success.