Mid Icon Player Pick in FIFA 22 – All Players & Is It Worth It?

We got another SBC in FIFA 22 for Ultimate Team: You can earn repeatable mid icon player picks. Which players are in the SBC and is it worth it? How much does it cost?

Mid Icon Player Pick
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The FIFA 22 content is often about the icons these days. Icon Swaps 2 is here, and the Icon Moments are just around the corner as well. So it just makes sense that EA releases an SBC based on the legends. In this article, we give you all important information about the Mid Icon Player Pick SBC in FIFA 22.By the way, we already did something similar for the guaranteed Mid Icon Upgrade Challenge some time ago. So... let's take a look at how much the SBC costs and which players would be worth it!

Mid Icon Player Pick SBC Summary

You have exactly one week (until March 1, 2022) to complete the challenge... or not. You have to hand in four teams in total, after each step, a pack is waiting for you. Here is a small overview:

TeamsPrice RangeRewards
85-rated Squad95K-98KRare Mixed Players Pack
85-rated Squad97K-100KPrime Electrum Players Pack
87-rated Squad215K-223KPremium Gold Players Pack
87-rated Squad215K-223KRare Electrum Players Pack
Completed Challenge625K-646KMid Icon Player Pick

What the...? Tell me, did EA really think this one through? No matter what Kendrick says, money trees aren't a real thing and that applies to FUT Coins as well. Also, not all of us can earn money by playing FIFA. But all jokes aside, the price seems completely unjustified, especially after Neymar recently crashed the transfer market again...

Is The Mid Icon Player Pick SBC in FIFA 22 Worth It?

If we think in terms of economics, and especially keeping our coins in mind, probably not, no. The Mid Icon Player Pick SBC is pretty expensive and many of the icons are below market value... but more on that in a moment.

Pro Mid Icon PPCon Mid Icon PP
  • Highroll potential
  • too expensive
  • only Mids, no Primes
  • Icons aren't worth that much

Mid Icon Player Pick SBC – You Can Make A Profit With These Players

Okay, this is the most important info we can give you – after all, you don't do the SBC for the packs, you do it for the Player Pick. If you look at the extremely long list of icons in FIFA 22 – 105 of them, to be exact – you quickly realize that many of the icons cost significantly less than the SBC. Thank you, transfer market crash! Well, here we've listed all the legends you'd still make a profit on:

ICONNATIONRATINGPrice
Ronaldo (R9)Brazil945,31 million
PeléBrazil953,86 million
Ruud GullitNetherlands903,16 million
Johan CruyffNetherlands912,7 million
RonaldinhoBrazil912,2 million
EusébioPortugal912 million
Patrick VieiraFrance881,65 million
Zinedine ZidaneFrance941,57 million
Diego MaradonaArgentina951,52 million
Lothar MatthäusGermany911,31 million
Paolo MaldiniItaly92965K
GarrinchaBrazil92925K
Ferenc PuskásHungary92905K
Samuel Eto'oCameroon90800K
Philipp LahmGermany89779K
Roberto CarlosBrazil88710K
George Best

England

90694K

17 out of 105, that's a bit more than 16% and therefore not a really good rate. We're also wondering why EA didn't publish the Player Pick SBC as a Mid and Prime Icon Challenge.

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Faris Delalic

Faris has been obsessed with gaming since his childhood and is now the Gaming lead at EarlyGame. He is a self-described FromSoftware shill, but also loves games like Tears of the Kingdom, Baldur's Gate 3 and Resident Evil 4....