FIFA 22: All-time XI of Ultimate Team's most overpowered cards

After over a decade of annual iterations of perhaps the most iconic franchise in all of sports gaming, FIFA Ultimate Team has built up quite the fan base.

Players must amass coins and trade their way up to the strongest team they can build after beginning with a weak starter squad, competing online and offline to build an ‘Ultimate Team’.

Over the years, with the gameplay meta changing constantly and rules and tweaks added into FUT, players have been challenged creatively to find the biggest loopholes. That has resulted in a number of particular in-game footballer cards becoming iconic, as players have found out just how overpowered they are to play with in game, despite not being a household name from the off.

From the ‘Bra-silver’ teams of FIFA 12 and 13, to Serie A sides and hybrid squads in FIFA 13, 14 and beyond, certain footballers have become cultural icons among FIFA players past and present due to how they played within Ultimate Team.

With there being a such a wealth of iconic cards to emerge from the different iterations of Ultimate Team over the years, whittling it down to just one iconic XI has been pretty tough. In truth, you could probably host a mini tournament of different teams of overpowered cards put together.

That means a whole host of key players will unfortunately miss out. In an attempt to cover more ground and add some variety to the XI, we’ve opted against putting together entire trios who worked together. We’ve also ignored chemistry, merely because this is a fantasy XI.

Without further ado, this is what GIVEMESPORT has come up with in celebrating Ultimate Team’s most overpowered cards through the years.

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