Every week EA gathers the players that stood out and places them in a single team: the FIFA 16 Ultimate Team TOTW – Team of the Week.

We show you here all the TOTW for FIFA 16 Ultimate Team.
Come back every Wednesday to check who’s in the new Team of the Week.

 
 
 
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FIFA 16 Ultimate Team TOTW Week 1

Start: Wednesday, 16/09/2015 at 6pm (UK time)
End: Wednesday, 23/09/2015 at 5:45pm (UK time)
Our Highlight: Cristiano Ronaldo

• Starting Eleven:

GK: Vincent Enyeama, LOSC Lille – 81>82
LB: Benjamin Mendy, Olympique de Marseille – 76>78
CB: Joel Matip, FC Schalke 04 – 80>81
CB: Yaroslav Rakitskyi, Shakhtar Donetsk – 78>80
CAM: Dimitri Payet, West Ham United – 81>82
LM(CAM): Steven Naismith, Everton – 76>78
CM: Fredy Guarín, Inter – 80>81
CAM(ST): Alexander Meier, Eintracht Frankfurt – 79>80
ST: Luuk de Jong, PSV – 79>80
ST: Jonas, SL Benfica – 82>83
LW: Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid – 93>94

• Substitutes:

GK: Adam Smith, Northampton Town – 58>64
LB(RM): Patrick Farkas, SV Mattersburg – 65>69
RM: Riyad Mahrez, Leicester City – 73>74
CM: Pavel Mamaev, FC Krasnodar – 76>78
ST(LM): Aiden O’Brien, Millwall – 58>64
ST: Orlando Sá, Reading – 72>73
ST: Fernando Uribe, Toluca – 70>73

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TOTW of previous years:

FIFA 15
FIFA 14
FIFA 13

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It was not officially confirmed yet but there are good chances to see the iMOTM green cards back to FIFA 16. Let’s learn something more about these cards.

FIFA 16 Green iMOTM Cards

Introduction

The iMOTM cards were created in FUT 12 to reward the best players of Euro 2012 matches. In that time they were purple, but in the FIFA World Cup 2014 they have been replaced by green ones. These cards are assigned to the best players of important international competitions, like World Cup or European Championship. However, in 2015 important international competitions like Copa América didn’t get a single green card. They were assigned to a selection of Irish players to celebrate the St Patricks Day. The stats were not upgraded, only the colour changed.

In FIFA 15, green cards were used to celebrate the St Patricks Day

Just like MOTM cards, can only exist one iMOTM card for each match.

Green cards are assigned to the best players of these matches, according to EA Sports. They become available in packs for only 24 hours. During this period, International Man of the Match cards replace the corresponding regular cards. In other words, in the day a player gets his iMOTM cards in packs, it is impossible to find his regular card there. Your odds of pulling an iMOTM card from a pack are exactly the same of pulling the regular card of that player on another day.

If you own the regular card of a player elected iMOTM, your card will keep unchanged. If you want the improved version, you will need to buy the corresponding iMOTM version in the market or pull it from a pack in that day.

FUT 16 iMOTM Card

Ratings and Stats

The ratings and attributes of iMOTM cards are usually boosted in one or two points, compared with their last TOTW card or, if it doesn’t exist, their regular card.

The position of the players in these cards may change if, in that match, they played really well in a different position.

Availability

If released, the iMOTM green cards will be available in June, when it will be played the UEFA Championship 2016. These cards should be added to packs at midnight (UK time). You can get an iMOTM card in any pack with rare players cards.

It is possible to a player to have more than one iMOTM card, if they have been assigned in different games. These cards differ from each other only in the ratings and attributes (eventually in the position too). The more recent is the card, the higher is its rating.

You can have the regular card and the iMOTM card of the same player in your club. However, you cannot use them both in your squad at the same time.

FIFA 16 iMOTM Green Cards Overview

Colour | Green
How many Cards in FUT 16 | 0 to 50
How many times they are released | n.a.
How often they are released | Once a day
How long they are in packs | 24 hours
How big is the boost | Usually one or two points compared to the latest TOTW card
Date of the first card in FIFA 16 | June
First Card in FUT History | Released for the first time in FIFA 12 (iMOTM) / FIFA 14 (Green)

TOTW Cards from FIFA 14 to FIFA 16

iMOTM Green Cards of previous years:

FIFA 14

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Heroes cards were introduced in FIFA 15 but they were not a great success. Let’s learn something more about these cards.

FIFA 16 Heroes Cards

Introduction

The Heroes cards were created in FIFA 15 Ultimate Team to reward individual honours, like best players and best young players awards, and heroic contribution during an important match such as a league derby, winning promotion to a higher league, or saving his club from relegation.

Just like MOTM cards, these ones become available in packs for only 24 hours. During this period, which starts at 6pm (UK time), the Heroes cards replace the corresponding regular cards. In other words, in the day a player gets his purple card in packs, it is impossible to find his regular card there. Your odds of pulling a Heroes card from a pack are exactly the same of pulling the regular card of that player in another day.

If you own the regular card of a player elected Hero, your card will keep unchanged. If you want the improved version, you will need to buy the corresponding Hero version in the market or pull it from a pack in that day.

FUT 15 Heroes Cards

Ratings and Stats

The ratings and attributes of purple cards are usually boosted in one or two points, compared with their last TOTW / MOTM card or, if it doesn’t exist, their regular card. However, they are always worse than TOTS and TOTY cards.

The position of the players in these cards may change if, in that match, they played really well in a different position.

Availability

These cards don’t have any periodicity. It is expected to see them between May and June, because it is when the domestic leagues end. However, Heroes are not confirmed in FIFA 16. EA will only take a decision in second quarter of 2016.

You can have the regular card and the Heroes card of the same player in your club. However, you cannot use them both in your squad at the same time.

FIFA 16 Heroes Cards Overview

Colour | Purple
How many Cards in FUT 16 | 0 to 100
How many times they are released | n.a.
How often they are released | Less than once a week
How long they are in packs | 24 Hours
How big is the boost | Usually one or two points compared to the TOTW / MOTM / regular card
Date of the first card in FIFA 16 | May
First Card in FUT History | Released for the first time in FIFA 15

Heroes Cards from FIFA 15 to FIFA 16

Heroes cards of previous year:

FIFA 15

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TOTS cards are the most waited IF cards of FIFA 16 Ultimate Team. Let’s learn something more about these cards.

FIFA 16 TOTS Cards

Introduction

Since FUT 12, that in every end of the season (European calendar), more exactly in May and June, EA Sports build teams based on the players real performances on that season. Unlike what happens with the TOTY, in the TOTS the players are chosen by their performances in the season and not for the full year. Instead of releasing a single team, the Team of the Season is made by fourteen teams, each one of a popular league or region. Besides these ones, a All-Star MLS is also released in early August.

Each Team of the Season has 23 or 18 players that can be of any category. Depending of which TOTS we are talking about, the players may be chosen by the community (Community Team) or by EA (other ones).

The TOTS cards rewards the best players of the most popular leagues

Each one of these players is assigned a new blue card, replacing the corresponding regular card. In other words, during the period that a player gets his TOTS cards in packs, it is impossible to find his regular card there. Your odds of pulling a TOTS card from a pack are exactly the same of pulling the regular card of that player in another time.

If you own the regular card of a TOTS player, your card will keep unchanged. If you want the improved version, you will need to buy the corresponding TOTS version in the market or pray to pull it from a pack.

FUT 16 TOTS Cards

Ratings and Stats

The ratings and attributes of TOTS cards are usually boosted in four, five or six points. The attributes have a similar increase but it doesn’t mean that all attributes have to be improved. The position of the players in these cards may change if, in the most of the season, they played really well in a different position. If a player has moved from one club to another one, he is candidate to a TOTS card oly in the club where he was in form.

You can have the regular card and the TOTS card of the same player in your club. However, you cannot use them both in your squad at the same time.

Each player can only have one TOTS card, even if he was elected for more than one team of the season. For example, he may be chosen to the Community or EASFC TOTS and make also part of the TOTS of the league where he plays. Any of these cards will be exactly the same.

Availability

The major Teams of the Season are announced at Wednesdays, at 4pm (UK time), during the period of six week in which TOTS are active. The cards are released in packs in the same day two hours later, at 6pm, at the same time of TOTW of these weeks and you can find them in packs during a week. The other Teams of the Season cards are announced at Fridays, at 4pm (UK time), and are released in packs in the same day two hours later, at 6pm. They only last 72 hours in packs. It is possible to find one of these cards in any pack with rare players cards that you open during the TOTS season.

The release of the TOTS cards are responsible for one of the biggest market crashes. It is made in a time when many gamers already have their solid teams and are looking for a way to improve them without spending all their coins in TOTY cards and getting better improvements than the ones from TOTW cards.

FIFA 16 TOTW Cards Overview

Colour | Blue
How many Cards in FUT 16 | +250
How many times they are released | 14
How often they are released | Twice a week
How long they are in packs | One week or 72 hours
How big is the boost | Usually four to six points compared to the regular card
Date of the first card in FIFA 16 | May
First Card in FUT History | Released for the first time in FIFA 12

TOTS Cards from FIFA 12 to FIFA 16

TOTS of previous years:

FIFA 13
FIFA 14
FIFA 15

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You need to know the rules to play a game and this one is no different. With our cards guide for FIFA 16 Ultimate Team, you will get to know the basic and most important rules of the game.

 
 
 
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Introduction
Players’ Cards
Rare Cards
Signs
New Stuff
FAQ

Cards for FIFA 16 Ultimate Team

FUT 16 is the most popular game mode of the FIFA franchise. In this game, the aim is to get the right cards to build the best team possible.

The first thing you should try to answer is ‘how do cards come into the game ?‘. The FIFA 16 Ultimate Team Cards are created by EA Sports. They randomly place them into packs. You have five different ways to get one of these packs with cards:

• When you create a new club

iIt doesn’t matter if you have started playing FUT 16 or if you have deleted your club and created a new one, you will always get a starter pack. It will consist of 34 untradeable cards, (29 bronze, 2 silver and 3 gold). This pack, besides enough players to start playing and coming with 45 contracts each, also gives you everything you need to start your club.

• When you purchase packs in the store

You can go to your console’s FUT store and use FIFA Points to buy how many packs you wish. Click here to learn more about it.

• When you win tournaments and seasons

There are a few single players seasons and many tournaments that reward you every time you win them. Check here which tournaments and seasons offer packs to the winners.

• When you play FUT Draft

Every time you play FUT Draft, you are rewarded with packs. Even when you lose. However, as you progress, you’ll earn better rewards. Win four matches in a row to earn the best rewards possible. Each time you win, the potential rewards increase.

• When EA gives you a gift

It is not usual, but sometimes you can get free packs offered by EA Sports. If you have played previous FUT’s, you will be rewarded with at least one welcome back pack upon first accessing. During specific and very limited periods of time, like holidays or just before the retail game release, EA Sports will also give you daily gifts. You just need to login to Ultimate Team once a day to redeem your pack. It is very rare, but EA Sports may surprise you too with special campaigns and anniversary offers.

Obviously you can buy the cards you want to purchase directly in the transfer market. In that case you will not be the first owner.

Any FIFA 16 Ultimate Team card can be classified according to its type and its category.
The type tells us what is the role of the card. The category tells us how good the card is.

FIFA 16 Ultimate Team Cards Types

All you have in your FUT 16 club is cards. These cards have different types, each one with different roles.

In FUT 16 there are four types of cards: players, staff, consumables and club items.
To know more about each one, just click on the corresponding link:

• Players Cards

Regular Cards
Upgrade Cards
Transfer Cards
In Form Cards

Team of the Week Cards (TOTW)
Team of the Year Cards (TOTY)
Team of the Season Cards (TOTS)
Man of the Match Cards (MOTM)
International Man of the Match Cards (iMOTM)
Heroes Cards
FUTTIES Cards
Record Breaker Cards
Pro Players Cards
Legends Cards

• Staff Cards

Manager Cards
Head Coach Cards
GK Coaches Cards
Fitness Coaches Cards
Physios’ Cards

• Consumables’ Cards

Player Training Cards
GK Training Cards
Position Training Cards
Manager’s Leagues Cards
Contract Cards
Fitness Cards
Healing Cards
Chemistry Styles

• Club Items Cards

Kits Cards
Badge Cards
Ball Cards
Stadium Cards

The following table shows you the differences between the four types of FUT 16 cards:

FIFA 16 Ultimate Team Cards Categories

No matter if you are talking about a player’s card, a staff card, a consumables card or a club item card, there is always a category associated to them. The category tells you how good a card is. This is the way to distinguish the cards of the same type.

There are three FIFA 16 Ultimate Team Cards Categories:

• Gold, the best one;
• Silver;
• Bronze, the worst one;

In the case of the players’ cards, their quality is measured by their ratings:

• Gold, for ratings between 75 and 99.
• Silver, for ratings between 65 and 74;
• Bronze, for ratings up to 64;

Whether it is a regular card or an in form card, all players fit in one of these three categories.

FIFA 16 Ultimate Team Players’ Cards

The players’ cards are the most important and also the most complex of the game. They are essential so that you can play. Before any game, you will need to fill the starting eleven slots but also the seven slots for substitutes. Without that, you cannot play. That’s why the starter pack gives you, at least, 18 untradeable players.

Unlikely other game modes, in Ultimate Team players are not improved over the time, except when they are released on IF cards

If you want a specific player, our suggestion is that you go and search for him on the market using the player filters. This way you will only spend coins on cards you don’t have and you will be equipping your club according to what it needs. Obviously the cards you get from packs should also be taken into account. However, if you think they are not necessary, put them on the market and get a few coins from them.

You can keep as many player’s cards as you want in your club, as long as there are no duplicates. You can have them duplicated on the transfer list or targets, though. In this case, the only limit you have is the list’s maximum capacity that can be increased with the respective EAS FC catalogue items.

Every time you get a player card in a pack or you buy one in the market, you need to send it to your team if you want to use it. In order to do that, you just need to select ‘send to the active squad‘. If you cannot find the card in your squad, and if you are sure that you have not discard it or send it to the transfer list or transfer market, then it is because probably your squad was full and you have send it to the club. In that case, look for it in ‘My Club’ and swap it for another player.

It is not possible to improve the rating or the stats of any player card, except using training cards. However, it only lasts for one match. If you have found a card very similar with a card you own but with a different rating, stats, league or club it is because it is a different card type.

The table below allows identification of the similarities and differences between the five types of players cards there are:

Legend:

(1) Colour – Card’s main colour
(2) Cards – Amount of different cards
(3) Bonus – Stat’s average increase
(4) Frequency – Number of times that cards are released in a year
(5) Season – Months in which cards are released
(6) Availability – Duration of cards in packs
(7) Stats – Descending order of average rating
(8) Rarity – Increasing order of the number of copies by card
(9) Price – Descending order of average price
 

We will now examine in detail each group of player’s cards.

Regular Players’ Cards

Regular cards are the most basic ones. Every player must have one. All other cards are modifications made from these ones. At the beginning of the game, all the FIFA 16 Ultimate Team players’ cards belong to the regular category. These cards have the innate characteristics and attributes of the player.

As the game progresses, users can change many of the card features such as the preferred position and preferred chemistry style. However, these cards are still considered regular cards. Only the game system can create non-regular cards. It is important to notice again that it is not possible to improve the rating or the stats in a permanent way.

Except for Legends, all the players have a regular card

In FIFA 16 Ultimate Team, there are more than 15,000 regular cards, corresponding to as many players. They are always in packs, for the whole the year. The only time that a player doesn’t have his regular cards in packs, is when it is being released another card is released of him.

The ratings and the stats of regular cards are calculated according to the player’s performance and popularity in the previous 365 days. The card with higher ratings is the one of Lionel Messi (93).

When a card is released for the first time and assigned to its first owner, it comes with fitness 99 and seven contracts, except for the players of starter pack that have 45 contracts.

FUT 16 Regular Cards

Upgraded Players’ Cards

As we already have explained, it is not possible to improve the stats of any regular card. However, if a player stands out in the real world, in such a way that his card becomes strongly outdated, EA comes to justice introducing a new type of card.

The Winter upgraded players’ cards, also known as UP cards, are usually released in February with the goal of adjust the players’ rating and players’ attributes to the reality. They are physically identical to the originals, except on rating and stats.

These cards are usually assigned to the best players of the first half of the season. They must have played well in a consistent way throughout this period and not only in few games, showing that their old regular card was really outdated. The average rating increase to these cards are 2 points, which is explained by the fact that they are only assigned to players who had a marked development and not to minor adjustments.

As soon as upgraded cards are released, they replace all the respective regular cards that are supposed to be released in packs until the end of the game. That is, the only card you will find in packs is the new one but you may find both cards in the transfer market.

Transfer Players’ Cards

In order to keep the game updated, EA moves in to FIFA 16 Ultimate Team what is happening in the real transfer market.

When a player moves from his club to another one in the real world, EA Sports releases a new card of this player: the transfer card. The only difference you will find between the new card and the old one, the regular version, is the club and eventually the league. In everything else they are physically identical to the originals, including the ratings and the stats which remain unchanged.

These cards are released two times in the year: during the Winter Transfers Season, on January and Frebruary, and during the Summer Transfers Season, on August and September. In any of these cases, the cards are released as the transfers are occurring.

In Form Players’ Cards

One of the features that makes this game mode so interesting is its dynamic component. During the season, and depending on the players’ form in the real world, EA releases In Form (IF) Cards that change the players’ attributes. To own one of these cards is like having a player in your team with potential to play permanently as well as he did when he stood out.

IF Cards are the most valuable cards of FIFA 16 Ultimate Team and they can be grouped into the following subcategories: Team of the Week (TOTW), Team of the Year (TOTY), Team of the Season (TOTS), Man of the Match (MOTM), International Man of the Match (iMOTM), Heroes, Record Breaker, FUTTIES, Pro Players and Legends (only in XBox).

Team of the Week Cards

Every week EA Sports selects eighteen players of any category based on their good real performances on the previous week and joined them in a single team. That team is called Team of the Week and you can play against them in the ‘TOTW Challenge’.

To each one of the players of this team, it is assigned a new black card which becomes available in packs for a week, replacing the corresponding regular card. In other words, in the week a player gets his TOTW cards in packs, it is impossible to find his regular card there. Your odds of pulling a TOTW card from a pack are exactly the same of pulling the regular card of that player in another week.

The ratings and attributes of TOTW cards are usually boosted in one, two or three points. The position of the players in these cards may change if, in the previous week, they played really well in a different position.

FUT 16 TOTW Cards

Team of the Year Cards

In early January, EA Sports build a team of players based on their real performance on the previous year. The players of this TOTY are selected from the voting of FIFPro, the world wide professional footballers association, and announced in the FIFA Ballon d’Or Gala. They are supposed to be the best players in the world.

They are upgraded with a blue TOTY card which becomes available in packs for a week (two days for each position and a final day with all players together). In the week a player gets his TOTY card in packs, it is impossible to find his regular card there. Your odds of pulling a TOTY card from a pack are exactly the same of pulling the regular card of that player in another week.

FUT 16 TOTY Card

Team of the Season Cards

In May and June, EA Sports build teams based on the players real performances on that season. Unlike what happens with the TOTY, in the TOTS the players are chosen by their performances in the season and not for the full year. Instead of releasing a single team, the Team of the Season is made by fourteen teams, each one from a popular league or region. Besides these ones, a All-Star MLS is also released in early August.

Each one of these players is assigned a new blue card which becomes available in packs for a week for most of the time, replacing the corresponding regular card.

The ratings and attributes of TOTS cards are usually boosted in four, five or six points. The position of the players in these cards may change if, in the most of the season, they played really well in a different position.

FUT 16 TOTS Cards

Man of the Match Cards

Orange MOTM cards don’t have any periodicity and are assigned to the best players of non-leagues matches. They become available in packs for only 24 hours. During this period, which starts at midnight (UK time), the Man of the Match cards replace the corresponding regular cards.

The ratings and attributes of MOTM cards are usually boosted in one or two points, compared with their last TOTW card or, if it doesn’t exist, their regular card. The position of the players in these cards may change if, in that match, they played really well in a different position.

FUT 16 MOTM Card

International Man of the Match Cards

It was not officially confirmed but there are good chances to see the iMOTM cards back to reward the best players of Euro 2016 matches. For each match, can only exist one iMOTM card.

These green cards may become available in packs for only 24 hours. During this period, International Man of the Match cards replace the corresponding regular cards.

The ratings and attributes of iMOTM cards are usually boosted in one or two points, compared with their last TOTW card or, if it doesn’t exist, their regular card. The position of the players in these cards may change if, in that match, they played really well in a different position.

FUT 16 iMOTM Card

Heroes Cards

The Heroes cards were created to reward individual honours, like best players and best young players awards, and heroic contribution during an important match such as a league derby, winning promotion to a higher league, or saving his club from relegation.

These purple cards are available in packs for only 24 hours. During this period, the Heroes cards replace the corresponding regular cards.

The ratings and attributes of purple cards are usually boosted in one or two points, compared with their last TOTW / MOTM card or, if it doesn’t exist, their regular card. However, they are always worse than TOTS and TOTY cards. The position of the players in these cards may change if, in that match, they played really well in a different position.

FUT 16 Heroes Cards

FUTTIES

Pink cards are assigned to FUTTIES, the special award in-forms chosen by the FIFA community. The ten players with more votes, for each one of the award categories, get one of these cards. FUTTIES are cards with improved stats packed during a week, just like TOTW cards.

They are released only once, almost in the end of the season.

FUT 16 FUTTIES Pink Card

Record Breaker

It is extremely rare, but sometimes EA needs to create new cards that does not fit in any of the other cards types. These special cards are usually released for record celebration or, less often, for charity reasons.

The ratings and the stats of these players receive a huge bonus in these blue cards, making them almost always the best players of the game. Usually, these cards become available in packs only for 24 hours. The record breaker cards are extremely rare and that’s why they are the most expensive ones.>
 

FUT 16 Record Breaker Card

Pro Players Cards

Pro Players cards are assigned by EA Sports to professional football players that play FUT 16 in a bid to make friends and gain exposure.

Each professional player chosen by EA has his own Pro Player card. This cyan card is unique and cannot be sold. That is, you will not find them in packs neither in the transfer market (as it happened in the past). If you play against someone with one of these cards that’s because you are playing against a real professional football player.

To all these cards were assigned a 95 rating and unrealistically high attributes, that usually are greater than 88.

FUT 16 Pro Players Card

Legends Cards

Legends are an exclusive content for XBox One and XBox 360 gamers. The players of these cards are some retired greatest football players of all time. It gives you the chance to play with, for example, Pelé, George Best or Peter Schmeichel in you team.

The ratings of these white cards ranges between 86 and 95. In FIFA 16 there are 64 Legends players, 8 of them for the first time ever.

FUT 16 Legend Card

Rare Cards

A rare card doesn’t necessarily mean a better card

No matter if it is a player’s card or not, there is two kinds of cards: the normal ones and the rare ones.

Most of gamers thinks that the rare cards, with its bright and with luminous aspect, are better than the other ones and that they were created to help players to distinguish easily the best cards. It is not absolutely true. The rare cards are cards that have something unique. In the case of player’s cards, for example, the rare cards are assigned to players that have something that no other player has. It can be the tallest goalkeeper of his league, the only player from a country in a particular league or even a CB with an exceptional attribute compared to players with a similar overall.

These cards are usually more valuable than the other ones. Even the discard price is higher.

A player can not have associated with him a regular rare card and a regular not-rare card.

FUT 16 Rare Cards

Graphic Signs on Players’ Cards

Sometimes you find a player card that has something different on it. If you don’t know what is it, we will try to help you.

When a player or a manager is out of contracts, their cards have a red folder sign on the top right side. It is very useful, specially when you are searching players or managers on the transfer market. As soon as you apply a contract card, the sign disappear.

FUT 16 Player Out of Contracts

When a player is injured, his card has a red cross sign on the top right side. It is very useful, specially when you are on your main squad menu. As soon as he rest or you apply him a healing card, the sign disappear.

FUT 16 Injured Player

When a player is suspended, his card has a red rectangle sign on the top right side. It is very useful, specially when you are on your main squad menu. As soon as he is able again to play, the sign disappear.

FUT 16 Suspended Player

When someone applies a training card on a player, he will have better attribute(s) for one match. In order for anyone to recognize this, the player card has a rectangle with a different colour background. Surrounding the rating and the attributes that were improved is an arrow on the right side. As soon as you use him in a match, the sign disappear.

FUT 16 Player with improved attributes

Concept Squads is a powerful squad planning in-game tool that allows you to plan future squads using any FIFA 16 Ultimate Team player. Use it to plan your next Transfer Market buys, find replacements for players, and test out different Chemistry combinations.

To build the team of our dreams is not easy. You have to imagine which players fit well on your squad and if they will get good chemistry links or not. Now, it is much easier since you can populate your squads with players you don’t own to see how they fit. You can even go directly with a single click to the transfer market to buy the player you need.

So you can distinguish the players you already own from the other ones, there are two types of cards layout. If you already have them in your club, the cards look normal. If you do not have them, the cards look grayish. That’s what we call concept cards.

FUT 16 Concept Squads

All these signs are shown on any type of player card: Regular or IF, normal or rare.

New Stuff

For experienced Ultimate Team gamers, most of what we have published here isn’t new. In that way, we have created this short chapter to show you what has changed with club items:

FUT 15 >> FUT 16

FIFA 16 design applied to FUT 16 cards
Introduced 8 new legends

FUT 14 >> FUT 15

FIFA 15 design applied to FUT 15 cards
Introduced 15 new legends
PHY replace HEA in basis attributes of players’ cards

FUT 13 >> FUT 14

Added Legends cards
New cards design
IF cards improved in the same proportion as upgrade cards
Added untradeable cards
‘Level’ was named ‘category’
‘Category’ was named ‘type’

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Q: How can I get a card ?
A: The first owner of a card is someone that gets it in a pack. You can try to buy packs, get it in tournaments/season prizes or buy it from another player in the transfer market.

Q: What kind of cards exist on FIFA 16 Ultimate Team ?
A: According with its type, the cards can be players, staff, consumables and club items.

Q: Are the In Form cards only for players cards ?
A: Yes. Only players’ cards can be In Form.

Q: Can a player change his rating or category ?
A: If you own a card, you cannot change it to another level or rating. What may happen is a new improved card of the player you have can be released.

Q: When an IF card is released, will my regular card of that player change to the improved version ?
A: No. You will need to buy the new card.

Q: How many of the same card can I have in my club ?
A: One. Excepting consumables, you can’t have repeat cards in your club. However you can have more than one card of the same player, if they are different and if you not use them at the same time in your squad.

Q: Which packs should I buy to get IF cards ?
A: Any one with rare players.

Q: When a TOTW card is released, does the regular card of that player stop being released ?
A: Yes. The regular card of that player stops being released during that week.

Q: A single player can have more than one TOTW card ?
A: Yes. Players can get a new TOTW card if they played even better than in the time that they got the previous TOTW card. That’s why the more recent is a TOTW card of the same player, but the rating will be higher.

Q: When an upgraded player card is released what happens to the old one ?
A: It stops being released in packs. You will be able to find it on the transfer market but not in packs.

Q: When a transfer player card is released what happens to the old one ?
A: It stops being released in packs. You will be able to find it on the transfer market but not in packs.

Q: When a transfer player card is released the rating and the attributes of that card are improved ?
A: No as this only happens sometimes when the player really deserves an upgrade.

Q: Can I own two cards of the same player with different clubs ?
A: Yes. You can own two cards of the same player with different clubs but you cannot use them at the same time in the same team.

Q: I am playing with someone with a turquoise card. What does it mean ?
A: It means that you are playing against the real professional player of that turquoise card.

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For all those players that plan to build an FUT 16 team based on the Barclays Premier League, we’ve conducted an extensive analysis on the best players.

Here is our guide to the top English league in FIFA 16 Ultimate Team.

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Introduction to the FUT 16 Barclays Premier League Guide

Building a team is the biggest challenge in FIFA 16 Ultimate Team. It doesn’t need to be the best team, this is because the budget may not allow it, but it needs to be the player’s stature for him to obtain success.

When choosing which players to play with, you will have to look carefully at their attributes. Choosing a team based on ratings is one of the most common mistakes on FUT 16. It’s precisely this aspect that this guide focuses on. For each position, and focusing on the truly important attributes, we’ll show you who are the best athletes to choose.

It’s also important that the player checks to see if the player he chooses fits the formations he likes to play in. For example, a good full back will be useless if the player only uses a formation with three defenders. According to these formations, the player must be cautious and look at the work rate. Try to relate them with the ones we advise in our Formations Guide.

Last but not least, it’s mandatory that you tune all of your team so that the individual and team chemistry will be as high possible. For this last step to be easier, the majority of the players start to define the type of team they’re building. Some choose to gather players of the same nationality, while others decide to form a team of players from the same league. There are also more experienced players that can form hybrid teams without damaging team chemistry a lot.

All of these steps are necessary to have; or it could mean that the team is not always well built as it could be. This article aims to help those that want to form a FIFA 16 Ultimate Team based on players from the Barclays Premier League. Even the players that have a BPL team, could take out some valuable conclusions from this guide that could help you make your team even better.

We received thousands of comments about similar guides that we have published in previous years. Most of them have asked us to help improve their teams and the players they had. It’s important that the readers understand that this guide is simply guidance. It’s a theme too vast and the player combinations are almost infinite. Besides, there are various factors that influence the choices, like one’s style of play, the formations used, the available budget, the preferences or even the time spent playing. There’s still one uncertain component: a good player for someone might not be for another. If there was a better team everyone would fight to get it. Part of the fun of FIFA 16 Ultimate Team is this: everyone has their personal club and players.

Another important point and that must stay very clear is that whoever is reading this guide, it’s about some criteria we chose and should be of everyone’s knowledge:

In this guide we didn’t consider silver or bronze player. Most players don’t assume them to be a better option than gold players, so to simplify the guide’s analysis we didn’t include them. In the future we may come to publish guides exclusively talking about these categories.

In this guide we didn’t consider In Forms (IF). They’re extremely expensive and in most cases are not considered good value for money. They should only be used by players with generous budgets, that already have the best team possible and that want small upgrades.

In this guide we didn’t consider players that have been transferred to other clubs or that have been reviewed (UP). Only players that started their season in the Barclays Premier League and with their original attributes were considered.

In this guide we didn’t consider changes made on a players performance such happens when applying training or chemistry styles cards.

To make the comprehension of this guide easier we divided the players in nine distinct groups in order of their original position: Goalkeeper (GK), central backs (CB), right backs (RB and RWB), left backs (LB and LWB), central defensive midfielders (CDM) central midfielders (CM and CAM), right midfielders (RM, RW and RF), left midfielders (LM, LW and LF) and forwards (CF and ST).

In the chapter where FIFA 16 Ultimate Team BPL teams are suggested, the prices considered are the ones of the date of the guide’s publication: October 2015. It’s natural that the prices have suffered some oscillations throughout the season, so we added a link where you can check the updated prices.

Barclays Premier League

No league is as spectacular as the main football competition in the United Kingdom. The champions in the second biggest league in the world are made through the made points system. Whichever team gathers the most points wins the league. The top four teams gain access to the champions league of the proceeding year, while the last three trade places with the first three promoted teams from the Football League Championship. Every season starts in August and finishes in May, having 38 game weeks with 10 matches each, being a total of 380 matches per season.

The Barclays Premier League is the most watched football league in the world, broadcasted in 212 countries and in more than 600 million homes. It’s also the second football league with more assists and the second best league classified in the UEFA league coefficients.

Since the competition began in 1992 the Premier League has only been conquered by 5 clubs. The dominant club is Manchester United, with a total of 13 titles. London’s teams together only won the league seven times while Manchester City won it twice and Blackburn Rovers once.

As of last season, the BPL lost many good players such as Lukas Podolski (Galatasaray SK), Adama Traoré (FC Barcelona), Juan Cuadrado (Juventus), Didier Drogba (Montreal Impact), Filipe Luis (Atlético de Madrid), Iago Aspas (Celta de Vigo), Mario Baloteli (AC Milan), Steven Gerrard (LA Galaxy), Lazar Markovic and Robin Van Persie (Fenerbahce), Edin Dzeko (AS Roma), Frank Lampard (New York City FC), Stevan Jovetic (Inter), Javier Hernández (Bayer 04), Adnan Januzaj (Borussia Dortmund) and Roberto Soldado (Villarreal), they’re good examples of this. But, the biggest outgoing transfer was Di Maria’s move to PSG for £44 million pounds.

These transfers didn’t necessarily make the league weaker. The English teams spent £870 million pounds on strong reinforcements, more £35 million than in the previous season. The most popular transfers were Pedro Rodriguez (Chelsea), Roberto Firmino (Liverpool), Kevin de Bruyne e Nicolas Otamendi (Manchester City), Alseksandar Mitrovic and Giorginio Wijnaldum (Newcastle United), Cédric Soares (Southampton), Shaqiri Xherdan (Stoke City), Heung-Min (Tottenham Spurs), Dimitri Payet (West Ham), Bastian Schweinsteiger e Sergio Romero (Manchester United). But the biggest signing of the season was made by Manchester United, with the purchase of Memphis Depay by the Red Devils for £25 million pounds.

The team making decisions are made tougher, but in a good way because of the vast quality of players in the league. Keep in mind since it is in the United Kingdom where FUT 16 is played the most, the Barclays Premier League is the most seen inside game’s teams. This means it is also the most expensive league, so it is not recommended for players with a limited budget.

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE

Total Players: 623
Gold Players: 300
Average Rating (Global): 72

Best New Cards:
Schweinsteiger
Kevin De Bruyne
Otamendi
Pedro

Highest Upgrades:
Héctor Bellerín (13)
Harry Toffolo (13)
Dele Alli (12)

Highest Downgrades:
Robbie Brady (-6)
Falcao (-5)
Simon Mignolet (-4)

Best FIFA 16 Barclays Premier League Goalkeepers

GK
 

Goalkeepers are the players that are used least on the field. Because of this they are also first ignored when building a team. Most players start their purchases with a forward, later they strengthen the midfield, the defence and only later the goal. The truth is a good goalkeeper may be worth a lot of goals. They are a good investment because they are normally the most economically accessible players.

The goalkeepers with most prestige in the Barclays Premier League are the young stars Thibaut Courtois and David De Gea. With having the best rating they are also the most searched for by this league’s teams so this makes them more expensive.

When choosing a good goalkeeper it’s not only down to his rating. There are two fundamental attributes for choosing a good goalkeeper: reflexes and diving.

The first measures a goalkeeper’s agility when making a save. The best on this aspect are Hugo Lloris, De Gea and Courtois.

Diving is a fundamental attribute when choosing a goalkeeper. It measures the capacity for a goalkeeper to make a save when jumping.

De Gea is also the best one with this attribute, with a slight advantage over Lloris. For those who are looking for the cheaper solution, Joe Hart is a valid alternative.

The most experienced Ultimate Team players know that another leaning factor on a goalkeeper’s performance without considering the remaining four attributes: height. The more tall a goalkeeper is, better his chances of having a clean sheet.

This is where Courtois is better than De Gea. Even though he can’t be considered a short goalkeeper, the truth is United’s goalkeeper is 10 cm short of the mighty Costel Pantilimon, this gold goalkeeper holds the title of tallest Barclays Premier League Goalkeeper. Cech and Hart are both very tall goalkeepers.

To start this guide: we have a tie!

In our opinion, this position is in good hands (literally) whether you choose Thibaut Courtois or David De Gea. The two goalkeepers are similar stat-wise for the most important attributes. De Gea is better in the other less important attributes but Courtois is 6 cm taller. If we had to pick one, it would be De Gea who has superior reflexes and diving.

In terms of cheaper goalkeepers, our suggestion is Asmir Begović. Only a few EPL goalkeepers have better reflexes and diving than him. Besides, he’s also the third tallest of them all, which should remove any doubt about his ability. For those who want an even cheaper option, Michel Vorm is also a good alternative.

GOALKEEPERS

Best Players
#1 David De Gea
#2 Thibaut Courtois
#3 Hugo Lloris
#4 Joe Hart

Economic Choice
Asmir Begović

Best FUT 16 Barclays Premier League Goalkeeper

Best FIFA 16 Barclays Premier League Centre Backs

CB
 

A goalkeepers task is made easier if in front of him are quality central backs. Their function is to stop the opponent from getting dangerously close to your team’s goal.

John Terry and Vincent Kompany are the centre backs with best reputation in the Barclays Premier League.

On a centre back, two attributes assume particular importance on their performance: defending and physical, which represents strength, stamina, aggression and jumping.

A player with good at defending will have an easier chance of dispossessing the opponent and avoid him reaching your box.

It’s the case of the two best rated players, Kompany and and Terry, and also Mertesacker. It’s really hard to get past them. The most experienced players are normally those who have a higher rating with this attribute..

The physical attribute shows the old heading capability but also how likely the players are to win game with their body. This is a crucial attribute when looking for the best centre back.

In this chapter Mangala, Micah Richards and Huth are the strongest ones.

Defending and heading may be useless against fast opponents. It’s necessary to fight fire with fire. No one likes feeling impotent when seeing you get overrun by extremely fast players. Even though, in a way, centre backs aren’t that fast, every team needs one of these players with a high pace attribute.

This is where Terry is weak. Even Kompany’s pace was downgraded this year, making him less interesting than in previous games. There are much faster players in the Barclays Premier League. The first on the list is Chancel Mbemba. We don’t consider him a viable option since he lacks the remaining attributes necessary for a good central back. Koscielny, Mangala and Otamendi are also fast players. They possess these attributes and in that way they make themselves a viable option for a defence based on the BPL.

Kompany and Otamendi are our first choices for this position. Being fast with good defending and attacking attributes, they are the most expensive of all centre backs in the Barclays Premier League for a good reason.

In our opinion, Koscielny, Vertonghen, Cahill and Mangala are the centre backs who are closest to Kompany and Otamendi in terms of overall quality.

Pace is still very important in FIFA 16 and for that reason, unless you play with three centre backs, we suggest you avoid using Terry and other very slow defenders.

CENTRE BACKS

Best Players
#1 Nicolás Otamendi
#2 Vincent Kompany
#3 Laurent Koscielny
#4 Gary Cahill

Economic Choice
Micah Richards

Best FUT 16 Barclays Premier League Centre Backs

Best FIFA 16 Barclays Premier League Right Backs

RB | RWB
 

Full backs have the role of troubling the job of wingers. In addition, good full backs also support their team mates on offensive manoeuvres.

Choosing the best right back for a Barclays Premier League Team is an extremely hard choice. There are various valid options depending on the style of play.

There are very important attributes for any right back: defending and pace.

Since they’re defenders they should have good defending capacities. This reduces a team’s risk of conceding.

Ivanovic is the player that best fits this aspect. The only other player that offers him any type of competition is the City’s Pablo Zabaleta.

A flanked game tends to be faster than a game based in the middle of the field. The players that fill these spaces are obligated to be fast, both penetrating defensive and attacking moves of the team. Pace is one of the most important requirements for a good full back. Even in FIFA 16.

Kyle Walker is the fastest gold right back in FIFA 16 Ultimate Team. The English international player is far superior in this aspect when compared to every BPL full back. Besides Kyle Walker, only Nathaniel Clyne may be considered reasonably fast.

Pablo Zabaleta is the highest rated right back but once again, that doesn’t necessarily mean he is the best choice for this position. In our opinion, he and Ivanović are the kind of players who have good ratings but are not recommended as attacking full backs.

On the other hand there are players like Kyle Walker and Nathaniel Clyne. They have a fantastic pace and their high attacking work rate make them good players for those that use full backs as second wingers. They are our top choices.

For those who want an intermediate solution, in other words a player that defends and attacks well, we advise Séamus Coleman. He is a very balanced athlete, a cheaper player and, as a result, our economic choice.

RIGHT BACKS

Best Players
#1 Kyle Walker
#2 Nathaniel Clyne
#3 Séamus Coleman
#4 Pablo Zabaleta
#5 Matteo Darmian

Economic Choice
Séamus Coleman

Best FUT 16 Barclays Premier League Right Backs

Best FIFA 16 Barclays Premier League Left Backs

LB | LWB
 

Left backs have exactly the same role of their team mates on the other flank. In other words, they try to make a winger’s job hard and participate in the team’s offensive manoeuvres.

There are three BPL players that stand out in this position: the solid Leighton Baines, the champion Azpilicueta and the speedy Gaël Clichy.

Azpilicueta is the left back who defends better in this league.

The promising, Anfield tied Alberto Moreno is the fastest left back in the English league. He makes his speed his biggest threat, and only Clichy and Baba can be compared with him in this stat.

Azpilicueta and Leighton Baines are with no question the best left back choices playing in the Barclays Premier League. Azpilicueta is faster, but the Englishman is generally a more complete player.

Clichy is a valid alternative to these two players. He’s a good choice for more attacking teams due to his pace but lacks in passing and shooting.

Of all the remaining players, Holebas is our cheap choice. He lacks a little in quality compared to those mentioned above but he’s fast enough to cause some offensive damage, has remarkable long shots and possesses reasonable defending.

LEFT BACKS

Best Players
#1 Azpilicueta
#2 Leighton Baines
#3 Gael Clichy
#4 Jose Holebas
#5 Alberto Moreno

Economic Choice
Jose Holebas

Best FUT 16 Barclays Premier League Left Backs

Best FIFA 16 Barclays Premier League Defensive Midfielder

CDM
 

Many of the FIFA 16 Ultimate Team formations require some midfielders that have a natural aptitude to defend. Central defensive midfielders distinguish themselves for being especially aimed to help the more retreated line of their teams. According to their attributes and their work rates, they can also be useful for starting attacks. They are players that occupy a very strategic position in the field.

Now that Gerrard plays in another league, Matic and Morgan Schneiderlin are the players highest rated in this position.

There are a variety of attributes in a central defensive midfielder that you have to give attention: defending, so that the first defender of team works; strength, so that you win all brawls in a prone area of the field; heading, to win possession in aerial moves like goal kicks; pace, so that you cover the most terrain on the field as possible; stamina, so they can equally participate in offensive and defensive moves (especially useful for players with high/high work rates); passing and possession so that he can properly start attacks. In our opinion the two first are the most important.

Normally using a central defensive midfielder is associated with having a deficit of elements in your defence. So, it makes sense that when you search for a player to occupy this position you’d want players that can defend.

The best central defensive midfielder plays for Chelsea: Matic. He is a good choice for teams that want to complicate an opponent’s game in the space between the midfield and the defence.

The area of the field occupied by the central defensive midfielders is the one where most ball disputes happen. Strong players will have a higher probability of winning the ball.

There’s a lot of muscle between the Barclays Premier League. Tioté, Obi Mikel, Matic, Wanyama, Carlos Sánchez and Kouyaté are good examples of that. On the other hand there’s Ramires. Even though he’s a really special player, Chelsea’s Brazilian rarely wins a physical brawl due to being the weakest central defensive midfielder in the BPL.

In our opinion, Matic is the right choice for this position. He is the CDM who gives more security to the back line but he is also a good offensive player.

Ramires has a highly desirable cocktail of work rates, pace and stamina which allows him to be a presence all over the pitch. He is the fastest CDM player of the Barclays PL but is also the weakest.

There are also very good options that are available at a cheap price who are still good quality-wise, like Kouyaté and Tioté.

CENTRE DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDERS

Best Players
#1 Nemanja Matic
#2 Ramires
#3 Morgan Schneiderlin
#4 Cheikhou Kouyaté
#5 Cheik Tioté

Economic Choice
Cheikhou Kouyaté

Best FUT 16 Barclays Premier League Central Defensive Midfielders

Best FIFA 16 Barclays Premier League Centre Midfielders

CM | CAM
 

A lot of games are decided in the midfield and not close to the goals. The players that play in these zones are the ones that should create the game and define its rhythm.

It’s in midfield that there’s more quality in the Barclays Premier League. Some of the world’s best footballers play there. It’s the case of the Touré, Ozil, David Silva and the newcomers Kevin De Bruyne and Shweinsteiger.

Centre midfielders are responsible for discovering lines that break the opponents defence. Their passing quality has to be really good so they can assist forwards.

Even though David Silva and De Bruyne have a great passing stat, Fábregas is the one who does it better in the whole Barclays Premier League.

A Centre midfielder usually needs creativity. Good dribbling allows the team to move forward, creating potential disequilibrium’s.

David Silva is the player with best dribbling. Two other players share the second place of this list: Cazorla and Coutinho.

Kevin de Bruyne is the most interesting player in the Barclays Premier League midfield. He is level with the best players in various attributes including passing, shooting, vision, crossing and stamina making him our pick.

David Silva is our second choice. His passing, dribbling, vision and ball control are simply amazing but is let down slightly by his 2 star weak foot.

Another top player is Yaya Touré in large part because of his amazing strength and stamina. He is a very balanced player (although not as good defensively now) but his new medium-low work rate doesn’t allow him to give everything he has to give to the team. In our opinion, he was the best player in this position in previous games but is not any more. Obviously, he is still a wonderful player but if you have used him in the past, you will notice a considerable difference to him in FIFA 16.

Oscar and Eriksen are cheaper players that can perform well as centre midfielders.

Our budget choice falls to Jack Wilshere. He is a very balanced player and a great example of good value for money.

CENTRE MIDFIELDERS

Best Players
#1 Kevin De Bruyne
#2 David Silva
#3 Yaya Touré
#4 Cesc Fàbregas

Economic Choice
Jack Wilshere

Best FUT 16 Barclays Premier League Centre Midfielders

Best FIFA 16 Barclays Premier League Right Wingers

RM | RW | RF
 

The wingers are responsible for giving game width in the attack. They’re normally very explosive players.

Mata and Willian are the most popular right wingers of this league.

There are three fundamental attributes for a winger: pace, dribbling and passing.

Pace is probably the biggest weapon of these players. They use it to evade opponents and getting to the other side, many times via sprints on the side lines.

The Barclays Premier League is extremely well served in this chapter. Four gold players have pace over 90, being the highlighted sprinter Theo Walcott, the fastest player of FIFA 16 Ultimate Team.

Just being fast doesn’t cut it to reach the opponents box, having good dribbling to surpass the opponents’ players that appear on the way.

There are a lot of players gifted in dribbling, being Juan Mata and Deulofeu the best.

When reaching the opponents box the winger has to decide what to do. Normally, they choose to cross to the forwards. That is why it’s important for them to have good passing.

The weakest point of the Barclays Premier League Wingers is surprising – passing. Only Juan Mata offers good quality passing. Deulofeu, for example, could’ve been an option to consider filling this slot in virtue of his fantastic pace and dribbling, but he’s affected negatively for missing frequently passes to his more forward team mates.

Willian is our favourite to occupy this position in a team without budget restraints. He may not the best in any of the base attributes but he is always close to the top in this position.

Mata is not a natural winger and because of that he is not our first choice despite having the highest overall rating. He also has the best dribbling, the best passing and is one of the best at shooting of all the right sided wingers. Impressive. However, he is also one of the slowest players in this position and only Navas is weaker than him.

From the most popular there is also Shaqiri and Walcott. The Swiss player is a very balanced player while the Arsenal winger’s main strengths are speed and shooting.

For those with a more modest coin total, there is Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. This four star skiller is as fast as Willian, has better dribbling than Navas and Walcott and has much better physical stats than Walcott and Willian making him great value for money.

RIGHT MIDFIELDERS

Best Players
#1 Willian
#2 Juan Mata
#3 Xherdan Shaqiri
#4 Theo Walcott

Economic Choice
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Best FUT 16 Barclays Premier League Right Wingers

Best FIFA 16 Barclays Premier League Left Wingers

LM | LW | LF
 

The left wingers have exactly the same role as their team mates from the other side.

Now that Alexis Sánchez has changed his position, Eden Hazard has finally competition to his position.

Just like it happens in the opposite side, there are four left wingers with pace equal or higher than 90.

There’s a proportional quality between the left winger and his dribbling. It’s natural that Hazard and Alexis Sánchez are the ones most highlighted in this chapter.

Now that David Silva is back to the centre, Hazard is clearly the best fitted passer between the remaining left wingers.

Hazard’s price prohibits him from being affordable for most, proving the worth of the player. He is without a doubt the best Barclays Premier League left winger. He’s the best dribbler, the best passer, one of the fastest and only Sánchez is better at shooting than him. He possesses a series of other highly rated attributes such as balance, agility, acceleration and ball control. And if you are not convinced yet, you should know that his work rates are now high/medium.

For those who don’t want to pay so much for the Belgian, we suggest Sánchez. It’s impossible to talk about this player without comparing him to Hazard. He is not as good as the Chelsea’s winger overall but is far better value for money.

Kevin Mirallas is the most complete affordable player and for that reason, our cheapest choice. He is faster than Sánchez and has better shooting and passing than Sterling. A great player especially for low budget teams.

LEFT MIDFIELDERS

Best Players
#1 Eden Hazard
#2 Alexis Sánchez
#3 Memphis Depay
#4 Raheem Sterling

Economic Choice
Kevin Mirallas

Best FUT 16 Barclays Premier League Left Wingers

Best FIFA 16 Barclays Premier League Forwards

CF | ST
 

The forwards are the players on which fall the most responsibility of scoring goals.

In the Barclays Premier League, the most popular are players that could play in any club in the world: Sergio Aguero, Rooney and Diego Costa

To score goals shooting is necessary. If either by foot or head, the most important attribute for a forward are: shooting, heading and pace.

Most goals are scored with the foot so good shooting is a necessary attribute for a forward.

The best forwards are the ones that best shooting: Aguero, Rooney, Diego Costa and Sturridge. The exception is Defoe.

Jump, strength and stamina are the ingredients to the new physical attribute, very important when we are analysing the best forwards: jump to score with the head; strength to dispute the ball with the opponents; and stamina to sprint in direction of goal at any time of the game.

That’s here where we see that Diego Costa and Rooney are great players. Aguero, for example, is almost in the bottom of this list.

Depending on the style of play and formation, having good shooting and heading may not be enough for a striker. Especially in games that privilege counter-attack, pace is a very important attribute.

Mané, Diouf and Remy are the fastest strikers in FIFA 16. However, Aguero and Sturridge are also very fast players.

For the final position, we believe Sergio Agüero and Diego Costa are the best BPL strikers. However, the Manchester City player has the advantage due to his better pace, passing and shooting. Even though his physical stat is quite low, no other BPL forward surpasses him in ball control, acceleration and balance.

Choosing the best Barclays Premier League forward is a bit subjective because it depends on your style of play. The best alternatives to Aguero and Diego Costa are generally missing something: Falcão was downgraded and is no longer the force he used to be in past games; Wayne Rooney plays better as CF or even CAM than as a striker; Sturridge has bad passing, etc

Far from the quality of these strikers, Lukaku is our economical choice. He and Benteke may cause a lot of damage on the opponents defence with their extraordinary strength and otherwise well rounded stats.

FORWARDS

Best Players
#1 Sergio Aguero
#2 Diego Costa
#3 Wayne Rooney
#4 Daniel Sturridge

Economic Choice
Romelu Lukaku

Best FUT 16 Barclays Premier League Forwards

Barclays Premier League Team Suggestions

A lot of people think that this is the most important part of the guide. It’s not. The thing that is really important to know is how to choose players based on their role and style of play that fits each player. The team suggestions that follow are simple graphic indicators of what we wrote previously. They should serve merely as orientation because it’s impossible to build a team that fits everyone. They depend on various factors we don’t know such as budget, formation, style of play and player preferences.

To try and explore the needs of the maximum player as possible we suggest three teams with different budgets and formations: 4-1-2-1-2 with unlimited budget, 4-3-3 with 200k budget and 4-4-2 with a 50k budget.

Team with Unlimited Budget

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• Budget
Playstation 4: 2,080 million coins (1,355k + 725k)
Xbox One: 2,005 million coins (1,305k + 700k)
Playstation 3: 1,232 million coins (757k + 475k)
XBox 360: –
PC: –

• Updated Prices and Squad Adjustments
The prices we have published are the ones of the guide’s publication date.
If you want to know the current prices or test any adjustment to this squad, please click here.

• Summary

The choice for this team’s players was based on the analysis made previously.

Who to put in goal presents one of the most difficult decisions. De Gea and Courtois are both amazing goalkeepers and you will be fine with either of them.

Otamendi and Kompany are the bosses of the back four. The Argentinian player is a great addition to this league, especially considering Mangala was not upgraded. To us, he is already the best centre back of Barclays Premier League. Kyle Walker imposes himself with his tremendous pace to be our choice at the right back position, while at left back Azpilicueta and Baines are both good enough to take the position.

Although Yaya is originally a CM in FUT 16, he also plays well as CDM. He’s no longer a box-to-box player now with his new medium-low work rate which is why our favourite is Matić. No one defends as he does in midfield. The Serbian holds up the barrier between your goal line and the opponent, making his defensiveness, height and physicality count. For the other central midfield position, De Bruyne is our top choice. He is so good that he relegates David Silva to the bench.

Willian is the right choice for the right side, largely because Mata does not have the right attributes for this position. Now, more than ever, Eden Hazard is so brilliant that he is second to none in left midfield.

If your budget allows you, Agüero is the obvious choice for the attack line. He is the most expensive player in the league, which is a reflection of just how good he is. The other striker spot goes to Diego Costa but Rooney is also a good alternative.

Once all the players reach maximum individual chemistry via loyalty (achieved by each player after 10 matches for your club or by being pack pulled) you can go without a manager for your squad. They’ll be of no use while wasting contracts.

200k Budget Team

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• Budget
Playstation 4: 377k coins (226k + 151k)
Xbox One: 328k coins (195k + 133k)
Playstation 3: 285k coins (173k + 112k)
XBox 360: –
PC: –

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• Summary

The choices for this more affordable team players was based on analysis made previously.

In goal, Lloris is too expensive to this squad. On the other hand, Begovic is a genuine bargain who will hold his own against popular goalkeepers such as Joe Hart.

Mangala and Vertonghen are both fast and solid defensively. Azpilicueta’s assertiveness and Walker’s speed completes our defending foursome.

Ramires has to be the one in central midfield. However, you need to be very careful to not have him caught out of position too often due to his high/high work rates. Eriksen and Oscar complete the midfield.

Shaqiri beats Walcott on the right wing and Nasri wins the spot on the left side. Sterling and Depay are too expensive to this squad.

Over the attack line, Lukaku or Benteke are excellent choices. They’re very similar to each other and are the best choices for this budget thanks to their pace, strength and completeness.

If you still have some room in your budget, Sturridge, Sterling and Fàbregas are players that would improve this squad a lot.

50K Budget Team

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• Budget
Playstation 4: 104k coins (53k + 51k)
Xbox One: 93k coins (50k + 43k)
Playstation 3: 110k coins (57k + 53k)
XBox 360: –
PC: –

• Updated Prices and Squad Adjustments
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• Summary

The choice for this budget team was based on analysis made previously.

Vorm is the cheapest player in this squad but it doesn’t take away from his ability between the sticks.

The same goes for the rest of the defence: Micah Richards, Okore, Coleman and Clichy. All of the players cost less than expected considering their quality, making them great value for money in a cheap team like this.

In the midfield, Kouyaté (what a bargain!) and Jack Wilshere complement each other well. The first one is strong, quick and aggressive, the second is a player that usually pushes forward to assist his colleagues. Oxlade-Chamberlain and Mirallas fill the wings in order to assist Diouf and Cameron Jerome who have both been chosen for their combination of pace and strength.

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For all those players that plan to build a FUT 16 team based on the Liga BBVA, we’ve conducted an extensive analysis on the best players.

Here is our guide to the top Spanish league in FIFA 16 Ultimate Team.

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Introduction to the FIFA 16 Liga BBVA Guide

Building a team is the biggest challenge on FIFA 16 Ultimate Team. It doesn’t need to be the best team, because your budget may not allow it, but it is player’s stature that helps him obtain success.

When choosing which players to play with, you will have to look carefully at their attributes. Choosing a team based on ratings is one of the most common mistakes on FUT 16. It’s precisely this aspect that this guide focuses on. For each position, and focusing on the truly important attributes, we’ll show you who are the best athletes to choose.

It’s also important that you check to see if the player you choose fits the formations you like to play in. For example, a good full back will be useless if you only use a formation with three defenders. According to these formations, you must be cautious and look at the work rate. Try to relate them with the ones we advise in our Formations Guide.

Last but not least, it’s mandatory that you tune all of your team so that the individual and team chemistry will be as high possible. For this last step to be easier, the majority of the players start to define the type of team they’re building. Some choose to gather players of the same nationality, while others decide to form a team of players from the same league. There are also more experienced players that can form hybrid teams without damaging team chemistry a lot.

All of these steps are necessary to have; or it could mean that the team is not always well built as it could be. This article aims to help those that want to form a FIFA 16 Ultimate Team based on players from the Liga BBVA. Even the players that have a La Liga team, could take out some valuable conclusions from this guide that could help them make their team even better.

We received thousands of comments about similar guides that we have published in previous years. Most of them have asked us to help improve their teams and the players they had. It’s important that the readers understand that this guide is simply guidance. It’s a theme too vast and the player combinations are almost infinite. Besides, there are various factors that influence the choices, like one’s style of play, the formations used, the available budget, the preferences or even the time spent playing. There’s still one uncertain component: a good player for someone might not be for another. If there was a better team everyone would fight to get it. Part of the fun of FIFA 16 Ultimate Team is this: everyone has their personal club and players.

Another important point and that must stay very clear is that whoever is reading this guide, it’s about the criteria we chose and should be of everyone’s knowledge:

In this guide we didn’t consider silver or bronze players. Most players don’t assume them to be a better option than gold players, so to simplify the guide’s analysis we didn’t include them. In the future we may come to publish guides exclusively talking about these categories.

In this guide we didn’t consider In Forms (IF). They’re extremely expensive and in most cases are not considered good value for money. They should only be used by players with generous budgets, that already have the best team possible and that want small upgrades.

In this guide we didn’t consider players that have been transferred to other clubs or that have been reviewed (UP). Only players that started their season in the Liga BBVA and with their original attributes were considered.

In this guide we didn’t consider changes made on a players performance such happens when applying training or chemistry styles cards.

To make the comprehension of this guide easier we divided the players in nine distinct groups in order of their original position: Goalkeeper (GK), central backs (CB), right backs (RB and RWB), left backs (LB and LWB), central defensive midfielders (CDM) central midfielders (CM and CAM), right midfielders (RM, RW and RF), left midfielders (LM, LW and LF) and forwards (CF and ST).

In the chapter where FIFA 16 Ultimate Team BBVA teams are suggested, the prices considered are the ones of the date of the guide’s publication: October 2015. It’s natural that they have suffered some oscillations throughout the season, so we added a link where you can check the updated prices.

Liga BBVA

Arguably no league has as good players as the main football competition in Spain. The qualification for the champion is made through the points system. Whichever team gathers the most points wins the league. The first four classified gain access to the champions league in the following year, while the fifth and sixth qualify for the Europa League and the last three trade places with the first two promoted from the Segunda División and with the play-off winner. Every season starts in August and finishes in May, having 38 game weeks with 10 matches each, being a total of 380 matches per season.

The Liga BBVA is the third most watched football league in the world and the best league classified in the UEFA league coefficients.

Started in 1928, La Liga has only been conquered by nine clubs. The dominant clubs are Real Madrid and Barcelona, with a total of 33 and 24 titles. Atlético de Madrid (10), Atlético de Bilbao (8), Valência (6) and Real Sociedad (2) were the other teams that have won the league more than once, while Deportivo la Coruna, Real Bétis and Sevilla only won the title once.

As of last season, the Liga BBVA lost some good players such as Miranda (Inter), Mario Mandžukić and Sami Khedira (Juventus), Toby Alderweireld (Spurs), Raúl Jiménez (SL Benfica), Gerard Deulofeu (Everton), Pedro (Chelsea), Juanmi (Southampton), Fábio Coentrão and Lucas Silva (Marseille), Carlos Bacca (AC Milan) and Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City). But, the biggest transfers out were Casillas, from Real Madrid to FC Porto, and Xavi Hernandez, from Barcelona to Al Sadd SC.

These transfers didn’t necessarily make the Liga BBVA weaker. The Spanish teams spent more than 400 million Euros on strong reinforcements: Yannick Ferreira Carrasco Stefan Savić, Bernard and Filipe Luís (Atlético de Madrid), Rafael van der Vaart (Bétis), Deyverson (Belenenses), Bruma (Real Sociedad), Gaël Kakuta (Sevilla) Álvaro Negredo, Danilo Barbosa and Aymen Abdennour (Valencia) and Roberto Soldado (Villarreal). But the biggest signings of the season happened in Madrid. Danilo, Jackson Martinez and Mateo Kovačić have joined La Liga for 96 million Euros, almost a quarter of the all money spent by the all Liga BBVA clubs this season.

There are many great player choices to make which will make an even better team for you to aim to build. But, since it’s the league with better players, their prices are high. Only the Barclays PL players are more expensive than these ones. To the players with a limited budget, there are other better options.

LIGA BBVA

Total Players: 510
Gold Players: 262
Average Rating (Global): 74

Best New Cards:
Jackson Martínez
Filipe Luís
Yevgen Konoplyanka

Highest Upgrades:
Samu Castillejo (15)
David Simón (12)
Sergio Álvarez (11)
Lucas Vázquez (11)
Bernardo (10)
Deyverson (10)
Iván López (10)
Adri Embarba (10)

Highest Downgrades:
Rafael van der Vaart (-3)
Patrick Ebert (-3)
Kike Sola (-3)
Beto (-3)

Best FIFA 16 Liga BBVA Goalkeepers

GK
 

Goalkeepers are the players that are used least on the field. Because of this they are also first ignored when building a team. Most players start their purchases with a forward, later they strengthen the midfield the defence and only later the goal. The truth is a good goalkeeper may be worth a lot of goals. They are a good investment because they are normally the most economically accessible players.

The goalkeepers with most prestige in the Liga BBVA are Marc-André ter Stegen, Diego Alves and the Chilean National team goalkeeper Claudio Bravo. With having the best rating they are also the most searched for by this league’s teams so this makes them more expensive.

When choosing a good goalkeeper it’s not only down to his rating. There are two fundamental attributes for choosing a good goalkeeper: reflexes and diving.

The first measures a goalkeeper’s agility when making a save. The best on this aspect are Diego Alves and Ochoa.

Diving is a fundamental attribute when choosing a goalkeeper. It measures the capacity for a goalkeeper to make a save when jumping.

Diego Alves is also the best one with this attribute, with a slight advantage over Moyá.

The most experienced Ultimate Team players know that another leaning factor on a goalkeeper’s performance without considering the remaining four attributes: height. The more tall a goalkeeper is, better his chances of having a clean sheet.

This is Claudio Bravo’s weak point. Even though he can’t be considered a short goalkeeper, the truth is he’s 7 cm short of the mighty Iraizoz, this gold goalkeeper holds the title of tallest Liga BBVA Goalkeeper. None of the top goalkeepers has 1,90m or more.

Now that Casillas is not playing in this league any more, the choice for the best Liga BBVA goalkeeper on FIFA 16 Ultimate Team is not easy. Diego Alves and Claudio Bravo are both great players.

In our opinion, Diego Alves is the best choice. Despite not having good positioning and decent handling, he is one of the best in the world in the two more important attributes. Claudio Bravo is the number two. He is the La Liga goalkeeper with highest total stats.

GOALKEEPERS

Best Players
#1 Diego Alves
#2 Claudio Bravo
#3 Marc-André Stegen
#4 Sergio Asenjo
#5 Moyá

Economic Choice
Sergio Asenjo

Best FUT 16 Liga BBVA Goalkeeper

Best FIFA 16 Liga BBVA Centre Backs

CB
 

A goalkeepers task is made easier if in front of him are quality centre backs. Their function is to stop the opponent from getting dangerously close to your team’s goal.

With a centre back, two attributes assume particular importance on their performance: defending and the new attribute physical, which represents strength, stamina, aggression and jumping.

A player with better defending will have an easier chance of dispossessing the opponent and avoid him reaching your box.

It’s the case of the best rated player: Sergio Ramos. It’s really hard to get past him. The most experienced players are normally those who have a higher rating on this attribute. Piqué and Godín prove this.

The new physical attribute shows the old heading capability but also how likely the players are to win game with their body. This is a crucial attribute when looking for the best centre back.

In this chapter Aymen Abdennour and Pepe are the strongest ones.

Defending and heading may be useless against fast opponents. It’s necessary to fight fire with fire. No one likes feeling impotent when seeing you get overrun by extremely fast players. Even though, in a way, centre backs aren’t that fast, every team needs one of these players with a high pace attribute.

The Madrid players are the fastest in Liga BBVA and some of the fastest in the world. But there are other fast players in La Liga. Jérémy Mathieu and Nacho Fernández are also fast players.

Sergio Ramos is our number one choice for this position. Fast and with good defending and attacking attributes, the Madrid’ defender is for that the without a chance most expensive of all central backs of the Liga BBVA. He is the better in 2 of 6 main attributes.

Pepe and Jérémy Mathieu are without a doubt good players for this position but there are other cheaper solutions. Like, Iñigo Martinez. He is several times cheaper than Piqué, for example.

CENTRE BACKS

Best Players
#1 Sergio Ramos
#2 Pepe
#3 Jérémy Mathieu
#4 Diego Godín

Economic Choice
Iñigo Martinez

Best FUT 16 Liga BBVA Centre Backs

Best FIFA 16 Liga BBVA Right Backs

RB | RWB
 

Full backs have the role of troubling the job of wingers. In addition, good full backs also support their team mates on offensive manoeuvres.

For all players with a good budget, to choose the best right back is something very simple. Dani Alves is by far the best one.

There are very important attributes for any right back: defending and pace.

Since they’re defenders they should have good defending capacities. This reduces a team’s risk of conceding.

In our opinion, Dani Alves is the best right back of Liga BBVA but Danilo and other seven Spanish players defend better than him.

A flanked game tends to be faster than a game based in the middle of the field. The players that fill these spaces are obligated to be fast, both penetrating defensive and attacking moves of the team. Pace is one of the most important requirements for a good full back.

De Marcos is the fastest FUT 16 right back playing in La Liga. Dani Alves and Juanfran are the only ones that may also be considered fast players.

Finally, Dani Alves has competition. It is not easy to choose between him and Danilo. The Madrid’s defender is more complete, but Dani Alves has better stats for his position. His weakest point is his work rate high/low. He is the only right back with a low defensive work rate. For many gamers, he is too attacking.

If you don’t have enough coins to buy them, choose De Marcos. He has poor defensive stats but he is really fast and strong, which may be important too. If you are looking for someone with better defensive skills, you can try Juanfran or Carajal.

RIGHT BACKS

Best Players
#1 Dani Alves
#2 Danilo
#3 De Marcos
#4 Carvajal
#5 Juanfran

Economic Choice
De Marcos

Best FUT 16 Liga BBVA Right Backs

Best FIFA 16 Liga BBVA Left Backs

LB | LWB
 

Left backs have exactly the same role of their team mates on the other flank. In other words, they try to make a winger’s job hard and participate in the team’s offensive manoeuvres.

A team’s left flank has even less options than the right but that doesn’t necessarily mean it has less quality. There are three players that stand out in this position: Jordi Alba, Marcelo and Filipe Luís.

Now that Filipe Luis is back, himself, Marcelo, Jesús Gámez and Navarro are the four left backs with better defensive skills.

Jordi Alba is the fastest left back in the world. He makes his speed his biggest threat, differing from other players from this position. Excepting Nacho and Gayà, all other players are a lot slower.

To choose the best Left Back from Liga BBVA is a hard task. Marcelo is slightly better than Alba in almost every stat, but the pace of the Spanish player can make the difference many times. What he lacks in these attributes he highly compensates with his pace. That’s the main reason why we consider him the best Liga BBVA left back.

Of all the remaining players, Filipe Luís is probably the most interesting one. However, Gayà is our cheapest choice. He doesn’t have the same efficiency as the others we referred too but he’s fast enough to cause some offensive damage and possesses decent skills.

LEFT BACKS

Best Players
#1 Jordi Alba
#2 Marcelo
#3 Filipe Luís
#4 Benoit Trémoulinas
#5 Gayà

Economic Choice
Gayà

Best FUT 16 Liga BBVA Left Backs

Best FIFA 16 Liga BBVA Central Defensive Midfielders

CDM
 

Many of the FIFA 16 Ultimate Team formations require some midfielders that have a natural aptitude to defend. Central defensive midfielders distinguish themselves for being especially aimed to help the more retreated line of their teams. According to their attributes and their work rates, they can also be useful for starting attacks. They are players that occupy a very strategic position in the field.

With regard to the popularity, the supremacy of Busquets over all other Liga BBVA central defensive midfielders is extremely clear.

There are a variety of attributes in a central defensive midfielder that you have to give attention: defending, so that the first defender of team works; strength, so that you win all brawls in a prone area of the field; heading, to win possession in aerial moves like goal kicks; pace, so that you cover the most terrain on the field as possible; stamina, so they can equally participate in offensive and defensive moves (especially useful for players with high/high work rates); passing and possession so that he can properly start attacks. In our opinion the two first are the most important.

Normally using a central defensive midfielder is associated with having a deficit of elements in your defence. So, it makes sense that when you search for a player to occupy this position you’d want players that can defend.

The CDM with best defending stats are Busquets and Krychowiak.

The area of the field occupied by the central defensive midfielders is the one where most ball disputes happen. Strong players will have a higher probability of winning the ball.

There’s a lot of muscle between the central defensive midfielders of Liga BBVA. Once again, Grzegorz Krychowiak is the one that stands out. On the other hand there’s Abraham. The Spanish player rarely wins a physical brawl due to being the weakest central defensive midfielder from the main Spanish League.

The two players with best ratings are the ones that can make this job with success. No other player can guarantee quality on the field.

Krychowiak is our favourite. He is strong, fast, aggressive and he offers much more defensive security. He has better work rates for that. He is the best central defensive midfielder in the most important attributes. Busquets is more tactical, better on the ball and play better in the opposite midfield.

For those who want an element that offer defensive solidity to the team for a low price, Camacho is a very interesting choice. He is our economic choice.

DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDERS

Best Players
#1 Grzegorz Krychowiak
#2 Sergio Busquets
#3 Camacho
#4 Steven N’ Zonzi
#5 Casemiro

Economic Choice
Camacho

Best FUT 16 Liga BBVA Central Defensive Midfielders

Best FIFA 16 Liga BBVA Centre Midfielders

CM | CAM
 

A lot of games are decided in the midfield and not close to the goals. The players that play in these zones are the ones that should create the game and define its rhythm.

There is many quality in the Liga BBVA midfield. Some of the world’s best footballers play there. It’s the case of Iniesta, Modric, James Rodriguez and Kroos.

Centre midfielders are responsible for discovering lines that break the opponents defence. Their passing quality has to be really good so they can assist forwards.

Kroos, Iniesta and Parejo have a great passing stat.

La Liga players supremacy is also showed through their dribbling. Iniesta and Modric are the two of the best dribblers in the world.