How EA SPORTS FC™ Ultimate Team™ Champions work

Ultimate Team™ Champions Play-Offs

Play-Offs is the first stage of Ultimate Team™ Champions. You can compete in Play-Offs any time at your own pace. There’s a limited number of Play-Off entries per Season that resets at the start of each Season.

How to qualify for Play-Offs

Play Rivals to earn Champions Qualification Points (CQP). When you reach the required number of CQP to enter the Play-Offs, you’ll automatically be entered into the current event.

Where to see your Ultimate Team™ Champions Qualification Points

Find your Ultimate Team™ Champions Qualification Points balance in-game:

1
Go to Ultimate Team™.
2
Select Play, then Ultimate Team™ Champions.

You can also open the Rivals tile and select the Champions tab to see your total.

How to earn Ultimate Team™ Champions Play-Offs rewards

You’ll get rewards once you finish the available amount of matches in the competition. You can also end your current Play-Offs event at any point before completing all your matches to collect the available rewards immediately. If you don't finish all your Play-Off matches before an Ultimate Team™ Season ends, you’ll automatically get whatever rewards you’ve earned from completed matches. You don’t get any progression towards rewards for skipped matches.

Ultimate Team™ Champions Finals

How to qualify for Finals

The Finals are the second stage of Ultimate Team™ Champions. You qualify for the Ultimate Team™ Champions Finals by earning enough points in the Ultimate Team™ Champions Play-Offs to get a Finals Qualification Token. You then choose when you want to participate in the Finals by using the Token.

How to earn Ultimate Team™ Champions Finals rewards

You get rewards as soon as you complete the available matches or when the event expires, whichever comes first.Unlike the Play-Offs, you can’t end a Finals event early. There’s also a tighter time limit for Finals events. If you haven’t completed all of your matches before it ends, you’ll only get the rewards for what you’ve earned.

When you can redeem your Champions Finals Qualification Token

You can redeem your Champions Finals Qualification Token when you like, and it will enter you into the next available Champions Finals event. Make sure to only redeem your Finals Token when you’re ready.Didn’t use your Finals Token by the end of a Season? Don’t worry, it carries over to the next Season.

If you start a Champions Finals run, can you cancel your entry and start another time?

No, your entry into this competition is final and can’t be reversed.

Matchmaking

How does matchmaking work?

Matchmaking in Ultimate Team™ Champions Play-Offs and Finals is based on:

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Your location. This determines which EA SPORTS FC™ Game Data Center will be used for your match.
2
Your current Form in Play-Offs or Finals. You’ll be matched with players that have a similar Form.
Form doesn’t carry over between the two competitions. Your Form is zero when starting Play-Offs or Finals.
3
Your platform and cross-play settings.

What is Form?

Your Form in Ultimate Team™ Champions Play-Offs and Finals is a record of all the matches you’ve played in the current competition. For example, if the results of your first five games of a Play-Offs run were W/L/L/W/W (W = Win, L = Lose). Your Form after those five matches would end up at +1 because you gain +1 for each win and lose -1 for each loss. Using this example:

Before your first match, your Form is at 0.
You won the first match, so you earn 1. Form is now at +1.
You lost the second match, so you lose 1. Form is now at 0.
You lost the third match, so you lose another 1. Form is now at -1.
You win the fourth match, so you earn 1. Form is now at 0 again.
You win the fifth match, so you earn 1 more. Form is now at +1 again.
That means going into your sixth match, your current Form is +1.

Matchmake with players from other platforms

You can matchmake with players who are playing on other platforms if you have cross-play enabled. You can only play against people on the same platform generation, like:

PlayStation®4 and Xbox One
PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.

Check out our article to see how to play with friends on Nintendo Switch™.

Find available rewards from playing Play-Offs and Finals

You can view available rewards by checking your competition progress in-game.