Which Archetype should you play at CAM in FC 26?
The number ten shirt has the widest choice of build in the game, and the widest spread of output behind it. Here is what each of the seven really produces.
Measured hereUpdated 22 August 2026 · from 415 archived players
More than any other slot on the pitch. Three of the seven are attackers and two are the deep passing builds, so the shirt on its own tells you very little about the player wearing it.
The seven EA puts there
Every build carries a Suggested Positions pitch on its Archetype screen, and CAM turns up on seven of the thirteen. Three of them are attackers. Two are wide creative builds. Two are the deep passing builds most people picture sitting in front of the back four, and both of those are on EA’s list for the number ten shirt.
| Archetype | Group | Signature PlayStyle |
|---|---|---|
| Recycler | Midfielder | Tiki Taka |
| Maestro | Midfielder | Incisive |
| Creator | Midfielder | Quick Step |
| Spark | Midfielder | Technical |
| Magician | Attacker | Inventive |
| Finisher | Attacker | Acrobatic |
| Target | Attacker | Press Proven |
Names, groups and PlayStyles are EA’s own. Which build carries which id is read from the order EA lists them in, and the full Archetype list says what is confirmed and what is inferred.
Why the choice is widest here
Count the Suggested Positions screens and the pitch comes out lopsided. CAM has seven builds. Striker has three and goalkeeper has two, so the number ten is the one slot where the decision is genuinely open, and it is also the slot where getting it wrong is easiest.
| Position | Archetypes suggested |
|---|---|
| GK | 2 |
| LB | 4 |
| CB | 3 |
| RB | 4 |
| CDM | 6 |
| CM | 4 |
| CAM | 7 |
| LM | 6 |
| RM | 6 |
| LW | 6 |
| RW | 6 |
| ST | 3 |
Counted off EA’s own Suggested Positions screens. A build appears in every pool it is listed for, so the column adds up to more than thirteen.
What each one records
Every CAM build with at least twenty archived players is below, sorted by goals and assists together. Magician leads the pool for assists on 0.78 per 90. Finisher leads it for goals on 1.01.
| Archetype | Goals / 90 | Assists / 90 | Rating | Players |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magician | 0.84 | 0.78 | 7.4 | 40 |
| Finisher | 1.01 | 0.53 | 7.6 | 61 |
| Spark | 0.55 | 0.45 | 7.4 | 27 |
| Creator | 0.25 | 0.60 | 7.5 | 32 |
| Maestro | 0.19 | 0.34 | 7.7 | 55 |
| Recycler | 0.03 | 0.05 | 7.6 | 32 |
Measured across every match a player logged on that build, in whatever position they stood. EA stamps the build on the match row and this archive keeps it. It never records that the ninety minutes were spent at CAM, so these are build figures and the page says so.
The bar inside your own build
A rate of one goal or assist per 90 is a flat night on one of these builds and a personal best on another. So compare yourself with people on the same one. The table gives the middle of each build’s own distribution and the line you have to cross to sit in its top tenth.
None of the seven has a hundred archived players yet, which is the floor for a distribution worth printing. It fills in as clubs get looked up.
What EA does not publish
Most people typing best CAM build want the attribute allocation. How many points land on passing, what the build does to acceleration, where the ceiling sits. EA sends none of that anywhere. It reaches no match row, no season row and no leaderboard, so nobody measuring anything can hand you those figures, and the pages printing them to two decimal places are copying each other.
What does arrive is the build id and everything the player did while wearing it. Both tables above are built from that and from nothing else.
Pick for the job nobody is doing
Look at your club before you look at the list. If the ball keeps arriving back at your own defence, Recycler and Maestro are both on EA’s CAM list and both are built to hold it. If your striker is getting nothing, take the build with the assist figures above. Where two people are already making chances, take the one who finishes them.
Switching costs you nothing permanent, and the guide on changing your Archetype has the menu path.
Questions people ask
- How many Archetypes can play CAM in FC 26?
- Seven of EA’s thirteen: Recycler, Maestro, Creator, Spark, Magician, Finisher and Target. CAM appears on more Suggested Positions screens than any other slot on the pitch, and striker appears on three.
- What is a good goal contribution rate for a CAM?
- Across every archived player the median is 0.22 goals and assists per 90, and 1.97 is the top tenth. A CAM is picked to clear the first of those, because chances are the job.
- Which CAM Archetype creates the most?
- Magician, on 0.78 assists per 90 across 40 archived players. That covers every position they played the build in, so read it as what the build produces.
- Do the Archetypes change your attributes at CAM?
- EA has published no attribute allocation for any Archetype, and none of it reaches a match row. A page listing exact pace or passing figures per build is repeating a guess.
- Is there a best CAM Archetype?
- EA publishes no ranking of its own, so the only honest one is counted from matches. What the counting shows is a wide spread in output and no single winner. Pick the build for the job your club has open.
Measured from 111,194 players and 46,975 matches, kept since 17 September 2026. EA returns the last ten. Look up your own club and see where you land.
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