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FIFA 23: All Icons in FIFA Ultimate Team

The world's greatest players from yesteryear.

Ricky Frech

Published: Jan 22, 2023 08:52 pm

FIFA Ultimate Team is full of desirable cards everyone wants to add to their squad. However, one type of player stands out from the crowd because they’re one of the few ways EA Sports brings the football players of yesteryear back into the game. Icons in FUT can be supremely powerful if you know how to use them and generally represent some of the strongest players in the game until we get to Team of the Season. Let’s take a look at who all of them are and how they work with the new chemistry system.

Every Icon in FIFA 23

In this year’s FIFA, Icons can have up to four different versions. Just like in the last few years, they all have a Base, Mid, and Prime version. The Base is the lowest-rated version of each Icon and the versions improve from there. In the past, there was a fourth tier called Prime Icon Moments, which was the best version of each Icon in the game. With FIFA 23, EA Sports has replaced Prime Icon Moments with different sets of cards celebrating specific events (for example, World Cup Icons). These new Icons aren’t always the highest-rated version of an Icon but are still sought after in the FIFA community. We aren’t sure if every Icon will get its own special Moments card, but will update this list as more are added.

Player Name	Base	Mid	Prime	Special
Pele	91	95	98	96
Zinedine Zidane	91	94	96	95
Garrincha	90	92	94	93
Ronaldo	90	94	96	95
Eusebio	89	91	93	92
Ferenc Puskas	89	92	94	N/A
Johan Cruyff	89	91	94	92
Lev Yashin	89	91	94	N/A
Marco van Basten	89	91	93	N/A
Roberto Baggio	89	91	93	92

Ronaldinho	89	91	94	N/A
Muller	89	92	94	N/A
Alessandro Nesta	88	90	92	N/A
Andrea Pirlo	88	90	92	93
Eric Cantona	88	90	93	N/A
Franco Baresi	88	91	93	N/A
George Best	88	90	93	N/A
Lothar Mathaus	88	91	93	92
Luis Figo	88	90	92	91
Paolo Maldini	88	92	94	N/A

Xavi Hernandez	88	90	93	N/A
Jairzinho	88	90	92	N/A
Marcus Cafu	88	90	93	92
Alan Shearer	87	89	91	N/A
Alessandro De Piero	87	90	92	N/A
Bastian Schweinsteiger	87	89	91	90
Bobby Moore	87	89	92	91
Carlos Alberto	87	90	93	N/A
David Beckham	87	89	92	94
Dennis Bergkamp	87	90	92	N/A

Didier Drogba	87	89	91	90
Edwin van der Sar	87	89	91	N/A
Emilio Butragueno	87	90	92	91
Fabio Cannavaro	87	89	92	91
Gary Lineker	87	89	92	90
Hristo Stoichkov	87	90	92	91
Hugo Sanchez	87	89	92	93
Ian Rush	87	89	91	N/A
Javier Zanetti	87	88	92	93
Riquelme	87	89	91	N/A

Kenny Daglish	87	90	92	91
Marcel Desailly	87	88	91	N/A
Miroslav Klose	87	89	91	90
Paul Scholes	87	89	91	N/A
Philipp Lahm	87	89	91	N/A
Kaka	87	89	91	N/A
Rivaldo	87	90	92	N/A
Samuel Eto’o	87	90	92	91
Socrates	87	89	91	N/A
Thierry Henry	87	90	93	N/A

Robin van Persie	87	89	91	90
Xabi Alonso	87	89	90	N/A
Iker Casillas	87	89	92	91
Andriy Shevchenko	86	88	91	90
Carles Puyol	86	90	92	91
Christian Vieri	86	88	90	N/A
David Trezeguet	86	89	91	N/A
Fernando Hiero	86	89	91	N/A
Frank Lampard	86	88	90	N/A
Frank Rijkaard	86	88	90	N/A

Gianluca Zambrotta	86	87	89	88
Henrik Larsson	86	87	90	N/A
John Barnes	86	87	89	N/A
Juan Sebastian Veron	86	88	90	N/A
Michael Ballack	86	89	91	N/A
Michael Owen	86	88	91	N/A
Patrick Kluivert	86	88	91	N/A
Patrick Vieira	86	88	91	90
Pavel Nedved	86	89	91	N/A
Peter Schmeichel	86	90	92	N/A

Petr Cech	86	88	91	90
Raul Gonzalez Blanco	86	88	92	N/A
Roberto Carlos	86	88	91	90
Roy Keane	86	88	90	N/A
Ruud Gullit	86	90	93	94
Ruud van Nistelrooy	86	90	92	N/A
Steven Gerrard	86	89	91	N/A
Wayne Rooney	86	88	91	N/A
Ashley Cole	85	87	89	N/A
Clarence Seedorf	85	88	91	N/A

Claude Makelele	85	87	90	N/A
Davor Suker	85	87	90	88
Emmanuel Petit	85	88	90	89
Fernando Torres	85	88	91	N/A
Gennaro Gattuso	85	87	89	N/A
Gheorghe Hagi	85	89	91	90
Gianfranco Zola	85	87	90	N/A
Hernan Crespo	85	87	90	89
Ian Wright	85	87	89	N/A
Jari Litmanen	85	88	90	N/A

Laurent Blanc	85	89	91	90
Luis Hernandez	85	87	90	88
Michael Essien	85	87	90	N/A
Michael Laudrup	85	89	91	90
Nemanja Vidic	85	88	90	91
Rio Ferdinand	85	88	90	N/A
Robert Pires	85	88	91	92
Ronald Koeman	85	88	91	N/A
Rui Costa	85	88	90	N/A
Sol Campbell	85	87	89	N/A

How do Icons work in FIFA 23?

With the changes to chemistry, Icons aren’t as versatile as they were for squad-building. In the past, they linked with every player regardless of league or nationality. Now, they give themselves full chemistry but only provide links to players of their same nation. That makes players like Vidic a little less desirable because there aren’t many Serbian players in the top leagues of world football. That said, they can easily fill a hole in your lineup and provide top-tier stats.

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Ricky Frech

Ricky Frech is the Associate Editor of Gamepur and has been covering pop culture and sports off and on for eight years. His work has also been published on IGN, FanByte, Bleacher Report, DualShockers, Inside Survivor, and several other publications. When he's not neck-deep in sports games, you'll probably find him playing a board game or rewatching a Survivor season for the 20th time.