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SeriousSweeper
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3 months ago

EA FC 26 Pro Clubs API returning 403 and timeouts

Hello,

The EA FC 26 Pro Clubs matches endpoint is intermittently returning HTTP 403 Access Denied and connection timeouts:

https://proclubs.ea.com/api/fc/clubs/matches

The same endpoint sometimes returns valid JSON through a regular browser, but server-side requests are failing.

Could you please confirm whether there is an ongoing issue, a recent access-policy change, or a temporary restriction affecting this endpoint?

 

Thank you.

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  • I have not seen an announcement from EA, but this matches what others report: the Clubs endpoints are picky about the HTTP client. From a home connection, a browser and Node.js fetch get the JSON while curl gets an HTTP/2 stream reset, and several developers see intermittent 403s and timeouts from servers.

    • EA sometimes answers 403 with a valid JSON body, so check the body before treating a 403 as a failure.
    • Since the failures are intermittent, retry a couple of times with a backoff, cache responses, and keep request volumes low.

    If you are on Node.js, I maintain an open-source client, proclubs-sdk, that sends requests with a Chrome network profile and handles those retries: https://github.com/alex-jordan547/proclubs-sdk

    The endpoints and their parameters, checked against FC 27: https://proclubs-sdk.mintlify.app/docs/reference/ea-endpoints

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