EA FC 26 top 26 men's player ratings confirmed as new highest-rated player revealed

We now know the official EA FC 26 top 26 men's player ratings, with EA Sports revealing the new ratings with a big shake-up at the top.

We're officially in EA FC 26 season, with EA Sports now starting to reveal one of the most highly anticipated parts of the new game – player ratings. Every year, the Ultimate Team community are desperate to know how their favourite players have been rated, and now we know for certain, with EA revealing the EA FC 26 top 26 men's player ratings.

A huge number of player ratings have already been leaked, which does take a little excitement out of the official reveal, but at least we now know that the leaks were correct, with EA making some big changes to the highest-rated male players in EA FC 26. In EA FC 25, three male players shared the 91 overall rating, which was the highest in the game, but in EA FC 26, there are only two, with one of them different to last year.

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EA FC 26 top 26 men's player ratings revealed

EA has finally announced the top 26 men's players in EA FC 26, with Kylian Mbappe the highest-rated player in the game alongside newcomer Mohamed Salah, with the Liverpool man being handed a +2 upgrade to 91 overall. Man City duo Erling Haaland and Rodri have been handed -1 downgrades as they drop from 91 to 90 overall, while elsewhere, big upgrades see the likes of Ousmane Dembele, Lamine Yamal, Pedri, Raphinha and Achraf Hakimi enter the top 26.

Here is a list of the 25 highest-rated male players in EA FC 26, along with their confirmed ratings and the difference in rating to EA FC 25:

Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) - 91 OVR (+2)

Kylian Mbappe (Real Madrid) - 91 OVR (0)

Ousmane Dembele (Paris Saint-Germain) - 90 OVR (+4)

Rodri (Manchester City) - 90 OVR (-1)

Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool) - 90 OVR (+1)

Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid)- 90 OVR (0)

Erling Haaland (Manchester City) - 90 OVR (-1)

Raphinha (Barcelona) - 89 OVR (+5)

Lamine Yamal (Barcelona) - 89 OVR (+8)

Achraf Hakimi (Paris Saint-Germain) - 89 OVR (+5)

Vitinha (Paris Saint-Germain) - 89 OVR (+4)

Gianluigi Donnaruma (Manchester City) - 89 OVR (0)

Pedri (Barcelona) - 89 OVR (+3)

Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich) - 89 OVR (+3)

Alisson (Liverpool) - 89 OVR (0)

Harry Kane (Bayern Munich) - 89 OVR (-1)

Federico Valverde (Real Madrid) - 89 OVR (+1)

Vinicius Jr (Real Madrid) - 89 OVR (-1)

Florian Wirtz (Liverpool) - 89 OVR (+1)

Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid) - 89 OVR (0)

Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona) - 88 OVR (0)

Lautaro Martinez (Inter) - 88 OVR (-1)

Alexander Isak (Liverpool) - 88 OVR (+3)

Jamal Musiala (Bayern Munich) - 88 OVR (0)

Gabriel Magalhaes (Arsenal) - 88 OVR (+2)

Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) - 88 OVR (+1)

15 of the 26 names appeared in the EA FC 26 list, with the likes of Kevin De Bruyne, Marc-Andre Ter Stegen, Martin Odegaard, Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann all dropping out.