What Is ‘Scout a Future Star’?

It’s a redeemable item in the EASFC catalogue that adds a random high growth player into your youth academy.

How to Scout a Future Star

Here are my step by step instructions for scouting a future star. Be sure to read them through before you begin.

1. Existing Career Mode

Make sure you’ve already started a career mode save that you want to redeem this item in.

2. Open Save File

Fire up the game, go into career mode and open your chosen save file.

3. EASFC Catalogue

Press the right stick to open the EASFC Catalogue.

4. Career Tab

Move the right stick to the right to only see career mode related items. Here you’ll see lots of different redeemable items like financial takeover or focused training.

5. Redeem Item

Scroll down and find ‘Scout a Future Star’. There are a few available, providing you’ve been playing the game the last few years to unlock the levels. Hit ‘Redeem Item’ and make sure you see the confirmation message.

6. Save Game

Be sure to save your game, you might thank me later.

7. Advance

Go and check your messages, there should be one saying that a scout has been dispatched. It doesn’t specify where the scout has gone, just that he will return in a few weeks with a talented youngster. After this you can progress in the game by playing games or simming ahead.

8. Check

After enough days or weeks go by, you’ll receive another message. It will say that your scout has returned with a promising player. Go and check your youth academy. If your academy wasn’t empty before, hopefully you recognise all the existing players and can spot the new player. Another way of figuring it out is to look at their nationalities, it helps if the player is from a country you haven’t scouted in.

What Will I Get When I Scout a Future Star?

‘Future Star’ is perhaps a bit generous, but you will receive a player with high growth potential. This could manifest as a player who ‘Has Potential to Be Special’, but it could just as easily be a ‘Showing Great Potential’. Check out our guide on potential to understand this better.

If you are left disappointed by what the scout brings you, the save and reload method is worth a try.

How Many Times Can I Scout a Future Star?

There’s only a limited number in the EASFC catalogue, I think around five. Once they are redeemed, they’re gone for good. Another restriction is that you can only redeem one of these per season.

Because they aren’t unlimited, I would suggest only using them in saves where you’re managing a smaller club. My assumptions here are that you’ll have limited funds and won’t be able to afford to hire good scouts, or any at all. A smaller club is also more likely to have a weaker squad, where even a ‘Showing Great Potential’ would be a massive boost.