Time to celebrate the holidays with a new festive promo in FIFA 23 Ultimate Team.
After the conclusion of the World Cup campaign in FUT 23, EA Sports announced the return of one of the most beloved promos in FIFA Ultimate Team, Winter Wildcards. Let’s dive in into the details!
What is Winter Wildcards?
First introduced in FIFA 22, the Winter Wildcards campaign replaces the Christmas themed event FUTMas that players were used to previously. The promo will feature a special selection of players that will “receive a variety of permanent boosts inspired by past, present or potential future FUT Campaign upgrades” as EA mentioned in their latest post. Beside the attributes upgrades, these special cards will also include position changes and Weak Foot and Skill Moves boosts.
Wildcard Swaps Program
Following the announcement of the promo, EA Sports confirmed that the event will include a new Swaps program. Players will be able to earn up to 25 Winter Wildcard Swaps Tokens in-game from now until the program ends on January 6th, 2023. These special tokens can be exchanged for rewards that can help FUT players improve their squads.
EA revealed that Winter Wildcard Swap Tokens can be found in select daily Objectives and Squad Building Challenges. Furthermore, some bonus tokens can be found in the store during the course of the event. Users can claim the first Winter Wildcard Swap Token by simply logging in to their FUT accounts.
It's the most wonderful time of the year: Winter Wildcards Swaps starts now and you can earn your first Winter Wildcard player! Earn up to 25 Winter Wildcard Swaps Tokens in #FIFA23 from now until the program ends on January 6.
Login to #FUT to unlock your first token. pic.twitter.com/6oW13iggIB
— EA SPORTS FC (@EASPORTSFC) December 19, 2022
Rewards are available to be redeemed within the Squad Building Challenges menu until January 13th, and you can obtain the following:
- 2 Tokens – Winter Wildcard Kieron Trippier
- 3 Tokens – 81+ x11 Rare Players Pack
- 5 Tokens – 3x 84+ Player Picks (1 of 4)
- 10 Tokens – 83+ x25 Rare Players Pack
- 10 Tokens – Winter Wildcard Sandro Tonali
- 15 Tokens – 85+ x10 Rare Players Pack
- 15 Tokens – 85+ Winter Wildcards Player Pick (1 of 5)
- 20 Tokens – 3x 83+ x25 Rare Players Packs
You can keep up with every token release by checking this Swaps Token Tracker.
Winter Wildcards Teams
The first team of Winter Wilcards has been released and features the next players:
- CM: Kevin De Bruyne (Man City) – 93 OVR
- CDM: N’Golo Kante (Chelsea) – 91 OVR
- ST: Ousmane Dembele (FC Barcelona) – 87 OVR
- LB: Ferland Mendy (Real Madrid) – 87 OVR
- CAM: Jadon Sancho (Man United) – 90 OVR
- GK: Jack Butland (Crystal Palace) – 89 OVR
- CB: Fikayo Tomori (Milan) – 88 OVR
- RW: Joao Felix (Atletico Madrid) – 89 OVR
- LW: Justin Kluivert (Valencia) – 86 OVR
- LM: Tahith Chong (Birmingham City) – 84 OVR
- CB: Lukas Klostermann (RB Leipzig) – 86 OVR
- RB: Jeremy Toljan (Sassuolo) – 86 OVR
- CAM: Georgio Chiellini (Los Angeles FC) – 87 OVR
- RW: Daniele Verde (Spezia) – 85 OVR
- ST: Alexandre Pato (Orlando City) – 86 OVR
Winter Wildcards Team 1 is coming to town ❄️
Bring festive flair to your Ultimate Team with these permanently boosted Special Player Items ⛄️#FUT #FIFA23 pic.twitter.com/ML9g3d7HuT
— EA SPORTS FC (@EASPORTSFC) December 23, 2022
Team 2 has also been dropped in packs and includes the following football stars:
- CM: Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) – 92 OVR
- CM: Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich) – 91 OVR
- LB: Andrew Robertson (Liverpool) – 89 OVR
- RW: Gabriel Jesus (Arsenal) – 89 OVR
- GK: Vanja Milinkovic-Savic (Torino) – 88 OVR
- CB: Raphael Varane (Manchester United) – 88 OVR
- CB: Kevin-Price Boateng (Hertha Berlin) – 87 OVR
- LW: Allan Saint-Maximin (Newcastle United) – 87 OVR
- CAM: Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen) – 87 OVR
- CB: Wout Weghorst (Besiktas) – 87 OVR
- RB: Jordan Amavi (Getafe) – 87 OVR
- ST: Adama Traore (Wolves) – 86 OVR
- CAM: Brahim Diaz (AC Milan) – 86 OVR
- CM: Marcelino Moreno (Atalanta United) – 85 OVR
- CDM: Garrido (Cadiz) – 84 OVR
New year, new XI? 🤔🎉
Celebrate the time of year even more with Winter Wildcards Team 2 ❄️🙌 Special Player Items that receive a variety of permanent boosts inspired by past, present or potential future Campaigns: https://t.co/zVhWqPOuSf#FUT #FIFA23 pic.twitter.com/3DMgI3saiT
— EA SPORTS FC (@EASPORTSFC) December 30, 2022
FUT 23 Season 3 – Winter Nobility
With the conclusion of Season 2 in FIFA 23 Ultimate Team, EA introduced a host of new content and rewards in Season 3 that will run until February 2nd 2023.
The most noticeable thing about the new season is that for the first time ever, FUT 23 Season 3 will feature NO Storyline Objectives Players. Shocker! Instead, players will find some Player Packs once they reach Level 15 and 30. Here’s the full list of rewards for each Season Level:
- LVL 1 – 1 x 500 Coin Boost for 5 matches
- LVL 2 – 1 x Gold Rare Chemistry Pick / Position Modifier
- LVL 3 – 1 x Small Gold Players Pack
- LVL 4 – 1 x Tifo Pick
- LVL 5 – 1 x 3 Premier League/LaLiga/Ligue 1 Rare Gold Players Pack
- LVL 6 – 1 x Badge Pick
- LVL 7 – 1 x Jumbo Gold 26 Pack
- LVL 8 – 1 x 3 81+ Defenders Players Pack
- LVL 9 – 1 x Gold Players Pack
- LVL 10 – 1 x Stadium Background Pick
- LVL 11 – 1 x Stadium Theme Pick
- LVL 12 – 1 x Jumbo Premium Gold 26 Pack
- LVL 13 – 1 x Draft Token Pack
- LVL 14 – 1 x Ball
- LVL 15 – 1 x 3 81+ Midfielders Players Pack
- LVL 16 – 1 x Tifo Pick
- LVL 17 – 1 x Badge Pick
- LVL 18 – 1 x Ligue 1/Premier League/LaLiga Prime Players Pack
- LVL 19 – 1 x XL Tifo Pick
- LVL 20 – 1 x Stadium Theme Pick
- LVL 21 – 1 x Stadium Theme Pick
- LVL 22 – 1 x Tifo Pick
- LVL 23 – 1 x Mega Pack
- LVL 24 – 1 x Prime Gold Players Pack
- LVL 25 – 1 x 3 81+ Attackers Players Pack
- LVL 26 – 1 x XL Tifo Pick
- LVL 27 – 1 x Jumbo Premium Gold Players Pack
- LVL 28 – 1 x Runestones VIP Area
- LVL 29 – 1 x Rare Players Pack
- LVL 30 – 1 x FUT 23 Position Players Pack
Remember that all these rewards are untradeable.