Pick the finish you want and we play the weekend for it. Rank 8 is the entry tier; Rank 1 is fifteen wins and the best rewards in Ultimate Team. You are buying a result, not a climb, which is why these are fixed prices rather than a slider: you do not travel from Rank 6 to Rank 4, you finish at one of them.
Champions entry in FC 27 runs on Qualification Points earned in Rivals. If you already have your entry, the order is the weekend itself. If you do not, we can play the qualifying games first, and the builder asks which so the price covers the real job rather than assuming the easier one.
Champions is a fixture, not a queue. It opens and closes on EA schedule, so an order placed mid-week starts when the weekend does, and the completion estimate on this page is wide for that reason rather than out of caution. Express buys you position in our queue, which decides whose weekend gets played first, not how fast the weekend arrives.