FIFA 18 tips: Best possible teams in FUT 18 - Icons, Brazil, England, Germany, Argentina, Spain, more
Constructing the best FUT team is not simply a case of picking out FIFA 18’s top players and hoping for the best.
There’s the formation to think about, as well as the all-important, and increasingly complex, chemistry system. If you don’t know what we’re talking about, then make sure you’ve read our FUT 18 chemistry guide before going any further.
What we’ve got below is a handy list of some team ideas to act as inspiration to get you started on the path to developing your own way of putting together a working set of players.
Here we’ve focused on grouping players of the same nationality together, concentrating our efforts on ten of the top contenders for the FIFA World Cup of 2018 in Russia.
If you’d like to see some ideas regarding teams constructed using individual leagues, we've mapped out the best Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A and La Liga teams.
Before we begin, and to make sure we’re all on the same page, here’s a key that details the positions and labels that we’ll be using across the extent of our FUT teams.
Follow this page all the way to its conclusion and you’ll find some bonus FUT lineup ideas that are a little more leftfield and, for most, more difficult to construct.
Key:
GK: Goalkeeper
Defensive positions
RB: Right back
LB: Left back
RWB: Right wing back
LWB: Left wing back
CB: Centre back
Midfield positions
RM: Right midfielder
LM: Left midfielder
CM: Central midfielder
CDM: Central defensive midfielder
CAM: Central attacking midfielder
Attacking positions
RF: Right forward
LF: Left forward
CF: Centre forward
RW: Right wing forward
LW: Left wing forward
ST: Striker
Without further ado, here are our choices regarding the best teams you can put together for ten of next year’s World Cup contenders.
Yes, we know we’ve included England as a World Cup ‘contender’…
Best FUT 18 England Team
Rating: 83
Chemistry: 100
Formation: 4-4-2
GK: Hart
LB: Rose
CB: Cahill
CB: Keane
RB: Walker
LM: Lallana
CM: Dele Alli
CM: Henderson
RM: Sterling
ST: Kane
ST: Sturridge
Best FUT 18 Germany Team
Rating: 87
Chemistry: 99
Formation: 4-3-3 (4)
GK: Neuer
LB: Schmelzer
CB: Hummels
CB: Boateng
RB: Kimmich
CM: Gundogan
CM: Kroos
CAM: Ozil
LW: Reus
ST: Muller
RW: Draxler
Best FUT 18 Brazilian Team
Rating: 86
Chemistry: 100
Formation: 4-3-3 (2)
GK: Ederson
LB: Marcelo
CB: Silva
CB: David Luiz
RB: Dani Alves
CDM: Casemiro
CM: Paulinho
CM: Rafinha
LW: Neymar
ST: Firmino
RW: Willian
Best FUT 18 Spain Team
Rating: 87
Chemistry: 100
Formation: 4-1-2-1-2 (2)
GK: De Gea
LB: Alba
CB: Ramos
CB: Pique
RB: Carvajal
CDM: Busquets
CM: David Silva
CM: Thiago
CAM: Isco
ST: Morata
ST: Diego Costa
Best FUT 18 French Team
Rating: 86
Chemistry: 100
Formation: 3-5-3
GK: Lloris
CB: Varane
CB: Koscielny
CB: Laporte
CDM: Matuidi
CDM: Kante
LM: Ribery
RM: Dembele
ST: Griezmann
ST: Benzema
Best FUT 18 Argentina Team
Rating: 86
Chemistry: 100
Formation: 3-4-1-2
GK: Rulli
CB: Garay
CB: Otamendi
CB: Mascherano
CM: Perez
CM: Pastore
LM: Gaitan
RM: Di Maria
CAM: Dybala
ST: Messi
ST: Higuain
Best FUT 18 Belgium Team
Rating: 87
Chemistry: 100
Formation: 3-4-1-2
GK: Courtois
CB: Vertonghen
CB: Alderweireld
CB: Kompany
LM: Hazard
CM: Dembele
CM: Nainggolan
RM: Carrasco
CAM: De Bruyne
ST: Lukaku
ST: Mertens
Best FUT 18 Italy Team
Rating: 86
Chemistry: 100
Formation: 4-5-1 (1)
GK: Buffon
LB: Criscito
CB: Bonucci
CB: Chiellini
RB: Florenzi
LM: Insigne
CM: Marchisio
CM: De Rossi
CM: Verratti
RM: Bernardeschi
ST: Belotti
Best FUT 18 Portugal Team
Rating: 83
Chemistry: 100
Formation: 4-3-3 (3)
GK: Patricio
LB: Eliseu
CB: Fonte
CB: Pepe
RB: Semedo
CDM: Carvalho
CDM: Pereira
CM: Adrien Silva
LW: Ronaldo
ST: Andre Silva
RW: Bernardo Silva
Best FUT 18 Uruguay Team
Rating: 82
Chemistry: 100
Formation: 4-4-2
GK: Muslera
LB: Ricca
CB: Gimenez
CB: Godin
RB: Pereira
LM: Laxalt
CM: Vecino
CM: Sanchez
RM: Lodeiro
ST: Suarez
ST: Cavani
Best FUT 18 Icons Team
FIFA 18’s FUT includes a number of ‘Icons’ cards that allow you to select and play greats from the history of football. All Icons card enjoy maximum chemistry ratings with other Icons, so there’s no need to worry about matching them up by nationality or which teams they’ve played for in the past.
Those maximum chemistry bonuses means that you can get away with playing a couple of players out of position and still enjoy the benefits of a 100 chemistry rating. In the following lineup, for instance, Pele is listed as a CAM when his card lists him as a CF. We can’t have a team without Pele, though….
Rating: 92
Chemistry: 100
Formation: 4-2-2-2
GK: Lev Yashin
LB: Roberto Carlos
CB: Paolo Maldini
CB: Alessandro Nesta
RB: Javier Zanetti
CDM: Ruud Gullit
CDM: Lothar Matthaus
CAM: Pele
CAM: Diego Maradona
ST: Ronaldo
ST Marco Van Basten
Best FUT 18 Team with 100 chemistry
Obtaining players card is no problem for you? If so, then you might want to look at putting together the very best team possible using current players and enjoying a 100 chemistry rating.
Here’s what we’ve come up with in this regard…
Rating: 90
Chemistry: 100
Formation: 4-3-3
GK: Neuer
LB: Marcelo
CB: Ramos
CB: Boateng
RB: Kimmich
CM: Modic
CM: Kroos
CM: Thiago
LW: Ronaldo
ST: Suarez
RW: Messi