FC 26 · 2025/26
Scouts & Academy Calculator
Work out what your academy will return, and track regens.
Scouts assigned3
Experience5★
How many players each scout reports back per season, and how quickly the first reports arrive.
Judgment5★
How accurate the star range is, and how high the potential he is allowed to find goes.
Scouting region
Highest ceilings in FC 26 and the highest variance. Pair it with a 5★ judgment scout or don't bother.
Months on assignment
Youth facilities
What this setup returns
The 5★/5★ benchmark: ~9 players per intake, ceiling around 91 POT, and a 87% chance of at least one 85+ potential prospect.
- Typical prospect
- 64 → 81
- Report spread
- ±0.5★
- First reports
- 1 mo
How to improve it
- This is the maximum-value setup in the game. Keep the assignment running year-round and never recall early.
Scouts available in FC 26
The engine never publishes its real numbers. This is a transparent model fitted to observed behaviour — every coefficient lives in src/lib/academy.ts and can be re-tuned in one place.