Is the Claudia Pina POTM SBC Worth It in EAFC 27? Her Gold Card Says No

By Parth Raj, WhatsGaming · Updated 8 October 2026 · Prices checked on console via FUT.GG on 8 Oct. FUT prices move hourly, so treat every coin figure here as a dated snapshot.

So EA drops a Player of the Month card for Pina. Barça's number 9, five goals and three assists in September, everyone's buzzing.

You open the SBC. It's an 89.

Her gold card is also an 89. Same 91 pace. Same 89 shooting. Same 4-star skills, same 5-star weak foot. Cheers, EA.

Short answer: for most players, the Claudia Pina POTM SBC isn't worth it. The cheapest solve costs about 1.45M coins on console, while her tradeable 89 gold card sells for about 856K with identical pace, shooting, skill moves and weak foot. The POTM adds +1 to passing, dribbling and physical, swaps Dead Ball for Chip Shot and gets a few extra "++" roles. That's roughly 595K for sixteen +1s. Do it only if you're already sitting on a mountain of 84-rated fodder and dupes.

Right. Receipts.

What does the Claudia Pina POTM SBC actually give you?

You get an untradeable 89-rated POTM Liga F Claudia Pina, LW, with LM and ST as alt positions. She's 160cm, Explosive AcceleRATE, right-footed, 4-star skills, 5-star weak foot. All of that comes straight off the POTM card's FUT.GG database page, and FIFPlay's listing for the same card matches the face stats.

The SBC itself went live on 6 October as a Streamlined SBC: one challenge, a score target of 1,125,000, and any player rated 45 or higher counts. No chemistry. No positions. You just throw cards at a progress bar until it fills.

• Tue 6 October

  The Liga F POTM September SBC goes live as a one-step Streamlined SBC with a 1,125,000 score target.

• Thu 8 October

  Cheapest console solve on FUT.GG: 1,450,570 coins. Gold Pina 89: about 856K.

• Tue 3 November · 18:00 UTC

  The SBC expires. That is 6 PM in the UK and 11:30 PM in India.

Why did she get it? She was the Liga F September winner after five goals and three assists, per the nominee data on fifauteam's Liga F POTM tracker and RealSport101's POTM leak roundup. Deserved. The card's the problem, not the player.

Is Pina's POTM card better than her gold? Barely, and here's every stat

Only barely. Sixteen sub-stats go up by exactly +1, and pace and finishing don't move at all. Here's the bit nobody else is showing you. I put the two cards side by side, attribute by attribute, using FUT.GG's pages for the POTM version and the 89 gold version.

Count them. Sixteen in-game attributes move, and every single one moves by exactly +1. Not one stat jumps by two. Pace and finishing, the two things you actually bought Pina for, don't move at all.

The roles are the most interesting upgrade. On the gold, FUT.GG lists her LM Inside Forward role as "+"; on the POTM it's "++", and she picks up Winger++ at LM too. If you play her wide in a role-heavy setup, that's a real, if small, bump.

The PlayStyle swap is a sidegrade. You lose Dead Ball, which only matters if she's on your set pieces. You gain Chip Shot, which is nice for one-on-ones but sits behind Finesse Shot+ in how often you'll use it.

How much does the Claudia Pina POTM SBC cost in FC 27?

About 1.45M coins on console for the cheapest solve, as of 8 October. The FUT.GG Liga F POTM September SBC page priced it at 1,450,570 coins. That route uses 1,355 Rare 84s plus one Rare 83. Yeah, 1,356 cards. Hope your transfer list is ready.

Fewer, higher-rated cards cost more. FUT.GG's "Quickest" route, 120 cards of mostly 88s and 90s, comes out at about 4.24M. Nobody sane does that.

Two days earlier, futmind's SBC breakdown estimated the same 1,356-card build at roughly 949K. Different tracker, different method, so don't read it as an exact swing. The direction's the point: once the SBC dropped, 84-rated fodder got dearer. If you're buying in now, you're buying at the top.

Every card has a grading score based on its rating and rarity, and you submit cards until you hit the target. This is the new FC 27 system. FUT.GG's Streamlined SBC explainer confirms you can submit duplicates and save partial progress, and RealSport101's point-system guide adds that chemistry and positions are gone for this format. If you haven't got your head round it yet, my rundown of every Ultimate Team change in FC 27 covers the bigger picture.

For the Pina SBC, that changes the whole question. It's not "can I afford it?" any more. It's "what's sitting in my club that I'd never sell anyway?" Every dupe and pack fodder card you drip in chips away at the target for free. Every card you buy chips away at your coin balance.

Fun fact for the maths nerds. Gold Pina's own grading score is 11,000. You'd need 103 gold Pinas to complete her POTM SBC. At 856K each, that's about 88M coins for one card that's +1 on passing. Peak FUT.

The maths: is ~595K worth sixteen +1s?

No. You'd pay about 37K coins for each +1, on a card you can never sell. Here's the receipt.

And that last bit stings. The gold is tradeable. If you buy her now and a better LW turns up in a fortnight, you list her and get most of your coins back after EA tax. The POTM is untradeable from the second you submit. Those 1.45M coins are spent, full stop.

Is the gold actually good in game? Let's not just trust a stat sheet. FUT.GG's community evo leaderboard tracks players using the gold card, and one has logged 162 goals in 113 games with her, another 129 goals and 88 assists in 89. Those are self-reported club tracking numbers, not lab tests, but they tell you the gold does the job.

So who should actually do the Claudia Pina POTM SBC?

Only players who can fill most of the 1,125,000 points with fodder they already own. "Worth it" depends entirely on what's in your club, so here's the verdict by player type.

On the POTM comparison, look at the score targets on FUT.GG's player SBC list. Pina needs 1,125,000. Bundesliga POTM Olise, a 91, needs 700,000. Raphinha's LaLiga POTM needs 1,300,000. On score target per overall point, Pina's one of the pricier POTMs this month.

"But she's 5'3", won't she get bullied?"

Not if you play her through space. It's a fair worry, and it's true for both versions. She's 160cm with 73–74 strength. What carries her is the Explosive AcceleRATE, 92 acceleration, 94 long shots and Finesse Shot+ on a 5-star weak foot. You play her through space and let her shoot early, not as a hold-up striker. The POTM's +1 strength doesn't change that.

FUT.GG's community picks Hunter as her chem style by a mile, with around 80% of votes on the POTM, which tells you everyone's leaning into the pace and finishing.

Still short a few hundred K for gold Pina? That's what the coin store's for.

CLAUDIA PINA POTM SBC: QUICK ANSWERS

The bottom line

If you're starting a club from scratch, my beginner's guide to your first FC 27 squad will save you from blowing 1.45M on a sidegrade in week three. And if you've read all this and gold Pina's still the dream, you're probably short a few hundred K like the rest of us. You can top up with FC 27 coins at WhatsGaming. We've been at it since 2017, we're rated 4.7 on Trustpilot across roughly 1,768 reviews, and every order's covered by a 72-hour money-back guarantee. Low-risk, not no-risk, and we'll always tell you which is which.

Honestly though? Buy the gold. Keep the change. And if you want my wider take on why EA keeps shipping cards like this, it's all in FC 27 isn't a football game anymore, it's a casino with nicer hair.

How I checked this: every stat and price above was read off the live FUT.GG card and SBC pages on 8 October 2026 (console), cross-checked against FIFPlay for face stats and PlayStyles, and against futmind for the SBC expiry. Prices are snapshots and will move.