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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Guide by James Billcliffe Guides Editor

Published on July 28, 2023

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.

Icons