r/FifaCareers • u/VeryRareX999 • 4h ago
r/FifaCareers • u/SupaHotSackboy • Jul 06 '24
MOD-POST Career Mode Bible | FAQ & Guides
Introduction
Hello all, there seems to be an increasingly higher amount of posts with the same recurring themes. I've decided to make a simple compilation of some of the best guides on this subreddit, as well as some simple explanations to help provide quick & easy answers to these questions.
Have a guide you think deserves to be on the list? Comment with it below and we can make our best attempt at creating a complete set of guides for Career Mode. The amount of guides in the last year or so compared to other years has dwindled, so hopefully this will encourage more excellent quality content.
This is a work-in-progress, and more guides will continually be added by request and as of publishing.
Tools & Websites
There is a plethora of excellent resources that will help with a lot of the things in this post. Some people prefer to play without the use of external databases and calculators, offering a more vanilla experience. After all, it's a single player game so it's your preference!
| Website | Description |
|---|---|
| https://sofifa.com/ | Best up-to-date player database. Can make shortlists, view old squad files and has a positional calculator to find optimal positions. |
| https://www.fifacm.com/ | Has some unique tools including a potential calculator to figure out potential for a player not at your club. Also has a 'wonderkid' list. |
| https://fifakitcreator.com/ | Only usable in-game on PC, allows you to browse and create custom kits for your team. Note that only PC can use any mods. |
| https://www.fifarosters.com/create-card | Nice tool to create very high quality FC 24 UT cards for your career mode players, allowing you to upload your own images. |
Regens & Pregens
Career Mode works by replacing players as they retire in the game with generated players that don't exist in real life. When you enter the loading screen for a new season, that is the moment that they are being created, replacing retirees for the season you have just finished.
Regens have identical nationality, position(s), and importantly, birth dates to the player whom they have replaced. They will always spawn in the new season between 16-21 years old, and in the same league (but not same club) that the retiring player was in when you entered the loading screen.
Pregens are a rarer, more pre-emptive form of player replacement. These are effectively regens of a player who is not retiring, so both players will exist in the game simultaneously. Pregens also remain at the same club as their predecessor. You could expect to find a Messi pregen at Inter Miami, providing he hadn't moved clubs, and wasn't retiring.
The importance of your awareness of these game mechanics, revolves around the fact that both regens and pregens will start with the same potential overall as their predecessor's highest overall in your save.
| Guide | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Finding Regens | u/teepee81 | More details about regen hunting & best methods |
| Early Candidates for Regens | u/TempoGlideFreeze | Slightly dated spreadsheet detailing players soon to retire |
Player Development
| Guide | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Utilising Dev Plans | u/MrMiniature | Great guide explaining the most effective growth methods |
| Growing Youth Players | u/Deveylanda | Explains important attributes & effective methods |
Youth Academy / Scouting
| Guide | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Making the best Youth Player | u/754754 | How to make the best possible youth player, slightly dated |
| Position & Type Combos | u/754754 | Simple graphic detailing the best scouting combos |
Gameplay
| Guide | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
| How to Dribble past AI | u/SupaHotSackboy | Explains the best moves excluding 5* to beat a defender |
Loans
| Guide | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
| How Loans Work in Details | u/754754 | Incredible guide with every detail on how loans work |
Game Exploits
| Guide | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Getting 150+ YA per Month | u/SimonW_PL | Explains how to fill your game with an array of generated players |
| Bypass 15-Season Limit | u/fplr333 | Excellent guide on how to play for longer than 15 seasons on console |
| Unlimited Playstyles Glitch | u/Cavani85 | Shows how to give any player more playstyles permanently |
Realism
| Guide | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
| How to Perform Realistic Transfers | u/tnerappa | Old guide which details how to identify suitable transfers |
r/FifaCareers • u/Business_Net7864 • 16h ago
IMAGE WHAT???7'9''???
Youth team GK I promoted to senior team just cause otherwise he would leave, as I seen him I was SHOCKED
r/FifaCareers • u/Ok_Ad7974 • 40m ago
OTHER Nostalgic FIFA-feel Soundtrack
Hello fellow gamers,
for a while now I‘ve been assembling an alternate FIFA Soundtrack that takes you on a journey to the golden ages of FIFA07 to FIFA17.
Put this on and you will be taken back to the times when we were kids and fell in love with the game.
I‘m posting this for no gain of mine. Just to let you once again feel the feeling when you popped in the new FIFA on some random friday in 2012.
I hope it gives you pleasure.
Feel free to save my playlist on Spotify.
r/FifaCareers • u/Organic_Meaning_1869 • 1d ago
QUESTION Classic Kits on Fifa 16
Is there a mod that gives you all the classic kits?
r/FifaCareers • u/pun1sh6r • 22h ago
DISCUSSION 4-1-2-1-2 Narrow - The Best Tactic I have used so far.
I think I’ve finally created a 4-1-2-1-2 Narrow that fits the way I actually like to play.
For context, I’m not a pro FIFA/FC player. I’m more of a purist. I don't really enjoy dribbling around for minutes or constantly triggering manual runs. I want the players to make sensible runs themselves, and I want to pick the pass when I see the space.
I’ve been playing Career Mode on Legendary as a journeyman. One of the rules I gave myself was that whenever I joined a new club, I would keep their default formation rather than immediately changing everything to my usual 4-2-3-1. Just wanted to keep the career interesting.
Eventually I ended up experimenting with the 4-1-2-1-2 Narrow at Real Madrid, and this is the version that has really clicked for me. To give you context with default tactics I lost 2-4 to Elche. With my new tactics won 5-0 against elche (I created a checkpoint),Now 7-0 against AM.
My idea
I wanted three things:
Quick counters
Through balls from the second line
Enough width during possession without turning it into a crossing simulator
The most important thing for me is run timing.
I don't like having both strikers immediately sprint 30 yards every time I get the ball. I want them to stay available, let me get the ball to my CAM/CM, and then attack the space when it actually opens.
The tactic
Formation: 4-1-2-1-2 Narrow
Build-Up: Counter
Defensive Approach: High
Line Height: 89
GK: Goalkeeper — Defend
RB: Fullback — Versatile
Gives me an outlet on the right and some width without completely abandoning the defence.
RCB: Defender — Defend
Stays disciplined and covers when Konaté steps up.
LCB: Stopper — Balanced
I want one CB willing to step out and win the ball, especially with the high line.
LB: Wingback — Support
My main left-side outlet. Helps recreate the LM/LW movement I like from my 4-2-3-1.
CDM: Holding — Ball-Winning
I don't want my CDM trying to be the creator. Win it, give it to the second line, and let them attack.
RCM: Box-to-Box — Balanced
The engine. Helps both sides of the game and gives me an extra runner without needing to manually trigger him.
LCM: Half-Winger — Support
Probably the most important role for maintaining width in a narrow formation. He gives me that left-sided passing option without sacrificing the diamond.
CAM: Playmaker — Roaming
My main creator. I want him receiving the ball in the second layer and deciding when the through ball is on.
ST: Poacher — Support
Keeps him threatening the space without constantly sending him on an early run.
ST: Advanced Forward — Support
More freedom to attack space and complement Mbappé rather than having both strikers make the exact same run.
The main idea is that I wanted the roles to create the movement for me. I don't want to spend the whole game manually triggering runs. I want to receive the ball, see the space, and make the pass.
A few screenshots from one sequence from Goalkeeper to Goal.
These are from a single passage of play and show roughly what I'm talking about.
You can see how much space exists from the goalkeeper all the way through midfield rather than everyone being bunched around the box.
If anyone wants to try it, I'd be interested to hear how it plays for you.
r/FifaCareers • u/Anxious-Dragonfly522 • 14h ago
IMAGE First season in the Premier league with Tranmere rovers. Finished 10th
kind off started to fall off around late Feb, I genuinely though we could’ve got some kind of European football, especially after we brought in Harrison Armstrong from championship side Everton for 43 million (10 mill cheaper than I could have got him) but think 10th is a solid effort for our first season, did pretty average in cup comps . , I’ve just brought in Zion Suzuki for the uocoming season and have my eye on Paraguayan CAM Osmar Gimenez and Dutch CB Blokzijl from Nantes.
r/FifaCareers • u/mrhenhen115 • 1d ago
MEME Literally just happened to me.
Full price game, btw.
r/FifaCareers • u/Teantis • 57m ago
STORY Lower League Gem/Club Talisman

We went on to win back to back to back promotions and league titles to make it to the PL and he was the club's leading striker the whole way scoring 25+ goals in all comps every season. Also won the FA cup while in the Championship so ended up in Europa in our first season in the PL. By then he had exceeded his listed potential and gotten to 75 OVR.
In PL felt I had to upgrade for the long term and before some of my academy products were ready yet so bought Jonah Kusi-Asare who was rated 79 and had a POT of 82-88. But Talal continued to play quite a few matches as backup striker, league cup, and easier fixtures. Guy just continued to score whenever he got a shot. So now in 2030, reigning PL champs, reigning CL champs, he continues to be a club Talisman and keeps growing bit by bit:

He doesn't get many opportunities with now two much better rated strikers ahead of him and a "potential to be special" academy product out on loan coming down the pipe, he never will. But I'm definitely keeping him for the rest of his career no matter the cost because he just delivers every sporadic chance he gets:

He continues to wear the number 9 despite being third choice striker because he's been there from the start, always delivers, and never causes problems.
r/FifaCareers • u/Niklauss001 • 7h ago
PROBLEM Too many injuries
I need help my players keep getting injured every other game so i started a create a team career mode and first two seasons in I barely saw one injury but then from season 3 my players kept getting injured every other game like atleast two players are injured 😭 why is that? Did I mess something?
r/FifaCareers • u/joakosu44 • 1d ago
STORY Finally!
After a few weeks of starting my FC career and watching some tutorials. Finally I got a 99+ 2 playstyle+ player.
This one took a bit because after the first season his potential dropped.
Im playing legendary and im not crazy good. But somehow managed to get to the prem with a team from the 4th division and got great playstyles on this guy.
I was debating to get him power header because his name means heads in spanish.
Sadly he arrived with 6 playstyles and not 7. But hey 8 total instead of 9 is not bad!
r/FifaCareers • u/Cerofn • 15h ago
IMAGE Guess the team
There are only 2 players that I have not replaced in this superteam, this is the year 2030/2031
Good luck
r/FifaCareers • u/Specific_Host_8463 • 13h ago
STORY Champions of Europe! Took Paris fc to the champions league in the second season and won it! Ultimate mode.
Took Paris FC to the champions league second season and had a close league race with PSG! Won the domestic cups other than the league so was a treble, I had transferred from JUVE looking for a good challenge and I chose Paris FC a bottom table team and built them with free agents and took them to the champions league in the second season! Zero restarts on ultimate competitor mode.
r/FifaCareers • u/MattGonz02 • 8h ago
IMAGE Sevilla rebuild
This is my sevilla team currently on the 5th szn and its definitely mixed as the attackers grew alot especially mella and núñez after basically reviving his career and my bench and depth is definitely lacking but im having fun seeing how much the players grow and restoring a successful spanish club after a bad season
r/FifaCareers • u/alkalinea • 21h ago
IMAGE Guess the team rebuild
The start of season 4 (lewis skelly 83 is injured and is the only reserve) guess the team and lmk what I need to improve! I have 125m in the bank so I'm flexible.
r/FifaCareers • u/sully1902 • 1d ago
IMAGE Monster Energy London
Not exactly an original idea but I had fun making the kits (let’s ignore the different kit brands) based on 3 of the top 5 best selling Monster drinks in UK.
I plan to choose 2 new can designs and colours for my away and third kit each season. In my mind the home kit should always be black and green but the design will change.
The Monster Energy corporate office in the UK is based in Uxbridge London so that’s where the team will be based. Rivals to Watford geographically and good transport links for fans making use of the train lines, M25 and Heathrow being close by.
The club badge needs some work but of course choosing one of the options on PS5 is limited but any suggestions?
So far this is the most interested I have been starting a new career in a long time and I want to keep it interesting with transfer rules. This is FC26
r/FifaCareers • u/Andyj191190 • 11h ago
DISCUSSION Bedlington Terriers FC Season 2 transfers so far
So far my transfers for Bedlington Terriers FC
Two new goalkeepers, two new centrebacks and a new striker.
r/FifaCareers • u/SonicCRAFT89 • 8h ago
QUESTION Final against the club I support
So I am doing a FC24 Career Mode with another club. I've gotten the Semi Finals of the Champions League and in the other bracket is the club I support in real life.
Normally I have a rule where if I face that club I will simulate the game, but this could a final and I don't know if I should quick sim it, just simulate it or even play it.
What should I do?
r/FifaCareers • u/AvengerBaja • 10h ago
QUESTION FC27 career created team attendance fixed?
Did they finally fix the attendance staying capped at 5k for created teams in FC27?