EA Sports has finally revealed its Team of the Year lineup for FIFA 23, confirming what new cards will be available in its Ultimate Team mode from 26th January 2023. You'll find the starting XI below, but there is still time to vote for the 12th player. Competing for the final spot is goal machine Erling Haaland, full-back maestro João Cancelo, and the calm and collected Federico Valverde. One of them will join the Team of the Year lineup, which you can find in full below.
Goalkeepers
- Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid) — 96
Defenders
- Achraf Hakimi (PSG) — 94
- Éder Militão (Real Madrid) — 94
- Virgil Van Dijk (Liverpool) — 96
- Theo Hernández (AC Milan) — 94
Midfielders
- Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund) — 95
- Luka Modrić (Real Madrid) — 96
- Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) — 97
Attackers
- Kylian Mbappé (PSG) — 97
- Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) — 97
- Lionel Messi (PSG) — 98
Again, these Team of the Year cards will be available in Ultimate Team from 26th January 2023. Will you be trying to pack any? Hope that luck is on your side in the comments below.
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I swear Messi has some sort of contractual obligation to be this highly rated. Haaland should have already been a shoo-in too.
@nessisonett Haaland's time will come. I don't think you can really say he was more influential than Mbappe, Benzema, Messi in 2022, even though he was scoring goals for fun.
And Messi was never in a million years not going to make this team after winning the World Cup!
Virgil? You're having a laugh 😂
@ShogunRok Messi can't run though, I'm not sure how they can inflate his stats here to warrant a 98 rating unless they inexplicably give him 90 odd pace. Them sticking Van Dijk in here also shows that they haven't watched the Prem this season at all.
How on earth are some of these selections made?
@nessisonett @Victor_Meldrew Er, last season VVD almost took Liverpool to a quadruple. We need to remember that the year encapsulates more than just the start of this season.
I agree on the inflated stats, though. Messi rocketing up the pitch would look hilarious.
How things could’ve gone. Hakimi & Hernandez were both on the books at Madrid before they were 20. Hernandez was eventually sold at a loss & Hakimi who came through the youth team played like 10 games in 3 years for the senior side. Absolute waste. Not to mention Odegaard… .
@bozz it is people vote. I casted my vote too. It is not connected to stats in real life. Substitutes will be chosen by EA.
@Fight_Teza_Fight They had Marcelo and Carvajal still near their primes ahead of them on the roster, the two kids were never going to get the minutes they wanted with that being the case. Theo couldn't defend and still struggles with it, while Achraf wasn't that great defensively either and was sold to help balance the books during the pandemic.
Ode didn't want to stick around to wait out Modric's retirement and the club bought Camavinga with the sale money, a player who was very instrumental in this last CL title. None of these sales were all that damaging.
@bozz Nope not damaging just what could’ve been if they managed to keep them happy somehow with loans or selling them on with buy-back clauses.
Oh well RM still went on to win 4CLs in 5 years so can’t complain!
@Victor_Meldrew If intensity is liverpool's identity they're having an identity crisis
Messi owns ronaldo
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