EA FC 26 servers down today as EA Sports confirm status - recap

Now servers are back online, that concludes this live blog.

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Down Detector, the service outage tracking website, now states that the outage appears to be resolved.

On the page dedicated to EA Sports FC, it reads: "User reports show no current problems with EA Sports FC."

Reports to the website spiked at around 2.18pm today, and have dropped off dramatically since.

Despite matchmaking reportedly being back online, EA Sports have yet to update the playerbase.

There has been no official update on the company's social media channels since their original post an hour ago. For now, we'll have to wait and see.

Some EA FC 26 fans have reported experiencing several disconnents since EA Sports released the FC 27 Closed Beta earlier this week.

One poster on Reddit said: "In the last 12 hours alone (about 2 hours of gameplay) I've been disconnected 3 times, and my opponents have been disconnected twice."

The post garnered plenty of responses in agreement. One added: "eah me too, got booted 3-4 times since last night while doing squad battles."

With matchmaking down, many EA FC 26 players have complained that they're unable to complete objectives before today's 6pm BST deadline.

One Redditor said: "Of course the servers go down right before I am going to complete an objective. Now I probably wont be able to complete since the servers most likely wont be back online until the after the objective expires."

For example, the Third Time Lucky event - which offers players a 96-rated Peter Crouch Futties Hero item as a bonus reward - ends at 6pm.

Although the issue is widespread on the EA Sports FC servers, players experiencing localised issues can try the following diagnostic steps:

• Completely exit the EA App, Steam, or console dashboard and reopen the game.
• Unplug your router for 30 seconds to refresh your IP route.
• If you are playing on Wi-Fi, an Ethernet cable connection can bypass minor packet drops.
• Avoid playing competitive matches until EA confirms full server recovery to avoid automatic disconnect forfeits.

EA FC 26 fans attempting to log in are being met with server errors.

Some player have reported being shown the following message: "Unable to load information from the server. Please try again later."