FUT Hero cards were a great addition to Ultimate Team in FIFA 22, and their numbers are continuing to grow in FIFA 23.
Find out all you need to know about FUT Heroes in FIFA 23 Ultimate Team below.
Latest - Additional Hero Added
Before FIFA 23 was released, a list of new FUT Heroes was leaked revealing all the additional players set to come in Ultimate Team.
When the new FUT Heroes were officially announced, all the names leaked were included, apart from one - Ledley King.
There has been speculation for months whether he would actually appear in the game, furthered when he was able to be searched for on the FUT Transfer Market, yet he still didn't appear.
Then, on Friday, 6 January, King finally appeared in the game, available for free as a loan version via the Moments Store, with his Base card also added to the player pool in packs.
What are FUT Heroes?
FUT Hero cards were new items in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team that introduced some retired fan favourite players to the game.
Initially, these were viewed by the FIFA community as one level below an Icon, however, with upgrades given throughout the season, some of the FUT Heroes become better than many Icons.
There were 19 FUT Hero cards released in FUT 22, with 21 new FUT Heroes coming at the start of FUT 23 - with an additional one joining mid-campaign - so there are now 41 on the roster.
All the FUT Heroes have a Base version, with some given upgraded FIFA World Cup FUT Heroes during the World Cup campaign in FUT 23, with more boosted versions likely to come in further promos.
Chemistry Change
With the chemistry re-work introduced in FUT 23, FUT Heroes now work in a slightly different way.
If they are played in the correct position they will always have full chemistry themselves.
Then, they will provide two chemistry points to any player that shares the same league as them.
FUT Hero Card Types
There are two confirmed card types for FUT Heroes, a Base version and a World Cup version.
The Base version is available from launch, with the World Cup cards arriving on Friday, 11 November.
We would expect to see more types coming in other promos, with upgraded versions coming in the FUT Captains and Shapeshifters campaigns in FUT 22.
New FUT Heroes
The FUT Hero roster more than doubled in FIFA 23, with 21 more ex-players handed a card.
All the new FUT Heroes and their Base card ratings are as follows:
- Lucio (OVR 89)
- Jean Pierre-Papin (OVR 89)
- Rudi Voller (OVR 89)
- Diego Forlan (OVR 88)
- Rafael Marquez (OVR 88)
- Javier Mascherano (OVR 88)
- Jay-Jay Okocha (OVR 88)
- Ricardo Carvalho (OVR 88)
- Tomas Brolin (OVR 87)
- Harry Kewell (OVR 87)
- Yaya Toure (OVR 87)
- Claudio Marchisio (OVR 87)
- Hidetoshi Nakata (OVR 87)
- Landon Donovan (OVR 86)
- Joan Capdevila (OVR 86)
- Sidney Govou (OVR 86)
- Dirk Kuyt (OVR 86)
- Park Ji-Sung (OVR 86)
- Wlodzimierz Smolarek (OVR 86)
- Ledley King (OVR 86)
- Saeed Al-Owairan (OVR 85)
- Peter Crouch (OVR 85)
All previous FUT Heroes have retained their ratings from FUT 22.
World Cup FUT Heroes
The FIFA 23 pre-order details revealed that World Cup FUT Heroes would be coming in FIFA 23.
These are upgraded versions of the Base FUT Hero cards, celebrating a specific moment that the player had at the World Cup.
All the World Cup FUT Heroes card ratings are as follows:
- Rudi Voller (OVR 91)
- Diego Forlan (OVR 91)
- Lucio (OVR 90)
- Jean Pierre-Papin (OVR 90)
- Jurgen Kohler (OVR 90)
- Morientes (OVR 90)
- Yaya Toure (OVR 89)
- Jay-Jay Okocha (OVR 89)
- Javier Mascherano (OVR 89)
- Rafael Marquez (OVR 89)
- Tomas Brolin (OVR 89)
- Ricardo Carvalho (OVR 89)
- Claudio Marchisio (OVR 88)
- Dirk Kuyt (OVR 88)
- Landon Donovan (OVR 88)
- Hidetoshi Nakata (OVR 88)
- Harry Kewell (OVR 88)
- Wlodzimierz Smolarek (OVR 88)
- Saeed Al-Owairan (OVR 88)
- Joan Capdevila (OVR 88)
- Jorge Campos (OVR 88)
- Freddie Ljunberg (OVR 88)
- Robbie Kean (OVR 88)
- Joe Cole (OVR 88)
- Tim Cahill (OVR 88)
- Park Ji-Sung (OVR 87)
- Sidney Govou (OVR 87)
- Sami Al-Jaber (OVR 87)
- Peter Crouch (OVR 86)
- Clint Dempsey (OVR 86)
Marvel Collaboration
EA and Marvel announced a partnership in FIFA 23, with the World Cup FUT Heroes having card images from comic book artists.
Additionally, the new FUT Heroes were revealed with a comic book cover design, which you can see below.
