eFootball POTW Worldwide 20 August: First POTW of 2027
By Sir Ayup 21 August 2026, 20:00 WIB
The Worldwide POTW for 20 August is the first Player of the Week pack of eFootball 2027, and that matters more than the usual weekly drop. It's the first time we can see how POTW cards sit against the new season's inflated ratings — and the first chance to judge them under Fluid Formation, which changed which positions are worth investing in. Eleven players are available at 100 coins per draw, headlined by Martin Ødegaard at 96 AMF, Désiré Doué at 95 RWF and Florian Thauvin at 95 AMF. The pack runs roughly a week. Here's the full list and which cards actually suit the new system.
The full line-up
Attacking midfielders
- Martin Ødegaard — 96 AMF (One-touch Pass)
- Florian Thauvin — 95 AMF (Fighting Spirit)
- Tommaso Baldanzi — 92 CMF
Forwards and wingers
- Désiré Doué — 95 RWF (Double Touch)
- Moise Kean — 95 CF
- Vangelis Pavlidis — 94 CF
- Christos Tzolis — 93 LWF
- Mariano Diaz — 92 CF
Defenders and goalkeeper
- Robin Risser — 93 GK
- Sergiño Dest — 93 RB
- Alessandro Deiola — 92 CB
Pack details: 11 players, Limited Draw 11/11, 100 coins per draw, running roughly a week from release. A free spin is available through the AI event.
About those two different ratings
Worth clearing up, because it confuses people every week.
The featured pack screen shows Ødegaard at 98, Doué at 97 and Thauvin at 95. The Available Players list shows 96, 95 and 95.
Both are correct. The featured display shows the highest possible rating each player can reach, as Konami's own footnote states, while the player list shows the base rating. Plan around the list figures, since reaching the maximum requires full progression investment.
Ødegaard is the pick for the new meta
96 AMF with One-touch Pass, and two things make him the standout.
The AMF slot is where v6.0.0 concentrated value. Community consensus after the Season Update points to 4-2-1-3 as the strongest base shape, and that formation depends on its attacking midfielder as the piece linking the defensive and attacking phases in a single touch. A 96-rated AMF fills exactly that role.
One-touch Pass suits Overload specifically. The new Team Playstyle concentrates players around the ball, which means your midfielders receive in tighter space under more pressure. In congested areas, holding the ball is how you lose it — quick release is how possession survives contact.
If you're taking one card from this pack and your AMF is weak, take Ødegaard.
Thauvin's Fighting Spirit matters more this season
95 AMF with Fighting Spirit — a skill that's quietly more valuable now than it was in July.
Fluid Formation increases the ground your players cover, because attacking and defensive shapes are different and players travel between them every time possession turns over. That raises the cost of fading late, and makes stamina-related traits a genuine differentiator rather than a footnote.
A second AMF option in the same pack also gives you a choice of profile — Ødegaard for quick circulation, Thauvin for endurance and late-game presence.
Dest deserves more attention than a 93 RB usually would
Full-backs are the position Fluid Formation changed most.
Under two-phase shapes, a full-back pushes into an advanced position in possession and has to recover when it turns over. That makes recovery pace and defensive work rate genuinely decisive at right-back in a way they weren't last season.
93 for a full-back is solid, and the position's raised importance means a POTW RB is worth more consideration than the rating alone suggests — particularly if you're running an attacking shape that advances one flank.
Doué and the winger question
95 RWF with Double Touch, and the honest caveat applies to every winger post-v6.0.0.
Wingers may be asked to drop into the defensive shape under Fluid Formation, and v6.0.0 separated attacking and defensive Playing Styles. Double Touch is an attacking skill; his defensive behaviour isn't shown on the pack screen.
Check his defensive Playing Style in-game before building a two-phase shape around that flank. A winger whose defensive style doesn't support your block leaves a hole there every time you lose the ball.
Is a POTW card worth 100 coins this season?
The honest assessment, since ratings inflated with the Season Update.
Cards now sit in the 106-108 range at the top end, which means a 96 POTW isn't the ceiling it would have been in July. POTW cards also can't be trained and can't have skills added manually — what you draw is what you get.
That makes playstyle fit far more important than the rating. A 96 AMF who suits your system beats a 95 forward who doesn't, and neither beats a card you already own and have invested in.
Take the free spin from the AI event regardless. It costs nothing.
Beyond that, draw only if a specific card fills a specific gap. With eleven players spread across nine positions, the odds of hitting the one you want are not in your favour, and 100 coins per attempt adds up quickly.
The context nobody's mentioning
One thing worth knowing about the week this pack landed: Konami published a v6.0.1 patch on 20 August, alongside two separate notices concerning issues with Custom Tournament — the flagship feature introduced with v6.0.0 barely a week earlier.
That doesn't affect the POTW pack directly, but it's a reasonable reminder that the new season is still settling. Anyone declaring a definitive post-v6.0.0 meta right now — including on which POTW cards are best — is working from a week of data.
For how the new system changed squad building, our Fluid Formation pairings guide covers which shapes work now, and our centre back meta breakdown covers the two-phase demands now applying to every defensive position.
Build the squad the card fits
A POTW card can't be trained or reskilled, which means its value is decided entirely by whether the squad around it suits what the card already does. Browse verified eFootball accounts if you want a Dream Team already built around a coherent system, keep progression and campaign deadlines on track with eFootball hourly services, or hold your division position through eFootball boosting while the new meta settles.
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