EA Sports FC 24 Icons and Heroes: Who’s confirmed, who’s leaked?
All legendary names from football’s history, but who’s an Icon and who’s a Hero?
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While EA Sports FC 24 has retained many of the licences it held during the series’ time as FIFA by negotiating with players’ unions, competitions and clubs directly, one headline feature that is still murky is which Icons and Heroes will appear in EA Sports FC 24?
Since they’re not active players, and many Icons are sadly no longer with us, it’s likely up to EA Sports to broker a deal with the player’s management team or estate directly.
We’re also being treated to a confirmed 19 new Heroes in Ultimate Team, all of which have now been revealed. But we don’t know whether the full list from FIFA 23 will definitely return.
Plus, for the first time, women’s football will also be included in Ultimate Team . But while you will probably be able to collect many living legends like Marta and Wendie Renard as normal cards, female Icons and Heroes will be in the game too.
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It has also been confirmed, after leaks mooted the point some time ago, some long-time - but lower rated - Icons are being dropped down to the Hero tier, which should hopefully make them more accessible and less of an L to pack or pull out of SBCs.
What’s more, Hero cards will now also have a Champions League version of their cards in addition to their base Hero, celebrating that player’s achievements on the European stage. Since there’s no World Cup during EA Sports FC 24’s game cycle, it’s these Champions League Hero cards that will feature the Marvel superhero card art we saw from World Cup Heroes in FIFA 23.
Here are all of the confirmed Icons and Heroes, as well as who top leakers think will appear too.
EA Sports FC 24 confirmed Icons
- Mia Hamm - USA Women’s National Team
- Pele - Brazil
- Zinedine Zidane - France
- Andrea Pirlo - Italy
- Johan Cryuff - Netherlands
- Ronaldinho - Brazil
- Juan Roman Riquelme - Argentina
- Didier Drogba - Ivory Coast
- David Beckham - England
EA Sports FC 24 confirmed Heroes
- Alex Scott - WSL, 88 Overall
- Nadine Kessler - Frauen-Bundesliga, 90 Overall
- Sonia Bompastor - Division 1 Feminine, 89 Overall
- Vincent Kompany - Premier League, 89 Overall
- Steve McManaman - La Liga, 89 Overall
- Ramires - Premier League, 87 Overall
- Damarcus Beasley - Eredivisie, 86 Overall
- Rui Costa - Serie A, 89 Overall
- Jari Litmanen - Eredivisie, 89 Overall
- Bixente Lizarazu - Bundesliga, 90 Overall
- Dimitar Berbatov - Bundesliga, 88 Overall
- Paulo Futre - Liga Portugal, 89 Overall
- Carlos Tevez - Premier League, 90 Overall
- Wesley Sneijder - Serie A, 91 Overall
- Gianluca Vialli - Serie A, 91 Overall
- Kanu - Eredivisie, 87 Overall
- Tomas Rosicky - Bundesliga, 88 Overall
- John Arne Riise - Premier League, 87 Overall
- Ludovic Giuly - La Liga, 88 Overall
Leaked EA Sports FC 24 Icons and Heroes
Everyone loves the legendary players from their childhood, so it’s no surprise that potential Heroes and Icons are the subject of much speculation online.
With the confirmed inclusion of Wesley Sneijder, Dimitar Berbatov and Carlos Tevez to go alongside the likes of Joe Cole, Lucio and Ricardo Carvalho, great players of the ‘00s and early ‘10s are well and truly fair game to be added as Heroes. Although you could say that precedent was already set with the Icon cards for Fernando Torres and Didier Drogba.
Players like Francesco Totti , the king of Rome, and honorary Ballon D’or winner Franck Ribery have been hotly tipped to appear for ages. Totti has to be an Icon, surely?
But where would Ribery be without his partner in wing-wizardry, Arjen Robben . A fan-favourite theory is that you will be able to recreate the “Robbery” partnership in EA Sports FC 24.
And you think this list is all over? It is now. Owner of the world’s greatest comb-over Bobby Charlton is also heavily rumoured to feature in EA Sports FC 24 as an Icon.
FIFA 23 Heroes and Icons
To refresh your memory of who was already available, these are all of the Heroes and Icons you could collect in EA’s previous football game - although we may have lost some in the transition.
Alan Shearer
Alessandro Del Piero
Alessandro Nesta
Andrea Pirlo
Andriy Shevchenko
Ashley Cole
Bastian Schweinsteiger
Bobby Moore
Cafu
Carles Puyol
Carlos Alberto
Casillas
Christian Vieri
Clarence Seedorf
Claude Makelele
David Beckham
David Trezeguet
Davor Suker
Dennis Bergkamp
Didier Drogba
Edwin van der Sar
Emilio Butragueno
Emmanuel Petit
Eric Cantona
Eusebio
Fabio Cannavaro
Ferenc Puskas
Fernando Hierro
Fernando Torres
Franco Baresi
Frank Lampard
Frank Rijkaard
Garrincha
Gary Lineker
Gennaro Gattuso
George Best
Gerd Muller
Gheorghe Hagi
Gianfranco Zola
Gianluca Zambrotta
Henrik Larsson
Hernan Crespo
Hristo Stoichkov
Hugo Sanchez
Ian Rush
Ian Wright Wright Wright
Jairzinho
Jari Litmanen
Javier Zanetti
Johan Cruyff
John Barnes
Juan Sebastian Veron
Kaka
Kenny Dalglish
Laurent Blanc
Lev Yashin
Lothar Matthaus
Luis Figo
Luis Hernandez
Marcel Desailly
Marco van Basten
Michael Ballack
Michael Essien
Michael Laudrup
Michael Owen
Miroslav Klose
Nemanja Vidic
Paolo Maldini
Patrick Kluivert
Patrick Vieira
Paul Scholes
Pavel Nedved
Pele
Peter Schmeichel
Petr Cech
Phillip Lahm
R9 Ronaldo
Raul
Rio Ferdinand
Riquelme
Rivaldo
Robert Pires
Roberto Baggio
Roberto Carlos
Robin van Persie
Ronald Koeman
Ronaldinho
Roy Keane
Rui Costa
Ruud Gullit
Ruud van Nistelrooy
Samuel Eto’o
Socrates
Sol Campbell
Steven Gerrard
Thierry Henry
Wayne Rooney
Xabi Alonso
Xavi
Zinedine Zidane
Saeed Al-Owairan
Peter Crouch
Deuce Dempsey
Tim Cahill
Lars Ricken
Ledley King
Wlodzimierz Smolarek
Park Ji Sung
Sidney Govou
Joan Capdevila
Dirk Kuyt
Landon Donvan
Sami Al-Jaber
Jerzy Dudek
Alexsandr Mostovoi
Freddie Ljungberg
Ole Gunnar Solksjaer
Robbie Keane
Harry Kewel
Tomas Brolin
Claudio Marchisio
Yaya Toure
Jorge Campos
Ivan Cordoba
Joe Cole
Diego Forlan
Javier Mascherano
Rafael Marquez
Ricardo Carvalho
Diego Milito
Mario Gomez
Toto Di Natale
Jay-Jay Okocha
Lucio
Jean-Pierre Papin
Rudi Voller
Jurgen Koller
David Ginola
Abedi Pele
Fernando Morientes
EA Sports FC 24 is due to release on September 29, 2023.
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