FIFA 22 FUT Captains And Hero Upgrades: Team 2 & Mini Release Live

FUT Fantasy brought some nice cards to FIFA 22 and the Showdown series provided us with SBCs. Will FUT Captains be the next big event for Ultimate Team?

The "professional" leaker FUTSheriff had repeatedly announced that we would see the FUT Captains promo soon. Now we finally know that the FUTSheriff is always right – the FUT Captains promo just released for FIFA 22!

What Are FUT Captains in FIFA 22?

The Captains bring improvements for the heroes as well as a new promo team. Heroes were the biggest change and lineup of new cards when FIFA 22 released. A total of 19 heroes from different leagues were brought into the game as special cards. The best thing about it? Bundesliga-Hero Mario Gomez, for example, has a green link with all other Bundesliga players.

In this, the Heroes differ, for example, from the popular icons, which automatically have a normal link to each player. With the Heroes, completely new possibilities for team building were opened up – and having more options is always nice! Unfortunately, though, the Heroes have dropped off in strength over the course of the FIFA year... the FUT Captains promo aims to change that and make some of the Heroes playable again!

When Is The FUT Captains Release Date?

The promo started on Friday, April 8th. As always, the players were released at 5pm UTC.

How Will The Upgrades For FUT Heroes And Captains Work?

The FUT Captains event features one-time upgrades for Hero cards and Teams of new FUT Captains. Unlike Headliners or OTW players, they are not dynamic and will not be upgraded on an ongoing basis.Furthermore, they are also supposed to be released for a limited time only, so after the promo, they disappear from the packs again and only the previous Heroes can be drawn. If that's true, that wouldn't be that great, really. Would be cooler to be able to pull the stronger versions of the heroes permanently as rewards. Come on, EA, throw us a bone here...

FUT Heroes And Captains Card Design

To be honest, there were definitely more beautiful card design in the course of FIFA 22. The C in the background stands for Captain – but EA could have easily come up with fancier cards with a captain's armband or something. Just saying...

Which FUT Heroes Are Worth Getting?

While they were quite hyped by the community in the beginning, it quickly became apparent that many of the FUT Heroes have no long-term place in the best teams. The reasons? There are several:

1. Some heroes (like Al Jaber) are held back by their league, making links difficult
2. Some Heroes have terrible Stats
3. After the transfer market crashed, there were cheaper and better alternatives

In the end, there were only a handful of Heroes left to get really excited about in FIFA 22. David Ginola is probably by far the best Hero in Ultimate Team. His price was over 800K Coins for a long time. Besides that you can only find Abedi Pelé, Antonio Di Natale or Iván Córdoba in some teams – the rest is almost never played and doesn't cost anything anymore. Will this change with the upgrades?

FIFA 22 – All FUT Hero Upgrades

We made the effort and collected all Heroes in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team for you – and – we will upgrade their ratings when the FUT Captains are live.

FIFA 22 FUT Captains: All Players

In addition to the Hero upgrades, we also get new players in the FUT Captains promo. Here you can find all FUT Captains in FIFA 22.

The event will continue until April 22. FUT Captains are fitting nicely in the FUT calendar. After all, that's when the Team of the Season is about to begin – which is already confirmed. But we wouldn't be EarlyGame if we didn't provide you with FIFA 22 TOTS predictions already.