FIFA 23: How do player positions now work?

Positions have a new reworked system for FIFA 23 Ultimate Team. Here’s everything you need to know about how it works.

FIFA Ultimate Team is a game mode that allows you to build a squad of all your favourite players from around world football and battle it out with players around the globe in various game modes. Since its initial introduction in FIFA 09, it has gone from strength to strength and has implemented many new features over the years, including draft mode, FUT Champions and Division Rivals.

But one thing that has remained a constant throughout the years is the idea of positions for players. Every player receives a position on their base card, and to obtain half-decent chemistry, you must play that player in the correct position.

The only way you could get a player into a new position was through position modifiers or if the player received a particular version with a changed position… until now, with FIFA 23 set to revolutionise how player positions work in the future.

Let’s look at how player positions now work in FIFA 23.

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So, in FIFA 23 Ultimate Team, base cards can have more than one position.

Base Players, such as Bronze, Silver, and Gold, now have a Preferred Position and up to three Alternative Positions. These positions will be set for all Base Player Items when FUT 23 releases.

Kylian Mbappe‘s Preferred Position is ST. Using a Position modifier item will make it possible to change Mbappé’s Preferred Position to one of the listed Alternative Positions. Mbappé could then be slotted into that position in the Starting XI and now be able to gain chemistry. However, he can also play at LW and CF.

Based on the player, this opens up the