Squad Battles is a FUT mode in which you can take on CPU AI-controlled squads from the FUT community to earn Battle Points, move up the leaderboards, and earn rewards.
Weekly competition matches are the 40 matches that you play each week that count towards your Battle Points score for that week.
Matches are separated into weekly competition matches and other matches. Any matches you play after the 40 weekly competition matches do not contribute towards your week’s score, but you will still earn normal match Coins and progress towards Objectives.
In FUT 23, Squad Battles matches can be played cooperatively. Once you invite a player using the Friends List found at the bottom right corner of the FUT Main Menu, and they accept, you can choose to play Squad Battles from the Co-Op Lobby.
The lobby Captain selects the opponent and difficulty level, but both players earn Battle Points and Coins in the same way as if they were playing Solo. If one of the two players in the Co-Op Lobby has no weekly competition matches remaining, neither player will earn Battle Points upon the completion of a match.
Battle Points are earned at the end of each of the first 40 Squad Battles matches each week, which make up your weekly competition matches. They are used to determine your Rank in the weekly Squad Battles competition.
Please note that if you choose to end a match early or to not play a match by refreshing and it’s part of your first 40 weekly competition matches, you will not earn any Battle Points from that match.
The formula is a little different depending on the outcome of the match, whether you won the game or lost it. You can check them out below.
Once you’ve played your first 40 competition matches for the week, any other matches you play that week will not earn you Battle Points.
Featured Squad Battles don’t use these formulas. However, you can find out how Battle Points are awarded for those Squads further down in this article.
Reminder: If there are decimal places in the final Battle Points result, the value is always rounded up. This is reflected in the examples of the calculations here:
This only applies in a Squad Battles Match that you win.
[(Team Rating Score Win + Match Result + Skill Coins) * Win Difficulty Modifier] + (Goals For * Goals Difficulty Modifier)
Here’s how the win formula is broken down:
| Difficulty (Win) | Modifier |
|---|---|
| Beginner | 0.5 |
| Amateur | 0.6 |
| Semi-Pro | 0.7 |
| Professional | 1 |
| World Class | 1.6 |
| Legendary | 2.1 |
| Ultimate | 2.6 |
| Difficulty level | Goal Difficulty Modifier |
|---|---|
| Beginner | 0.5 |
| Amateur | 0.5 |
| Semi-Pro | 1 |
| Professional | 1.5 |
| World Class | 2.5 |
| Legendary | 3.5 |
| Ultimate | 4 |
This only applies in a Squad Battles Match that you lose.
[(Team Rating Score Loss + Match Result + Skill Coins) * Loss Difficulty Modifier] + (Goals For * Goals Difficulty Modifier)
Here’s how the loss formula is broken down:
Difficulty (Loss) | Modifier |
Beginner | 0.2 |
Amateur | 0.25 |
Semi-Pro | 0.4 |
Professional | 0.5 |
World Class | 0.6 |
Legendary | 0.7 |
Ultimate | 0.7 |
| Difficulty level | Goal Difficulty Modifier |
| Beginner | 0.5 |
| Amateur | 0.5 |
| Semi-Pro | 1 |
| Professional | 1.5 |
| World Class | 2.5 |
Legendary | 3.5 |
| Ultimate | 4 |
Example time again: You played a match on Professional difficulty, against a team with an 87 Team Rating and 86 Chemistry. You lost the game, scored 2 goals, and received 145 Skill Coins, so you’d turn the formula:
[(Team Rating Score Loss + Match Result + Skill Coins) * Loss Difficulty Modifier] + (Goals For * Goals Difficulty Modifier)
Into this:
[(304 + 50 + 145) * 0.5] + (80 * 1.5) = 370 Battle Points
Featured Squad Battles are special matches where you can play against Squads created by members of the FIFA and football community, such as real footballers, celebrities, or FIFA pro players. You can replay Featured Squads to improve your score.
Not every weekly competition in Squad Battles will have a Featured Squad Battle.
Team of the Week (TOTW) Squads function like a Featured Squad. Each week you’ll be able to compete against the TOTW to earn Battle Points.
The amount of Battle Points earned for playing a Featured Squad Battle or TOTW Squad match is not the same as you would earn for a normal Squad Battle match. Instead, the number of Battle Points you earn is based on whether you win or lose the game, and what difficulty you played the match on. The specific Battle Point values are below:
Win Battle Points
Loss Battle Points
In Squad Battles, the Battle Points you earn during the week determines your Rank in the weekly competition.
Each Rank can only hold a certain percentage of the players competing in Squad Battles during the current weekly competition. The higher your Rank at the end of the week the better reward you'll earn.
To get the highest Rank, you will need to earn more Battle Points than all other players in the weekly competition. The percentage breakdown of each Rank can be seen in-game.
Yes, you can. If you start off playing Squad Battles matches early in the week and earn a lot of Battle Points, you might initially be in a top Rank. But if you don’t continue playing matches throughout the rest of the week or earn less Battle Points, other players could still be playing and earning Battle Points. That means your Rank could drop, if they out-earn you and move up.
The leaderboard updates approximately every five minutes.
You’ll get your rewards shortly after the event ends.
Yes. For FIFA 23, the Your Rank tab will show players on all platforms, regardless of whether you opted in to cross-play. You won’t see names listed in the leaderboard, but instead see groupings of brackets based on progression.
This is a little different from FUT 22 in a few ways:
Your CPU AI-controlled opponents in Squad Battles come from the real Squads used by other players in FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT). Specifically, Squads that were used by players when playing Squad Battles, Draft (Online and Offline), FUT Champions, and Division Rivals.
When a set of opponents is provided, either at the start of a new Squad Battles competition or when you perform an Opponent Update, we always provide one Squad from each of our three Squad difficulty buckets: Easy, Medium, and Hard.
Then we select a fourth Squad from either the Easy or Medium buckets, with a 50% chance of the Squad coming from either bucket.
Your opponents are always pulled from the same platform generation:
Each Squad in FUT has both a Team Rating value and a Chemistry value. When those values are added together, you end up with an Overall Squad Rating. Each of our difficulty buckets in Squad Battles contains a range of Overall Squad Ratings:
You are in control of when you refresh, giving you the choice of when you want to play your Squad Battles matches.
Please note that if you refresh but have not yet completed the four matches that are available, the unplayed matches will still count towards your 40 competitive matches for the week.
No, if you refresh and skip matches that count towards your 40 competitive matches for the week, you cannot get those back.
This article describes in general terms how these features work in FIFA 23 on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. We’re always looking to improve the gameplay experience, so this information may become outdated as we make adjustments to keep our game fun for everyone. Where possible, we’ll try to keep you updated about the changes we make — through new articles, or changes to the posted ones.
