How to Play FIFA 23 Ultimate Team (FUT)

Last Updated: February 2, 2024

Welcome to FIFA 23 Ultimate Team! The main goal of Ultimate Team is to build the best team possible from all the real-life footballers in the game, improving a squad as the season goes on to make an Ultimate Team. You will create your team and can expand and strengthen it through success in offline and online games. By playing matches and games in the Ultimate Team mode, you’ll get better players and items to improve your club’s strength and budget. Numerous challenges await you every day, and the rewards of them will help you too – sometimes more, sometimes less. If you do well, you will rise in your rank and challenge better opponents. Do you want to dive into the FIFA 23 Ultimate Team mode? Then you have come to the right place! Let's start our ultimate team journey.

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Building Your Dream Team

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Build Your First Squad. It's time to build your first squad. When you are on the starter pack screen, select a popular choice country. As a new manager, your club is filled mostly with players from one country. This will help your team build chemistry. So select a popular nation and let's get going.
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Sign a loan player. The system will give you 22 players plus a loan player who is mostly coming from the country you chose before – A loan player comes with a limited number of matches (usually a 5-game contract), When you are prompted to sign a loan player, make sure you go for the goal-scoring option. You need a goal scorer (striker) to kick off your ultimate team. So, now you have your first-ever starter team in FIFA 23. Firstly, you want to get those players in the right position. Don't put the goalkeeper as your striker. Sometimes, you may don't have the proper player for the proper position.

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Consider your club identity
- After you created your first squad, you are now prompted to pick a home-and-away kit. With the given choices, which jersey fits your club better? Select the jerseys that you want your club to represent on this ultimate journey.
- Now that you have your authentic kits, it's time to select the badge. With given options, which badge gives you a sense of pride? Select the badge that will represent your ultimate team. You can earn new kits and badges as a reward throughout the game.

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Team Chemistry

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Understand the Chemistry system. Chemistry? What is that? Team chemistry describes how well your players harmonize with each other. In FUT, chemistry is a factor that determines the compatibility of a player in his position with his squad’s formation, the relation with his teammates in other positions, and the team manager. The higher player and team chemistry rates your squad can score, the better compatibility and relationship you will have amongst your players and manager. The player’s chemistry rates in FUT are shown as 3 diamond-shaped icons underneath their cards, where the more diamonds are in blue, the better chemistry the player gets.
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Apply Tactics. Formations and tactics go hand in hand. You can choose to play with the default 433 formations. The 4-3-3 tactic is a formation using a line of four defenders, consisting of two central defenders and two fullbacks, placed behind a line of three midfielders. In the most common configuration of midfielders, there is one player in the back, the pivot, and two other inside players slightly advanced on either side. The attacking line consists of two wingers, each playing on one side, and a single central striker. To reach the top, it is essential to use a combination of the formation and the best tactics. You hop on, switch to one of your favorite formations, build a team around it, set up set-piece takers, captain, pressing tricks, high back lines, and team press orders. You can always change your tactics after each game if your team doesn't perform well.
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Complete Objectives. You have to start up in a very good way. You will be introduced to the objectives, and you can complete a basic one if you follow the instruction guide. Choose any objective and complete it. Objectives are usually available as a group with breakdowns, where you get rewarded for completing each task as well as the group. Try to complete as much as you can so you can get more prizes.

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Opening Packs and Transfer Markets

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Try Opening packs. By completing objectives, you’ll see that you get rewards, and these rewards will go to your club. Pack rewards are stored in the FUT Store. Go to the store (FUT Home > Store) and navigate to My Packs. There you can see your gained unclaimed packs. Do open your packs and claim the items. Upgrade your squad with the players you earned so you can form a stronger team. Playing online and offline matches will also cause you to earn Match Coins, plus packs as rewards. It also teaches you how to improve your gameplay and work on your players’ chemistry etc. Try to open FUT packs more often and during promotional events so you get more chances to get special player cards.
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Understand the Transfer Market. This is the place where you buy and sell your players. Like the real-life football world, FIFA 23 has its transfer market that allows players to buy and sell footballers of their own free will. To buy items from the transfer market, the targeted items need to either be embedded with the bid price or with the buy now price for immediate buy. Once the bidding duration of an item is due, the highest bid price will win the auction.
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Selling your player. It can be tempting to sell your players as soon as they start to decline in value, but this is generally a bad idea. Players always have ups and downs in their careers, so wait until they reach their absolute lowest value before selling them. Then, you’ll get the most bang for your buck when you sell them.

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Play a Match

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Play Squad Battles. Here, you play against the computer. No qualification is required for the Squad Battles. Every week, you can fight your way up the leaderboard in forty games. The rewards are better or worse depending on the number of wins. After your forty games you can of course continue to use the mode to work through any challenges or tasks.
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Play Division Rivals. This is where you play competitive online matches against other users. You begin in Division 10 and perform your way up the ranking against other online players. You get promoted as you rank up. You can earn rewards based on your rank. By playing in either Squad Battles or Rivals, weekly rewards include unlocked packs, which still add the element of surprise and the possibility that players might randomly get that world-class superstar to add to your Ultimate Team.
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Play Friendlies. As the name suggests already: no pressure. Here, you can let off steam and try out your tactics. The mode features 11v11 Classic gameplay, but the real fun comes when you branch out into some custom House Rules. There are no rewards that you will get, however, you still get basic match coin rewards for all FUT Friendlies matches that you play.
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Keep Playing. Keep playing games, matches, and training in the Ultimate Team to enhance your gameplay mastery and explore new things. Try the new FUT Moments mode, which is a new single-player game mode in FUT. FUT Moments includes mini-games with which you can enhance your FIFA crafts and work on getting the most out of a scenario within a fixed time. Enjoy your Ultimate Team!