FIFA 16 Ultimate Team Managers Guide

In FIFA 16 Ultimate Team, there is no staff more important than Managers. Find out how you can use them.

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Managers Roles

Contracts Boost

Chemistry Boost

Managers’ Contracts

Should I buy Managers ?

Managers List

FIFA 16 Managers’ Roles

Among the five types of staff cards, the managers are clearly the most important ones. They develop two roles which take part on the main parts of the game. If you’re an experienced player, the managers are the only staff cards that you really need to get. You can afford to ignore any of the other staff types if you know how to manage your squad well. Going without managers won’t do you any good, though.

Manager cards have basically two functions:

extend the players’ contracts
contribute to individual chemistry

Contracts Boost

As we’ve already said, all staff are responsible for increasing the effect of consumables. For managers, those are contracts. You just need to store the manager cards in “My Club” and let the system do the rest, it will automatically identify the amount of bonus you’ll get for every contract applied according to how many of them you have.

Still don’t get it? We’ll explain in more detail. The contracts are positively influenced according to the managers a club has. Each manager card displays a contract bonus percentage. When you apply a contract, its effect is multiplied by the sum of the coefficients of all the managers your club has. No matter how many managers you have, the sum of their coefficients will stop at 50% of bonus, for that is why you should supervise them so you don’t waste coins. When you reach 50% you should stop, unless you really need a manager with a specific nationality to affect one or a few players’ chemistries. Also, check if you’re buying managers that contribute with at least 1%. The non-rare silver and bronze managers give no bonus.

		BONUS
GOLD	RARE	3%
GOLD	NON-RARE	1%
SILVER	RARE	2%
SILVER	NON-RARE	0%
BRONZE	RARE	1%
BRONZE	NON-RARE	0%

This year it is more difficult to reach the 50% boost because there are less managers. To buy all rare gold managers, for example, it is not enough. There are only 11 in the game (33%). You will have to divide your purchases also by the 35 gold non-are managers (35%), the 18 silver rare (36%) and the 18 bronze rare (18%).

If you need help to reach the 50% boost at the least cost possible, follow our suggestion:

Gold Rare Managers

Gold Non Rare

Silver Rare

When you are applying a contract, you can check how big is the current managers’ boost of your club. You just need to look to the ‘staff modifier’ percentage. If you sum the coefficients of all the managers your club has, you should get the same percentage.

In this case, the managers you have stored in your club give you a boost of 12%, which means that Messi will not get 13 but 14 contracts.

Chemistry Boost

Besides reducing costs for contracts, managers are also responsible for a small bonus applied to the chemistry

Manager’s effect doesn’t limit itself just for the most important consumables of the game. They’re also crucial for defining the players’ individual chemistries. The manager you choose for a squad can increase one point of individual chemistry for each player starting the match. On his limit, he can increase the squad’s chemistry overall by 11 points, one for each player. That’s pretty significant.

What determines if he gives a player bonus or not? Or if it is his nationality and league. If one of them match, the player gets one point. If not, he gets nothing. Even if they match both nationality and league, the bonus will never be more than one point. If the players already have maximum individual chemistry (10) there’s no point on using a manager since there won’t be anything to improve and you’ll still be spending contracts.

For chemistry improvement, the process of choosing a manager should be done mainly according to nationality. Their league can be changed if you apply manager league consumables, in case you want it to match a player’s, but you can’t do the same for the nationality.

When you start looking for a manager to increase your squad’s chemistry, don’t follow the most frequent nationality in the team. What matters is giving bonus to the players that have lower chemistry. These are the ones you should pay attention to. Try having a manager with a nationality that benefits ones and a league that benefits others.

Managers’ Contracts

Only the manager sitting on your team bench needs contracts

Other than nationality, league and bonus percentage, the manager cards also display another important information: the number of contracts. Just like the players, managers also spend contracts every match they participate. When they run out of contracts, you need to apply new ones so they can stay on the bench for the next match. The type of contracts they need also receive bonus according to the amount of manager cards you have in the club, including the one you’re using. The rest of the managers don’t spend contracts.

To buy contracts for managers go to Transfers – Transfers Market – Consumables – Contracts

Should I buy Managers ?

In our opinion, managers are the only staff you should worry about.

If you were able to build a team where all players have 10 points of individual chemistry, you can dispense managers on the bench. But don’t take this too seriously, because the budget associated to this is usually around 10 coins per match. If your squad’s rotation implies on using managers with different leagues and nationalities, try switching managers from the bench to the ones you’ve got stored in your club according to what you need before starting a match. Remember that the manager’s popularity and rarity doesn’t make a difference when they go on the bench. All managers are equal when they move to the squad, it doesn’t even matter if you switch your gold manager to a bronze one, they’ll influence the chemistry equally as long as their league and nationality are the same.

Apart from the initial investments, each manager’s 1% bonus represents almost one coin saved per match

When talking about bonus for contracts, your objective should be to gather enough managers in order to reach the 50%. In this case it doesn’t matter the nationality, league or the remaining contracts a manager has. If you already have your main manager and your goal now is to reach the 50% contract bonus, search in the market by managers running out of contract. They are usually cheaper and it doesn’t make any difference to you. You should only focus on reaching the total 50% spending the less possible. This is where the calculation comes in. For this objective, buying popular managers won’t make sense because they may cost way too much, you can use these coins to buy several other managers. Check, for example, if there are any rare silver managers cheaper than non-rare gold ones. The average total coins spent in order to reach 50% of contract bonus revolves around 7.500 coins, being its approximated return 40 coins per match. In a long term the managers will be able to spare you thousands of coins, except if you don’t intend to play more than 200 matches, because in this case the investment won’t be fulfilled. If you want to start saving your coins early, it’s important that you start collecting managers as soon as possible. Although, it’s also early when the game starts that they are more expensive, due to the immense demand and small supply. It’s up to you to manage to buy these cards without spending much more than the average value we gave you.

Managers List

The complete list of managers in FIFA 16 Ultimate Team can be consulted below:

NAME	QUALITY	COUNTRY	CONTRACT BOOST

B. Hasi	Gold Non Rare	Albania	1%
G. Martino	Gold Rare	Argentina	3%
M. Pochettino	Gold Rare	Argentina	3%
A. Mohamed	Silver Rare	Argentina	2%
C. Bustos	Silver Non Rare	Argentina	0%
G. Alfaro	Silver Non Rare	Argentina	0%
G. Barros Schelotto	Silver Non Rare	Argentina	0%
J. Falcioni	Silver Non Rare	Argentina	0%
R. Lunari	Silver Non Rare	Argentina	0%
P. Sánchez	Bronze Rare	Argentina	1%
G. Arnold	Bronze Rare	Australia	1%
K. Muscat	Bronze Rare	Australia	1%
J. Aloisi	Bronze Non Rare	Australia	0%
T. Popovic	Bronze Non Rare	Australia	0%
T. Walmsley	Bronze Non Rare	Australia	0%
D. Canadi	Bronze Non Rare	Austria	0%
D. Kühbauer	Bronze Non Rare	Austria	0%
O. Kononov	Gold Non Rare	Belarus	1%
M. Preud’homme	Gold Non Rare	Belgium	1%
H. Vanhaezebrouck	Silver Rare	Belgium	2%
P. Maes	Silver Rare	Belgium	2%
B. Peeters	Silver Non Rare	Belgium	0%
F. Dury	Silver Non Rare	Belgium	0%
F. Mazzu	Silver Non Rare	Belgium	0%
Y. Vanderhaeghe	Silver Non Rare	Belgium	0%
H. van Veldhoven	Bronze Rare	Belgium	1%
J. Mathijssen	Bronze Rare	Belgium	1%
J. Walem	Bronze Rare	Belgium	1%
S. Vreven	Bronze Non Rare	Belgium	0%
Y. Ferrera	Bronze Non Rare	Belgium	0%
D. Kalezić	Bronze Non Rare	Bosnia H.	0%
R. Ferretti Oliveira	Gold Non Rare	Brazil	1%
B. Lima	Bronze Non Rare	Brazil	0%
F. Ferreira	Bronze Non Rare	Brazil	0%
M. Pellegrini	Gold Rare	Chile	3%
M. Salas	Silver Non Rare	Chile	0%
N. Acosta	Bronze Non Rare	Chile	0%
R. Rueda	Silver Rare	Colombia	2%
A. Gamero	Silver Non Rare	Colombia	0%
L. Álvarez	Silver Non Rare	Colombia	0%
G. Hernández	Bronze Non Rare	Colombia	0%
J. Sánchez	Bronze Non Rare	Colombia	0%
S. Bilić	Gold Non Rare	Croatia	1%
T. Frank	Silver Non Rare	Denmark	0%
M. Wieghorst	Bronze Non Rare	Denmark	0%
A. Pardew	Gold Non Rare	England	1%
G. Monk	Gold Non Rare	England	1%
S. McClaren	Gold Non Rare	England	1%
T. Sherwood	Gold Non Rare	England	1%
E. Howe	Silver Rare	England	2%
K. Lowe	Bronze Non Rare	England	0%
A. Wenger	Gold Rare	France	3%
A. Desmarais	Bronze Non Rare	France	0%
A. Martin	Bronze Non Rare	France	0%
J. Lefevre	Bronze Non Rare	France	0%
J. Klinsmann	Gold Non Rare	Germany	1%
P. Zeidler	Silver Non Rare	Germany	0%
F. Foda	Bronze Rare	Germany	1%
F. Schilling	Bronze Non Rare	Germany	0%
H. Kersting	Bronze Non Rare	Germany	0%
G. Anastasiou	Silver Rare	Greece	2%
G. Donis	Silver Rare	Greece	2%
H. Kolviðsson	Bronze Non Rare	Iceland	0%
O. Kristjánsson	Bronze Non Rare	Iceland	0%
R. Kristinsson	Bronze Non Rare	Iceland	0%
M. Allegri	Gold Rare	Italy	3%
S. Pioli	Gold Rare	Italy	3%
A. Mandorlini	Gold Non Rare	Italy	1%
E. Di Francesco	Gold Non Rare	Italy	1%
E. Reja	Gold Non Rare	Italy	1%
G. Gasperini	Gold Non Rare	Italy	1%
G. Ventura	Gold Non Rare	Italy	1%
R. Maran	Gold Non Rare	Italy	1%
D. Rossi	Silver Rare	Italy	2%
G. Iachini	Silver Rare	Italy	2%
S. Bueno	Silver Rare	Mexico	2%
V. Vucetich	Silver Rare	Mexico	2%
E. Meza	Silver Non Rare	Mexico	0%
I. Ambriz	Silver Non Rare	Mexico	0%
J. De la Torre	Silver Non Rare	Mexico	0%
B. Rodgers	Gold Rare	N. Ireland	3%
M. O’Neill	Silver Rare	N. Ireland	2%
T. Wright	Bronze Non Rare	N. Ireland	0%
L. van Gaal	Gold Rare	Netherlands	3%
D. Advocaat	Gold Non Rare	Netherlands	1%
G. van Bronckhorst	Gold Non Rare	Netherlands	1%
R. Koeman	Gold Non Rare	Netherlands	1%
A. Schreuder	Silver Rare	Netherlands	2%
D. Lodeweges	Silver Non Rare	Netherlands	0%
E. ten Hag	Silver Non Rare	Netherlands	0%
E. van de Looi	Silver Non Rare	Netherlands	0%
H. Fräser	Silver Non Rare	Netherlands	0%
J. Stegeman	Silver Non Rare	Netherlands	0%
J. van den Brom	Silver Non Rare	Netherlands	0%
P. Bosz	Silver Non Rare	Netherlands	0%
R. Jans	Silver Non Rare	Netherlands	0%
A. Groenendijk	Bronze Rare	Netherlands	1%
E. Faber	Bronze Rare	Netherlands	1%
H. de Jong	Bronze Rare	Netherlands	1%
J. Streppel	Bronze Rare	Netherlands	1%
J. van ‘t Schip	Bronze Rare	Netherlands	1%
J. Vreman	Bronze Non Rare	Netherlands	0%
R. Deila	Silver Rare	Norway	2%
B. Ingebretsen	Silver Non Rare	Norway	0%
H. Berg	Silver Non Rare	Norway	0%
Hareide	Silver Non Rare	Norway	0%
K. Ingebrigtsen	Silver Non Rare	Norway	0%
D. Fagermo	Bronze Rare	Norway	1%
G. Bakke	Bronze Non Rare	Norway	0%
J. Grindhaug	Bronze Non Rare	Norway	0%
J. Halvorsen	Bronze Non Rare	Norway	0%
L. Bohinen	Bronze Non Rare	Norway	0%
M. Mjelde	Bronze Non Rare	Norway	0%
V. Hansen	Bronze Non Rare	Norway	0%
J. Cardozo	Silver Non Rare	Paraguay	0%
M. Skorża	Silver Non Rare	Poland	0%
K. Moskal	Bronze Non Rare	Poland	0%
M. Probierz	Bronze Non Rare	Poland	0%
P. Stokowiec	Bronze Non Rare	Poland	0%
R. Warzycha	Bronze Non Rare	Poland	0%
W. Fornalik	Bronze Non Rare	Poland	0%
J. dos Santos Mourinho	Gold Rare	Portugal	3%
L. Cabral Villas-Boas	Gold Rare	Portugal	3%
R. Pinho da Vitória	Gold Rare	Portugal	3%
J. Pinheiro de Jesus	Gold Non Rare	Portugal	1%
M. Saraiva da Silva	Gold Non Rare	Portugal	1%
V. Lopes Pereira	Gold Non Rare	Portugal	1%
P. Mota Vieira Martins	Silver Rare	Portugal	2%
P. Faria Caixinha	Silver Rare	Portugal	2%
J. Machado Gonçalves	Silver Non Rare	Portugal	0%
M. Marques Machado	Silver Non Rare	Portugal	0%
T. Dunne	Bronze Non Rare	Rep. Ireland	0%
D. Alenichev	Gold Non Rare	Russia	1%
L. Slutskiy	Gold Non Rare	Russia	1%
R. Bilyaletdinov	Silver Rare	Russia	2%
R. Rakhimov	Silver Non Rare	Russia	0%
Y. Semin	Silver Non Rare	Russia	0%
A. Neil	Gold Non Rare	Scotland	1%
D. McInnes	Silver Non Rare	Scotland	0%
S. Baxter	Silver Non Rare	Scotland	0%
A. Archibald	Bronze Non Rare	Scotland	0%
E. Merrick	Bronze Non Rare	Scotland	0%
G. Locke	Bronze Non Rare	Scotland	0%
J. Hughes	Bronze Non Rare	Scotland	0%
J. McNamara	Bronze Non Rare	Scotland	0%
M. Canning	Bronze Non Rare	Scotland	0%
S. Mihajlović	Gold Non Rare	Serbia	1%
M. Slavoljub	Silver Rare	Serbia	2%
A. Janković	Silver Non Rare	Serbia	0%
R. Martínez	Gold Rare	Spain	3%
E. Sánchez Flores	Gold Non Rare	Spain	1%
J. Lopetegui Argote	Gold Non Rare	Spain	1%
J. Pizzi	Silver Non Rare	Spain	0%
B. Cisneros	Bronze Non Rare	Spain	0%
E. Hermida	Bronze Non Rare	Spain	0%
G. Molina	Bronze Non Rare	Spain	0%
A. Alm	Silver Non Rare	Sweden	0%
J. Lennartsson	Silver Non Rare	Sweden	0%
M. Haglund	Silver Non Rare	Sweden	0%
H. Larsson	Bronze Rare	Sweden	1%
J. Andersson	Bronze Rare	Sweden	1%
K. Jonevret	Bronze Rare	Sweden	1%
P. Gerhardsson	Bronze Rare	Sweden	1%
P. Swärdh	Bronze Rare	Sweden	1%
H. Eklund	Bronze Non Rare	Sweden	0%
J. Cedergren	Bronze Non Rare	Sweden	0%
J. Jönsson	Bronze Non Rare	Sweden	0%
R. Hansen	Bronze Non Rare	Sweden	0%
R. Sandberg	Bronze Non Rare	Sweden	0%
Güneş	Gold Non Rare	Turkey	1%
H. Hamzaoğlu	Gold Non Rare	Turkey	1%
A. Avci	Silver Rare	Turkey	2%
M. Bakkal	Silver Non Rare	Turkey	0%
G. Matosas	Silver Non Rare	Uruguay	0%
B. Bradley	Bronze Non Rare	USA	0%
M. Hughes	Gold Non Rare	Wales	1%
T. Pulis	Gold Non Rare	Wales	1%

This is the only list you will find of the managers that really are in the game FIFA 16 Ultimate Team

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