Guide, checked 12 November 2026
FC 27 Companion App the UK guide
What the phone app does, how to unlock it and what to try when it stops.
EA SPORTS FC 27 Companion App: what it does
The EA SPORTS FC 27 Companion App is Ultimate Team for your phone. It opens the same club you play on a console or PC and lets you manage it while you are away from the screen: the browser version of the same tool is the Web App, and the two share everything except the device. In the App Store and on Google Play it is listed as "EA SPORTS FC 27 Companion" by Electronic Arts, and many players still call it the FUT 27 Companion App or simply the FIFA app, because the listing has been the same since the FIFA years.
- Buy and sell players on the Transfer Market, once the market is open for your account in the apps.
- Complete Squad Building Challenges; the new score-based ones arrived in the phone app on 28 September.
- Apply Evolutions, set tactics with Roles and Focuses for your starting eleven, and claim Objective rewards.
- Collect weekly rewards from Rivals, Champions, Squad Battles and events without switching the console on.
- Undo a quick sale with Quick Sell Recovery, which exists only in the two apps.
What it does not do matters as much. You cannot play matches in either app: EA presents them as tools for running a club, and the big player guides say outright that matches stay on the console or PC. Console players in the UK cannot buy FC Points in the app either: EA allows that for PlayStation and Xbox only in the United States, while PC players can buy them in every region.
Where to find it
Search for "EA SPORTS FC 27 Companion" in the App Store on an iPhone or iPad, or on Google Play on Android. The App Store asks for iOS or iPadOS 16.4 or later. On Google Play the same app has passed fifty million downloads.
How to get FC 27 Companion App working on your phone
Installing takes a minute; getting in depends on what your account has done in the game. EA's own start steps in the store listing run like this, and the order matters.
- Start FC 27 on your console or PC and open Ultimate Team.
- Create your club there, if you have not done it yet this season.
- Open the app and log in with the same EA account that the game uses.
Two rules decide whether the door opens. Players who already had an FC 24, FC 25 or FC 26 club on their platform by the end of July 2026, with the account in good standing, got the companion app FC 27 version early. Everyone else founds the club in the game first. And since the night of 7 November every account needs at least one FC 27 Ultimate Team login on a console or PC; until that has happened, the apps refuse the club.
If you play on more than one platform, guides note that the app opens the club you used most recently and that you switch between clubs in the app's settings. Log in with the right EA account from the start: EA Help explains how to find which e-mail address the game account uses.
The Transfer Market has its own lock
Logging in does not open the market in the apps. If your account earned that access in an earlier title and is in good standing, it may have been open from launch day. Others collect "active days": days on which three whole Ultimate Team matches and an app sign-in both fall inside one UTC calendar day, which in the UK runs midnight to midnight in winter and 1am to 1am in summer. Two of them normally do it; with more than one Ultimate Team account in use on the same device, count on four or more. EA advisors cannot open it early; you learn that it is open from a notice inside the game.
When is FC 27 Companion App out? It already is
The app has been live for this season since 17 September 2026. The FC 26 Web App closed on 11 September, the FC 27 Web App opened on the 16th and the phone app followed a day later; from the 17th both apps only open FC 27 clubs. If your phone still shows last year's season, update the app from the store rather than reinstalling it.
EA keeps adding to it through updates. The App Store lists version 27.1.0 of 28 September, which brought the score-based Squad Building Challenges, and version 27.1.1 of 8 October; Google Play showed an update on 19 October. Your phone may display a newer number by the time you read this.
EA FC 27 Companion App release date in UK time
EA published the times in UTC. The UK was on British Summer Time until 25 October, so all September dates below are one hour later than EA's figures.
| What | When (UK) |
|---|---|
| FC 26 Web App closes | 11 September 2026 |
| FC 27 Web App opens | 16 September 2026, 18:00 |
| FC 27 Companion App opens | 17 September 2026, 18:00 |
| Early access on consoles | 18 September 2026, 00:00 local time |
| Early access on PC, EA Play Pro | 18 September 2026, 00:00 |
| EA Play ten-hour trial | 18 September 2026, 05:00 |
| Full release, consoles and PC | 25 September 2026, 00:00 |
| Console or PC login needed for both apps | after 7 November 2026, 23:59:50 |
FUT Companion App down? Go through these checks
Most "the app is down" moments are not outages. Work down this list before you reinstall anything.
Club not found, or apps refused
Open Ultimate Team once on your console or PC. Since the November deadline, that one login is what both apps wait for.
Kicked out or frozen
The apps do not run while the same account is inside Ultimate Team on a console or PC. Go back to the game's main menu, wait a moment and log in to the app again.
No Transfer Market tab
Not a fault: the market in the apps opens after the active days described above, and it cannot be switched on by support.
Two more cases are on EA's side. A blocked account sees a message about the Transfer Market in the apps and receives an e-mail with the reason and the appeal route. And at busy moments, such as launch week, or during maintenance the app can answer with "try again later"; player guides put that down to traffic, and waiting usually beats reinstalling. If the login itself fails, EA's recovery steps cover a forgotten e-mail or password; when EA reports expired credentials and a reset does not help, it suggests waiting 90 minutes.
The phone app during a coin order
The app is where most players watch their balance, and that is where a delivery shows up. While an order runs, though, keep the app closed: the trader works inside your club, and a session on your phone gets in the way just as a console session does. Wait until the order page says the coins are delivered, then open the app and check the balance before you confirm.
If you are still deciding whether to order at all, the guide on buying coins in FIFA walks through every step and what EA thinks of it, and the season overview of FUT 27 coins and their uses explains what the balance buys this year. The coins themselves come from this FIFA coin shop, and the price for your club's platform is already on the order card above.
Questions buyers ask
Does the phone app cost anything?
Will my Nintendo Switch club open in the app?
Why does the app show last season?
Can I claim Rivals rewards in the app?
Your app, a bigger balance
Pick the platform of the club you open in the app, then a pack. The card shows the total in pounds.