The World Cup promos have come to a close and the Winter Wildcards are here in FIFA 23!
This Wintertime promotion is always a fan favorite as it features new and exciting content every day! Fans can expect a bunch of SBCs, Rewards, and Promo players across this promotion!
This promo is now out and here are all the players featuring throughout the next two weeks!
What is the Winter Wildcards Promo in FIFA 23?
The Winter Wildcards are items that receive a variety of permanent boosts inspired by past, present, and future FUT Campaign upgrades.
These upgrades will include:
- General stats & overall boosts
- Position changes
- Weak foot upgrade
- Skill moves upgrade
FIFA 23 Winter Wildcards Team 1 Players
These are all the players released as part of Winter Wildcards Team 1:
- CB: Lukas Klostermann 80 → 86 (RB Leipzig & Germany)
- CF → RW: Joao Felix 84 → 89 (Atletico Madrid & Portugal)
- RW → ST: Ousmane Dembele 83 → 87 (Barcelona & France)
- CM: Kevin De Bruyne 91 →93 (Manchester City & Belgium)
- RB: Jeremy Toljan 73 → 86 (Sassuolo & Germany)
- LM: Tahith Chong 70 → 84 (Birmingham & the Netherlands)
- RW: Daniele Verde 75 → 85 (Spezia & Italy)
- ST: Alexandre Pato 71 → 86 (Orlando SC & Brazil)
- CB: Fikayo Tomori 84 → 88 (AC Milan & England)
- LW → CAM: Jadon Sancho 84 → 90 (Manchester United & England)
- LW: Justin Kluivert 76 → 86 (Valencia & the Netherlands)
- CAM: Reinier 69 → 85 – Objective (Girona & Brazil)
- GK: Jack Butland 73 → 89 – 5* Star Skills & Weak Foot (Crystal Palace & England)
- CB → CAM: Giorgio Chiellini 84 → 87 – 4* Skills & 5 * Weak Foot (LAFC & Italy)
- CDM: N’golo Kante 89 → 91 (Chelsea & France)
- LB: Ferland Mendy 83 → 87 (Real Madrid & France)
- GK: Darren Randolph 73 → 85 – 5* Star Skills & Weak Foot (West Ham United & Republic of Ireland)
- Available in Winter Wildcard Treasure Hunt Objective
- RWB: Jonathan Clauss 80 → 85 (Marseille & France)
- Available in Winter Wildcard Treasure Hunt Objective

Team 1 Mini-Release
The Winter Wildcards Team 1 Mini-Release players were put into packs on 25 December 2022 at 6 PM GMT / 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET.
Here are all the players for this mini-release:
- LB: Ismaily 79 → 85 (Lille & Brazil)
- RM: Hernâni 71 → 85 (Rio Ave & Portugal)
- CM: Ryan Gravenberch 79 → 87 (Bayern Munich & the Netherlands)
- ST: Alexandre Lacazette 81 → 89 (Olympique Lyon & France)
FIFA 23 Winter Wildcards Team 2 Players
Team 2 of Winter Wildcards released on 30 December 2022 at 6 PM GMT / 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET.
Here are all the players featured in Team 2:
- CDM → CM: Joshua Kimmich 89 → 91 (FC Bayern Munich & Germany)
- ST → CM : Karim Benzema 91 → 92 (Real Madrid & France)
- LB: Andrew Robertson 87 → 89 (Liverpool & Scotland)
- RW → ST: Adama Traore 78 → 86 (Wolves & Spain)
- LW: Allan Saint-Maximin 81 → 87 (Newcastle United & France)
- CB: Raphael Varane 84 → 88 (Manchester United & France)
- GK: Vanja Milinković-Savić 73 → 88 (Torino & Serbia)
- RW → ST: Ahmed Musa – 72 → 86 – Objective (Sivasspor & Nigeria)
- ST → RW: Gabriel Jesus 83 → 89 (Arsenal & Brazil)
- ST → CB: Wout Weghorst 79 → 87 (Besiktas & the Netherlands)
- CAM: Florian Wirtz 82 → 87 (Bayer Leverkusen & Germany)
- LB → RB: Jordan Amavi 74 → 87 (Getafe & France)
- CAM → CM: Marcelino Moreno 76 → 85(Atlanta United & Argentina)
- CAM: Brahim Diaz 78 → 86 (AC Milan & Spain)
- CAM → CB: Kevin Prince Boateng 74 → 87 (Hertha Berlin & Ghana)
- CDM: Jon Garrido 70 → 84 (Cadiz CF & Spain)

Team 2 Mini-Release Leaks
The Winter Wildcards Team 1 Mini-Release players have been put into packs on 1 January 2023 at 6 PM GMT / 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET.
Here are the players for this mini-release:
- CM: Ander Herrera 79 → 85 (Athletic Bilbao & Spain)
- LW: Nicolas Pepe 79 → 87 (OGC Nice & Ivory Coast)
- RB: Fabio 72 → 86 (Nantes & Brazil)
Full List of Winter Best of FIFA 23
EA Sports FIFA has released a squad of players from previous promos into packs. These are some of the best players in the game and give FUT users a second chance at obtaining them!
Here is the full squad of players re-released into packs:
- UCL RTTK Lionel Messi
- UCL RTTK Niklas Sule
- Road to the World Cup Kylian Mbappe
- World Cup Path to Glory Christopher Nkunku
- World Cup Path to Glory Christian Pulisic
- World Cup Path to Glory Arkadiusz Milik
- World Cup Phenoms Lisandro Martinez
- World Cup Phenoms Rafael Leao
- World Cup Stories Olivier Giroud
- Rulebreakers Kalvin Phillips
- Rulebreakers Cristiano Ronaldo
- Ones to Watch Erling Haaland
- Ones to Watch Aurelien Tchouameni
These players will remain in packs until the end of the Winter Wildcards Promotion!

Daily Winter Wildcard Player SBCs
Across the promo, we will also see a new player SBC releasing every day at 6 PM GMT / 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET.
This makes this an exciting promotion and will be sure to have FUT fans log in every day to see which players are in the SBC section.
Here is all the Winter Wildcard player SBCs released:
- CM: Rodrigo De Paul 84 → 87 (Atletico Madrid & Argentina)
- CAM: Mesut Ozil 78 → 86 – 5* Skills & Weak Foot (İstanbul Başakşehir & Germany)
- CM: Toni Kroos 88 → 91 – 5* Skills (Real Madrid & Germany)
- CAM: Dimitri Payet 82 → 89 (Marseille & France)
- CDM: Noble Okello 60 → 85 Toronto FC & Canada)
- CB → CDM: Reece Oxford 76 → 85 (FC Augsburg & England)
- LB → CM: Maxim Gullit 60 → 86 (Cambuur & the Netherlands)
- CB: Eric Bailly 76 → 87 (Marseille & Ivory Coast)
- RM → ST: Silas Katompa Mvumpa 75 → 85 (VfB Stuttgart & DR Congo)
- CM: Jean-Ricner Bellegarde 75 → 86 (Strasbourg & France)
- ST: Andre Hahn 74 → 86 (FC Augsburg & Germany)
- LW: Noah Fadiga 66 → 86 (Stade Brest & Belgium)
- RM → ST: Matteo Politano 81 → 88 (Napoli & Italy)
- RB: Jonjoe Kenny 74 → 87 (Hertha Berlin & England)
Winter Wildcard Swaps
The Winter Wildcard Swaps event began on 19 December 2022 at 6 PM GMT / 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET.
This event will require you to earn a ton of tokens which you can trade for high-value rewards. Make sure to check out the full explanation of what Winter Wildcards Swaps is!
There have already been two players released as part of the Swaps Rewards:
- RB: Kieran Trippier 84 → 87 (Newcastle United & England)
- CDM: Sandro Tonali 84 → 87 (AC Milan & Italy)
FIFA 23 Winter Wildcards End Date & Time
Winter Wildcards will conclude on 6 January 2023 at 6 PM GMT / 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET as this is a two-week promo.
Winter Wildcards will be out of packs in:
After that, we are expecting the brand new FIFA 23 Centurions promo to begin!