EA Sports FC 24 cover star Erling Haaland revealed

Manchester City’s star striker poses for the Standard Edition

Marco Wutz | Jul 13, 2023

EA Sports FC 24 cover star Erling Haaland revealed /

Erling Haaland is the EA Sports FC 24 Standard Edition cover star, the company has officially revealed.

This confirmation of previous leaks came during a livestream a few days after the much ridiculed reveal of the EA Sports FC 24 Ultimate Edition cover, which features over 30 soccer stars. Fans of the series, which is going through a branding change with its next iteration, mocked the visual style the publisher chose for the box art, which is a stark contrast to the real-life photography used for previous covers.

Haaland, who was born in Leeds but has Norwegian citizenship, is one of the most promising talents in the entire sport. Transferring into Germany’s Bundesliga from Austria in 2020 – then just 20 years old – Haaland immediately got to work, becoming the first player in the league’s history to score five goals in his first two matches. Likewise, he became the first player to score six times in his first three UEFA Champions League games, establishing himself as a rising star in a short amount of time.

EA Sports FC 24 Standard Edition cover with Erling Haaland. — The Standard Edition of EA Sports FC 24 got a regular photography cover / EA Sports

After his stint with Borussia Dortmund he made the jump to England’s Premier League, where he was hired by Manchester City – the German club making a tidy profit from the trade. The Norwegian continued right where he left, scoring 36 goals in 35 league matches as well as a dozen goals in eleven UEFA Champions League games in his debut season – historical stats.

It’s no wonder, then, that EA Sports chose the popular Haaland to end the reign of French star Kylian Mbappé on the cover, who had this on lockdown over the last couple of iterations.

Published Jul 13, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg