The World Cup has taken over FIFA 23 Ultimate Team, with Season 2 kicking off with the Path to Glory promo, which has been followed up with Road to the World Cup, World Cup Stories and currently World Cup Phenoms.
Throughout the event, World Cup Icons will be released, which are some of the new Campaign Icon types that have replaced Icon Moments.
Find out all you need to know about World Cup Icons in FIFA 23 Ultimate Team right here.
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World Cup Icons Release Date
The first World Cup Icons were released on Friday, 11 November at 2pm ET / 6pm GMT, as part of the World Cup Swaps rewards.
More will drop intermittently as SBCs throughout the World Cup campaign in Season 2, which will finish on Friday, 23 December.
World Cup Icons Team 1 was released in packs on Friday, 25 November at 2pm ET / 6pm GMT.
A Mini-Release of three more WC Icons dropped on Saturday, 26 November.
Team 1 stayed in packs until Friday, 2 December, when Team 2 cards replaced them at the same time the World Cup Stories promo dropped.
Team 3 was released on Friday, 9 December, alongside the World Cup Phenoms squad.
You will have until Wednesday, 4 January to unlock the two World Cup Icons released via SBC as the Swaps rewards.
World Cup Icons Explained
World Cup Icons are a new card type and are part of the change brought to Icon cards in FIFA 23 Ultimate Team.
Icon Moments have been replaced by Campaign Icons, which will occur throughout the season and be included as part of certain promos - much like we saw with FUT Heroes and the FUT Captains and Shapeshifters events in FUT 22.
The World Cup Icons will be released as Swaps rewards, via their own SBCs, and also in packs.
WC Icons will first be introduced to packs on Friday, 25 November, following on from the WC FUT Heroes coming to packs in Team 1 and Team 2 during the Path to Glory promo.
They will replace their Base and Mid version while in packs and will appear in all packs including Upgrade SBCs and WC Swaps Rewards!
EA has also said that Campaign Icons that are available in packs may have that version released in a future SBC, at least two months after they were first made available.
All Cards
Team 3 of the World Cup Icons has been released in FIFA 23 Ultimate Team, taking over from Team 2!
It is an improvement from Team 2, but still not as good as Team 1, although Garrincha (OVR 93) and Lothar Matthaus (OVR 92) are both excellent cards.
All the World Cup Icons are as follows:
Team 1
- Ronaldo (OVR 95)
- Zinedine Zidane (OVR 95)
- Johan Cruyff (OVR 92)
- Eusebio (OVR 92)
- Luis Figo (OVR 91)
- Bobby Moore (OVR 91)
- Emilio Butragueno (OVR 91)
- Michael Laudrup (OVR 90)
- Didier Drogba (OVR 90)
- Miroslav Klose (OVR 90)
- Emmanuel Petit (OVR 89)
- Hernan Crespo (OVR 89)
Mini-Release
- Pele (OVR 96)
- Petr Cech (OVR 90)
- Gianluca Zambrotta (OVR 88)
Team 2
- Roberto Baggio (OVR 92)
- Iker Casillas (OVR 91)
- Samuel Eto'o (OVR 91)
- Laurent Blanc (OVR 90)
- Andre Shevchenko (OVR 90)
- Roberto Carlos (OVR 90)
- Luis Hernandez (OVR 88)
Team 3
- Garrincha (OVR 93)
- Lothar Matthaus (OVR 92)
- Kenny Dalglish (OVR 91)
- Fabio Cannavaro (OVR 91)
- Gheorghe Hagi (OVR 90)
- Gary Lineker (OVR 90)
- Davor Suker (OVR 88)
SBCs
- Cafu (OVR 92) - World Cup Swaps
- Patrick Vieira (OVR 90) - World Cup Swaps
- Robin van Persie (OVR 90)
- Bastian Schweinsteiger (OVR 90)
- Carles Puyol (OVR 91)
- Hristo Stoichkov (OVR 91)
Leaks
Every single leak we've seen for World Cup Icon cards has now come in-game, so unless EA has a surprise in store, we don't expect to see any additional players.
If we do spy any more leaked cards this section will be updated.