Choosing a club inFIFA 23’s Career Mode can be tricky, but a good place to start is to find a team that has a story behind them. A club that is heading in the right direction but just needs that something special to take them to the next step, or a team that needs to return to the glory it once had.
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Players will likely want something that is not too easy that it will fail to give them a challenge and keep them invested in their career mode. Here are some football clubs that have an interesting story behind them thatFIFA 23players should pick for their next career-mode adventure.
10Wrexham AFC
This club will need little introduction if gamershave seen the FX production documentaryWelcome to Wrexham. However, the team has had some success in the past, winning League One and League Two. Wrexham is the third-oldest professional team in the football world too.
Due to financial troubles, the club slipped out of the football league and currently plays in the fifth tier of English football, the National League. Wrexham was bought by Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney and is on course for promotion this season. Former England international and Premier League goalkeeper Ben Foster has recently signed for the club, meaning this team is perfect for a FIFA 23 Career Mode. Can Wrexham finally re-enter the Football League and climb up the divisions?
9Bradford City
Currently, the only former Premier League club in League Two, Bradford would be a great option as the task would be to take them back into the top flight.
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Under the guise of Mark Hughes, gamers could become the former Manchester United and Barcelona striker, or their character. They can work toward taking the club back into the promised land and also Europe (in 2000, Bradford competed in the now-defunct Intertoto Cup). The Bantams is a club with rich history and with an already good squad for League Two, it could be an interesting challenge.
8Blackburn Rovers
Blackburn Rovers won the Premier League in the 1994/95 season, a feat the club has yet to replicate. In 2012, the team was relegated and has not been back up since then.
Gamers could take the reins at Ewood Park and start to build a squad that will be fit to one day win the Premier League again.Using young players and hidden gems, managers can make sure the future is bright for the Riversiders. As Kenny Dalglish was the man to win the title at the club, players could become him or perhaps their top scorer in that season, the legendary Alan Shearer.
7Forest Green Rovers
The final English name, Forest Green Rovers history dates back to the Non-League, but the club was bought by Dale Vince, the owner of a green electricity company. He turned the club into a decent side while promoting green ideas and turning it completely vegan.
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Now playing in League One, the highest the club has ever been, players can take the reins and continue to promote this green idea under the guise of its current real-life manager, the former Premier League striker Duncan Ferguson. For an addedFIFA 23challenge, players can limit themselves to only signing vegan footballers such as Chris Smalling and Hector Bellerin (the latter who is a large shareholder in the club).
6St. Pauli
Famous for its values, St. Pauli promotes left-wing views of anti-fascism, anti-racism, anti-homophobia, and anti-sexism. The club has become every left-leaning football fan’s second or even first team as they aim to promote these values across the game.
Using the club as a way to promote these ideologies in the save,gamers could use the brightest and best of German footballto take the club to the very top to prove that love always wins.
5Stade De Reims
Stade de Reims has been in the news a lot lately for the success of the club under their 30-year-old manager Will Still, something pretty much unheard of in the world of Football.
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FIFA 23players can recreate this at the club, becoming Still and having a lengthy career. The manager was raised partly in England, and it is his dream to one day manage in the Premier League. Maybe a transfer to a club in England could be on the cards, and this career mode run becomes more about Still’s path than that of a specific club.
4Como
Originally founded in 1907, Como made its way into Serie A in 2002/03, before suffering back-to-back relegation. Eventually, due to financial problems, the club found itself going as low as Serie D.
But, in 2019 the club gained promotion back to Serie C and was taken over, appointing former Chelsea player Dennis Wise as club president. Cesc Fabregas plays for Como in Serie B, and the veteran player could be a fun talisman to initially build a team around as managers seek totake the club back up to the top flight in Italy.
3Al Nassr
Every football fan will know this club as it is the new home of Cristiano Ronaldo. The goal would be to take them to glory in Saudi Arabia, a different league to try out than the usual ones in career mode.
Giving one of the best players in the game an emotional send-off by winning everything possible for Al Nassr is something to behold. Anderson Talisica and David Ospina are some other names present at this club and give the basis for a decent squad to work some magic with.Free agents are regularly used by this club, especially when it comes to older players who are looking for a new adventure.
2Real Oviedo
Just like Como, Real Oviedo competed in the top flight, but due to financial troubles, the club dropped to as low as the fourth tier in Spain. Along with raising money through former club players like Santi Cazorla, Michu, Adrian Lopez, and Juan Mata, Real Oviedo also put itself up for fan ownership, allowing supporters to buy shares to own part of the club.
This worked and Real Oviedo climbed up to the second tier,although the team has yet to reach La Liga since the start of its problems. This is where the player can come in and take the club back into the top flight, perhaps recruiting Santi Cazorla and Juan Mata back to do so. The manager could well be Michu, who was forced to retire from the game due to injury.
1Red Bull Clubs
The free Red Bull clubs inFIFA 23will be grouped as one since they are interchangeable in terms of what the clubs do in football. New York Red Bulls, Red Bull Salzburg, and RB Leipzig play in the USA, Austria, and Germany top flights respectively.
They are one franchise and players regularly move between the three clubs, which could be a real transfer strategy. The teams also focus on selling young players for profit. The likes ofErling Haaland, Sadio Mane, and Dayot Upamacano are all products of the Red Bull Clubs. It is up to the player to find the next superstar to make the Red Bull teams some serious profit, a different way to look at a career mode.
FIFA 23is currently available on PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
