I loaded up FIFA 16 last night for a late night blast on FUT but instead of enjoying some ranked games I sat there for almost an hour searching for a match.

Since then I’ve looked around and found that I’m not the only person affected by this, a fair number of others have reported they couldn’t find a game in FUT on FIFA 16 either.

So I thought I’d post the fix. Even if it seems obvious hopefully it’ll relieve someone of hours of frustration (and prevent barrages of expletives being hurled towards EA SPORTS – not that they might not deserve them, just not for this…).

For the record the issue seems to be on Xbox One and that’s the platform this fix is for.

The issue occurs when you turn your Xbox off whilst your still in FUT. Sometimes, when your Xbox wakes up again FUT’s match-making doesn’t.

To fix this restart FIFA 16. Press the Home key on your controller to go back to the dashboard, highlight the FIFA 16 window and press the Menu button on your controller. Go to Quit Game.

Then restart FIFA and search for a match again. You should start finding games again pretty much all of the time.

If that fails clear your cache and completely restart your Xbox. Usually when you turn your Xbox off it just goes into sleep mode. You’ll have noticed that when you turn it back on your games or apps are still running. That’s not going to work in this case. We need a full shut down.

To shut the Xbox One down completely and flush the cache at the same time hold the power button for 10 seconds until your Xbox turns off. When you boot it up again you’ll notice that it takes a lot longer than usual because it’s starting everything again from scratch.

This should have flushed out anything in your Xbox’s memory that’s preventing you from finding a game.

Go back into FUT and try searching for a match again and this time you should have no problems.

Have you had trouble finding games in FUT 16? Did these fixes work for you? Let me know in the comments.

12 Comments
  1. tipsandtricksfor.com March 22, 2016 at 6:52 pm

    Thanks for the info. I’m definitely trying this one when the EA servers are down again.

  2. Zac May 9, 2016 at 7:09 pm

    Still not working for me and hasn’t been for 4 days my wifi is fine because my brother has been finding games but I haven’t ?

  3. carl manly May 30, 2016 at 1:15 pm

    thanks been having this porblem for weeks waiting for other players and this worked a treat

  4. Ty June 2, 2016 at 3:56 am

    Thanks really helpful, haven’t been able to get on for weeks!

  5. Thom ksor June 10, 2016 at 3:58 pm

    ?

  6. Noah July 3, 2016 at 10:38 pm

    Great solution! Worked like a charm for me! Thank you so much! I had so much trouble connecting before this that I actually had to resort to using single player!

  7. John July 7, 2016 at 8:57 pm

    I’m so glad this worked I never thought anything would help

  8. Lawrence July 10, 2016 at 7:47 pm

    Worked a treat, thx dude

  9. oliver August 8, 2016 at 3:47 am

    Worked

  10. Jord August 16, 2016 at 1:30 pm

    This didn’t work for me – I’m unable to find a game on FUT, Seasons and Clubs for 4 days so far. Tried Restarting, resetting MAC, Re-loading game, clearing Blue-Ray Storage…NOTHING!! HELP!!!

  11. john slong September 12, 2016 at 6:08 am

    didnt work me

  12. fish October 9, 2016 at 4:57 pm

    cheers brother

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