The FIFA 23 Black Friday event will begin in Ultimate Team this week, with some new World Cup themed content expected to be released.
With the famous Black Friday sales going live on Friday, November 25, EA Sports is set to start their FIFA 23 Black Friday-themed event in Ultimate Team on the same date. The FUT Black Friday event has been a part of FIFA since FIFA 15, with EA tending to release a variety of promo packs in the store, flash SBCs and a 'Best Of' Team of the Week - a squad made up of the best players to feature in TOTW since FIFA 23's release.
We expect all of this to be part of the Black Friday promo in FIFA 23, but a new loading screen along with some leaks on social media suggests we will receive some new content this year. The FUT loading screen confirmed that the Black Friday event will begin in Ultimate Team on Friday, November 25, 2022 at 6pm GMT.
So what else can we expect in the Black Friday event? Here's everything we know as well as a round-up of leaks on social media and predictions for Black Friday in FIFA 23.
FIFA 23 Black Friday promo predictions
Expected FIFA 23 Black Friday content
The new FUT 23 loading screen, which confirmed the release date for the Black Friday event, also included a teaser towards a new promo in FUT called 'Road to the FIFA World Cup'. In FIFA 22, a Record Breaker promo was released alongside the Black Friday event, so we think this may be a new World Cup-themed promo to release alongside the event in FIFA 23.
Below the text on the loading screen are two card designs - on the left is a brand-new design which could be the Road to the FIFA World Cup card, and on the right is a World Cup Icon. We don't know what type of player item the Road to the FIFA World Cup card could be - it may be a live player item that upgrades throughout the World Cup, or it may act like the Road to the Knockout promo cards that upgrade if the player qualifies out of the group stages.
We will update this article when we know more, as nothing more than the card design has been confirmed by EA Sports yet. And, according to notorious leaker @FutSheriff, there are set to be some exciting packs released into FUT during the event, including an interesting-sounding 'Centurion Pack'.
Other packs that will be released according to leaks are a guaranteed FUT Hero pack, 86+ World Cup Star pack, 15 x 81+ pack and a 15 x 83+ pack. We're not sure what the Centurion Pack could be, with some users on social media guessing it could be a pack containing 100 items.
FIFA 23 'Best Of' TOTW squad predictions
EA Sports released a 'Best Of' TOTW squad in Black Friday events in recent years, and we expect the same for FIFA 23. The 'Best Of' TOTW squad is made up of the best TOTW players from TOTW1 to TOTW9.
This is just a prediction, with nothing yet to be confirmed by EA Sports.
- GK: Kevin Trapp (Frankfurt) - 88 rated
- CB: Fikayo Tomori (AC Milan) - 86 rated
- LB: Joao Cancelo (Manchester City) - 89 rated
- CB: Marquinhos (Paris Saint-Germain) - 89 rated
- RW: Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) - 92 rated
- CM: Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) - 92 rated
- CDM: Casemiro (Manchester United) - 90 rated
- LM: Sadio Mane (Bayern Munich) - 91 rated
- ST: Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain) - 92 rated
- LW: Heung-Min Son (Tottenham Hotspur) - 90 rated
- ST: Lauturo Martinez (Inter Milan). -87 rated
FIFA 23 is developed by EA Vancouver and EA Romania and is now available worldwide on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Stadia, PS4, and Xbox One.
