Chiefs, Pirates & Downs Left Out Of EA FC 24

EA FC 24's early access is in full swing almost a week before the official release of the game and it seems that South Africa's biggest clubs have been excluded. Check it out!

What's the story?

The excitement for the official release of EA FC 24 has reached fever pitch with streetwise gamers around the world using an old trick to gain one day early access to the game's "early access" period of seven days.

The early access trick will be explained further, but one stark difference in EA FC 24 compared to FIFA 23 for South Africans is that Orlando Pirates, Kaizer Chiefs and Mamelodi Sundowns have seemingly been left out of the game.

Read: EA Confirms Greenwood Addition To EA FC 24 

Let's take a closer look...

No Chiefs, Pirates Sundowns on EA FC 24

As all of you EA FC 24 fanatics know, the game will be released worldwide on Friday, 29 September, which is next week! 

Gamers who pre-ordered the Ultimate Edition of the game or have an EA Play subscription get seven days of early access, which means they can play the game from as soon as tomorrow, Friday, September 22.

There's a popular glitch that allows players to access the game a day in advance, and it works for players with both editions of EA FC 24.

Read: Blom Foster's Top EA FC 24's SA Ratings 

The South African gamers who've managed this "early" early access have noticed that Mzansi's big three clubs, Mamelodi Sundowns, Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs have not been included in EA's roster for their new football video game.

The Soweto giants were consistently included in EA Sports' "FIFA" titles, with Sundowns having being brought in for FIFA 23.

According to EA's website, the EA FC 24 game has 19 000 plus players across more than 700 teams, including licenses for over 30 leagues globally, that includes the biggest leagues in Women's football, but sadly, the US game publishers seemed to have ignored SA's big guns.

It was rather unusual for SA's top rated stars to only feature overseas-based players such as Lyle Foster, Njabulo Blom and even Thembi Kgatlana - but not feature the likes of Themba Zwane who was the highest rated DStv Premiership player on FIFA 23.

Early access

As mentioned, early access to EA FC 24 technically kicks-off tomorrow, gamers worldwide are using the "New Zealand" trick. 

The popular glitch allows players to access the game a day in advance, and it works for players with both editions of EA FC 24, This method only works on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One consoles, with gamers using an Xbox being able change their location in their console settings.

Xbox players simply need to change the location of their Xbox console to New Zealand. With EA FC 24 early access going live in the early hours of tomorrow morning, if you change your console location to the Kiwi Nation, you should be able to start playing EA FC 24 today, as New Zealand Standard Time is 10 hours ahead of SA Standard Time. 

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