FIFA 23 TOTY reveal: full Team of the Year announced

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FIFA 23 TOTY reveal: full Team of the Year announced
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The full FIFA 23 Team of the Year, TOTY for short, has officially been unveiled – the wait is finally over.

Players were able to have a say by voting on their favorite nominees and now publisher EA Sports has revealed the full FIFA 23 TOTY squad with a number of very powerful FIFA Ultimate team (FUT) cards up for grabs, though you'll need a bit more patience before you can get them in the packs.

In addition, the TOTY 12th Man nominees and TOTY Icons have also been announced.

FIFA 23 TOTY: full team

These players have made it into the FIFA 23 TOTY:

  • Thibaut Courtois – Real Madrid (96 OVR)
  • Achraf Hakimi – Paris Saint-Germain (94 OVR)
  • Virgil van Dijk – Liverpool FC (96 OVR)
  • Theo Hernández – AC Milan (94 OVR)
  • Éder Militão – Real Madrid (94 OVR)
  • Kevin De Bruyne – Manchester City (97 OVR)
  • Luka Modric – Real Madrid (96 OVR)
  • Jude Bellingham – Borussia Dortmund (95 OVR)
  • Lionel Messi – Paris Saint-Germain (98 OVR)
  • Kylian Mbappé – Paris Saint-Germain (97 OVR)
  • Karim Benzema – Real Madrid (97 OVR)
FIFA 23 TOTY FUT cards.
This is your FIFA 23 Team of the Year / EA Sports

Kylian Mbappé was the most popular choice among the forwards, winning 23% of the vote. Kevin De Bruyne, despite not having the best year, took the win among midfielders with 21%. Achraf Hakimi triumphed in the heavily contested defender category, taking pole position with 15%. Belgian keeper Courtois secured victory with a comfortable 56% of the vote.

Both TOTY predictions and TOTY leaks have aged pretty well, looking at the final roster. You can get these cards from FUT packs starting on January 20, 2023, at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm GMT / 7pm CET with the attackers becoming available first. Check out the TOTY promo schedule for release dates of the other positions.

FIFA 23 TOTY: 12th Man nominees

Starting on January 23, 2023, you can vote for the TOTY’s 12th Man. Three candidates are available:

  • João Cancelo – Manchester City
  • Federico Valverde – Real Madrid
  • Erling Haaland – Manchester City
A soccer player in FIFA 23.
Can Erling Haaland still make it into TOTY? It's up to you / EA Sports

The 12th Man will be available in packs with the full TOTY on January 26, 2023.

FIFA 23 TOTY Icons: full list

TOTY Icons are a new addition to the promo in FIFA 23, representing some of soccer’s greatest players. Here is the full list of available cards:

  • Alessandro Nesta
  • Andrea Pirlo
  • Ashley Cole
  • Claude Makélélé
  • David Beckham
  • Edwin van der Sar
  • Gerd Müller
  • Hugo Sánchez
  • Javier Zanetti
  • Nemanja Vidić
  • Robert Pirès
  • Ronaldinho
  • Ruud Gullit
  • Xabi Alonso

FIFA Online will get its Team of the Year on January 20, 2023, and FIFA Mobile in early February, so you won't have to wait too long if you're playing one of these spin-off games instead of FIFA 23.


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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg