FIFA 12 Ultimate Team is one of the most played and coolest online game modes. It is available for free download from the Playstation Store and Xbox Live Marketplace. The essence of Ultimate Team (FUT) is to purchase and trade cards (players, managers, kits, etc) with earned coins so you can build your perfect squad and play with your FUT team offline and online. The FIFA 12 Ultimate Team tips below will help you to build your perfect squad.

CHOOSE A COUNTRY AND FORMATION

FIFA 12 Ultimate team is not about the 11 best players of the world, but they have also play like a team. That’s why chemistry is very important. To get a good chemistry in your FUT team, your players must have a certain connection with each other. Before you start building your super squad think about what kind of players you prefer to play with. To get the best chemistry it’s important that you have players in your squad with the same nationality and/or the same competition.

The second step is to choose a formation. If you choose a popular formation (f.e. 4-1-2-1-2), you’ll pay much more for the same player as when you buy a player with a preffered formation like 3-5-2. So be aware of this before you start building your team. If you only can play with a popular 4-4-2 of 4-1-2-1-2 formation then you have to choose that one of course but have in mind you’ll pay top prices for your players, staff and other items. Most FUT players of team FIFA12TIPS.com choose an ‘avarage popular formation’ like:
- 4-3-1-2
- 4-2-2-2
- 5-2-1-2

USE TWO SQUADS IN FUT

When you play a lot with only one team in FIFA 12 Ultimate Team you can expect the following: players get fatigued, get injured, their contract expires, etc. This results in buying a lot expensive fitness and contract cards which will interfere you from buying and trading players. Therefore it’s very important is to build two squads: your own super squad (1st team) and a cheaper Bronze squad (reserves). You can rotate your squads now.
You always start with a Bronze squad, so first build a cheap, solid bronze team so you’ll get high chemistry and win tournaments. Once you have earned enough coins you can start with a second squad (your potential ultimate super squad). First focus on buying a good ST, CM and GK. Don’t expect that you can buy Ronaldo’s, Messi’s or other players right away in your FUT 12 team. Just focus on avarage silver or gold players first. This is already a hugh upgrade comparing to your bronze players. Once you’ll earn more and more money you can expand and upgrade your team by using your coins on the Trading Place.

MAKING COINS BY PLAYING MATCHES

Most important in FIFA 12 Ultimate Team is earning a lot of coins so you can build a better squad. Most easy way is to play matches. Below you can find the different options and the avarage earnings
Single Match (600 coins)
You’ll receive coins for every match you play. The better your performance during a match, the more coins you’ll receive. Therefore it’s important you create a lot of shots, goals, ball possesion. Be careful with fouls, red cards and goals against. This will cost you coins!

Single Player Tournaments (3000 coins)
Play tournament matches against the CPU to earn easy coins. For each match you could earn about 500 coins and they have a trophy bonus around 1000 coins. Just don’t play on world class/legendary otherwise you’ll have a hard time to win this trophy.

Online Tournaments (5000 coins)
The same as Single player tournaments but now against other human players. Due to the DNF modifier you’ll receive more coins than playing offline matches. So make sure you won’t quit a match, it will cost you coins! Quitters are desperate anyway…

MAKING COINS BY TRADING

This is maybe the coolest aspect of the game. How cool is it to make a lot of profit just by smart buying and reselling. Below you can find a few options how to make easy profit just by trading:

Everybody loves contracts
Contracts are hot! Check out the market value for gold contracts. Then search for gold contracts under this market value and buy them. Resell them right away for the average value which is ofcourse higher than you bought it. Easy money! If you do this regulary you’ll be amazed how much coins you can earn.

That’s where friends are for!
Maybe you have a (FIFA) friend who’s already playing FIFA12 FUT and has a lot of good players. And maybe that friend is such a good friend that he doesn’t mind to give away a player. After all, the specific player is just an avarage player for him but it would be a top player for your squad (your ‘still in-progress’ squad). Place your worst bronze player in the trading pile for 5000K so it’s easy to find. After that your friend cansearch your player and offer a trade with his (your future top) player. Now you can use him in your squad or sell him so you’ll have more coins to build your team.

Become a night hawk
Buy cards when most people are asleep. This are the non-peak hours during the night. When you have bought a card, then resell it again when most people are online again (afternoon and evening). Most people play FIFA 12 Ultimate Team at the end of the afternoon until 2:00AM GMT. So if you have no sleep, or have the next day off: just wait until 2:00AM and search for interesting cards.

Lucky you!
Sometimes you get lucky and you find a player by accident that’s below the market value. Doesn’t matter if it’s the (your) right formation or country. Just buy him and resell again.

Bronze Pack Method
Buy a bronze pack for 400 coins and hope for some contracts, healing cards, fitness cards, and team talk cards for trading. In the meantime you can play a single match to earn back the 400 coins.

INJURIES AND CONTRACTS ARE EXPENSIVE

You want to use your coins for trading players instead of pay too much coins for your players fitness and contracts. So be careful with your players!
- Don’t play with your important players when playing an offline match against the computer.
- Don’t play with your important players when they are too fatigued. You’ll have a higher risk they get injured.
Another way to prevent using too much coins for contracts is to buy managers. Search for managers that have a contract multiplier. So when you use a contract cards you’ll receive extra contracts for every card.