FIFA 23 Leak Reveals Change To Ultimate Team Positioning Fans Have Demanded For Years

It promises to be a big one, with recent news confirming new leagues and 2022 World Cup updates after the game's release.

If you've played Ultimate Team at all over the years, you'll know basic position changes are allowed. Right midfield to right wing, central midfielder to central attacking midfielder. All ways to let your players fit into formations.

Respected leaker FUT Sheriff claims players will now come with a secondary position they can be played in, based on their real-life counterpart.

The example used above is Manchester City full-back Joao Cancelo. He regularly played left-back for City this season, but his FIFA 22 Ultimate Team card is set as a right-back. If you played him at left-back, he'd lose chemistry for being out of position.

From next year, you'd have the ability to convert Cancelo from a right-back to a left-back for ultimate flexibility.

Position change cards will still be consumables but not locked to one specific position as they are currently.

The system will look more similar to the one used in Career Mode, which lets players move around the pitch without losing stats.

Walker is regularly one of the fastest defenders on the game and that's not likely to change in FIFA 23.

He'll be able to catch any forward you have with ease without losing any stats. Terrifying.

None of this has officially been confirmed by EA Sports at the time of writing, but both leakers are known in the community for being reliable.

Other features said to be coming are five substitutions, but it could be kept at three for Ultimate Team if the feature isn't received well.