FIFA 17 Bundesliga Squad Guide

 
 

For all those players who plan to build a FIFA 17 Bundesliga squad, we’ve conducted an extensive analysis on the best players.

Here is our guide to the top German league in FIFA 17 Ultimate Team.

 
 
 
 

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Introduction to the FIFA 17 Bundesliga Squad Guide

 

Building a team is the biggest challenge in FIFA 17 Ultimate Team. It doesn’t need to be the best team, this is because the budget may not allow it, but it needs to be the player’s stature for him to obtain success.

When choosing which players to play with, you will have to look carefully at their attributes. Choosing a team based on ratings is one of the most common mistakes on FUT 17. It’s precisely this aspect that this guide focuses on. For each position, and focusing on the truly important attributes, we’ll show you who are the best athletes to choose.

It’s also important that the player checks to see if the player he chooses fits the formations he likes to play in. For example, a good full back will be useless if the player only uses a formation with three defenders. According to these formations, the player must be cautious and look at the work rate. Try to relate them with the ones we advise in our Formations Guide.

Last but not least, it’s mandatory that you tune all of your team so that the individual and team chemistry will be as high possible. For this last step to be easier, the majority of the players start to define the type of team they’re building. Some choose to gather players of the same nationality, while others decide to form a team of players from the same league. There are also more experienced players that can form hybrid teams without damaging team chemistry a lot.

All of these steps are necessary to have; or it could mean that the team is not always well built as it could be. This article aims to help those that want to form a FIFA 17 Bundesliga squad. Even the players that already have a team based in this league, could take out some valuable conclusions from this guide that could help you make your team even better.

We received thousands of comments about similar guides that we have published in previous years. Most of them have asked us to help improve their teams and the players they had. It’s important that the readers understand that this guide is simply guidance. It’s a theme too vast and the player combinations are almost infinite. Besides, there are various factors that influence the choices, like one’s style of play, the formations used, the available budget, the preferences or even the time spent playing. There’s still one uncertain component: a good player for someone might not be for another. If there was a better team everyone would fight to get it. Part of the fun of FIFA 17 Ultimate Team is this: everyone has their personal club and players.

Another important point and that must stay very clear is that whoever is reading this guide, it’s about some criteria we chose and should be of everyone’s knowledge:

Only Gold Players
In this guide we didn’t consider silver or bronze player. Most players don’t assume them to be a better option than gold players, so to simplify the guide’s analysis we didn’t include them. In the future we may come to publish guides exclusively talking about these qualities.

Only Regular Players
In this guide we didn’t consider In Forms (IF). They’re extremely expensive and in most cases are not considered good value for money. They should only be used by players with generous budgets, that already have the best team possible and that want small upgrades.

Only Normal Players
In this guide we didn’t consider players that have been transferred to other clubs or that have been reviewed (UP). Only players that started their season in the Bundesliga and with their original attributes were considered.

Only Original Attributes
In this guide we didn’t consider changes made on a players performance such happens when applying training or chemistry styles cards.

Position analysis
To make the comprehension of this guide easier we divided the players in nine distinct groups in order of their original position: Goalkeeper (GK), central backs (CB), right backs (RB and RWB), left backs (LB and LWB), central defensive midfielders (CDM) central midfielders (CM and CAM), right midfielders (RM, RW and RF), left midfielders (LM, LW and LF) and forwards (CF and ST).

Fluctuation of Prices
In the chapter where FIFA 17 Bundesliga squads are suggested, we added a link where you can check anytime the updated prices.

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Bundesliga

 

The Bundesliga lives in the shadow of Premier League and La Liga but the truth is that it has many quality players.

The qualification of the champion is made through the made points system. Whichever team gathers the most points wins the league. The first four classified gain access to the champions league of the next year, while the fifth and sixth qualify to the Europa League and the last three trade places with the first two qualified of the 2. Bundesliga and with the play-off winner. Every season starts in August and finishes in May, having 34 game weeks with nine matches each, being a total of 306 matches per season.

The Bundesliga is the most watched sports league in the world and the third best league classified in the UEFA league coefficients.

Started in 1962, the Bundesliga has been conquered by twelve clubs. The dominant club is Bayern Munich, with a total of 24 titles. Borussia Dortmund (5), Borussia Mönchengladbach (5), Werder Bremen (4), Hamburger SV (3), VfB Stuttgart (3), FC Köln (2) and FC Kaiserslautern (2) were the other teams that won more than once.

As of last season, Bundesliga lost some good players such as Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Manchester United), Ilkay Gündogan and Leroy Sané (Manchester City), Granit Xhaka (Arsenal) and Loris Karius (Liverpool).

These transfers didn’t necessarily make the Bundesliga weaker. The German teams spent more than 500 million Euros on strong reinforcements: Ousmane Dembélé and Raphaël Guerreiro (Borussia Dortmund), Aleksandar Dragovic (Bayer 04 Leverkusen), Breel Embolo (FC Schalke 04), Jeffrey Bruma and Mario Gómez (VFL Wolfsburg), Douglas Santos and Alen Halilovic (Hamburger SV), Naby Keïta and Oliver Burke (Leipzig). But the biggest signing of the season happened in Munich. Renato Sanches, best young player of the Euro 2016 and Golden Boy Award winner, signed with FC Bayern for a starting transfer fee around 30 million pounds.

The choices are a lot for which our guide will certainly be useful as to building a team with players from this league. Bundesliga is a good choice to who is looking for quality players, but doesn’t want to spend so much coins as happens in Premier League and La Liga based squads.

BUNDESLIGA
 
Total Players: 555
Gold Players: 249
Average Rating (Global): 72
 
Best New Cards:
Yevgen Konoplyanka
Mario Gomez
 
Highest Upgrades:
Mahmoud Dahoud (+19)
Andreas Christensen (+15)
Florian Grillitsch (+13)
 
Highest Downgrades:
Arjen Robben (-3)
Marian Sarr (-2)
Neven Subotić (-2)
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Best FIFA 17 Bundesliga Goalkeepers

GK
 

Goalkeepers are the players that are used least on the field. Because of this they are also first ignored when building a team. Most players start their purchases with a forward, later they strengthen the midfield, the defence and only later the goal. The truth is a good goalkeeper may be worth a lot of goals. They are a good investment because they are normally the most economically accessible players.

Manuel Neuer is the most popular goalkeeper in the world.

 

MOST HIGH-RATED GOALKEEPERS
Manuel Neuer	92	Bayern	GER
Bernd Leno	86	Leverkusen	GER
Ralf Fährmann	84	Schalke	GER
Yann Sommer	84	Mönchengladbach	SUI
Timo Horn	82	Köln	GER
Roman Bürki	81	Dortmund	SUI
René Adler	81	Hamburg	GER
Oliver Baumann	80	Hoffenheim	GER
Marwin Hitz	80	Augsburg	SUI
Diego Benaglio	79	Wolfsburg	SUI
Roman Weidenfeller	78	Dortmund	GER
Lukáš Hrádecký	78	Frankfurt	FIN
Koen Casteels	78	Wolfsburg	BEL
Jonas Lössl	77	Mainz	DEN
Jaroslav Drobný	77	Bremen	CZ

 

When choosing a good goalkeeper it’s not only down to his rating. There are two fundamental attributes for choosing a good goalkeeper: reflexes and diving.

The first measures a goalkeeper’s agility when making a save. The best on this aspect are Neuer and Fährmann .

 

GOALKEEPERS WITH BEST REFLEXES
Manuel Neuer	89	Bayern	GER
Ralf Fährmann	87	Schalke	GER
Yann Sommer	85	Mönchengladbach	SUI
Roman Bürki	84	Dortmund	SUI
Oliver Baumann	84	Hoffenheim	GER
Thomas Kraft	84	Berlin	GER
Bernd Leno	83	Leverkusen	GER
Timo Horn	83	Köln	GER
Lukáš Hrádecký	83	Frankfurt	FIN
Marwin Hitz	82	Augsburg	SUI
Koen Casteels	82	Wolfsburg	BEL
René Adler	81	Hamburg	GER
Jonas Lössl	79	Mainz	DEN
Sven Ulreich	79	Bayern	GER
Felix Wiedwald	79	Bremen	GER

 

Diving is a fundamental attribute when choosing a goalkeeper. It measures the capacity for a goalkeeper to make a save when jumping.

In this attribute, it is Neuer the best one. Again…

 

GOALKEEPER WITH BEST DIVING
Manuel Neuer	89	Bayern	GER
Bernd Leno	85	Leverkusen	GER
Ralf Fährmann	83	Schalke	GER
Yann Sommer	83	Mönchengladbach	SUI
Oliver Baumann	82	Hoffenheim	GER
Marwin Hitz	82	Augsburg	SUI
Roman Bürki	81	Dortmund	SUI
Sven Ulreich	81	Bayern	GER
Timo Horn	80	Köln	GER
René Adler	80	Hamburg	GER
Koen Casteels	80	Wolfsburg	BEL
Thomas Kraft	80	Berlin	GER
Jonas Lössl	79	Mainz	DEN
Diego Benaglio	77	Wolfsburg	SUI
Felix Wiedwald	77	Bremen	GER

 

The most experienced Ultimate Team players know that another leaning factor on a goalkeeper’s performance without considering the remaining four attributes: height. The more tall a goalkeeper is, better his chances of having a clean sheet.

The Bundesliga goalkeepers are very tall. From the 20 goalies, fifeen have at least 190cm. Koen Casteels is the tallest one, 14cm taller than Yann Sommer.

 

TALLEST GOALKEEPERS
Koen Casteels	197 / 6′6″	Wolfsburg	BEL
Ralf Fährmann	196 / 6′5″	Schalke	GER
Jonas Lössl	195 / 6′5″	Mainz	DEN
Diego Benaglio	194 / 6′4″	Wolfsburg	SUI
Manuel Neuer	193 / 6′4″	Bayern	GER
Timo Horn	192 / 6′4″	Köln	GER
Marwin Hitz	192 / 6′4″	Augsburg	SUI
Sven Ulreich	192 / 6′4″	Bayern	GER
Jaroslav Drobný	192 / 6′4″	Bremen	CZ
René Adler	191 / 6′3″	Hamburg	GER
Bernd Leno	190 / 6′3″	Leverkusen	GER
Roman Weidenfeller	190 / 6′3″	Dortmund	GER
Lukáš Hrádecký	190 / 6′3″	Frankfurt	FIN
Rune Almenning Jarstein	190 / 6′3″	Berlin	NOR
Felix Wiedwald	190 / 6′3″	Bremen	GER

 

The choice for the best Bundesliga goalkeeper on FIFA 17 Ultimate Team is really easy.

Besides being the best Bundesliga goalkeeper in the two most important attributes, Manuel Neuer is also the the one with best positioning, diving and kicking in the entire game.

Bernd Leno and Ralf Fährmann are very similar in the most important attributes. However, Leno is faster ans much better with the ball in the feet and for these reasons he is our second choice.

Despite being the shorter goalkeeper from Bundesliga, Sommer is our economic choice. He is a better choice than Bürki and Baumann to keep your goal safe.

GOALKEEPERS

Best Players
#1 Manuel Neuer
#2 Bernd Leno
#3 Ralf Fährmann
#4 Yann Sommer
#5 Roman Bürki

Economic Choice
Yann Sommer

 
 

Best FIFA 17 Bundesliga Goalkeeper
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Best FIFA 17 Bundesliga Centre Backs

CB
 

A goalkeeper task is made easier if in front of him are quality central backs. Their function is to stop the opponent from getting dangerously close to your team’s goal.

Jérôme Boateng is the centre back with best reputation in Bundesliga. He’s becoming better and better every year.

 

HIGHEST RATED CENTRE BACKS
Jérôme Boateng	90	Bayern	GER
Mats Hummels	87	Bayern	GER
Sokratis	84	Dortmund	GRE
Ömer Toprak	84	Leverkusen	TUR
Benedikt Höwedes	84	Schalke	GER
Javi Martinez	84	Bayern	ESP
Naldo	84	Schalke	BRA
Sven Bender	82	Dortmund	GER
Marc Bartra	81	Dortmund	ESP
Niklas Süle	81	Hoffenheim	GER
Matija Nastasić	80	Schalke	SRB
Jeffrey Bruma	80	Wolfsburg	NED
Emir Spahić	79	Hamburg	BOS
Lamine Sané	79	Bremen	SEN
Aleksandar Dragović	79	Leverkusen	AT

 

On a centre back, two attributes assume particular importance on their performance: defending and physical, which represents strength, stamina, aggression and jumping.

A player with good at defending will have an easier chance of dispossessing the opponent and avoid him reaching your box.

It’s the case of the two best rated players, Boateng and Hummels. It’s really hard to get past them. The most experienced players are normally those who have a higher rating with this attribute.

 

CENTRE BACKS WITH BEST DEFENDING
Jérôme Boateng	90	Bayern	GER
Mats Hummels	88	Bayern	GER
Ömer Toprak	86	Leverkusen	TUR
Naldo	86	Schalke	BRA
Sokratis	85	Dortmund	GRE
Benedikt Höwedes	84	Schalke	GER
Javi Martinez	84	Bayern	ESP
Sven Bender	84	Dortmund	GER
Marc Bartra	84	Dortmund	ESP
Niklas Süle	83	Hoffenheim	GER
Matija Nastasić	82	Schalke	SRB
Aleksandar Dragović	82	Leverkusen	AT
John Brooks	81	Berlin	USA
Tony Jantschke	81	Mönchengladbach	GER
Neven Subotić	81	Dortmund	SRB

 

The physical attribute shows the old heading capability but also how likely the players are to win game with their body. This is a crucial attribute when looking for the best centre back.

In this chapter Boateng and Papadopoulos are the strongest ones.

 

CENTRE BACKS WITH BEST PHYSICAL
Jérôme Boateng	85	Bayern	GER
Kyriakos Papadopoulos	84	RB Leipzig	GRE
Sokratis	83	Dortmund	GRE
Jeffrey Bruma	82	Wolfsburg	NED
Sven Bender	81	Dortmund	GER
Jannik Vestergaard	81	Mönchengladbach	DEN
Niklas Süle	80	Hoffenheim	GER
Aytaç Sulu	80	Darmstadt	TUR
Leon Balogun	80	Mainz	NIG
Martin Hinteregger	80	Augsburg	AT
Tobias Strobl	79	Mönchengladbach	GER
Cléber Reis	79	Hamburg	BRA
Benedikt Höwedes	78	Schalke	GER
Javi Martinez	78	Bayern	ESP
Lamine Sané	78	Bremen	SEN

 

Defending and heading may be useless against fast opponents. It’s necessary to fight fire with fire. No one likes feeling impotent when seeing you get overrun by extremely fast players. Even though, in a way, centre backs aren’t that fast, every team needs one of these players with a high pace attribute.

David Abraham and Boateng, always him, are the fastest centre back playing in the Bundesliga.

 

CENTRE BACKS WITH BEST PACE
David Abraham	81	Frankfurt	ARG
Jérôme Boateng	79	Bayern	GER
Sokratis	78	Dortmund	GRE
Ömer Toprak	76	Leverkusen	TUR
John Brooks	74	Berlin	USA
Marc Bartra	73	Dortmund	ESP
Naldo	72	Schalke	BRA
Jonathan Tah	72	Leverkusen	GER
Aleksandar Dragović	72	Leverkusen	AT
Leon Balogun	72	Mainz	NIG
Jeffrey Gouweleeuw	72	Augsburg	NED
Aytaç Sulu	71	Darmstadt	TUR
Marvin Matip	71	Ingolstadt	CAM
Cléber Reis	71	Hamburg	BRA
Matija Nastasić	70	Schalke	SRB

 

Jérôme Boateng is our number one choice for this position. Fast and with good defending and attacking attributes, he is for that the without a chance most expensive of all central backs of the Bundesliga.

The big question is: who will partner with Boateng? It isn’t easy to decide. Hummels is usually the most used, because he is the Bundesliga centre back with the best passing and dribbling stats. In fact he is a great player but, in our opinion, he’s not fast enough. Naldo and Sokratis are the best choices. They are much faster and have better physical stats. If you just need someone to help avoid conceding goals Sokratis, the cheapest of these three, is the right man for that job: he has more suitable work rates, jumps much much better (yes, twice!), is more aggressive, strong and in better shape.

CENTRE BACKS

Best Players
#1 Jérôme Boateng
#2 Sokratis
#3 Naldo
#4 Mats Hummels
#5 Ömer Toprak

Economic Choice
Sven Bender

 
 

Best FIFA 17 Bundesliga Centre Backs
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Best FIFA 17 Bundesliga Right Backs

RB | RWB
 

Full backs have the role of troubling the job of wingers. In addition, good full backs also support their team mates on offensive manoeuvres.

Philipp Lahm, back to this position, is the most popular right back playing in Bundesliga.

 

HIGHEST RATED RIGHT BACKS
Philipp Lahm	88	Bayern	GER
Łukasz Piszczek	82	Dortmund	POL
Coke	80	Schalke	ESP
Paul Verhaegh	78	Augsburg	NED
Christian Träsch	78	Wolfsburg	GER
Rafinha	78	Bayern	BRA
Matthias Ginter	77	Dortmund	GER
Roberto Hilbert	77	Leverkusen	GER
Peter Pekarík	77	Berlin	SVK
Sebastian Jung	77	Wolfsburg	GER

 

There are very important attributes for any right back: defending and pace.

Since they’re defenders they should have good defending capacities. This reduces a team’s risk of conceding.

In Germany, no one defends as well as Lahm.

 

RIGHT BACKS WITH BEST DEFENDING
Philipp Lahm	86	Bayern	GER
Łukasz Piszczek	81	Dortmund	POL
Matthias Ginter	80	Dortmund	GER
Coke	79	Schalke	ESP
Paul Verhaegh	78	Augsburg	NED
Tin Jedvaj	77	Leverkusen	CRO
Christian Träsch	76	Wolfsburg	GER
Rafinha	76	Bayern	BRA
Giulio Donati	76	Mainz	ITA
Roberto Hilbert	75	Leverkusen	GER

 

A flanked game tends to be faster than a game based in the middle of the field. The players that fill these spaces are obligated to be fast, both penetrating defensive and attacking moves of the team. Pace is one of the most important requirements for a good full back. Even in FIFA 17.

Brosinski is the fastest Bundesliga right-back in FIFA 17 Ultimate Team. Besides him, only Caiçara and Weiser may be considered reasonably fast.

 

RIGHT BACKS WITH BEST PACE
Daniel Brosinski	86	Mainz	GER
Júnior Caiçara	82	Schalke	BRA
Mitchell Weiser	81	Berlin	GER
Łukasz Piszczek	79	Dortmund	POL
Pavel Kadeřábek	78	Hoffenheim	CZ
Sebastian Jung	77	Wolfsburg	GER
Artem Fedetskyi	77	Darmstadt	UKR
Theodor Gebre Selassie	77	Bremen	CZ
Atsuto Uchida	77	Schalke	JAP
Roberto Hilbert	75	Leverkusen	GER

 

The right-backs are probably the most difficult choices of this league. Piszczek and Lahm are clearly the best players to this position but the one you should use depends of your needs. You should pick the Dortmund’s player if you use your right back to attack. If you don’t, then you need to play with Lahm. He is an amazing player but not fast enough, even applying him the right chemistry style, to play in the wing. Like his work rates show, he is a top defender but don’t expect from him much more than that.

If you don’t have enough coins to buy them, try Weiser, our economic choice.

RIGHT BACKS

Best Players
#1 Philipp Lahm
#2 Łukasz Piszczek
#3 Mitchell Weiser
#4 Daniel Brosinski
#5 Júnior Caiçara

Economic Choice
Mitchell Weiser

 
 
Best FIFA 17 Bundesliga Right Backs
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Best FIFA 17 Bundesliga Left Backs

LB | LWB
 

Left backs have exactly the same role of their team mates on the other flank. In other words, they try to make a winger’s job hard and participate in the team’s offensive manoeuvres.

David Alaba is the big name for this position. Ricardo Rodriguez is also used by many Ultimate Team fans.

 

HIGHEST RATED LEFT BACKS
David Alaba	87	Bayern	AT
Ricardo Rodríguez	83	Wolfsburg	SUI
Marcel Schmelzer	80	Dortmund	GER
Jonas Hector	80	Köln	GER
Oscar Wendt	79	Mönchengladbach	SWE
Bernat	79	Bayern	ESP
Wendell	78	Leverkusen	BRA
Abdul Rahman Baba	78	Schalke	GHA
Marvin Plattenhardt	77	Berlin	GER
Erik Durm	76	Dortmund	GER

 

If you need someone to defend, you need to pick Alaba.

 

LEFT BACKS WITH BEST DEFENDING
David Alaba	83	Bayern	AT
Ricardo Rodríguez	80	Wolfsburg	SUI
Marcel Schmelzer	79	Dortmund	GER
Jonas Hector	78	Köln	GER
Oscar Wendt	76	Mönchengladbach	SWE
Bernat	76	Bayern	ESP
Gaëtan Bussmann	76	Mainz	FRA
Sead Kolašinac	75	Schalke	BOS
Abdul Rahman Baba	74	Schalke	GHA
Marcel Schäfer	74	Wolfsburg	GER

 

Alaba, Baba and Wendell are much faster than any other left back.

 

LEFT BACKS WITH BEST PACE
David Alaba	86	Bayern	AT
Abdul Rahman Baba	86	Schalke	GHA
Wendell	86	Leverkusen	BRA
Raphaël Guerreiro	83	Dortmund	POR
Erik Durm	82	Dortmund	GER
Sead Kolašinac	80	Schalke	BOS
Bernat	79	Bayern	ESP
Oscar Wendt	78	Mönchengladbach	SWE
Douglas Santos	78	Hamburg	BRA
Marcel Schmelzer	77	Dortmund	GER

 

David Alaba is, in our opinion, the best left back playing in Bundesliga. He is one of the best left backs of FIFA 17, and that’s why he is widely used in hybrids squads.

Just like in previous years, Ricardo Rodriguez is still our second choice. He’s far from the Alaba quality but he costs several times less.

Wendell is fast and has a decent passing, making him the best alternative to the two most popular left backs from the Bundesliga.

LEFT BACKS

Best Players
#1 David Alaba
#2 Ricardo Rodríguez
#3 Wendell
#4 Marcel Schmelzer
#5 Bernat

Economic Choice
Wendell

 
 
Best FIFA 17 Bundesliga Left Backs
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Best FIFA 17 Bundesliga Defensive Midfielder

CDM
 

Many of the FIFA 17 Ultimate Team formations require some midfielders that have a natural aptitude to defend. Central defensive midfielders distinguish themselves for being especially aimed to help the more retreated line of their teams. According to their attributes and their work rates, they can also be useful for starting attacks. They are players that occupy a very strategic position in the field.

With regard to the popularity, the supremacy of Xabi Alonso, Luiz Gustavo and Lars Bendter over all other Bundesliga central defensive midfielders is extremely clear.

 

HIGHEST RATED CENTRAL DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDERS
Xabi Alonso	84	Bayern	ESP
Luiz Gustavo	83	Wolfsburg	BRA
Lars Bender	83	Leverkusen	GER
Josuha Guilavogui	80	Wolfsburg	FRA
Sebastian Rode	80	Dortmund	GER
Daniel Baier	80	Augsburg	GER
Nuri Şahin	80	Dortmund	TUR
Julian Baumgartlinger	79	Leverkusen	AT
Julian Weigl	79	Dortmund	GER
Johannes Geis	79	Schalke	GER
Per Ciljan Skjelbred	78	Berlin	NOR
Christoph Kramer	78	Mönchengladbach	GER
Eugen Polański	78	Hoffenheim	POL
Pirmin Schwegler	77	Hoffenheim	SUI
Matthias Lehmann	76	Köln	GER

 

There are a variety of attributes in a central defensive midfielder that you have to give attention: defending, so that the first defender of team works; strength, so that you win all brawls in a prone area of the field; heading, to win possession in aerial moves like goal kicks; pace, so that you cover the most terrain on the field as possible; stamina, so they can equally participate in offensive and defensive moves (especially useful for players with high/high work rates); passing and possession so that he can properly start attacks. In our opinion the two first are the most important.

Normally using a central defensive midfielder is associated with having a deficit of elements in your defence. So, it makes sense that when you search for a player to occupy this position you’d want players that can defend.

Luiz Gustavo, Bender and Guilavogui are really good choices for teams that want to complicate an opponent’s game in the space between the midfield and the defence.

 

CENTRAL DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDERS WITH BEST DEFENDING
Luiz Gustavo	83	Wolfsburg	BRA
Lars Bender	82	Leverkusen	GER
Josuha Guilavogui	82	Wolfsburg	FRA
Sebastian Rode	79	Dortmund	GER
Fabian Lustenberger	79	Berlin	SUI
Eugen Polański	78	Hoffenheim	POL
Roger	78	Ingolstadt	BRA
Julian Baumgartlinger	77	Leverkusen	AT
Xabi Alonso	76	Bayern	ESP
Johannes Geis	76	Schalke	GER
Christoph Kramer	76	Mönchengladbach	GER
Daniel Baier	75	Augsburg	GER
Kevin Vogt	75	Hoffenheim	GER
Dennis Aogo	75	Schalke	GER
Pirmin Schwegler	74	Hoffenheim	SUI

 

The area of the field occupied by the central defensive midfielders is the one where most ball disputes happen. Strong players will have a higher probability of winning the ball.

Baumgartlinger is the best on this side.

 

CENTRAL DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDERS WITH BEST PHYSICAL
Julian Baumgartlinger	84	Leverkusen	AT
Luiz Gustavo	82	Wolfsburg	BRA
Josuha Guilavogui	81	Wolfsburg	FRA
Roger	81	Ingolstadt	BRA
Kevin Vogt	81	Hoffenheim	GER
Lars Bender	80	Leverkusen	GER
Eugen Polański	80	Hoffenheim	POL
Sebastian Rode	79	Dortmund	GER
Johannes Geis	78	Schalke	GER
Christoph Kramer	76	Mönchengladbach	GER
Dennis Aogo	76	Schalke	GER
Benjamin Stambouli	76	Schalke	FRA
Per Ciljan Skjelbred	75	Berlin	NOR
Matthias Lehmann	74	Köln	GER
Dominik Kohr	74	Augsburg	GER

 

If you are used to read our players reviews, you already know that we hate slow players. Sometimes, when a player has amazing stats we make an effort to like him. That’s not the case of Xabi Alonso. This man is slower than our grandma!

Luiz Gustavo is the most balanced defensive midfielder of this league. He will offer security to your back line. However, if you need someone more focused in the attack, we suggest you Rode and Bender.

CENTRE DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDERS

Best Players
#1 Luiz Gustavo
#2 Sebastian Rode
#3 Lars Bender
#4 Josuha Guilavogui
#5 Xabi Alonso

Economic Choice
Sebastian Rode

 
 
Best FIFA 17 Bundesliga Central Defensive Midfielders
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Best FIFA 17 Bundesliga Centre Midfielders

CM | CAM
 

A lot of games are decided in the midfield and not close to the goals. The players that play in these zones are the ones that should create the game and define its rhythm.

Arturo Vidal is by far the centre midfielder most rated in the Bundesliga.

 

HIGHEST RATED CENTRE MIDFIELDERS
Arturo Vidal	87	Bayern	CHI
Thiago	84	Bayern	ESP
Mario Götze	84	Dortmund	GER
Julian Draxler	84	Wolfsburg	GER
Shinji Kagawa	83	Dortmund	JAP
Gonzalo Castro	82	Dortmund	GER
Hakan Çalhanoğlu	80	Leverkusen	TUR
Kevin Kampl	80	Leverkusen	SVN
Max Meyer	80	Schalke	GER
Daniel Didavi	80	Wolfsburg	GER
Mahmoud Dahoud	79	Mönchengladbach	GER
Vladimír Darida	79	Berlin	CZ
Maximilian Arnold	79	Wolfsburg	GER
Thorgan Hazard	79	Mönchengladbach	BEL
Alen Halilović	79	Hamburg	CRO
Yunus Mallı	79	Mainz	TUR
Zlatko Junuzović	79	Bremen	AT
Leon Goretzka	79	Schalke	GER
Charles Aránguiz	79	Leverkusen	CHI
Joshua Kimmich	78	Bayern	GER

 

Centre midfielders are responsible for discovering lines that break the opponents defence. Their passing quality has to be really good so they can assist forwards.

Passing stat is very balanced between the centre midfielders of Bundesliga.

 

CENTRE MIDFIELDERS WITH BEST PASSING
Thiago	82	Bayern	ESP
Gonzalo Castro	82	Dortmund	GER
Charles Aránguiz	82	Leverkusen	CHI
Zlatko Junuzović	81	Bremen	AT
Arturo Vidal	80	Bayern	CHI
Julian Draxler	80	Wolfsburg	GER
Hakan Çalhanoğlu	80	Leverkusen	TUR
Joshua Kimmich	79	Bayern	GER
Lewis Holtby	79	Hamburg	GER
Mario Götze	78	Dortmund	GER
Max Meyer	78	Schalke	GER
Alen Halilović	78	Hamburg	CRO
Pascal Groß	78	Ingolstadt	GER
Vladimír Darida	77	Berlin	CZ
Leon Goretzka	77	Schalke	GER
Kevin Kampl	76	Leverkusen	SVN
Thorgan Hazard	76	Mönchengladbach	BEL
Sebastian Rudy	76	Hoffenheim	GER
Aaron Hunt	76	Hamburg	GER
Fabian Frei	76	Mainz	SUI

 

A Centre midfielder usually needs creativity. Good dribbling allows the team to move forward, creating potential disequilibrium’s.

In this league, only Robben and Ribery have better dribbling than Götze and Thiago.

 

CENTRE MIDFIELDERS WITH BEST DRIBBLING
Thiago	89	Bayern	ESP
Mario Götze	89	Dortmund	GER
Shinji Kagawa	87	Dortmund	JAP
Julian Draxler	86	Wolfsburg	GER
Max Meyer	85	Schalke	GER
Kevin Kampl	85	Leverkusen	SVN
Gonzalo Castro	82	Dortmund	GER
Thorgan Hazard	82	Mönchengladbach	BEL
Mahmoud Dahoud	82	Mönchengladbach	GER
Yunus Mallı	82	Mainz	TUR
Alen Halilović	81	Hamburg	CRO
Koo Ja Cheol	81	Augsburg	KOR
Zlatko Junuzović	80	Bremen	AT
Vladimír Darida	80	Berlin	CZ
Arturo Vidal	79	Bayern	CHI
Daniel Didavi	79	Wolfsburg	GER
Lewis Holtby	79	Hamburg	GER
Renato Sanches	79	Bayern	POR
Valentin Stocker	79	Berlin	SUI
Hakan Çalhanoğlu	78	Leverkusen	TUR

 

Arturo Vidal is undoubtedly the best player for this position. He is strong, fast and with great stats for all other attributes, including amazing stamina and work rate. He can play as CAM, CM or even CDM.

Our second choice is Renato Sanches. If you are asking why we have chosen a 78 rated player, that’s because you haven’t tried him yet. He is a beast, one of the best surprises this year. There is a casting issue with the Golden Boy winner: he is not a CAM or a CM. In the best of chances, he is a CDM. With his high/high work rate, amazing stamina, strength and aggression the best you can do is to give him freedom to play every where.

Draxler and Thiago are both great players. You should pick them according to your needs: the Wolfsburg player is more suitable to the CAM position, while the Spanish midfielder plays better as CM. The same applies to Gonzalo Castro and Mario Götze, in a slightly lower qualitative level.

For lower budgets, we also recommend Çalhanoglu and Goretzka, our economic choice.

CENTRE MIDFIELDERS

Best Players
#1 Arturo Vidal
#2 Renato Sanches
#3 Julian Draxler
#4 Thiago
#5 Gonzalo Castro

Economic Choice
Leon Goretzka

 
 
Best FIFA 17 Bundesliga Centre Midfielders
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Best FIFA 17 Bundesliga Right Wingers

RM | RW | RF
 

The wingers are responsible for giving game width in the attack. They’re normally very explosive players.

Arjen Robben is the right winger most popular who play in Bundesliga.

 

HIGHEST RATED RIGHT WINGERS
Arjen Robben	87	Bayern	NED
Karim Bellarabi	83	Leverkusen	GER
Patrick Herrmann	81	Mönchengladbach	GER
Vieirinha	81	Wolfsburg	POR
Ibrahima Traoré	80	Mönchengladbach	GUI
Jakub Błaszczykowski	79	Wolfsburg	POL
Sidney Sam	77	Schalke	GER
Jonas Hofmann	77	Mönchengladbach	GER
Nicolai Müller	77	Hamburg	GER
Ousmane Dembélé	77	Dortmund	FRA
Marcel Risse	77	Köln	GER
Pablo De Blasis	76	Mainz	ARG
Lukas Rupp	76	Hoffenheim	GER
Breel Embolo	76	Schalke	SUI
Christian Clemens	76	Mainz	GER

 

There are three fundamental attributes for a winger: pace, dribbling and passing.

Pace is probably the biggest weapon of these players. They use it to evade opponents and getting to the other side, many times via sprints on the side lines.

The Bundesliga is well served in this chapter. Three gold players have pace 90 or higher, being the highlighted Heller. In other hand, the age of Robben costs him a decrease of 6 points.

 

FASTEST RIGHT WINGERS
Marcel Heller	93	Darmstadt	GER
Patrick Herrmann	91	Mönchengladbach	GER
Karim Bellarabi	90	Leverkusen	GER
Ibrahima Traoré	88	Mönchengladbach	GUI
Nicolai Müller	88	Hamburg	GER
Arjen Robben	86	Bayern	NED
Sidney Sam	86	Schalke	GER
Marcel Risse	86	Köln	GER
Breel Embolo	86	Schalke	SUI
Christian Clemens	85	Mainz	GER
Ousmane Dembélé	84	Dortmund	FRA
Genki Haraguchi	83	Berlin	JAP
Fin Bartels	82	Bremen	GER
Pablo De Blasis	81	Mainz	ARG
Vieirinha	80	Wolfsburg	POR

 

Just being fast doesn’t cut it to reach the opponents box, having good dribbling to surpass the opponents’ players that appear on the way.

There are a lot of players gifted in dribbling, but in Bundesliga no one can be compared to Robben.

 

RIGHT WINGERS WITH BEST DRIBLLING
Arjen Robben	90	Bayern	NED
Karim Bellarabi	85	Leverkusen	GER
Vieirinha	85	Wolfsburg	POR
Ibrahima Traoré	85	Mönchengladbach	GUI
Patrick Herrmann	83	Mönchengladbach	GER
Ousmane Dembélé	82	Dortmund	FRA
Pablo De Blasis	82	Mainz	ARG
Jakub Błaszczykowski	81	Wolfsburg	POL
Genki Haraguchi	81	Berlin	JAP
Sidney Sam	79	Schalke	GER
Breel Embolo	79	Schalke	SUI
Fin Bartels	79	Bremen	GER
Nicolai Müller	78	Hamburg	GER
Jonas Hofmann	78	Mönchengladbach	GER
Lukas Rupp	78	Hoffenheim	GER

 

When reaching the opponents box the winger has to decide what to do. Normally, they choose to cross to the forwards. That is why it’s important for them to have good passing.

Only Robben offers good quality passing.

 

RIGHT WINGERS WITH BEST PASSING
Arjen Robben	81	Bayern	NED
Vieirinha	77	Wolfsburg	POR
Jakub Błaszczykowski	77	Wolfsburg	POL
Karim Bellarabi	75	Leverkusen	GER
Patrick Herrmann	75	Mönchengladbach	GER
Lukas Rupp	75	Hoffenheim	GER
Ibrahima Traoré	74	Mönchengladbach	GUI
Jonas Hofmann	73	Mönchengladbach	GER
Sidney Sam	72	Schalke	GER
Christian Clemens	72	Mainz	GER
Nicolai Müller	71	Hamburg	GER
Marcel Risse	71	Köln	GER
Ousmane Dembélé	70	Dortmund	FRA
Pablo De Blasis	70	Mainz	ARG
Alessandro Schöpf	69	Schalke	AT

 

Robben is clearly the most indicated players to occupy this position in a team without budget restraints. He is the right winger with best passing, shooting and dribbling in this league. The only problem is his price.

For those that can’t pay so many coins, Bellarabi is the best alternative. He is really fast and has a great dribbling stat.

If you want to save your coins, don’t waste them on Dembelé. He’s more popular than Herrman, Traoré or Vierinha but his skills don’t justify the extra money you have to pay for him.

RIGHT MIDFIELDERS

Best Players
#1 Arjen Robben
#2 Karim Bellarabi
#3 Patrick Herrmann
#4 Ibrahima Traoré
#5 Vieirinha

Economic Choice
Patrick Herrmann

 
 
Best FIFA 17 Bundesliga Right Wingers
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Best FIFA 17 Bundesliga Left Wingers

LM | LW | LF
 

The left wingers have exactly the same role as their team mates from the other side.

Reus and Ribéry are the two most popular left wingers playing in Bundesliga.

 

HIGHEST RATED LEFT WINGERS
Marco Reus	88	Dortmund	GER
Franck Ribéry	86	Bayern	FRA
Douglas Costa	84	Bayern	BRA
Yevgen Konoplyanka	83	Schalke	UKR
Salomon Kalou	81	Berlin	IVC
Kingsley Coman	81	Bayern	FRA
André Schürrle	81	Dortmund	GER
Filip Kostić	80	Hamburg	SRB
Julian Brandt	79	Leverkusen	GER
Fabian Johnson	79	Mönchengladbach	USA
Daniel Caligiuri	79	Wolfsburg	ITA
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting	78	Schalke	CAM
Jairo	77	Mainz	ESP
Takashi Usami	77	Augsburg	JAP
Leonardo Bittencourt	77	Köln	GER

 

The left wingers of the Bundesliga are even faster than the ones of the right side.

 

LEFT WINGERS WITH BEST PACE
Kingsley Coman	93	Bayern	FRA
Douglas Costa	92	Bayern	BRA
Marco Reus	90	Dortmund	GER
Yevgen Konoplyanka	90	Schalke	UKR
Filip Kostić	90	Hamburg	SRB
André Schürrle	88	Dortmund	GER
Fabian Johnson	87	Mönchengladbach	USA
Jairo	87	Mainz	ESP
Florian Kainz	86	Bremen	AT
Leonardo Bittencourt	84	Köln	GER
Caiuby	84	Augsburg	BRA
Franck Ribéry	82	Bayern	FRA
Daniel Caligiuri	81	Wolfsburg	ITA
Julian Brandt	79	Leverkusen	GER
Jonathan Schmid	79	Augsburg	FRA

 

In the world, only four players have better dribbling than Ribery.

 
 

LEFT WINGERS WITH BEST DRIBBLING
Franck Ribéry	90	Bayern	FRA
Marco Reus	86	Dortmund	GER
Douglas Costa	86	Bayern	BRA
Yevgen Konoplyanka	84	Schalke	UKR
Kingsley Coman	84	Bayern	FRA
Salomon Kalou	84	Berlin	IVC
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting	83	Schalke	CAM
André Schürrle	82	Dortmund	GER
Daniel Caligiuri	82	Wolfsburg	ITA
Julian Brandt	82	Leverkusen	GER
Filip Kostić	81	Hamburg	SRB
Leonardo Bittencourt	81	Köln	GER
Takashi Usami	80	Augsburg	JAP
Admir Mehmedi	80	Leverkusen	SUI
Emil Forsberg	80	RB Leipzig	SWE

 

Franck Ribéry and Marco Reus have passing stats very similar.

 
 

LEFT WINGERS WITH BEST PASSING
Marco Reus	84	Bayern	POL
Franck Ribéry	83	Bayern	GER
Yevgen Konoplyanka	81	Dortmund	GAB
Douglas Costa	78	Leverkusen	MEX
Fabian Johnson	76	Wolfsburg	GER
Filip Kostić	75	Mönchengladbach	BRA
Kingsley Coman	74	Schalke	NED
André Schürrle	74	Mönchengladbach	GER
Daniel Caligiuri	74	Leverkusen	GER
Julian Brandt	74	Bremen	GER
Takashi Usami	74	Köln	FRA
Leonardo Bittencourt	73	Mönchengladbach	GER
Salomon Kalou	72	Bremen	PER
Jairo	72	Frankfurt	GER
Emil Forsberg	72	Berlin	BOS

 

There is an old rule for FIFA videogames: the cover athlete receives a bonus in his stats. We are not saying that Reus is not a great player, but probably we didn’t needed to test him to know that he is better than Ribery and Douglas Costa. Between these two, our preference goes to the younger one, mainly because of his pace.

It’s incredible to see so many quality players for this position in the Bundesliga. Not even Schürrle is in the top 5.

Like in FIFA 16, Kostić and Fabian Johnson are great options for low budget teams.

LEFT MIDFIELDERS

Best Players
#1 Marco Reus
#2 Douglas Costa
#3 Franck Ribéry
#4 Yevgen Konoplyanka
#5 Kingsley Coman

Economic Choice
Filip Kostić

 
 
Best FIFA 17 Bundesliga Left Wingers
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Best FIFA 17 Bundesliga Forwards

CF | ST
 

The forwards are the players on which fall the most responsibility of scoring goals.

Lewandowski is in his career’s top-form.

 

HIGHEST RATED FORWARDS
Robert Lewandowski	90	Bayern	POL
Thomas Müller	87	Bayern	GER
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	86	Dortmund	GAB
Javier Hernández	83	Leverkusen	MEX
Mario Gómez	82	Wolfsburg	GER
Raffael	82	Mönchengladbach	BRA
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar	81	Schalke	NED
Lars Stindl	81	Mönchengladbach	GER
Kevin Volland	81	Leverkusen	GER
Max Kruse	80	Bremen	GER
Anthony Modeste	80	Köln	FRA
André Hahn	79	Mönchengladbach	GER
Claudio Pizarro	79	Bremen	PER
Alexander Meier	79	Frankfurt	GER
Vedad Ibišević	78	Berlin	BOS
Adrián Ramos	78	Dortmund	COL
Stefan Kießling	78	Leverkusen	GER
Raúl Bobadilla	78	Augsburg	PAR
Pierre-Michel Lasogga	77	Hamburg	GER
Andrej Kramarić	77	Hoffenheim	CRO

 

To score goals shooting is necessary. If either by foot or head, the most important attribute for a forward are: shooting, heading and pace.

Most goals are scored with the foot so good shooting is a necessary attribute for a forward.

The most rated forwards are the ones that best shooting: Lewandowski and Aubameyang.

 

FORWARDS WITH BEST SHOOTING
Robert Lewandowski	87	Bayern	POL
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	84	Dortmund	GAB
Thomas Müller	83	Bayern	GER
Mario Gómez	83	Wolfsburg	GER
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar	82	Schalke	NED
Lars Stindl	82	Mönchengladbach	GER
Alexander Meier	82	Frankfurt	GER
Javier Hernández	81	Leverkusen	MEX
Kevin Volland	81	Leverkusen	GER
Claudio Pizarro	80	Bremen	PER
Alfreð Finnbogason	80	Augsburg	ICE
Raffael	79	Mönchengladbach	BRA
Max Kruse	79	Bremen	GER
Pierre-Michel Lasogga	79	Hamburg	GER
Anthony Modeste	78	Köln	FRA
André Hahn	78	Mönchengladbach	GER
Vedad Ibišević	78	Berlin	BOS
Stefan Kießling	78	Leverkusen	GER
Raúl Bobadilla	78	Augsburg	PAR
Sandro Wagner	78	Hoffenheim	GER

 

Jump, strength and stamina are the ingredients to the new physical attribute, very important when we are analysing the best forwards: jump to score with the head; strength to dispute the ball with the opponents; and stamina to sprint in direction of goal at any time of the game.

Most of the best Bundesliga strikers don’t have good physical. It’s not the case of Raúl Bobadilla.

 

FORWARDS WITH BEST PHYSICAL
Raúl Bobadilla	86	Augsburg	PAR
André Hahn	83	Mönchengladbach	GER
Robert Lewandowski	82	Bayern	POL
Kevin Volland	82	Leverkusen	GER
Stefan Kießling	82	Leverkusen	GER
Jhon Córdoba	82	Mainz	COL
Sandro Wagner	82	Hoffenheim	GER
Pierre-Michel Lasogga	81	Hamburg	GER
Anthony Modeste	80	Köln	FRA
Haris Seferović	79	Frankfurt	SUI
Mario Gómez	78	Wolfsburg	GER
Julian Schieber	77	Berlin	GER
Vedad Ibišević	75	Berlin	BOS
Franco Di Santo	75	Schalke	ARG
Lars Stindl	74	Mönchengladbach	GER
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar	73	Schalke	NED
Alexander Meier	73	Frankfurt	GER
Thomas Müller	72	Bayern	GER
Adrián Ramos	72	Dortmund	COL
Alfreð Finnbogason	72	Augsburg	ICE

 

Depending on the style of play and formation, having good shooting and heading may not be enough for a striker. Especially in games that privilege counter-attack, pace is a very important attribute.

Aubameyang is the fastest player in the game.

 

FORWARDS WITH BEST PACE
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	96	Dortmund	GAB
Timo Werner	90	RB Leipzig	GER
André Hahn	85	Mönchengladbach	GER
Javier Hernández	83	Leverkusen	MEX
Adrián Ramos	82	Dortmund	COL
Robert Lewandowski	81	Bayern	POL
Eduardo Vargas	81	Hoffenheim	CHI
Jhon Córdoba	80	Mainz	COL
Kevin Volland	79	Leverkusen	GER
Thomas Müller	78	Bayern	GER
Yoshinori Mutō	78	Mainz	JAP
Josip Drmić	77	Mönchengladbach	SUI
Anthony Modeste	76	Köln	FRA
Mark Uth	75	Hoffenheim	GER
Raffael	74	Mönchengladbach	BRA
Max Kruse	74	Bremen	GER
Raúl Bobadilla	73	Augsburg	PAR
Franco Di Santo	73	Schalke	ARG
Andrej Kramarić	73	Hoffenheim	CRO
Mario Gómez	72	Wolfsburg	GER

 

Having Lewandowski and Aubameyang together in the same team is so hype! The Bayern’s striker is better in almost everything but who doesn’t want to try the fastest player of the game? Aubameyang is even better this year! Thomas Müller is a very balanced forward, but far from the quality of these two.

There is a lack of quality strikers for medium budget squads. The best three we found were Javier Hernández, Hahn and Volland. Our preference goes for the first one, mainly because of his pace. Hahn is faster than him and also has very interesting stats but his work rate medium/high is not the best one for a striker.

FORWARDS

Best Players
#1 Robert Lewandowski
#2 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
#3 Thomas Müller
#4 Javier Hernández
#5 André Hahn

Economic Choice
Kevin Volland

 
 
Best FIFA 17 Bundesliga Forwards
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

FIFA 17 Bundesliga Squad Suggestions

 

A lot of people think that this is the most important part of the guide. It’s not. The thing that is really important to know is how to choose players based on their role and style of play that fits each player. The team suggestions that follow are simple graphic indicators of what we wrote previously. They should serve merely as orientation because it’s impossible to build a team that fits everyone. They depend on various factors we don’t know such as budget, formation, style of play and player preferences.

To try and explore the needs of the maximum player as possible we suggest three teams with different budgets and formations: 4-1-2-1-2 with unlimited budget, 4-3-3 with medium budget and 4-4-2 with a low budget.

 
 
 
 

FIFA 17 Bundesliga Squad with Unlimited Budget

 

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First Squad
 

GK: Manuel Neuer
RB: Philipp Lahm
CBR: Jérôme Boateng
CBL: Sokratis
LB: David Alaba
CDM: Renato Sanches
RM: Arjen Robben
LM: Marco Reus
CAM: Arturo Vidal
STR: Robert Lewandowski
STL: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Substitutes and Reserves
 

GK: Bernd Leno
RB: Łukasz Piszczek
CB: Naldo
CB: Mats Hummels
LB: Ricardo Rodriguez
CDM: Luiz Gustavo
RM: Karim Bellarabi
LM: Douglas Costa
CAM: Julian Draxler
CF: Thomas Müller
ST: Javier Hernández

 
 
Budget
October 2016
 

Playstation 4: 1,6 million coins
Xbox One: 1,5 million coins

 
 
Updated Prices

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Summary

The choice for this team’s players was based on the analysis made previously.

If there are undoubted players in this team, Neuer is certainly one of them. It is clear his superiority.

Boateng and Alaba are untouchables in any defence of any league. In the right side you can use Lahm, if you want to keep your goal safe, or you can play with Piszczek, if you need someone able to attack. In our opinion, the other spot of the defence should be filled by Sokratis or eventually by Naldo. Hummels is too slow to take this position.

It is very unusual to see a 78 rated player in the starting eleven of an unlimited budget squad but Renato Sanches deserves it. He is better than any other native CDM of this league. In front of him, Vidal is another player with high/high work rate and with an amazing stamina, making this midfield one of the most feared.

Who builds an unlimited budget Bundesliga squad must use a formation with wingers. Robben, Reus, Ribéry and Douglas Costa are four of the best wingers in the game. Aubameyang and Lewandowski are the perfect pair to the attack. They complement each other very well.

Once all the players reach maximum individual chemistry via loyalty (achieved by each player after 10 matches for your club or by being pack pulled) you can go without a manager for your squad. They’ll be of no use while wasting contracts.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

FIFA 17 Bundesliga Squad with Medium Budget

 

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First Squad
 

GK: Bernd Leno
RB: Łukasz Piszczek
CBR: Sokratis
CBL: Naldo
LB: Ricardo Rodríguez
CMR: Julian Draxler
CMC: Renato Sanches
CML: Thiago
RW: Karim Bellarabi
LW: Yevgen Konoplyanka
ST: Javier Hernández

Substitutes and Reserves
 

GK: Ralf Fährmann
RB: Mitchell Weiser
CB: Ömer Toprak
CB: Sven Bender
LB: Wendell
CM: Luiz Gustavo
CM: Gonzalo Castro
CM: Mario Götze
RW: Patrick Herrmann
LW: Kingsley Coman
ST: André Hahn

 
 
Budget
October 2016
 

Playstation 4: 105k coins
Xbox One: 80k coins

 
 
Updated Prices

If you want to know the current prices of any player or of the full squad, please click here.

 
 
Summary

The choices for this more affordable team players was based on analysis made previously.

Most of the players of the previous team are too expensive to be used in the medium budget squad. Sokratis and Renato Sanches are the only two who keep been elected to the starting eleven. Leno, Naldo and Ricardo Rodriguez don’t have the same quality but they allow you to save many coins.

The central midfield position of this team has to be of Renato Sanches. He builds up the first barrier between your goal line and the opponent, making his physicality attributes count. Thiago and Draxler complete the midfield.

In the attack, Bellarabi and Konoplyanka have the mission to assist Javier Hernandez. If you need a stonger striker, use Adrián Ramos.

If you still have some room in your budget, Douglas Costa is the player that would improve this squad a lot.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

FIFA 17 Bundesliga with Low Budget

 

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First Squad
 

GK: Yann Sommer
RB: Daniel Brosinski
CBR: Sven Bender
CBL: Aleksandar Dragović
LB: Wendell
CMR: Luiz Gustavo
CML: Zlatko Junuzović
RM: Patrick Herrmann
LM: Filip Kostić
STR: André Hahn
STL: Kevin Volland

Substitutes and Reserves
 

GK: Roman Bürki
RB: Júnior Caiçara
CB: Neven Subotić
CB: John Brooks
LB: Marcel Schmelzer
CM: Sebastian Rode
CM: Kevin Kampl
RW: Ibrahima Traoré
LW: Fabian Johnson
ST: Adrián Ramos
ST: Anthony Modeste

 
 
Budget
October 2016
 

Playstation 4: 11k coins
Xbox One: 10k coins

 
 
Updated Prices

If you want to know the current prices of any player or of the full squad, please click here.

 
 
Summary

The choice for this budget team was based on analysis made previously.

In the goal, Yann Sommer is a decent very cheap goalkeeper. Brosinski, Bender, Dragović and Wendell are the four other defenders. Any of them is a great value for money.

On the midfield, Luiz Gustavo and Junuzović complement each other well. The first one is strong, quick and aggressive, the second is a player that usually pushes forward to assist his colleagues. Herrman and Kostić fill the wings in order to assist Hahn and Volland.

 
 
 

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