FIFA 20 Ones To Watch

FIFA 20 OTW cards were available from September 27 to October 7 of last year only, which was essentially the 10 days following the launch of the game. These players have stats that improve throughout the season whenever they receive upgraded special cards like Team of the Week, Man of the Match, Hero, or any of the other possible options. As a result, they sell for considerably higher than their normal variants. FIFA 20 TOTSSF (opens in new tab) items do not trigger OTW upgrades.

A good example of FIFA 20 OTW cards is Harry Maguire. His started off rated 82, but two TOTW appearances bumped him to 84, then 86. However, his 90-rated FIFA 20 TOTS card (available for completing the full set of Premier League SBCs) didn’t affect his Ones To Watch rating.

FIFA 20 Ones To Watch cards were decided by the highest potential players that made a transfer in real life last summer. For example, Eden Hazard moved from Chelsea to Real Madrid and since he’s one of the best players in the world, he’s earned a OTW card. Here’s the full list of confirmed FIFA 20 Ones To Watch items:

• Aaron Wan-Bissaka – Manchester United
• Alexis Sanchez – Inter Milan [SBC only]
• Allan Saint-Maximin – Newcastle United [SBC only]
• Antoine Griezmann – FC Barcelona
• Christian Pulisic – Chelsea
• Eden Hazard – Real Madrid
• Frenkie de Jong – FC Barcelona
• Harry Maguire – Manchester United
• Henrikh Mkhitaryan – Roma [SBC only]
• Hirving Lozano – Napoli
• João Félix – Atlético de Madrid
• Joelinton – Newcastle United
• Julian Brandt – Borussia Dortmund
• Lucas Hernández – Bayern München
• Luka Jović – Real Madrid
• Matthijs de Ligt – Piemonte Calcio
• Mauro Icardi – Paris Saint-Germain
• Nicolas Pépé – Arsenal
• Nicolò Barella – Inter
• Pablo Sarabia – Paris Saint-Germain
• Philippe Coutinho – Bayern München
• Quincy Promes – Ajax
• Rodri – Manchester City
• Romelu Lukaku – Inter
• Sébastien Haller – West Ham United
• Tanguy Ndombele – Tottenham Hotspur [SBC only]
• Thorgan Hazard – Borussia Dortmund
• Wissam Ben Yedder – AS Monaco

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How does FIFA 20 Pro Clubs work?

In FIFA 20’s Pro Clubs mode, you use a created character to team-up with friends or strangers, with each player taking up a single position on the field (including goalkeeper). You then compete as a unit across league and cup competitions, with the goal of filling the team’s trophy cabinet and earning as many promotions as possible. Along the way, you can upgrade your Virtual Pro by performing well in games, as well as assigning them specific Player Traits. 

What’s new in FIFA 20 Pro Clubs?

Mercifully, there are a fair few new features this year. House Rules Cups are one of the biggest changes, equipping the old tournaments from FIFA 19 with bespoke, ever-changing rulesets. It’s also now possible to play practice matches against the AI, with an option to customise their difficulty, overall stats, and tactics. FIFA 20’s new player customisation suite has been carried over from Volta and Career Mode, incorporating new morphing options, and you can now finally select your strip ahead of games, putting an end to the kit clashing issues that have plagued the mode in recent times. 

Is FIFA 20 Pro Clubs any good?

If you’ve got a sizable group of friends or want to join a competitive team, Pro Clubs can be the most entertaining mode in FIFA. It’s the virtual equivalent of having a kickabout with your friends, and the more players you have, the better it gets. That said, there are still grumbles in the community that Pro Clubs hasn’t evolved enough in recent years, and the lack of Volta involvement (FIFA 20’s new small-sided mode) is disappointing. Even so, Pro Clubs’ base gameplay remains highly enjoyable, even despite the mode’s lack of major innovations. 

Any other Pro Clubs tips?

There’s no fast-track method to Pro Clubs success, with the mode rewarding intelligent teamwork above all else. However, there are still a few things you can do to help boost your performances on the pitch. You’ll find some important FIFA 20 Pro Clubs tips below. 

1. Pay attention to height and weight

As part of Pro Clubs’ new player customisation features, the way in which you select a player’s height and weight has changed slightly. Now, you can use body morphing to customise your initial frame, and doing so has a big effect on the attributes you start with. Think about your position and ideal play style before finalising your stats. Do you want to be a pacey striker, or perhaps more of an aerial threat? Try to alter your height and weight settings to cater to this, but don’t go overboard – making your player as tall or short as possible typically isn’t an effective strategy. 

2. Keep an eye on your stamina

A common mistake often made by new Pro Clubs players (particularly in drop-in games) is relying on the sprint button too heavily. By doing this, you wear out your player by midway in the second half, often rendering them redundant due to their vastly hindered abilities, particularly in terms of pace. Being intelligent with your stamina is therefore crucial, so preserve your energy by only sprinting when the situation demands it. This can be really effective against teams who press constantly, allowing your player to get a second wind when others are tiring late on. 

3. Always play with an ‘Any’

If you haven’t got enough human players to fill a Pro Clubs XI, the CPU controls the rest. And while the AI plays fairly intelligently on the whole, it’s no match for a skilled team. As a result, it’s always worth assigning someone to the ‘Any’ position, allowing them to take charge of all the non-user controlled players on the pitch. Naturally, this role should be equipped by someone skilled in both defending and attacking, and when assuming this responsibility, it can also help to switch to a wider camera angle (such as Co-op) to help scope out your team-mates’ runs. 

4. Communicate with team-mates

It’s surprising how many players don’t communicate effectively in Pro Clubs. For the most part, this relates to drop-in games and public clubs, which anyone can join, but even then, you don’t necessarily need a headset to get involved. At the very least, you can use the d-pad to perform various emotes, such as giving a thumbs up for a good pass, or showing your displeasure when someone goes on a selfish run. If you’re planning to join a serious club, however, you need to be talking to your team-mates as much as possible, working collectively to generate goalscoring opportunities. 

5. Spend your Skill Points wisely

Skill Points are earned in Pro Clubs as you play more games, with up to 110 to collect. You’re free to allocate these as you see fit, using Player Traits to improve everything from attacking stats to goalkeeping skills. The way in which you assign your starting 15 Skill Points should depend on your position – strikers, wingers, and attacking midfielders often prioritise pace, agility, and dribbling, while centre-backs benefit from high acceleration, strength, and jumping stats. Again, it’s also worth noting your initial attributes, as if they’re already quite high in certain areas, you want to distribute some points elsewhere. 

6. Use L1/LB for auto positioning

The rating you achieve in Pro Clubs is partly affected by your positioning. This can prove fairly easy to abide by when playing as a striker, but it’s not quite as simple for the likes of wingers and defensive midfielders. Fortunately, you can just hold the L1/LB button to auto position yourself if required, helping to prevent your rating from plummeting. This is also a really useful feature for those who play as goalkeepers – arguably the hardest position to play in Pro Clubs – where being in the right spot is the key to making great saves and earning clean sheets.

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FIFA 20 TOTS: What is it?

This is fairly obvious. FIFA 20 TOTSSF, to give it its new monicker, sees the best performers from domestic leagues given special in-game cards to celebrate their big real-life campaigns.

This year it’s a little different, in that almost all football is suspended due to Covid-19 – so the cards represent the season so far, up to the middle of March. The two exceptions are the domestic leagues in China and the USA, which were completed before the end of 2019.

The first FIFA 20 TOTSSF squad of 18 players was released at 6pm on Friday 24 April, and contained a set of players voted for by the community. Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace, 92) and Joe Gomez (Liverpool, 93) were the highlights. The Community team was immediately followed by the FIFA 20 TOTSSF squad for the EFL. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham, 92) and Kalvin Phillips (CDM, 92) are the highest-rated players in that squad. 

On Friday 1 May, the Premier League TOTSSF emerged. It features two players with the maximum possible overall rating of 99: Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City) and Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool). Three of van Dijk’s team-mates also nudged close to the highest possible rating: Sadio Mane (98), Alisson (97) and Mo Salah (97). 

The third week brought squads from the Saudi MBS Pro League and Spanish La Liga. Messi’s 99-OVR stands out, clearly, while team-mates Luis Suarez (97), Antoine Griezmann (96), Marc-Andre Ter Stegen (95) and Frenkie de Jong (94) all get mega boosts too.

Week four started on Friday 15 May with the Bundesliga squad – we’d also sneakily received the Turkish’s league elite campaigners earlier in the week. Standout cards from the German top flight include Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern, 99), Timo Werner (RB Leipzig, 97) and wunderkind Erling Braut Haaland (Dortmund, 95). 

We then received the Liga NOS TOTSSF on Monday 18 May, followed by the Serie A equivalent to kick off week five – with a 99-rated Cristiano Ronaldo its most sought-after card. Also of note is 97-rated Luis Alberto, who happens to feature in our look at FIFA 21 ratings, scouting 11 players who need upgrades in next year’s game.

Squads for the Eredivisie and CSL preceded week six’s Ligue 1 squad. Paris pair Kylian Mbappe and Neymar were the pick of that selection, both scoring supreme 98-rated special items. 

The final week added sides for LATAM and the MLS, before the Ultimate Team Of The Season So Far’s big release. This 20-man line-up rounded up the best players from previous weeks, including those 99-rated cards for van Dijk, Messi, Ronaldo, de Bruyne, and Lewandowski.

FIFA 20 TOTS: Which leagues and players are represented?

The following competitions made up the now-complete FIFA 20 TOTSSF league list:

Bundesliga (Germany) [released 15 May]

Community [released Friday 24 April]

CSL (China) [released Monday 25 May]

EFL (England) [released Friday 24 April]

Eredivisie (Holland) [released Monday 25 May]

LATAM (Latin America) [released Monday 1 June]

La Liga (Spain) [released Friday 8 May]

Liga NOS (Portugal) [released Monday 18 May]

Ligue 1 (France) [released Friday 29 May]

MBS Pro League (Saudi Arabia) [released Monday 4 May]

MLS (USA) [released Monday 1 June]

Premier League (England) [released Friday 1 May]

Serie A (Italy) [released Monday 18 May]

Super Lig (Turkey) [released Monday 11 May]

Ultimate TOTTSF [released Friday 5 June]

FIFA 20 TOTS: How much do the cards cost?

Prices fluctuated wildly as each new team was released, with cards at their most expensive on Thursdays and Fridays as people built their weekend league squads.

Messi was shifting for more than 6 million coins in his first hours on the market, but settled at 2.5 million. Similarly, Ronaldo was a whopping 10 million if you wanted him in his first hours on sale, eventually dropping down to 4.9m.

Analyse the market carefully for an afternoon before committing to any card priced deep into the millions.

Many of the Premier League TOTSSF cards sell for upwards of 1.5 million: Kevin de Bruyne is a wallet-exploding 2.6 million coins, making van Dijk’s 1.8 million price tag feel like a comparative bargain. If you don’t have seven figures to spare, consider Adama Traore (Wolves, 89) – 128K but with a pace rating of 99. Aaron Wan-Bissaka (Manchester United, 90) will also see you through to FIFA 21 at right-back, at a cost of 212K.

There are bargains to be found in earlier squads. Semi Ajayi (CB, West Brom) is a very serviceable 87-rated CB who can be had for 21K, while 89-rated Peter Gulacsi (RB Leipzig) is one of the game’s most reliable keepers – but can be snaffled for just 35K. 

FIFA 20 TOTS: How else can I get new cards?

Two TOTSSF players were immediately available as gameplay objectives, rather than being on the transfer market. French forward Marcus Thuram (Borussia Moenchengladbach, 89) was unlockable by completing a set of four tasks in online Division Rivals matches. Rapid striker Ivan Toney (Peterborough United, 88) could be grabbed in the same manner, although his tasks were easier: they required completion in offline Squad Battles. 

For week two, these challenges were replaced by ones for Raul Jimenez (Wolves, 91) and Ayoze Perez (Leicester City, 89). Week three delivered Sergio Reguilon (Sevilla, 92), Mariano (Real Madrid, 89) and Romarinho (Al Ittihad, 89) in their place. 

The outset of week four saw Marcel Sabitzer (RB Leipzig, 92) added as the Rivals-based challenge, while Javairo Dilrosun (Hertha Berlin, 89) became available for the week upon completion four Squad Battles objectives. In week five, Joao Pedro (Cagliari, 92) and Jeremie Boga (Sassuolo, 89) replaced them. Next up were Idrissa Gueye (Paris, 93) and Aleksandr Golovin (Monaco, 89).

A steady stream of TOTS cards were available through Squad Building Challenges. The first was Mauro Icardi (Paris, 90). For him you needed to trade in a squad rated 86 or above, containing at least one League 1 player. Kieran Trippier (Atletico Madrid, 90) and Wilfred Zdidi (Leicester City, 91) appeared once the Icardi challenge had expired.

A beautifully well-rounded Saul (Atletico Madrid, 93) was the La Liga SBC, available until Wednesday 13 May. Two days later that was again replaced, by Axel Witsel (Dortmund, 93) – with his place taken by Allan (Napoli, 91) on Friday 22 May. Look away now, West Ham fans: week six saw the addition of an SBC for Dimitri Payet (Marseille, 93).

The final week brought a ‘Season Objectives’ challenge which could be completed to unlock Jack Grealish (Aston Villa, 92), along with an SBC for Ligue 1 speedster Josh Maja (Bordeaux, 93).

FIFA 20 TOTS: Is there a full player list?

Yes there is. For the sake of this feature not needing seventeen pages, all players rated 94 or above are listed below.

– Cristiano Ronaldo (ST, Piemonte Calcio) 99
– Kevin de Bruyne (CM, Manchester City) 99
– Virgil van Dijk (CB, Liverpool) 99
– Lionel Messi (RW, Barcelona) 99
– Robert Lewandowski (ST,  FC Bayern) 99
– Sadio Mane (LW, Liverpool) 98
– Neymar Jr (LW, Paris) 98
– Kylian Mbappe (ST, Paris) 98
– Alisson (GK, Liverpool) 97
– Mohamed Salah (RW, Liverpool) 97
– Luis Suarez (ST, Barcelona) 97
– Raphael Varane (CB, Real Madrid) 97
– Karim Benzema (CF, Real Madrid) 97
– Timo Werner (ST, RB Leipzig) 97
– Luis Alberto (CM, Lazio) 97
– Wissam Ben Yedder (ST, Monaco) 97
– Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (ST, Arsenal) 96
– Sergio Aguero (ST, Manchester City) 96
– Antoine Griezmann (LW, Barcelona) 96
– Sergio Ramos (CB, Real Madrid) 96
– Jan Oblak (GK, Atletico Madrid) 96
– Toni Kroos (CM, Real Madrid) 96
– Nabil Fekir (CAM, Real Betis) 96
– Jadon Sancho (RF, Dortmund) 96
– Joshua Kimmich (CDM, Bayern) 96
– Lautaro Martinez (ST, Inter) 96
– Alejandro Gomez (CAM, Atalanta) 96
– Josip Ilicic (ST, Atalanta) 96
– Ciro Immobile (ST, Inter) 96
– Angel di Maria (RW, Paris) 96
– Hakim Ziyech (CAM, Ajax) 96
– Carlos Vela (RW, LAFC) 96
– Riyad Mahrez (RW, Manchester City) 95
– Son Heung-Min (LM, Tottenham) 95
– Trent Alexander-Arnold (RB, Liverpool) 95
– Jamie Vardy (ST, Leicester) 95
– Marc-Andre Ter Stegen (GK, Barcelona) 95
– Mats Hummels (CB, Dortmund) 95
– Erling Braut Haaland (ST, Dortmund) 95
– Marco Reus (CAM, Dortmund) 95
– Thomas Muller (CM, Bayern) 95
– Stefan de Vrij (CB, Inter) 95
– Wojciech Szczęsny (GK, Piemonte Calcio) 95
– Marco Verratti (CM, Paris) 95
– Thiago Silva (CB, Paris) 95
– Quincy Promes (LM, Ajax) 95
– Paulinho (CM, CSL) 95
– Romelu Lukaku (ST, Inter) 95 [SBC only] – Carlos Tevez (ST, Buenos Aires) 95
– Yann Sommer (GK, Mönchengladbach) 94
– Marcus Rashford (LM, Manchester United) 94
– Jordan Henderson (CM, Liverpool) 94
– Santi Cazorla (CM, Villarreal) 94
– Andy Robertson (LM, Liverpool) 94
– Carvajal (RB, Real Madrid) 94
– Frenkie de Jong (CM, Barcelona) 94
– Filip Kostic (LM, Eintracht Frankfurt) 94
– Kai Havertz (CAM, Bayer Leverkusen) 94
– Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (CM, Lazio) 94
– Paulo Dybala (ST, Piemonte Calcio) 94
– Samir Handanovic (GK, Inter) 94
– Chris Smalling (CB, Roma) 94
– Pizzi (RM, Benfica) 94
– Alex Telles (LB, Porto) 94
– Renato Sanches (CM, Lille) 94
– Memphis Depay (CF, Lyon) 94
– Houssem Aouar (CM, Lyon) 94
– Marquinhos (CB, Paris) 94
– Donny van de Beek (CDM, Ajax) 94
– Hulk (RW, Shanghai SIPG) 94
– Oussama Idrissi (LW, AZ) 94
– Renato Augusto (CM, Beijing Guoan) 94
– Josef Martinez (ST, Atlanta) 94
– Eduardo Salvio (RM, Buenos Aires) 94
– Ignacio Fernandez (CM, Nunez) 94

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FIFA 20 TOTW 23

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Alongside the aforementioned three players in the FIFA 20 TOTW 23 is Harry Maguire with an 86 rating, after he scored and kept a clean sheet in United’s win. A questionable choice given Eric Bailly’s incredible defensive performance on his first start since April, but Maguire’s goal tipped it in his favour. Nicolas Pepe, Arsenal’s record signing winger, also has an 86 rating because he scored and assisted two against Newcastle United. Here’s the complete FIFA 20 TOTW 23:

FIFA 20 TOTW 23 Starting XI:

GK: Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich) – 90
CB: Kamil Glik (AS Monaco) – 85
CB: Lukas Klostermann (RB Leipzig) – 82
CB: Harry Maguire (Manchester United) – 86
RM: Gerard Moreno (Villareal) – 87
CM: Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (Lazio) – 86
RM: Nicolas Pepe (Arsenal) – 86
CM: Thomas Partey (Atletico Madrid) – 86
ST: Heung-Min Son (Tottenham Hotspur) – 90
RW: Steven Berghuis (Feyenoord) – 85
LW: Paulo Dybala (Juventus) – 90

FIFA 20 TOTW 23 Substitutes:

GK: Kristoffer Nordfeldt (Gençlerbirliği) – 79
RB: Christophe Herelle (OGC Nice) – 82
CAM: Lars Stindl (Borussia Monchengladbach) – 83
ST: Abderazzak Hamdallah (Al-Nassr) – 84
RW: Suso (Sevilla) – 84
ST: Wout Weghorst (Werder Bremen) – 84
ST: Carlos Tevez (Boca Juniors) – 82

FIFA 20 TOTW 23 Reserves:

CAM: Gael Kakuta (Amiens SC) – 79
CM: Paulo Bartolomei (Spezia) – 78
RM: Miroslav Stevanovic (Servette) – 78
CAM: Cauley Woodrow (Barnsley) – 76
LW: Charles Vernam (Grimsby Town) – 67

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Salford City

League: EFL League Two (ENG 4)
Card type: Common bronze
Cost: 200 coins
Most bronze badges fail to sell on the secondary market – but not Salford’s, given that this is the club’s first-ever appearance in the FIFA series. The team co-owned by six Manchester United legends including David Beckham, Ryan Giggs and the Neville brothers scored promotion to the football league in the summer of 2019, and their simple lion crest has quickly become a community favourite.

New Zealand

League: Men’s National (INT)
Card type: Common silver
Cost: 600 coins

Only three nations in FIFA 20 – Bolivia (which is actually its flag), China, and New Zealand – have silver card badges, meaning all three can be flipped for a few hundred coins if you pack one. New Zealand’s is the rarest of the trio, and can be paired with their excellent home and away FIFA 20 kits for perfect symmetry. 

Kaizer Chiefs

League: South African FL (RSL 1)
Card type: Rare silver
Cost: 900 coins
As explained in our FIFA 20 kits (opens in new tab) guide, South Africa’s most successful club utilises one of world football’s most bold, unique colour schemes – black and taxi gold, to be specific – meaning all its items are worth decent value on the secondary market. The logo was inspired by former North American Soccer League (NASL) side Atlanta Chiefs, who club founder Kaizer Motaung played for in the 1970s. 

Orlando Pirates

League: South African FL (RSL 1)
Card type: Rare silver
Cost: 1200 coins
Kaiser Chiefs’ big rivals, and a popular choice for reasons which really shouldn’t need to be explained. Who doesn’t love a skull and crossbones? The crest’s iconic status is not lost on its current squad either. “These players are unbelievable, they are really unbelievable, to fight for the badge as much as they do,” said coach Rulani Mokwena in a recent interview (opens in new tab).

Al Hilal

League: MBS Pro League (SAU 1)
Card type: Common gold
Cost: 200 coins
A simple one to find on the market at discard value, Al Hilal’s badge bears a mild resemblance to the Champions League logo – although it can’t be accused of plagiarism, having been in use since 1957. In Arabic, ‘Hilal’ means ‘crescent moon’: hence the clever, layered use of a football to form that specific shape.

Waterford FC

League: SSE Airtricity League (IRL 1)
Card type: Common bronze
Cost: 200 coins

“Three Lions on a shirt, Jules Rimet still…” hang on. This isn’t England. In fact, it’s Irish club Waterford, who triggered controversy in 2017 by designing their badge in a fashion which definitely looks a little bit ‘1966 and all that’. It’s in fact a modernised version of their original crest, established in 1930.

SK Sturm Graz

League: O Bundesliga (AUT 1)
Card type: Rare silver
Cost: 4000 coins
The badge for three-time Austrian champions Sturm Graz is a tough one to find on the transfer market – as I write this there are only five available, and they’re all close to maximum possible price of 5,000 coins. Indeed, ‘AUT 1’ is a good league to target if you’re looking to flip silver badges for a profit. SK Rapid Wien and LASK Linz also come up rarely, and can be resold for between 3 to 5K if nabbed on the cheap.

Manchester United

League: Premier League (ENG 1)
Card type: Rare gold
Cost: 200 coins
United appearing here so soon after Salford City won’t sit well with fans of City, Liverpool or Arsenal, but its crest is unquestionably iconic and – just as importantly – the logo has undergone only minor revision in the last half-century. (We still consider it a travesty that Arsenal’s classic ‘Victoria Concordia Crescit’ cannon design is no more.) 

Newell’s

League: SAF (ARG 1)
Card type: Rare silver
Cost: 4000 coins

Yes, we know. That acronym is puerile and vulgar and something only 13-year-olds should find funny. But – newsflash – a whole load of 13-year-olds play FIFA 20. So even if you’re not personally keen on sporting on a badge that reads ‘NOB’ – short for Newell’s Old Boys – you can still make some coins by packing one and then selling it on the transfer market for a tidy 4K.

Arsenal

League: SAF (ARG 1)
Card type: Common silver
Cost: 200 coins
On the subject of Arsenal, here we have… Arsenal. Except an entirely different one: These Gunners are in fact The Viaduct Man, and play on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. This choice is a great one for trying to bamboozle online opponents as they wrack their brains wondering how you discovered a rejected design for one of the world’s biggest clubs and applied it in FIFA. Except that you didn’t, because it isn’t. Or is it? See? Let confusion reign. 

UNAM 

League: Liga BBVA MX (MEX 1)
Card type: Rare silver
Cost: 2000 coins
This one’s a treat to find in any silver pack, immediately guaranteeing you at least 2,000 coins should you decide to list it on the transfer market. But it’s also a good-looking one to hang onto, ensuring a shred of credibility even when you’re 0-5 down in a Division Rivals game. Trivia note: The mascot in the badge is a puma called Goyo. 

Chapecoense

League: Liga do Brazil (BRA 1)
Card type: Rare silver
Cost: 2000 coins
One of the rarest FIFA 20 badges owing to the tragic plane crash which killed 71 people, including the majority of the club’s players, in 2016. Wearing it in-game is a subtle-yet-appropriate tribute to those lost in the disaster, and completely acceptable; ghoulishly buying the badge to sell on at a profit, in full knowledge of its significance, much less palatable behaviour. It was such a problem immediately following the tragedy that EA issued complimentary Chapecoense badges and kits to every FIFA 17 player (opens in new tab).

Coventry City

League: EFL League One (ENG 3)
Card type: Common bronze
Cost: 200 coins
Who needs three lions when you can have, well, a griffin, a phoenix, and an elephant? There’s a question you never considered over this morning’s Corn Flakes. This one’s randomness made it a playground favourite in the days of fervent lunch-break Panini sticker swapping, which coincided with Coventry’s unbroken 34-year top-flight spell. The team may be rubbish now, but its crest is anything but.

Lecce 

League: Serie A (ITA 1)
Card type: Rare silver
Cost: 2500 coins
Languishing in the Italian third tier as recently as 2017, US Lecce secured two consecutive promotions to return to Serie A ahead of this season – and as such, they’re the only ITA 1 club in FIFA 20 with a silver, rather than gold, badge. It’s a looker too, featuring a she-wolf prancing imperiously in front of an oak tree, and just the merest hint at the club’s yellow-and-red striped home kit.

Guangzhou Evergrande

League: CSL (CHN 1)
Card type: Common gold
Cost: 200 coins
I could expend unlimited words and energy giving you a detailed breakdown of this one’s charms and history, but, well, just look at it. it’s a massive burning tiger with the words ‘Be The Best Forever’ on it. Not just today. Not just tomorrow, or for the next week. Forever. A masterpiece, and officially my badge from now until FIFA 21. 

FIFA 20 is out now. More interested at what Ultimate Team cards can do on the pitch than off it? Then you need our FIFA 20 best players (opens in new tab) guide, charting the top ten players you can buy in FUT. 

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The official support account for EA tweeted “We are aware of connectivity problems with our games. We’ll keep you up to date on progress here. Thanks for your reports” shortly after players took to Twitter to voice their ire. Shortly after, however, the account tweeted that EA was also aware of issues logging onto help.ea.com, an especially irritating quandary considering players seeking answers for downed servers couldn’t even use EA’s help site. The help site crashing is likely due to the worldwide popularity of FIFA 20 – the problem appears to be affecting EA servers worldwide, as reports have come in from the US, UK, and other parts of Europe. 

At around 5:20 pm EST / 10:20 pm BST, @EAhelp reported that there was “some recovery to connectivity” but everything was not back to normal yet. That FIFA 20’s servers are down is the subject of much derision from gamers who feel like the game has had a less than stellar first few weeks. 

The EA Servers go down easier than a Liverpool player in the box. #FIFA20October 7, 2019

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Apex Legends players have reported seeing error codes 100 or 103 that are preventing them from logging into their EA accounts. It seems like some people have regained access, but not all, so for the rest of us, it’s just a waiting game. 

Is FIFA 20 worth checking out despite the server issues? Check out our FIFA 20 review and decide for yourself. 

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FIFA 20 Advanced SBC solution

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In the solution above, you can see Shkrodan Mustafi – Arsenal’s best centre-back without a shadow of a doubt – is key to the FIFA 20 Advanced SBC, because he links to the two English Premier League players, and the trio of Germans on the other side. Antonio Rudiger is another option, but he’s likely to be much more expensive. You can complete this for under 10k coins and get a Premium Gold Players Pack worth 25k in return though, which isn’t too shabby. Here’s the full list of players I used and what they cost me:

GK: L. Karius [TUR 1/Germany] – 800 coins

RB: J. Lopez [SPA 1/Spain] – 1,000 coins

CB: D. Schwaab [NED 1/Germany] – 700 coins

CB: S. Mustafi [ENG 1/Germany] – 800 coins

LB: F. Delph [ENG 1/England] – 650 coins

RM: O. Melendo [SPA 1/Spain] – 800 coins

CM: Benat [SPA 1/Spain] – 1,300 coins

CM: M. Arnold [GER 1/Germany] – 1,000 coins

CM: H. Winks [ENG 1/England] – 850 coins

LM: R. Sessegnon [ENG 1/England] – 800 coins

ST: D. Ginczek [GER 1/Germany] – 850 coins

Total: 9,550 coins

Note: The FIFA 20 transfer market fluctuates wildly and while this was the cheapest solution I could find at the time of writing, the prices may have increased since. For other possible solutions, visit Futbin (opens in new tab).

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