What Is FIFA Ultimate Team? How to Play FUT 21

As you know, FIFA 2021 launched on October 9, 2020 and was met with intense interest from football fans. We can easily say that a large chunk of the player base plays FIFA just for the Ultimate Team mode. Starting with low-rated players and building squads that fit your budget through completing objectives, playing matches, and opening player cards to earn coins, then taking on your rivals, this game mode is the biggest factor behind FIFA's success. Let's take a close look at the FUT 21 (FIFA Ultimate Team) mode together.

FUT 21 Menu Contents and Information

The main FUT 21 sections are;

• News
• Objectives
• Play
• Transfer Market
• Store

The News section has information about game updates. It also gives players a chance to check out newly released special cards.

From the Objectives section, you can review and complete the game's daily, monthly, or seasonal objectives. As you complete these objectives, you can earn loan players, level points, or player packs.

The Play section contains "Squad Battles", where you play matches against the AI, and some objectives are completed through it.

After playing your first five matches, you're placed at a level between Division 10 and Division 1 based on your skill. This section, called "Division Rivals", is where you rank up as you win matches, drop as you lose, and play your matches against live opponents. In this section, you can earn weekly reward tiers that net your team coins or packs.

Once you accumulate a total of 2000 points from matches played in "Division Rivals", you earn the right to join the "FUT Champions" weekend league. Starting every Friday and ending on Sunday, this intense competition gives you the right to play 30 matches. You can boost your squad's quality with the rewards you get based on the number of matches you win.

From the Friendly Matches section, you can play head-to-head matches with your friends, or play on the same team against others.

With the Online Draft feature, you can build a team by adding one of the 4 options the game offers you to your squad, and become the winner of the grand prize by going 4-for-4. To try out this game mode, you need to spend your in-game coins.

What Is the FUT Transfer Market? How Do You Become a Good "FUT Trader"?

From the Transfer Market section, you can add the players you want to your squad or sell your own. You make your transfers or sales with other players (the community). FIFA takes a 5% commission from every player sale you make. That's why buying players as cheaply as possible and avoiding a loss when selling matters. In the transfer market, making your player sales as early in the day as possible, and especially on weekdays like Thursday and Friday, lets you sell at higher prices. This is because more matches are played on weekends (due to the FUT Champions weekend league). Buying players late at night on weekends lets you find players at better prices. Player prices change daily, so we recommend keeping up to date with the prices of the players on your squad.

What Is the FIFA Team of the Week?

Every week, Team of the Week cards are announced based on footballers' real-life performances. These cards are usually black and are higher-rated than the players' normal cards.

From the Store section, you can buy packs and strengthen your squad with the players you pull from them. To open these packs, you need to top up "FIFA Points" or spend your in-game coins.

The game also gives us a chance to play with old legends. While it's unlikely you'll be running with Eto'o or Drogba right when you start -due to how expensive they are- it becomes possible to see these players on your squad as you earn coins and time passes.

What Is FIFA 21 Chemistry? The Finer Points of Building Players and a Squad That Fits Your Playstyle

Another finer point of building a FUT 21 squad is maintaining harmony and links within the team. You can keep your team's chemistry high by linking players either through their nationality or through their league and club. This lets you achieve a more even on-pitch distribution of your players and keep them more faithful to your team's formation.

The team you see in the photo has a chemistry of 17. Playing players out of their natural positions and not building league or nationality links between them will make things very difficult for you in matches. That's why making your links yellow or green will push your team chemistry to its maximum level.

You can find my article on setting up custom tactics and the finer points of defending in FIFA 21 here.