87+ Base/Centurions Icon Squad Building Challenge Guide

Squad Building Challenges (SBC) have long been a fantastic way for Ultimate Team players to strengthen their squads and EA Sports FC 25 on this front, it continues to deliver on its engaging and beneficial SBCs. You can take on smaller challenges and earn exciting rewards, including special player items, valuable player packs and much more.

In the SBC Ultimate Team section, you can now take on newly available challenges, including the 87+ Base/Centurions Icon SBC, which offers the chance to unlock legendary players such as Ronaldo, Pele, Kaka, Roberto Carlos and many more. .

87+ Base/Centurions SBC Icon Explained

You will need to submit three complete platoons to complete this SBC, with the total value of the requirements being approx 155.65 thousand UT coins. The first team requires 11 players with an overall rating of 85 and below one team player of the weekthe second platoon must have an Overall rating 86 and the ultimate team requires Overall rating 87.

Every season, towards the end of the year, developers release Icon SBC and this year is no exception.

Solving each challenge earns you a pack that you can open before moving on to the next one. A good strategy is to use concept players to complete the challenge at the beginning and make sure all requirements are met before sending the team.

Concept players can be seamlessly transformed into real players once purchased at transfer market.

This challenge is repeatable, but you can try your luck only twice. Completing it even once can deplete your SBC feed significantly, so be prepared to use a significant amount of UT Coins to buy players if needed.

Additionally, while the solution we've provided isn't the absolute cheapest in terms of value, we've also included the most affordable options for each of the three challenges to help you complete the 87+ Base/Centurions Icon SBC.

SBC solutions

85 rated team challenge

This is the easiest challenge of the three required to complete the SBC group. The most notable request is the inclusion of the Team of the Week player, who can be purchased in the transfer market for around 10,000-15,000 UT coins.

To fix this, simply go to the SBC Ultimate Team menu and copy the team below. If you want to save coins, consider trading players for others with the same rating and buy players that are absolutely necessary.

Country Club player transfer price Ben White England Arsenal 1,600 UT Coins Mason-Clark England Coventry City 13,750 coins UT Syrstad Engen Norway FC Barcelona 1600 coins UT Alexis McAllister Argentina Liverpool 5900 coins UT Donyell Malen Dutch Borussia Dortmund 900 UT coins Ismael Bennacer Coin Algeria Milano FC 900 UT Leroy Sane Germany Bayern Munich 3,900 coins UT Stefan de Vrij Dutch coins Lombardia FC 900 UT Jules Kounde France FC Barcelona 7000 coins UT Martin Odegaard Norwegian Arsenal 14,500 UT Coins Jonathan Tah Germany Leverkusen 5500 coins UT

Cheapest 85 rated players

86 Rated team challenge

For this SBC you only need a standard 86 rated team, but be careful not to use very high rated players as the next challenge requires a higher rated team. If you're already running low on SBC fodder, we recommend checking out the list of affordable 86 rated players to help you complete this challenge efficiently.

Here are the cheapest 86 rated players you can use to solve this SBC.

87 Rated Squad Challenge

This is the most demanding and demanding SBC in this group, so it is very important to take advantage of it players with special items for free finish it. As you can see, we have also included William Carvalhoa player that every UT player received as a reward to help keep costs down.

Since the player is not actively part of our starting XI, we decided to use him as fodder for the SBC to help solve these highly rated challenges.

In addition to our solution, here is a list of some of the cheapest 87 rated players that you can use as alternatives.

SBC rewards

A few basic player icons, from 86-rated Hernandez to 95-rated Pelemay be part of your reward for completing this SBC group. However, it is important not to get your hopes up too high as the outcome is purely based on luck.

To give an example, we completed SBC once and were lucky enough to get the highest rated player card, Pele. However, we also know that you can end up with Printz or Ruud Van Nistelrooy.

The combined value of both icons wouldn't even exceed SBC price approx. 155 thousandso be prepared to feel like a gamble!

Here is a list of the top ten icons you can get from this SBC:

• Pele

• Ronaldo

• Zidane

• Ronaldinho

• Ham

• Cryuff

• Prince

• Puskas

• Garrincha

• Maldini