FIFA Points Guide for FIFA 18 Ultimate Team

You know what are FIFA Points, right? But how to buy them? Will they carry over for FUT 18? This is the place where you will find all the answers. Welcome to the FIFA Points Guide for FIFA 18 Ultimate Team.

FIFA Points

What FIFA Points are?

FIFA Points are the FIFA currency used on the FUT 18 Store exclusively to purchase packs and FUT Draft entries.

It is considered a virtual currency as it meets the requirements of the European Central Bank definition (type of unregulated, digital money, which is issued and usually controlled by its developers, and used and accepted among the members of a specific virtual community) and of the US Treasury definition (medium of exchange that operates like a currency in some environments, but does not have all the attributes of real currency). In the case of FIFA 18, gamers use real money to buy FIFA Points and with them they purchase in-game items (packs).

FP were introduced on FIFA 12 Ultimate Team, exclusively for PC users. One year later, EA Sports added this currency to the other platforms – Playstation, XBox, iOS and Android – causing all the platforms use the same payment system. Before FIFA Points existed gamers bought packs paying with Microsoft Points or with Playstation Network credits.

A huge part of EA profit is made thanks to FIFA Points sales.

You can check how many FIFA Points you have, looking to the top left hand corner of any Ultimate Team menu from your console or Web App. If you never have bought FIFA Points, you will see a ‘0’ on the right side of a green icon.

Buy FIFA Points

How to Buy FIFA Points to use on FIFA 18 Ultimate Team?

Depending on the platform you play, FIFA Points can be purchased through various ways. Let’s describe each one of these methods.

Buy FIFA Points for Windows PC

Step 1
Open your Ultimate Team, browse to ‘Store’ and then select ‘FIFA Points’ on the top right corner.

Step 2
FP are sold in bundles. Choose how many FIFA Points you want to buy. You will be redirected to the Origin store.

Step 3
If you do have enough funds, you will be able to proceed with the payment and your download will start immediately. As soon as it ends, the FIFA Points will be added to your balance. However, if you do not have enough funds, you will have to add some money to your account. The payment methods available are: credit and debit card, Skirll Wallet and Boku SMS. These methods may be different depending on your region.

 
 
ORIGIN STORE

Step 1
Go to the Origin store and use your account details to login.

Step 2
Search for ‘FIFA Points’, select the amount of FP you want and click ‘Buy’.

Step 3
If you do have enough funds, you will be able to proceed with the payment and your download will start immediately. As soon as it ends, the FIFA Points will be added to your balance. However, if you do not have enough funds, you will have to add some money to your account through one of the payment methods available.

 
 
WEB APP

Step 1
Go to the Web App and use your account details to login.

Step 2
Click on the ‘Get More’ icon, at the right of your FIFA Points balance. You will be redirected to the Origin store.

Step 3
Select the amount of FP you want and click ‘Buy’.

Step 4
If you do have enough funds, you will be able to proceed with the payment and your download will start immediately. As soon as it ends, the FIFA Points will be added to your balance. However, if you do not have enough funds, you will have to add some money to your account through one of the payment methods available.

 
 
CODE

Step 1
Purchase a code for your platform in a store you trust. Don’t forget that the region should match to yours. You can find these codes in any of the most important retailers, like Amazon or Kinguin.

Step 2
Write “https://www.origin.com/us/about” on the address bar of your interner browser. Click ‘Download Origin’ (from the upper left corner).

Step 3
Install and start the application, login with your Account name and Password. Create one here if you don’t have.

Step 4
From the ‘Origin’ drop-down menu (upper left corner) choose ‘Redeem Product Code…’, enter your code and click ‘Next’.

Step 5
After successful code verification go to the ‘MY GAMES’ tab and start downloading.

Buy FIFA Points for Playstation 4

Step 1
Open your Ultimate Team, browse to ‘Store’ and then select ‘FIFA Points’ on the top right corner.

Step 2
FP are sold in bundles. Choose how many FIFA Points you want to buy. You will be redirected to the Playstation Store.

Step 3
If you do have enough funds, you will be able to proceed with the payment and your download will start immediately. As soon as it ends, the FIFA Points will be added to your balance. However, if you do not have enough funds, you will have to add some money to your console’s account. The payment methods available are: credit card, PayPal and pre-paid. These methods may be different depending on your region.

 
 
PLAYSTATION STORE

Step 1
Go to the Playstation Store and use your account details to login.

Step 2
Search for ‘FIFA Points’, select the amount of FP you want and click ‘Buy’. If you can’t find it, search on the ‘extras’ section.

Step 3
If you do have enough funds, you will be able to proceed with the payment and your download will start immediately. As soon as it ends, the FIFA Points will be added to your balance. However, if you do not have enough funds, you will have to add some money to your account through one of the payment methods available.

 
 
CODE

Step 1
Purchase a code for your platform in a store you trust. Don’t forget that the region should match to yours. You can find these codes in any of the most important retailers, like Amazon or Kinguin.

Step 2
Write “SonyEntertainmentNetwork.com” on the address bar of your interner browser and use your account details to login. You can also access your account via the Playstation App or console.

Step 3
Click on your persona (upper right corner) and click ‘Manage Account’.

Step 4
Click on ‘Redeem Prepaid Card’ (left side), enter the code printed on the voucher or PlayStation Network Card and click ‘Continue’.

Step 5
If the code is valid, you will be presented with a description of what the code will deliver to your account. Press ‘Redeem…’ button to add the item or funds to your account.

Buy FIFA Points for XBox One

Step 1
Open your Ultimate Team, browse to ‘Store’ and then select ‘FIFA Points’ on the top right corner.

Step 2
FP are sold in bundles. Choose how many FIFA Points you want to buy. You will be redirected to the Microsoft Marketplace.

Step 3
If you do have enough funds, you will be able to proceed with the payment and your download will start immediately. As soon as it ends, the FIFA Points will be added to your balance. However, if you do not have enough funds, you will have to add some money to your console’s account. The payment methods available are: credit card, PayPal and pre-paid. These methods may be different depending on your region.

 
 
XBOX MARKETPLACE

Step 1
Go to the XBox Marketplace and use your account details to login.

Step 2
Search for ‘FIFA Points’, select the amount of FP you want and click ‘Buy’.

Step 3
If you do have enough funds, you will be able to proceed with the payment and your download will start immediately. As soon as it ends, the FIFA Points will be added to your balance. However, if you do not have enough funds, you will have to add some money to your account through one of the payment methods available.

 
 
CODE

Step 1
Purchase a code for your platform in a store you trust. Don’t forget that the region should match to yours. You can find these codes in any of the most important retailers, like Amazon or Kinguin.

Step 2
Write “xbox.com” on the address bar of your interner browser and use your account details to login. You can also access your account via console.

Step 3
Hover over your account link (the top right of the screen) a menu will appear, click on the ‘Redeem Code’ button.

Step 4
On the next page, click ‘Redeem’ and enter the code you bought.

Step 5
Click ‘Confirm’ again to assign the key to your account.

Buy FIFA Points for Playstation 3

Step 1
Open your Ultimate Team, browse to ‘Store’ and then select ‘FIFA Points’ on the top right corner.

Step 2
FP are sold in bundles. Choose how many FIFA Points you want to buy. You will be redirected to the Playstation Store.

Step 3
If you do have enough funds, you will be able to proceed with the payment and your download will start immediately. As soon as it ends, the FIFA Points will be added to your balance. However, if you do not have enough funds, you will have to add some money to your console’s account. The payment methods available are: credit card, PayPal and pre-paid. These methods may be different depending on your region.

Buy FIFA Points for XBox 360

Step 1
Open your Ultimate Team, browse to ‘Store’ and then select ‘FIFA Points’ on the top right corner.

Step 2
FP are sold in bundles. Choose how many FIFA Points you want to buy. You will be redirected to the Microsoft Marketplace.

Step 3
If you do have enough funds, you will be able to proceed with the payment and your download will start immediately. As soon as it ends, the FIFA Points will be added to your balance. However, if you do not have enough funds, you will have to add some money to your console’s account. The payment methods available are: credit card, PayPal and pre-paid. These methods may be different depending on your region.

You can purchase FP for FIFA 18 starting from launch day, except if you play on PC or if you are an EA Access or Origin Access subscriber. Unless you have early access, you will not be able to transfer your old FIFA Points until the FIFA 18 release date.

Use FIFA Points

How to Use FIFA Points on FIFA 18 Ultimate Team?

After buying FP on the console, they will be immediately available to spend on the full Ultimate Team ecosystem, which includes the console, the FUT 18 Web App and the companion app. They are exclusively used to purchase packs and FUT Draft entries.

Buying Packs

You have two ways to pay FIFA 18 Ultimate Team packs: using coins or FP. To buy packs using FIFA Points, please follow these steps:

Step 1
Go to your console’s Ultimate Team, browse to ‘Store’ and choose which pack you want to buy.

Step 2
After you select the pack you want to buy, you will have to choose if you want to do it with coins or with FIFA Points. If you do not have enough funds, you will be redirected to the FP buying menu.

The following table shows how many FIFA Points you have to pay for each pack:

Paying Draft Entrance

To buy Draft Tokens using FP, please just go to the Draft mode and select ‘FIFA Points’ when asked about how you will going to pay. 300 FIFA Points will be debited from your account. You can also pay the entrance using one Draft Token or 15k coins.

Common Problems

Why you arefacing problems when trying to buy FIFA Points for FIFA 18 Ultimate Team?

It is not always easy to buy FIFA Points and FUT 18 packs. Let’s analyse the most common issues:

There is no option to buy packs with FIFA Points. Only with coins.
Be sure that you are not trying to buy a Bronze Pack, a Premium Bronze Pack, a Gold Contracts Pack or a Premium Bronze Players Pack. These packs can only be purchased with coins because they are very cheap.

My FP are not being transferred to FIFA 18.
The message that appears about being able to transfer FP from FIFA 17 to FIFA 18 is a one-time only transfer offer. If you’ve gone back into FIFA 17 to purchase FIFA Points after seeing this message, your points will not transfer over to FIFA 18.

When I go to the FUT store to buy FP, I get the message ‘The Store is not available at this time. Try again later‘.
Check if there is no maintenance happening and try two more times. Most of times it works. Otherwise, you will have to wait and try later.

I can’t purchase packs using FIFA Points and coins in the EAS FC Companion App.
To purchase packs using your FIFA Points and coins in the EASFC Companion App, you will need to purchase FIFA Points on your console. However, FIFA Points will only be visible on the Android and not on iOS. Additionally, iOS players are restricted to Coins and will not be able to see their current balance in the app.

My FP haven’t been credited or are missing.
If you bought FIFA Points and you haven’t received it, check if your balance has changed. You can also log out of FUT and log back into FUT several times for the fix to work. If they are still missing, ensure that you have secured your account completely (changing your FUT, Origin, email password, or FUT Secret Question). If you are based in the US, UK or Canada, you should click here. Otherwise, use the country selector on the top left hand corner of the page. Select the platform that you use to play FUT 18 and then click ‘Next‘. Click on the ‘Select a topic‘ drop-down menu, then choose ‘Billing / Purchasing‘ as your topic, type in details about your topic under ‘Please tell us a little more about your issue‘ and click ‘Next‘. You may be asked to log in with your Origin account email address and password, if you are not signed in. For last, you will have to select the contact method that works best for you from the ones that are available in your region. Don’t forget to keep your reference number that can be used in future contacts. General rule, Electronic Arts will answer you up to 15 days.

To increase your chances of success, be sure to have the following information available before contacting your Game Advisor:

Your proof of purchase
Affected persona name (Origin ID, PSN ID, Xbox Gamertag)
Date the FIFA Points went missing
How the points were lost
Missing Points Description (How many?)
Any additional details that may be important to your issue

I can’t buy FIFA Points because it doesn’t accept credit cards.
It probably doesn’t have to do with Origin, Sony or Microsoft. In some regions, it is not allowed to use credit cards to buy on the internet. If you can’t use your credit card to buy FIFA Points, purchasing a pre-paid card may be a good option.

I can’t buy FIFA Points because I receive a message saying that my region doesn’t match.
To buy FP, three regions have to match: game region (disc or downloaded file), Sony / Microsoft region and DLC region (downloadable content). You can create a new account to match with the game region but you should pay attention to the FIFA Points region. The DLC is locked by the region of the game, not the system. So, for example, if you’re buying EU disks/downloads, you need EU DLC.

FIFA Points Carry Over

How to transfer your FIFA Points to FIFA 18?

Carry over your FIFA Points from FIFA 17 to FIFA 18 with a one-time transfer until December 31, 2017. You are allowed to transfer your FP from FUT 17 to FUT 18. But you can only do it once. You can transfer your FIFA Points during the EA Access trial if you’re a member or when you buy your copy of FIFA 18. You can even buy some by the end of FUT 17 so you can use on the FUT 18 release date. In opposite side, it is not possible to transfer FIFA Points on the Web and Companion Apps. Log in to FIFA 18 on your console or PC to transfer your FIFA Points, then you’ll see them on your FUT Web or Mobile Companion apps.

When you connect to FIFA 18 for the first time ever, with the same account, the system recognizes you and asks if you want to transfer your old FIFA Points or if you want to delay that operation. From the moment you perform this transfer, you no longer will receive this message again and FIFA Points purchased in FUT 17 will not be transferred to FIFA 18 Ultimate Team anymore. You can only transfer FIFA Points from FIFA 17 to FIFA 18 on the same console. Since FIFA 16 you no longer can share FIFA Points between PS3 and PS4 and between XBox 360 and XBox One. You need to buy FIFA Points to the console you will use. It is not possible to share FP between different consoles.

The transfer is not reversible on console. You can’t move FIFA Points back to FIFA 17 once you transfer them. This is still the case if you’re an EA Access member. If you play FIFA 18 on EA Access and transfer your points but don’t buy the full game, you won’t get your points back on FIFA 17. PC is a little different. Because you have a single wallet of Points, the Points you bought and didn’t use in FIFA 17 should still be in your wallet in FIFA 18.

If you want to know more about FIFA Points Carry Over, please click here.

FIFA Points Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

DO you still have questions about FIFA Points?

Q: When FIFA Points will be available?
A: FIFA Points will be available for you to purchase as soon as you play FIFA 18 from a retail disc / downloaded game or on early access if you are an EA Access or Origin Access subscriber.

Q: It is possible to buy FIFA Points in the early Access version?
A: Yes, for both EA Access and Origin Access.

Q: Where can I see how many FP I have?
A: On the top right corner of your FUT dashboard, next to your coins.

Q: When it will be possible to transfer FIFA Points from FUT 17 to FUT 18?
A: From the release date or in the early access. Don’t forget that it is a one-time transfer.

Q: Which advantage EA Access and Origin Access programs give me when I buy FIFA Points?
A: 10% discount.

Q: How much FIFA Points should I buy?
A: It depends on the number of packs you want to buy. For comparison, 1 FIFA Point corresponds in average to 50 coins when buying packs.

Q: There is any other way to buy packs besides using FIFA Points?
A: Sure. Coins are accepted as a payment method to buy packs.

Q: I have bought 2,200 coins but I didn’t get the bonus. Why?
A: You did. What you actually have bought was 2,000 FIFA Points. The other 200 were the bonus.

Q: There is any advantage to buy bigger bundles?
A: Yes. The bigger the bundle, the higher is your bonus. You have to buy, at least, 1,000 FIFA Points to be rewarded with a bonus.

Q: It is possible to use FIFA Points to buy coins?
A: No. FIFA Points can only be used to buy packs in FUT 18 store or to play FUT Draft.

Q: How can I see the FP purchases history?
A: Follow this path for Playstation gamers: PSN – Accounts Management – Transactions Managements – Transaction History.
Follow this path for XBox gamers: Log-in to your account on Xbox.com – Click ‘My Account‘ – Go to ‘Download History‘