Do you struggle to win Ultimate Team Matches? Do you constantly find yourself matched up against awesome Ultimate Teams? Use these 6 tips to dramatically increase your chances of winning Ultimate Team matches!

Win at Ultimate Team

1. Mix up Your Team

If you play with your best gold team all the time you’re going to come up against other people’s best teams full of In Form players with pace and strength to burn. Unless you’re an Ultimate Team demon a lot of the time your team will be worse.

Lower your team’s star rating by mixing it with some silver or even bronze players in less important positions (like CDM, maybe one winger and one CB…).

This will match you up against team’s with a lower star rating and get you easier games.

2. Don’t Play Tournaments

The further you progress in tournaments the better the standard of opposition you’re going to come up against.  Play single online matches for a generally lower standard of opposition.

3. Use a Bronze Bench

Put the worst bronze players you can find on the bench. It will lower your teams star rating considerably meaning you’ll match up against even lower rated teams.

NB. Putting a 48 rated goalkeeper up front and then swapping him out for Drogba after 5 minutes doesn’t effect your teams star rating – it just makes you look like a c**t.

4. Be Selective

Personally I hate this one as it usually takes me half an hour to find a game but… if you can’t beat them join them.

In single online matches you get to see your opponents defence, midfield and attack stats as well as their team chemistry.  If it looks like they’ve got an amazing team back out and find someone else.

N.B. This is where putting a 48 rated goalkeeper up front and then swapping him out for Drogba after 5 minutes disguises your stats. Less people will back out against you but you’ll increase the number of death threats you receive by 1000%.

5. Weigh Up Your Opponent

At the start of each match go defensive and counter attack.  For the first 20 – 25 in game minutes your priority should be not to concede. Use this time to analyse how your opponent plays (most players are one trick ponies).

Once you’ve got the makings of your opponent you can go more attacking safe in the knowledge that you’re not going to get caught out by surprise tactics.

This tip has the added bonus that it will frustrate the hell out of your opponent making him force attacks and make mistakes.

6. Keep Your Team Chemistry High

I’ve said it before but Ultimate Team Chemistry makes a huge difference to how your team performs. With high team chemistry you’ll have a great deal more attacking options and your team will defend as a tight unit. Of course everyone strives for 100% but keep it above 85% as an absolute minimum.

Go and Win Some Matches!

Now that I’ve given you the tips to win Ultimate Team matches and turned you into a fully blown tramp Ultimate Team player get out there and start dominating on FUT!

Have you got any tips of your own? Do you think that these tactics are cheap and should be stamped out? Let me know in the comments!

12 Comments
  1. Deco March 3, 2012 at 11:54 am

    Hey, thanks for this really helped me win games :) I thought it was made in your desc that your an Evertonian, I am too … Shocking? Do you play console or Xbox 360 or PlayStation3? I play ps3… If you play ps3 what’s your ps name? Or if you play Xbox that’s cool :) I don’t know but you might play PC in that case Awesome.

    • Craig Cole March 5, 2012 at 12:39 pm

      Hey Deco, I’m glad it helped!

      Yeah, frustrated Everton fan unfortunately :) Hopefully we’ll pick up in the second half of the season and start scoring some goals! I play on Xbox mainly matey.

  2. Deco March 3, 2012 at 11:56 am

    Mad sorry I’m writing on a iPad it has spell checker so it kinda sucks… And I didn’t mean to put “or” spell checker again sorry

  3. Darren March 7, 2012 at 12:47 pm

    Good stuff there,however I think people should enter tournaments and play higher level players,this will make there game better,I always play them and nothing else,and most of time reach final,I did not to start with but just kept going and have now won 14 trophys…that said my team is good and 100% chemistry,,another tips some plays try to close you down like fifa 11,,,do not be afraid and pass the ball,just skill dribble them and then pass to an open player

    • Craig Cole March 11, 2012 at 6:02 pm

      Thanks for the tips Darren.

      I agree with your point about the tournaments tbh. You’re only going to get better by playing better players.

  4. Henk March 29, 2012 at 10:47 am

    I have a question about the tournement: Golden Invitational, i have a team like this:

    Valdes(barcelona)

    Sergio Ramos(real) Puyol(barcelona) Pepe(real) Marcelo(real)

    Ozil(real) Mascherano(barcelona) Xabi Alonso(real)

    Falcao (Atletico Madrid)
    Benzema(real) Higuain(real)

    on the bank: Raul Albiol, Carvalho, Thiago, Khedira, Rossi, Sahin, Diego

    But still i cant play the tournement, please help mee, because i dont know what i am doing wrong. They say: exact number of clubs: 4 basic players in your team. But i think i have 4 clubs: Barcelona, Real, Atletico, Villereal. Please help i dont understand this

    • will April 9, 2012 at 8:31 pm

      exactly four clubs no less or more has to be 4 not 3

  5. Eman April 16, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    Can anybody give me some coins or players I’m desperate

  6. MAL May 4, 2012 at 11:08 pm

    hey how can i make coins i just won a bronze trophy and 7-0 in the final and got the most coins ive ever gotten 470 i play in tonarments so how do i make coins and start building a silver team how are both done thanks

  7. gianny May 7, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    A very good tip if you get the ball and are just next to the goal. and you see a free man. Pass to him for a instant goal. And take finesse shots when your 1vs1 with the keeper.

  8. bradholroyd May 10, 2013 at 8:33 pm

    If you’re looking for the lowest rated bronze players, or want a guide to lower your Ultimate Team star rating, check out my page:
    http://gameguidefaq.blogspot.ca/2013/05/getting-lowest-possible-star-ratings-in.html

  9. HabibulIslam February 7, 2014 at 10:23 am

    @Eman  yeah, I will

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