I stood over my club while the SBC timer ticked down, my thumb hovering on the submit button. You feel the cost long before the reward: six squads of fodder, a gamble, and four choices if luck smiles. The choice felt like pulling a single golden ticket from a burnt-out pack.
I’ve run these SBCs enough to know where they bite and where they hand you a prize. I’ll walk you through the actual roster of potential pulls, the odds you’re buying into, and how to decide when to press send.
You open the pick and the names hit you at once — Complete list of FC 26 1 of 4 89+ Encore Icon Player Pick SBC rewards
The pool is split across five familiar futures-and-legends lanes: Time Warp, Future Stars, TOTY, FUT Birthday, and Trophy Titans. Every card in the selection is rated 89 or higher, and EA Sports increased the options from three to four this iteration — a small tweak that changes the math if you chase specific icons.
What are the rewards for the FC 26 1 of 4 89+ Encore Icon Player Pick SBC?
Short answer: a stacked, era-spanning list. Below are the exact options grouped by category so you can scan for names you’d actually use or sell. Use FUTBIN or FUTWIZ to price-check individual cards before you risk squads.
Time Warp
- John Barnes LW 89
- Pavel Nedved LM 89
- Carles Puyol CB 90
- Philipp Lahm RB 90
- Bobby Moore CB 91
- Andrea Pirlo CDM 91
- Homare Sawa CM 92
- Marco van Basten ST 92
- Garrincha RW 93
Future Stars
- Pichon ST 90
- Shevchenko ST 90
- Scholes CM 91
- Drogba ST 91
- Abily CM 92
- Baresi CB 92
- Xavi CM 93
- Bergkamp ST 93
- Bale RW 94
- Eusebio ST 94
- Maradona CAM 96
- Pele CAM 96
TOTY
- Seger CM 91
- Carlos Alberto RB 92
- Wayne Rooney ST 92
- Lev Yashin GK 93
- Ruud Gullit CAM 93
- Alex Morgan ST 93
- Lilian Thuram RB 93
- Jairzinho RW 94
- Paulo Maldini CB 94
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic ST 95
FUT Birthday
- Cech GK 89
- Fernando Torres ST 90
- Eto’o ST 91
- Kroos CM 91
- Koeman CB 91
- Foudy CM 92
- Batistuta ST 92
- Miyama LM 92
- Charlton CAM 93
- Ibrahimovic ST 93
- Puskas ST 93
Trophy Titans
- Wright ST 89
- Thuram RB 89
- Rush ST 89
- Maldini CB 89
- Kluivert ST 89
- Prinz ST 89
- Marcelo LB 90
- Kaka CAM 90
- Emilio Butragueno ST 90
- Pires RM 90
- Lineker ST 91
- Larsson ST 91
- Campbell CB 91
- Cantona ST 92
- Nesta CB 92
- Rush ST 92
- Shearer ST 92
- Cole LB 92
- Zanetti RB 92
- Pires LM 93
- Rooney ST 93
- Moore CB 93
- Desailly CB 93
- Shevchenko ST 93
- Emilio Butragueno ST 93
- Angerer GK 93
- Fernando Hierro CB 93
- Totti ST 93
- Prinz ST 94
- Kluivert ST 94
- Beckenbauer CB 94
- Buffon GK 94
- Makelele CDM 94
- Carles Puyol CB 94
- Baggion CAM 94
- Thuram RB 94
- Van Bastern ST 94
- Marcelo LB 95
- Cafu RB 95
- Gullit CAM 96
- Maldini CB 95
- Ronaldinho LW 95
- Henry ST 96
- Zidance CAM 96
- Schweinsteiger CM 96
- Morgan ST 96
You’ll see the costs in your transfer list before you commit — How the SBC works
EA split the challenge into six line-ups you must submit. It’s low on coin cost compared with marquee event SBCs, but high on opportunity cost: you hand over squads and rare chemistry links. The reward window gives you four selectable cards instead of three, which nudges expected value up slightly.
Use FUTBIN price checks and the in-game market to judge whether the card you chase is worth the squads you’ll lose. If you value fodder as a tradable asset, run the numbers against player market prices and your current club depth.
Is the 1 of 4 89+ Encore Icon Player Pick SBC worth it?
Short field test: it depends on what you want. If you want a playable icon or a quick sell, this can be profitable. If you need a specific legend, the 1-in-4 random is risky — the reward is tempting, the hit-or-miss probability real. This SBC is a coin toss that can spit out a diamond.
If you’re sitting on a stacked bench, try one. If your club is stretched thin, hold. I’ve flipped surprising pulls for big coin swings on FUTBIN, and I’ve also watched choice picks drift down the market after a batch of opens — timing matters as much as luck.
The math, the names, and the small change EA added this year make this one of the cleaner gambles in Ultimate Team — will you press submit or watch someone else walk away with your dream pick?