FUT 14 can be a complex game, especially if you don’t know all the cards. Everybody knows what a player card is but not everybody knows how a healing card works. In this article we explain what FIFA 14 Ultimate Team Consumables are and how to use them.
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- Introduction
Player Training Cards
Goalkeeper Training Cards
Manager’s Leagues Cards
Position Training Cards
Contract Cards
Fitness Cards
Healing Cards
Chemistry Styles Cards
FAQ
Introduction to FIFA 14 Ultimate Team Consumables
What is a consumable card ? FIFA 14 Ultimate Team Consumables are all the cards that can be applied to players, managers or the whole team to improve some of their features.
These cards are available in the transfer market and in packs and can be applied from the menu ‘Active Squad‘.
In FIFA 14 Ultimate Team, there is no limit for the consumables that you can store in your club. The consumables pile is unlimited.
You can use any of the three categories of these cards (gold, silver or bronze) independently of players’ or coach’s category. For example, you can apply a silver contract card to a gold player.
Example of a position training card application on FIFA 14 Ultimate Team
There are eight different types of FIFA 14 Ultimate Team Consumables cards:
- Training Items
Player
Goalkeeper
Manager’s League
Position
- Development Items
Contract
Fitness
Healing
Chemistry Styles
The effect of any of these cards can be boosted depending on the staff that you have stored in your club. Learn more about it HERE.
Check out, one by one, the FIFA 14 Ultimate Team Consumables Cards.
Player Training Cards
How the player training card works
Basically, this card corresponds to minister a specific technical training to the player. Depending of the card type, we can increase one or all six player’s technical attributes.
Each player training card can only be applied to one football player. Its effect is reflected in the following match, expiring after that. If you apply a training card to a player that stays on the reserves or on the bench, he will continue to benefit from the training effect until he plays.
The players cards in whom a training card was applied are distinguished from the others by a rectangle of the category colour in the rating area and by an arrow on the right side of the attribute that have been boosted.
A player can have only one or all six attributes improved. It is not possible to boost the same attribute more than once until he use it. When you apply a new training card to a player he loses the improved attributes of previous training cards.
Example
In the example of the image below, we applied a silver rare training card that increases all attributes by +6. In pace, the improvement was the higher possible, since no attribute may be greater than 99.
Example of a player training card application on FIFA 14 Ultimate Team
Player Training Cards
There are 21 different player training cards corresponding to seven of each one of the three categories.
Its effects are shown in the following table:
| PLAYER TRAINING CARDS | |||
| GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | |
| NON RARE | |||
| PACE | +15 | +10 | +5 |
| SHOOTING | +15 | +10 | +5 |
| PASSING | +15 | +10 | +5 |
| DRIBBLING | +15 | +10 | +5 |
| DEFENSE | +15 | +10 | +5 |
| HEADING | +15 | +10 | +5 |
| RARE | |||
| ALL | +10 | +6 | +3 |
Is it worth buying Player Training Cards ?
In our opinion, no.
It is very common to find beginners buying these cards thinking that its effect is permanent. It is not. It only last for one match. It is too expensive for a single match.
This type of card is essentially useful for the most important matches and when there are high prizes involved. As if it was an investment.
If you have head coaches in your club, you can get a bonus up to 50% when you apply a training card.
Goalkeeper Training Cards
How the goalkeeper training card works
Basically, this card corresponds to minister specific technical training to the goalkeeper. Depending of the card type, we can increase one or all six gk’s technical attributes.
Each goalkeeper training card can only be applied to one football player. Its effect is reflected in the following match,it then expires after that. If you apply a training card to a goalkeeper that stays on the reserves or on the bench, he will continue to benefit from the training effect until he plays.
The GK cards in whom a training card was applied are distinguished from the others by a rectangle of the category colour in the rating area and by an arrow on the right side of the attribute that has been improved.
A goalkeeper can have only one or all six attributes improved. It is not possible to boost the same attribute more than once until he use it. When you apply a new training card to a goalkeeper he loses the improved attributes of previous training cards.
The goalkeeper training cards are very similar to the player training cards, but only applicable to goalkeepers, so the rules are the same. The only reason a different type of card exists is because the technical attributes of goalkeepers are different from the technical attributes of other players.
Example
In the example of the image below, we applied a silver training card that increases speed by +6. Pay attention that as the training card was silver, the rectangle shown in the player card is also grey.
Example of a goalkeeper training card application on FIFA 14 Ultimate Team
Goalkeeper Training Cards
There are 21 different goalkeeper training cards corresponding to seven of each one of the three categories.
Its effects are shown in the following table:
| GOALKEEPERS’ TRAINING CARDS | |||
| GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | |
| NON RARE | |||
| DIVING | +15 | +10 | +5 |
| HANDLING | +15 | +10 | +5 |
| KICKING | +15 | +10 | +5 |
| REFLEXES | +15 | +10 | +5 |
| ACCELERATION | +15 | +10 | +5 |
| POSITIONING | +15 | +10 | +5 |
| RARE | |||
| ALL | +10 | +6 | +3 |
Is it worth buying Goalkeepers’ Training Cards ?
In our opinion, no.
It is very common to find beginners buying these cards thinking that its effect is permanent. It is not. It only last for one match. It is too expensive for a single match.
This type of card is essentially useful for the most important matches and when there are high prizes involved. As if it was an investment.
If you have goalkeeper coaches in your club, you can get a bonus up to 50% when you apply a training goalkeeper card.
Manager’s Leagues Cards
How the manager’s leagues cards works
The manager’s leagues cards allow you to change the league printed on the manager card to the one that is printed on the training card. For each card that you spend, you can change league once. You can buy the league card on the transfer market or get it in packs, apply to a manager and it will last until you change it with another league card. You can change the manager’s league as many times as you want.
It can be applied to any manager that you have in your club. The great interest of these cards is to match the main manager’s league with the league of higher number of players of your starting eleven. This will add one point to the individual chemistry of each player with the same league. With players in different leagues, you can try to match the nationalities to get that extra individual chemistry point. You can learn more about it HERE.
Example
In the example of the image below, we applied a manager league card to D. Moyes. His league is no longer the Barclays PL. Now it is the Serie A which makes him perfect for a hybrid Scottish – Serie A squad.
Example of a league manager card application on FIFA 14 Ultimate Team
Manager Training Cards
There are 39 different manager’s league cards. All of them are gold.
All the manager’s league cards are shown in the following table:
| MANAGER’S LEAGUE CARDS | ||
| LEAGUE | CATEGORY | |
| A-League | AUS 1 | Gold |
| A. Bundesliga | AUT 1 | Gold |
| Airtricity League | IRL 1 | Gold |
| ALJ League | SAU 1 | Gold |
| Allsvenskan | SWE 1 | Gold |
| Barclays PL | ENG 1 | Gold Rare |
| Bundesliga | GER 1 | Gold Rare |
| Bundesliga 2. | GER 2 | Gold |
| Camp. Petrobras | CHI 1 | Gold |
| Ekstraklasa | POL 1 | Gold |
| Eredivisie | NED 1 | Gold Rare |
| FL Championship | ENG 2 | Gold |
| Football League 1 | ENG 3 | Gold |
| Football League 2 | ENG 4 | Gold |
| Hellas Liga | GRE 1 | Gold |
| K League | KOR 1 | Gold |
| Liga Adelante | ESP 2 | Gold |
| Liga Bancomer MX | MEX 1 | Gold Rare |
| Liga BBVA | ESP 1 | Gold Rare |
| Liga do Brasil | BRA 1 | Gold Rare |
| Liga do Brasil B | BRA 2 | Gold |
| Liga Portuguesa | POR 1 | Gold Rare |
| Liga Postobón | COL 1 | Gold |
| Ligue 1 | FRA 1 | Gold Rare |
| Ligue 2 | FRA 2 | Gold |
| MLS | MLS | Gold Rare |
| Nacional B | ARG 2 | Gold |
| Primera División | ARG 1 | Gold Rare |
| Pro League | BEL 1 | Gold |
| Raiffeisen SL | SUI 1 | Gold |
| Russian League | RUS 1 | Gold Rare |
| Scottish Prem | SPFL | Gold |
| Serie A | ITA 1 | Gold Rare |
| Serie B | ITA 2 | Gold |
| South African FL | RSA 1 | Gold |
| Superliga | DEN 1 | Gold |
| Tippeligaen | NOR1 | Gold |
| TurkLig | TUR 1 | Gold Rare |
| Ukrayina Liha | UKR1 | Gold |
Is it worth buying Managers’ Training Cards ?
In our opinion, yes.
Chemistry is very important in the success of your team. Try to get the higher individual chemistry possible to all your players. If you are not building a squad with a single nationality it is extremely important to use a league card.
It makes sense to apply a manager’s league card to our main manager when we have set our squad. Otherwise, each time you change your players, you will need to use another league card on your main manager. To apply one of these cards to other managers is completely useless.
Position Training Cards
How the position training card works
The position training cards allow you to change the preferred position of a player to the one that is written on the training card. For each card that you spend, you can change position once. You can change the player position as many times as you want.
One of the most important factors in the chemistry is if players are playing in their preferred positions. Although they could play at any position, the team’s chemistry and the individual chemistry are strengthened if they are placed in the position written on their cards or, at least, in a similar position. You can learn more about this subject HERE.
As it is not always possible to make these positions match, there are training cards that help you to solve this problem. These cards are equivalent to training to adapt players to a new position in the field. By applying one of these cards to a player, we are changing the preferred position written on his card.
However, it is necessary to have in mind that the position training cards contain information about the old and the new position. If a player’s favourite position doesn’t match with the old position written on the training card, we cannot apply that card to him. In practice, it means, for example, that we will never be able to become a right back in a right wing.
Example
In the example of the image below, we applied a position training cards to Yaya Touré. His preferred position is no longer the CDM. Now it is the CDM.
Example of a position training card application on FIFA 14 Ultimate Team
Position Training Cards
There are 20 position training cards. All of them are gold rare.
Here are the sequences that you can make to change the preferred position of a player:
- RB-RWB; RWB-RB;
- LB-LWB: LWB-LB;
- RM-RW-RF; RF-RW-RM;
- LM-LW-LF; LF-LW-LM;
- CDM-CM-CAM-CF-ST; ST-CF-CAM-CM-CDM.
Preferred players positions that can be changed with training cards
All the position training cards are shown in the following table:
| POSITION TRAINING CARDS | |||
| RB-RWB | RWB-RB | LB-LWB | LWB-LB |
| RM-RW | RW-RM | LM-LW | LW-LM |
| RW-RF | RF-RW | LW-LF | LF-LW |
| CDM-CM | CM-CDM | CM-CAM | CAM-CM |
| CAM-CF | CF-CAM | CF-ST | ST-CF |
Is it worth buying Position Training Cards ?
In our opinion, yes.
When a player is assigned to play in a strange position to himself, the chemistry is strongly affected. Independently of his connections with team mates, he will never have more than individual chemistry of 4. This is very bad. However, it will also affect team chemistry.
If you bought or received a player with a different position from the one that he will play, apply him a position training card in order to, at least, adapt him to a similar position (see the table of similar positions).
In other hand, if your players already have individual chemistry of 10, you should not waste coins with position training cards.
Contract Cards
How the contract card works
A contract card allows a player or a manager to perform a certain number of matches.
When a player is released in a pack, he comes with 7 contracts except if he was released in the starter pack. In those cases, he has 45 matches.
When the number of matches written in the player or in the manager card reaches the zero, they will remain on your squad but can only contribute to your team when you apply one of these cards to them. The players or managers cards that are out of contracts, are distinguished from the others by having a folder icon.
The coloured box with a number inside represents how many contracts/matches a player of that category would get if you was to apply that specific contract to the player.
The number of matches that a player/manager card has can not be higher than 99. You can apply contract cards up to a maximum of 99 per player/manager.
Strategically it is a card with great importance, because it is the only consumable required in order to be able to play matches.
It is advantageous to apply a contract card of the same category of the player card. However, it doesn’t need to be like that. For example: you can apply a bronze contract card to a gold player.
The players contract cards can only be used on players and the managers contract cards can only be used on managers.
Example
In the example of the image below, we applied a contract card to Sturridge. As he is a gold player, this card gives him the chance to play more 3 matches. If he was a bronze or a silver player, the card would give him 15 or 6 extra matches. If his club has stored rare managers, he would benefit from an extra bonus.
Example of a contract card application on FIFA 14 Ultimate Team
Contract Cards
There are 6 contract cards in FIFA 14 Ultimate Team, two for each of the three categories.
All the contract cards are shown in the following tables, as well the number of matches that each one gives (it has changed from FUT13):
| PLAYERS’ CONTRACT CARDS | |||
| NUMBER OF MATCHES | |||
| BRONZE | SILVER | GOLD | |
| GOLD RARE | 28 | 24 | 28 |
| GOLD NON-RARE | 15 | 11 | 13 |
| SILVER RARE | 20 | 24 | 18 |
| SILVER NON-RARE | 10 | 10 | 8 |
| BRONZE RARE | 15 | 6 | 3 |
| BRONZE NON-RARE | 8 | 2 | 1 |
| MANAGERS’ CONTRACT CARDS | |||
| NUMBER OF MATCHES | |||
| BRONZE | SILVER | GOLD | |
| GOLD RARE | 24 | 24 | 28 |
| GOLD NON-RARE | 11 | 11 | 13 |
| SILVER RARE | 18 | 24 | 18 |
| SILVER NON-RARE | 8 | 10 | 8 |
| BRONZE RARE | 15 | 6 | 3 |
| BRONZE NON-RARE | 8 | 2 | 1 |
Is it worth buying Contract Cards ?
You have no choice. You must to buy it.
The contracts are the only consumables cards that you must to buy. As nothing replaces them, if you want to play matches you must purchase contracts.
The big trick to not spend a lot of coins on contracts is to store managers in your club that give you a bonus of 50%. Furthermore always study the relation price vs number of matches. Sometimes a silver contract card may be the cheapest option for your gold player.
The contract cards are not cheap, you should take some care following these tips: for the same price, always choose the players or managers cards that give you more matches; do not apply contract cards with many matches to players or managers who you do not know will be in your club much more time; do not waste contract cards if it exceed the 99 matches; and finally, but not least, only make substitutions that are strictly necessary.
Fitness Cards
How the fitness card works
When the fitness of one or more players is low, but they are not injured, it is possible to recover them thanks to the fitness card.
This card adds the number of points indicated on the item to the physical condition that is written on the player card. However, even if the sum of the two values is higher than 99, the physical condition is always limited by this value.
The fitness cards can be applied to any player, as many times you wish. When you apply a fitness card to a squad, the physical condition of all the players is improved, including the players of the bench or the reserves.
Example
In the example of the image below, we applied a fitness card to Fernando Torres. He has become in the best physical condition possible.
Example of a fitness card application on FIFA 14 Ultimate Team
Fitness Cards
There are 6 fitness cards in FIFA 14 Ultimate Team, two for each of the three categories.
All the fitness cards are shown in the following table, as well the number of fitness points that each one gives:
| FITNESS CARDS | |||
| FITNESS POINTS IMPROVEMENT | |||
| BRONZE | SILVER | GOLD | |
| PLAYER | 20 | 40 | 60 |
| SQUAD | 10 | 20 | 30 |
Is it worth buying Fitness Cards ?
No. Only in exceptional cases.
In our opinion, spending coins in fitness cards is a huge waste.
We do not recommend using players with less than 80 fitness points. The ideal is to replace them by others when their fitness is less than 90. It is therefore important to have a squad good enough to allow a rotation without much loss of quality.
When it is not enough, you may need to buy and to apply fitness cards. In that case, and since you want to increase the physical condition of at least two players, the fitness squad cards are the best option. Pay attention that, in general, it is a waste to buy fitness gold cards to a player. It is very uncommon to find a player that needs an improvement of 60 fitness points, so you should analyse very well your needs before buying these development cards.
If you have fitness coaches in your club, you can get a bonus up to 50% when you apply a fitness card.
Healing Cards
How the healing card works
Any player can get hurt in a match.
When it happens, the number of matches in which he will be missing appears written on his player card. The only solution for you not to be deprived of that player during that period is to apply him a healing card.
This type of card is divided into two groups: one for healing a specific injury and other to healing all the injuries. The first reduces downtime on the number of matches written on the card as the injury is in the foot, leg, knee, arm, head or back. The second has the same effect, but heals all the injuries that players suffer.
If the difference between the number written on the healing card and the number of downtime matches written on player card is equal or higher than zero, the player may play immediately.
The injured players, are distinguished from the others by the red rectangle with a sign in the rating area of their cards.
The healing cards can be applied to any player, as many times you wish.
Healing Cards
There are 21 healing cards in FIFA 14 Ultimate Team, seven for each of the three categories.
All the healing cards are shown in the following table:
| HEALING CARDS | |||
| BRONZE | SILVER | GOLD | |
| NON RARE | |||
| FOOT | +1 | +2 | +5 |
| LEG | +1 | +2 | +5 |
| KNEE | +1 | +2 | +5 |
| ARM | +1 | +2 | +5 |
| HEAD | +1 | +2 | +5 |
| BACK | +1 | +2 | +5 |
| RARE | |||
| ALL | +1 | +2 | +4 |
Is it worth buying Healing Cards ?
No, only in exceptional cases.
In our opinion, spending coins in healing cards is a huge waste.
The first caution that you should take is to do everything possible to avoid that your players get injured. Do not use players with low fitness, because they have a greater tendency to get injured, and avoid direct confrontation against aggressive opponents.
Whenever you have an injured player, put him in the reserves until he is recovered and replace him with another player. It is therefore important to have a squad good enough to allow a rotation without much loss of quality.
When it is not possible, you may need to buy and to apply healing cards.
If you have physios in your club, you can get a bonus up to 50% when you apply a healing card.
Chemistry Styles Cards
How the chemistry styles card works
The chemistry styles cards allow you to choose which stats are affected by chemistry. They do not change your chemistry numbers. These items can be applied to a player to change their style of play adjusting the players attributes to your squad needs.
In the active squad menu, you have a visual indicator (little chevrons) next to the stats of each player showing which ones will be affected by the chemistry and the maximum available stat boost. This does not represent the actual stat boost the player is receiving since it depends of his individual chemistry and team chemistry. To see how much will be the stats improvement you have to look to how much of these chevrons are green. The maximum number of chevrons that can be filled is 6. These chevrons are only indicators. Not necessarily mean that the attribute in question is going to be increased by the same number of points as the number of chevrons filled in green.
When a player is released in a card his chemistry style is basic (BAS), the starter style. It means that all his attributes are improved in the same way. If you want to change it, you can apply chemistry style cards that you can find in the transfer market or in packs. They are consumables. This means that you can use it once. However, you can apply these cards to each player as many times you want but only one per player at a time. As it happens with positioning cards, its effects are permanent unless you use a new one. If you trade it, the buyer will keep the style. The Chemistry Styles allow you to let choose what stats are changed but not how much it will change. It depends of your chemistry. If you get individual chemistry 10, you will get the higher improvement possible in the stats you have chosen.
An outfield player chemistry style can be applied to any outfield player. However, GK chemistry styles are exclusive to GKs and outfield player chemistry styles cannot be applied to a Goalkeeper.
You can learn more about the Chemistry Styles in our Chemistry Guide.
Example
In the example of the image below, we applied a Sniper chemistry style card to Neymar. With a good chemistry, it will improve his shooting and dribbling.
Example of a Chemistry Style card application on FIFA 14 Ultimate Team
Chemistry Styles Cards
There are 24 chemistry styles cards. All of them are gold.
All the chemistry styles cards are shown in the following table:
| CHEMISTRY STYLES CARDS | |||||||
| DIV | HAN | KIC | REF | SPD | POS | ||
| GK | |||||||
| BASIC | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| CAT | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| GLOVE | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| SHIELD | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| WALL | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| PAC | SHO | PAS | DRI | DEF | HEA | ||
| BASIC | |||||||
| BASIC | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| DEFENDING | |||||||
| SENTINEL | 3 | 3 | |||||
| GUARDIAN | 3 | 3 | |||||
| GLADIATOR | 3 | 3 | |||||
| BACKBONE | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| ANCHOR | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| MIDFIELD | |||||||
| ARTIST | 3 | 3 | |||||
| ARCHITECT | 3 | 3 | |||||
| POWERHOUSE | 3 | 3 | |||||
| MAESTRO | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| ENGINE | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| ATTACKING | |||||||
| SNIPER | 3 | 3 | |||||
| DEADEYE | 3 | 3 | |||||
| HAWK | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| MARKSMAN | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| FINISHER | 3 | 3 | |||||
| SPECIAL | |||||||
| HUNTER | 3 | 3 | |||||
| CATALYST | 3 | 3 | |||||
| SHADOW | 3 | 3 | |||||
Is it worth buying Chemistry Styles Cards ?
In our opinion, yes.
Don’t expect any miracles with chemistry styles cards. In the best of chances they only boost two of the basic attributes in three points. You should build your squad, test it and use these cards as a fine tuning. The chemistry styles are great to fix the weaknesses of your players.
On players with low individual chemistry, it makes no sense to use chemistry style cards.
Frequently Asked Questions about FUT 14 Consumables – FAQ
Q: Where can I get consumables cards ?
A: On the Transfer Market. Chose the filter ‘Consumables Search‘ if you are looking for training, position, leagues, contract, fitness, healing or chemistry styles cards.
Q: Can I apply a consumable on a player of a different category ?
A: Yes. You can use any of the three categories of these cards (gold, silver or bronze) independently of players’ or coach’s category.
Q: When I apply a training card to a player do his improved attributes stay this way forever ?
A: No. It lasts one match.
Q: If I apply many training cards to a player, can I make him a super player with all the attributes 99 ?
A: No. For each match, any attribute can only be improved once.
Q: What happens if I apply a training card to a player that stays on the reserves or on the bench ?
A: Nothing. He will continue to benefit from the training effect until he plays.
Q: It is possible to apply positioning cards to turn a CDM into a ST ?
A: Yes, it is. You just need to play ST-CF, CF-CAM, CAM-CM and CM-CDM cards.
Q: How do I know which similar positions cards can I apply to a player ?
A: Find it here.
Q: When should I apply a contract card ?
A: No later than when a player or a manager can be prevented from participating in a match due to lack of contracts.
Q: What means the numbers that are in a contract card ?
A: It is the number of matches that the card give according to the player category.
Q: When should I apply a fitness card ?
A: Avoid having to do it. We suggest that you do only if your players are with fitness lower than 90.
Q: Why can’t I sell an injured player ?
A: Because it is not possible. You can sell players and managers out of contracts but if they are injured, you need to give them a rest or applying them a healing card before you sell them.
Q: When should I apply a chemistry style card ?
A: When you feel that your team and player need a imporvment in some attributes.
Q: How may I know which stats are affected by each chemistry style ?
A: Click HERE and search for the chemistry style you want to know.
Q: Why stadiums, kits and balls are not consumables ?
A: Because you can not spend them. They are Items of Club.
Q: How can I reduce the cost of consumables ?
A: Start by hiring staff oriented to the consumables cards that you most often use. Don’t forget that rotation is one of the FIFA 14 Ultimate Team success keys.