EA FC 26 – Squad Editing Causes CE-34878-0 Crash (PS4)
🧩 Platform
PS4
📅 Issue Since
Launch week (October 2025)
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🧠 Description of the Problem
Whenever I make large-scale custom squad edits in EA Sports FC 26 on PS4, the game crashes with error CE-34878-0.
Here’s exactly what happens:
I move real-face players between multiple clubs (for realism).
I transfer no-face players out of big clubs to smaller teams.
Occasionally, I change certain players’ positions (sometimes converting them to goalkeepers so they don’t appear at major clubs).
After doing this for a few teams (for example Ajax or Bodø/Glimt), the game suddenly starts crashing:
When I try to open those teams in Club Transfers or Team Sheets.
When I try to play a Kick-Off match using those edited clubs.
All my other saves and default squads work fine — it’s only the edited squads that cause this.
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⚙️ Why This Seems Like a Bug
This exact editing style worked perfectly in EA FC 25, even with hundreds of edits, player conversions, and face changes.
In FC 26, it crashes far earlier, even before any “enhancing” or deep player edits — just normal transfers and position changes.
It seems like the squad editor is much stricter this year and corrupts saves too easily.
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💭 Why It Matters
A big part of Career Mode enjoyment for many players (including me) comes from customizing squads to match our own preferences — moving real faces, creating realistic rosters, or building fresh fictional leagues.
Right now, that entire part of the game is broken, since the editor becomes unusable after a few clubs are changed.
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🛠️ What I’ve Tried
Rebuilding PS4 database.
Deleting and reinstalling the game.
Loading default squads.
Testing unedited clubs (which work fine).
None of this helps — only resetting the edited teams removes the crash.
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🗣️ Requested Fix
Please investigate and patch the squad editing crash (CE-34878-0).
At minimum, loosen the new validation rules that seem to break edited squads, or fix the way the game saves custom team data.
This issue wasn’t present in FC 25 and makes squad editing almost impossible in FC 26.
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✅ Notes
Other players on forums and Reddit have reported similar behaviour.
It may be linked to players converted to goalkeepers(still want to be able to do this), clubs with licence changes, or the auto-generated team sheets system.
