Manchester City star Erling Haaland will be the cover star for EA Sports' new football game, EA FC 24, if a recent leak is to be believed.
With EA Sports' hugely popular FIFA series of games coming to an end, and FIFA 23 to be the last in the series, EA Sports will be releasing their very own football title later this year, the first without the FIFA branding, with the new series to be called EA Sports FC. In recent days, the EA FC 24 release date has been leaked and now the cover star has apparently been leaked too.
According to reliable leaker @billbil_kun (via Dealabs), the EA FC 24 Standard Edition cover star will be Manchester City striker Erling Haaland, with the Ultimate Edition also featuring the Norwegian, along with 30 other professional footballers. This news is as a bit of a surprise, particularly with Paris Saint-Germain striker Kylian Mbappe gracing the cover of the last three EA Sports FIFA entries; FIFA 23, FIFA 22 and FIFA 21.
But the City striker's incredible 2022/23 campaign, in which the 22-year-old helped City win the Premier League, Champions League and the FA Cup, and scoring 52 goals in the process, has seen him replace the France star as the official cover star for EA Sports' new title, according to this leak.
If the leak is correct, Haaland will join an exclusive club of former EA Sports' game cover stars including Mbappe, Eden Hazard, Virgil van Dijk, Cristiano Ronaldo, Marco Reus, Lionel Messi, Wayne Rooney, Jack Wilshere, Kaka, Frank Lampard, Theo Walcott, Ronaldinho, Patrick Vieira, Fernando Morientes, Andriy Shevchenko, Alessandro Del Piero, Thierry Henry and many more.
EA and FIFA agreed to a high-profile divorce back in May 2022, with the publisher confirming that from FIFA 23 onwards its football games will no longer carry the FIFA name.
