The La Albiceleste objective set is live in EA SPORTS FC 26 Ultimate Team, offering solid rewards you can feed straight into your squad. The catch is that the individual tasks look scattered at first glance, with different difficulty requirements and goal thresholds spread across multiple conditions. Play them one at a time and you're looking at five or six separate sessions. Stack them correctly across three Squad Battles matches against the La Albiceleste Featured Squad, and you're done in one sitting.
How to complete La Albiceleste in the fewest matches possible
The entire objective set collapses into three matches when you sequence them correctly. Every match is played against the La Albiceleste Featured Squad in Squad Battles. Bring your strongest squad to each match so you're not scrambling for goals against tougher difficulty settings.
Select La Albiceleste in Squad Battles
Match 1: Score exactly 30 goals on Beginner difficulty
This first match is a pure goal-farming session. Set the difficulty to exactly Beginner and score precisely 30 goals against the La Albiceleste Featured Squad. The four tasks this single match knocks out are:
- Score 15 goals against the La Albiceleste Featured Squad on exactly Beginner difficulty
- Score 20 goals against the La Albiceleste Featured Squad on exactly Beginner difficulty
- Score 25 goals against the La Albiceleste Featured Squad on exactly Beginner difficulty
- Score exactly 30 goals against the La Albiceleste Featured Squad on exactly Beginner difficulty
All four conditions check off progressively as you hit each threshold, so you're completing four tasks in one game.
Match 2: Win on Ultimate difficulty conceding 3 goals or fewer
This is the most demanding match of the three. Set the difficulty to Ultimate and win the game while conceding no more than 3 goals. This single match clears three more tasks:
- Win 1 match against the La Albiceleste Featured Squad on minimum Professional difficulty
- Win 1 match against the La Albiceleste Featured Squad on minimum World Class difficulty
- Concede 3 goals or fewer against the La Albiceleste Featured Squad on exactly Ultimate difficulty
The formation that works best here is the 4-2-3-1 (wide). Set your defensive depth to low so your team holds its shape and doesn't leave gaps behind the midfield line. Ultimate difficulty AI can punish high lines hard, so keeping the block compact is the priority.
Match 3: Win on Legendary difficulty with a clean sheet
This match is only required if you conceded goals in Match 2. Start a match against the La Albiceleste Featured Squad on Legendary difficulty and keep a clean sheet. Win without conceding and the final objective condition closes out.
The same defensive logic from Match 2 applies here. Low depth, compact shape, and patience in possession will keep the AI from finding openings.
Why Squad Battles is the right mode for this objective
All three matches target the La Albiceleste Featured Squad specifically, which only appears in Squad Battles. There's no equivalent in Rivals or Champions for this objective set. The upside is that Squad Battles lets you control the difficulty setting directly, which is exactly what makes the three-match speedrun possible. You set Beginner for Match 1 to farm goals freely, then crank it up to Ultimate for Match 2 to satisfy the higher-difficulty win conditions in one go.
For players working through other active objectives at the same time, check out the FC 26 Ultimate Gauntlet 13 rewards guide to see what else is worth your time this week. The Journey of Nations: North America objectives are also active and offer a free 97-rated Maradona for players who complete every phase.
If you're building out your Ultimate Team more broadly, the FC 26 Squad Building Challenges guide covers cost-effective SBC solutions that pair well with any new cards you earn from objectives like this one.
For everything else happening in the game right now, the full EA SPORTS FC 26 guides collection has you covered.