Manage your College Ultimate Team™ lineup

Overview

Learn how to manage your roster in Ultimate Team™, replace and move players, improve your team, and prepare for game day. You can also create multiple lineups, adjust chemistry, abilities, and strategy items, and automatically generate your best available lineup.

How to manage a Lineup

Getting an "Invalid Lineup" message? This happens when your lineup is missing one or more required positions. To solve this, go back to Lineup, fill any empty required positions, then try again. You can also use Generate Best Lineup to quickly fill empty lineup positions.

Your lineup is made up of offense, defense, specialists, Strat items, and playbooks & visuals. Use the lineup screen to manage players, adjust your depth chart, and customize how your team performs. From the lineup selection screen, you can:

create a new lineup
select which lineup is active
rename saved lineups
delete lineups you no longer need.

How to create a Lineup

Red box highlights the ‘Create New’ menu option in Lineup

You can create a lineup from the lineup selection screen.

1
Open Lineup.
2
Select Change Active Lineup.
3
Select Create New Lineup.
4
Choose whether to create a new lineup or copy an existing lineup.
New (empty) to start a lineup from scratch
Copy active lineup to use one of your saved lineups as a starting point.
5
Enter a name for your lineup and save it.

Create multiple lineups to test different team builds, strategies, and player combinations.

Save alternative lineups for events with specific lineup requirements. You can easily switch between your standard lineup and your event lineup for limited time events.

How to change players in a Lineup

You can use the lineup screen to substitute players, compare players, and move players to eligible positions in your lineup.

Ultimate Team™ Team Manager screen showing lineup management options, player cards, and the current offensive lineup.

You can substitute a player from the lineup screen.

1
From the College Ultimate Team™ hub, select Lineup
2
Highlight the position you want to update.
3
Select the player currently assigned to that position.
4
Choose Substitute this position
5
Select an eligible player from your collection and add them to your lineup.

You can compare eligible players before making a substitution to help decide which player is the best fit for your team.

1
From the College Ultimate Team™ hub, select Lineup.
2
Highlight the position you want to update.
3
Select the player currently assigned to that position.
4
Highlight another eligible player.
5
Compare their attributes before making a substitution.

You can move players to eligible positions or different spots in the depth chart directly from the lineup screen.

1
From the College Ultimate Team™ hub, select Lineup.
2
Select the player you want to move and confirm your choice
3
Highlight the position you want to move to.
4
Move the player to an eligible position or depth chart slot.

When you move a player, other players in the depth chart automatically shift to fill available positions.

How to optimize a Lineup

Generate Best Lineup

If you want to build a lineup quickly, use Generate Best Lineup. It automatically fills Lineup positions with eligible items from your collection to help build the highest overall lineup possible.This can be useful when you've already chosen a few favorite players and want the game to fill the remaining positions for you.Generate Best Lineup can update:

your entire Lineup
offense only
defense only
special teams only
specialists only

You can also choose to fill only empty positions. This lets you keep players already in your lineup while automatically filling open positions with eligible players from your collection.

Generate Best Lineup settings screen with Team Overall and Full Team lineup options on display.

Ability Management

Use Ability Management to activate, deactivate, and review abilities on players in your lineup.From Ability Management, you can:

view active abilities.
view active Ability Points (AP).
activate or deactivate player abilities.
activate or deactivate eligible superstar abilities.
view AP costs for equipped abilities.

You can only activate abilities within your team's available AP budget.

Team Manager Offense screen with the Ability Management panel showing active player abilities and Ability Points.

Chemistry Management

Chemistry boosts can improve player attributes when enough players contribute to the same chemistry.From Chemistry Management, you can:

view available chemistries.
see your current chemistry progress.
view active chemistry tiers.
see which players contribute to the chemistry.
see which players receive chemistry boosts.

Some players have chemistry options that aren't currently active. You may need to equip that chemistry before it contributes towards chemistry progress.

Chemistries panel on the Team Manager Defense screen displaying chemistry progress and active tiers.

Strategy Items

Strategy Items can provide boosts that affect players on your team.You can use Strategy Item Management to:

view equipped Strategy Items.
change or remove Strategy Items.
see which players are affected by a Strategy Item's boosts.

Some Strategy Items can also affect team and scheme chemistry, helping you further fine-tune your lineup.

Strategy Item panel showing equipped Strategy Items and empty strategy slots

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