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Ultimate Team is a game mode in the Electronic Arts FIFA (video game series) that was first introduced in FIFA 09. Fifa Ultimate Team allows gamers to create a fantasy team made up of players from football leagues all around the world by either buying them with virtual coins in the FUT Transfer Market or acquiring them through FIFA packs which can be bought in the Ultimate Team store. Users have the option of playing online game modes or offline game modes within Ultimate Team such as Seasons, Tournaments and FUT draft, while other game modes such as FUT champions and Online Friendlies are exclusive to online play.

Seasons
"Seasons" is a game mode within ultimate team that can be played online and offline. There are 10 divisions in Seasons and the end goal for gamers is to move up the 10 divisions and win the division 1 title. Each season has 10 games and the way to move up the divisions is to play games and get enough points from the games in order to meet the promotion requirements of that division. The amount of points needed to advance, hold or get relegated varies depending on your current division but the points you get from the games stays the same. A win earns you 3 points, a draw earns you 1 point while losing a game gives you no points at all.

FUT Draft
FUT Draft is one of the most popular tournaments in Ultimate Team because it makes the highest rated and most expensive players available to everyone. To start a FUT Draft you must pay an entry fee of 15,000 coins or 300 FIFA points. For every position, 5 players randomly pop up for you to choose from and you can use this team to in up to four matches which is how many games you need to win in order to win the tournament. Every round of the tournament rewards players with packs as prizes, so even if you don't win the first game, you are still given a prize.

Player Cards
Player cards in Ultimate Team are placed into three categories (bronze, silver or gold) depending on their overall in game rating. Players cards with a rating from 0-64 are considered bronze, a rating of 65-74 places you within the silver category and a rating of 75-99 gives the player a gold card. These Three categories are broken up into subcategories as EA releases special cards throughout the year. These cards can be but are not limited to Team of the Week In Form cards, Team of the Season Cards and Team of the Year cards.

Team of the Year
Team of the Year or "TOTY" items are only available for a limited time and by chance when opening FIFA Ultimate Team Packs. Every year at the FIFA Ballon d’Or ceremony in Zurich, FIFA and FIFPro reveals the World XI, honoring the best goalkeeper, defenders, midfielders and forwards from the past year of world football. To celebrate their accomplishments, the EA FIFA (video game series) releases special blue In-Form Player Items in FIFA Ultimate Team.

Team of the Week
Every week EA releases Team of the Week In Form cards for the best performing player throughout the week in real life games. Their card stats are boosted, and these cards are normally black and gold colored.

Team of the Season
Similar to Team of The Week, The Team of The Season cards are awarded to the best players in each professional league throughout the season.

Evolution of FUT
FIFA 09: FIFA Ultimate Team was created and introduced as a $10 Downloadable Content expansion to the game for both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 consoles. Users Could match up against one another and play Online and offline matches as well as buy and sell players on the ultimate team transfer market with the establishment of virtual a currency and economy.

FIFA 10: Ultimate team downloadable content reduced from $10 to $5 and the first Team of The Week In Form Players were introduced as well as the FIFA Ultimate Team Web App. The FUT web app is a website that allows you to access your Ultimate Team by simply logging in to your Origin (digital distribution software) account. The web app tool allows users to make as many changes as they want to their ultimate team like buying/selling players, applying consumables to players ad changing club items. It should be noted that although users can view and make changes to their ultimate team through the web app, they cannot actually go into online or offline matches through the web app.

FIFA 11: Ultimate Team dlc is free and new added storage for Ultimate Team items, so you can organize your players and club items.

FIFA 12: FIFA 12 was the first FIFA video game that allowed PC gamers to play Ultimate Team, it was also the first FIFA to have Ultimate Team come by default on the disc.

FIFA 13: FIFA 13 was the first Fifa to have the seasons game mode, as well as the introduction of FIFA points which are points that you buy with real money in order to open Ultimate Team packs without the need for coins.

FIFA 14: FIFA 14 Adds Legend Cards to the game as well as squad customization (names, numbers, player roles) and chemistry styles which add boosts to player stats.

[FIFA 15]]: FIFA 15 introduced concept squads for the first time. Concept Squads is a squad planning tool that allows you to plan future squads using the entire FUT player catalogue. You cannot play with a concept squad as they are just there to help you visualize your team.

FIFA 16: FUT Draft is added to Ultimate Team

Transfer Market
The transfer market is where you go to buy anything for your ultimate team. In the transfer market you can find any and all players from the FUT catalogue, as well as contracts, healing cards for when a player is injured, fitness cards for when a player is tired, position changing, managers, manager leagues, kits, stadiums, balls and chemistry styles.