FIFA History: The Best FUT Birthday Cards Ever!

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Celebrate good times, c'mon...

Marco Kilian

FIFA - March 12th 2022, 18:00 GMT+1

FUT Birthday FIFA 17 — FUT Birthday – FIFA 17

The year in which the FUT Birthday event debuted! At that time the upgrades were really "soft" compared to FIFA 22 standards, but with Sturridge, Torres and Nani you at least had some really cool players. | © EA Sports / EarlyGame

FUT Birthday FIFA 18 — FUT Birthday – FIFA 18

In terms of stats, FUT Birthday in FIFA 18 was a big upgrade to the previous year. **With Ronaldo, Rooney and, at the time, Hazard,** you also had three legends of the game in the team. Also, the design... the cards look and feel old-school, but there's definetly something about them... | © EA Sports / EarlyGame

FUT Birthday FIFA 19 — FUT Birthday – FIFA 19

Ramos as a striker, Lukaku (the machine) as a central defender and Sane as CAM... position changes in FIFA are always sick and lead to many new possibilities for team building. | © EA Sports / EarlyGame

FUT Birthday FIFA 20 — FUT Birthday – FIFA 20

Mbappé still gives us headaches and nightmares... what a card he had!

Don't forget Pogba, though, as he was one of the **most used meta-cards** at that time and Kai Havertz (still at Bayer 04 Leverkusen) was also a decent choice. | © EA Sports / EarlyGame

FUT Birthday FIFA 21 — FUT Birthday – FIFA 21

**Card design? 10/10.** The Upgrades though? Sigh... Compared to the other years, more like a 6/10. A 92-rated Sterling was already the FUT Birthday player with the highest rating in FIFA 21. Of course, there's also Arturo Vidal, who was a bully in midfield and – with every single one of his stats above 80 – an honorary member of the Gullit club. | © EA Sports / EarlyGame

FUT Birthday FIFA 22 — FUT Birthday – FIFA 22

Well folks, here we are: FIFA 22. This year's FUT Birthday has actually surprised us a little, because there wasn't much talk about Cristiano Ronaldo in the leaks. We really appreciate the WF and Skill Moves Upgrades as well! | © EA Sports / EarlyGame

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We've been playing FIFA Ultimate Team for a whopping 13 years now, and we loved (or hated) every second of it.... damn, we are getting old. The fact that the popular mode has been around for such a long time must be celebrated properly – that's why EA Sports has been throwing a FUT Birthday Party for a couple of years now!

During this promo we usually get some amount of strong cards for our team... sometimes a few players more, sometimes a few players less. So for Ultimate Team's 13th birthday, let's get a little nostalgic and take a look at the best FUT Birthday cards of all time. Let's go!

By the way, we have a whole series of other galleries on FIFA: