eFootball 2026 startup campaign announced: All You Need To Know

eFootball 2026, aka version v5.5.0, has been announced and will be available to play once the maintenance period ends. The game has already started announcing a horde of epic cards and ambassador packs that will be out in the latest version of eFootball. All the new announcements have filled the eFootball community with excitement and buzz, and the users appear thrilled ahead of the official release. eFootball's latest announcement has revealed the very first campaign of eFootball version v5.5.0.

eFootball's official maintenance began on August 13th, 2025. The maintenance period shall extend over 24 hours, and the game is expected to reopen on August 14th, 2025, at 3:00 PM UTC. Earlier, Konami had to face some backlash from the community as its proposed ‘eFootball Connect’ stream was postponed due to unknown reasons. However, as more and more announcements roll out about the new additions in the game, the community appears divided, with some appreciating the changes. In contrast, others are more critical of them.

eFootball 2026 startup campaign announced

eFootball took to one of its official X (formerly Twitter) handles to announce the inaugural in-game campaign of version v5.5.0. @Peshubapp, took to its X handle to announce the eFootball 2026 startup campaign.

@Peshubapp posted the information on August 14th, 2025, at 3:30 AM UTC. The tweet revealed the various rewards, including cards, packs, eFootball coins, GPs and more. The details of the rewards from various objectives in the Startup campaign are given below.

eFootball 2026 startup campaign rewards

The eFootball 2026 inaugural campaign has been named as ‘Startup Campaign’. This campaign is going to bring a new double-boosted manager with two special link-up cards, highlight partner club cards, goal effect fireworks, profile banners, stadium chores, eFootball coins, GPs and much more. As many as 200 eFootball coins are up for grabs, and the user can get them after completing the in-game objectives. Users will also earn position tokens and skill tokens by completing the objectives. The match pass from the previous versions of the game has been renamed to campaign hub. Here are the details of all the rewards that the user can get by accomplishing all the objectives in the eFootball 2026 startup campaign:

• Manager : Ruben Amorim

Special Link Up: Aggressive Centring A

Key Players Cards: Centre piece (Cross Specialist RMF/RWF); Key Man ( Fox in the box CF)

Giant Prop ×1, Stadium Choreo ×1, Goal Effect ×1, Profile Banner ×1

• Highlight: Partner Clubs ×4 (various player cards)

  1x cards from Manchester United and 3x players from Inter Milan

• Other rewards

Stadium Choreo ×1, Giant Props ×1, Goal Effect, Profile Banner, 50 coins, 36,000 GP, 40,000 GP

• Special Login Bonus

2 × Chance Deals, 1 × Training Program, 150 coins, 90,000 EXP, 120,000 GP.

• Campaign Objectives

Giant Prop ×1, 1 × Training Program, 1 × Special Item, 90,000 EXP, 130,000 GP.