Calafiori 86 Leads Three Leaked FC 27 RTTK SBC Cards

Three FC 27 Road to the Knockouts SBC cards have leaked in one evening: Riccardo Calafiori 86 LB, Brian Brobbey 85 ST and Loïs Openda 85 ST, each with its own four-step upgrade path. All three are expected to follow Team 1 into the game on Friday 6 November at 6pm UK / 7pm CET.

• SBC cards: Calafiori 86 LB (Arsenal), Brobbey 85 ST (Sunderland), Openda 85 ST (Lyon)
• Upgrade path: +1 base PlayStyle, +1 on two stats, then +1 OVR if the club finishes top 8 in the league phase
• Objective cards: Buendía (Aston Villa) and Aleix Garcia (Leverkusen) tipped, not confirmed
• Release: expected Friday 6 November, 6pm UK / 7pm CET (not confirmed by EA)
• Status: leaked by AsyFutTrader; Openda also by FutSheriff

FC 27 RTTK SBC cards: the three leaked players

The three graphics appeared in the same format EA uses for its own upgrade-path posts, so the ratings and face stats below are read straight from them. Treat them as leaks until EA posts them.

Player	Nation	Club	Pos	OVR	Face stats	Max
Riccardo Calafiori	Italy	Arsenal	LB	86	82 · 74 · 80 · 82 · 85 · 86	87
Brian Brobbey	Netherlands	Sunderland	ST	85	86 · 85 · 70 · 81 · 35 · 90	86
Loïs Openda	Belgium	Lyon	ST	85	95 · 83 · 72 · 83 · 32 · 79	86

caption: Leaked FC 27 RTTK SBC cards (PAC · SHO · PAS · DRI · DEF · PHY)

Openda is the one people will chase: 95 pace on an 85 striker is rare this early in the cycle, and the Lyon card links to Ligue 1 and Belgium. Calafiori is the highest-rated of the three and the most complete, with 85 defending and 86 physical on a left back who has Premier League and Italy links. Brobbey is the target man of the set, 90 physical and 85 shooting, but 70 passing and a Sunderland club link limit where he fits.

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How the RTTK SBC upgrade path works

All three cards use the same four steps. The first is the release card, and the next three depend on what the club does in the league phase of its European competition.

caption: RTTK SBC upgrade steps, as shown on the leaked graphics

The two stats in step 3 differ per card: Calafiori gets +1 defending and +1 physical, while Brobbey and Openda get +1 pace and +1 shooting. Brobbey’s final card is shown with 88 pace, 87 shooting and 91 physical, so the top-8 step lifts every stat, not only the overall.

One catch: the tracking is reported to start at release, not retroactively. If that holds, three wins need three more matchdays, and the earliest a step 2 or step 3 upgrade can land is after the January matchdays. A full explainer of the mechanics is in our Road to the Knockouts guide.

Who plays whom: the fixtures that decide the upgrades

The leaked graphics list each club’s remaining league-phase opponents, and that is where the three cards separate.

Club	Competition	Remaining opponents
Arsenal	Champions League	Dortmund (24 Nov), Real Madrid (9 Dec), Betis (20 Jan), Sabah (27 Jan)
Sunderland	Europa League	Jagiellonia (26 Nov), AC Milan (10 Dec), Anderlecht (21 Jan), Levski Sofia (28 Jan)
Lyon	Europa League	Lillestrøm (26 Nov), Union SG (10 Dec), Jagiellonia (21 Jan), Leverkusen (28 Jan)

caption: League-phase fixtures left for the three SBC clubs

Arsenal are the safest bet for the top-8 step but face Real Madrid and Dortmund on the way to three wins. Lyon’s run looks the kindest on paper, which makes Openda the card with the best chance of reaching 86 with 96 pace. Sunderland’s Europa League group is winnable too, and the leaker’s own view was that they “should secure them easily”.

Buendía and Aleix Garcia: the objective cards

A second set of graphics, reposted by FutPoliceLeaks on Thursday night, puts Emiliano Buendía (Aston Villa, 84 or 85 CAM, the leaks differ) and Aleix Garcia (Leverkusen, 85 CM) down as objective rewards rather than SBCs. The same post claims Road to the Knockouts runs for one week and that Showdown SBCs follow next week. None of that is confirmed, and the images carry a coin seller’s watermark, so we are not showing them.

Buendía fits with what was seen in the game menus on Thursday evening, where a Road to the Knockouts live event with a Buendía card as the group reward was already visible but not yet open.

Player	Nation	Club	Pos	OVR	Expected as	Status
Emiliano Buendía	Argentina	Aston Villa	CAM	84/85	Objective	Rumoured
Aleix Garcia	Spain	Leverkusen	CM	85	Objective	Rumoured
Ethan Nwaneri	England	Dortmund	CAM	85	SBC or objective	Rumoured
Tiago Djaló	Portugal	Beşiktaş	CB	84	SBC or objective	Rumoured

caption: Other RTTK SBC and objective names in the leaks

Nwaneri and Djaló were on AsyFutTrader’s list of eleven SBC and objective names back on 3 November, together with Smith, Schertenleib, Kett and Feller. Only the three cards above have a full graphic so far.

What to expect on Friday

The SBC prices will depend on the fodder market, which has been drifting down all week. For reference, the current Ampadu 85 SBC costs about 23K and the Schüller 86 about 36K, so a similar range for Openda, Brobbey and Calafiori is a fair starting guess until the requirements are live. Our Ampadu SBC review shows what an 85-rated SBC card buys you right now.

Friday is also the expected release of Road to the Knockouts Team 1, led by Dembélé and Bellingham at 91, and Ultimate Scream leaves packs the same evening. We will cover the drop as it happens, and the SBCs get their own reviews once the prices settle. More leaks on our leaks page.

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