Here you will find current trading tips for the transfer market in FIFA 21. We show you how to quickly earn coins in FUT to improve your team with strong players.
What is the FIFA 21 transfer market? On the Ultimate Team transfer market, you will find everything you need for your club. There are the best players, contracts, chemistry styles, and club items. This year, you can also buy cosmetics for your own stadium on the market – after all, FUT is becoming even more of a fantasy mode this year.
Trading is done with FUT coins, not FIFA points. Also important: The real money currency is used for packs and as draft currency, but not on the transfer market. You can also trade with the web app and the companion app even before the release of FIFA 21.
Ultimate Team: Trading Guide for Quick Coins on the Transfer Market
What to consider when trading? The various trading methods can funnel the necessary coins into your FUT account. However, you should realize that there is basically never guaranteed profit. The market fluctuates, and promising trades can lose value in a very short time. In short: Just because a certain operation brought you a lot of coins, doesn’t mean it will do so again the next time.
Many player values depend not only on their pure values but also on circumstances like events or their usefulness in SBCs. There are also meta players who are better and worth more than their actual values suggest. Prices can even vary from platform to platform.
The market in Ultimate Team is always changing. So if you want to trade successfully, you need to keep a close eye on the transfer market. The following methods can then bring you a decent coin profit.
Important: Don’t forget the “EA fee”. When trading, you always have to calculate with 5% less. This deduction comes from the prices of all cards you sell on the transfer market. So if you sell a card for 10,000 coins, you will only receive 9,500. You should keep this in mind with the following methods as well.
Trading with the TOTW in FIFA 21
This is how trading with TOTW cards works: Trading with the Team of the Week has proven to be quite reliable in recent years. These cards are only available in packs for one week, after which they disappear from the pack pool.
TOTW cards are usually very valuable shortly after their release. The TOTW always comes out on Wednesdays at 7:00 PM – often they are most expensive then, and prices decrease a bit in the following days. However, once they are replaced by the next TOTW, they can rise again. Because now they are only available on the transfer market.
If you pull a good TOTW card from the packs when the initial rush is over, it may be worth holding the card back a bit and releasing it to the market later.
TOTW trading with gold cards: The gold card method is based on speculation and is therefore somewhat uncertain. But it can yield you a nice profit if it works out.
It works like this: If a real player performs well on the weekend, the likelihood of him making it into the TOTW increases. The trick: If he gets a special card, his normal card disappears from packs for that period and cannot be pulled anymore.
This means: If you notice a TOTW-worthy performance, it may be worth grabbing the card. You keep it and watch whether the player makes it into the TOTW. If so, his gold card will also increase in value, and you can sell it for more than you bought it.
If you keep an eye on real football, you will have an advantage here. The footballer Wissam Ben Yedder, for example, scored a brace and even announced he would make it into the TOTW. Anyone who bought the card during the game would likely be considered an absolute trading pro.
But even the TOTW predictions can show you who is likely to get a TOTW card. We keep you updated on this weekly.
What is the risk? Overall, the risk is manageable. If you got the card at a low price, you won’t incur any loss if you have to sell it at a similarly low price. It’s different if you already bought a card at an inflated price and can’t get rid of it at that price anymore. So be careful not to accidentally invest too much money in a card.
Trading with SBCs and Events
This is how SBC trading works: Just like TOTW trading, SBC trading is also based on speculation. However, you don’t need to follow real football here; instead, you need to know the game and the community.
SBCs are challenges in which you can exchange teams for rewards. These can be packs, but also coins or strong player cards. This year, for example, the popular icon SBCs are back, where you can exchange teams for legends.
Some of these SBCs require very specific player cards. A good example are the league SBCs in which you have to exchange entire teams from specific leagues. These are the SBCs that can earn you money.
For example: In FIFA 20, there was the Paderborn SBC as part of the Bundesliga challenges. SC Paderborn consisted of many rare silver players – cards that are rarely pulled. Who opens silver packs? However, since you needed the Paderborn players for the SBC, they became extremely expensive on the transfer market, even though they didn’t have that great stats.
So if you had a Paderborn player in your club, you could sell him for a good price. If you don’t know this, there is a risk of just selling him for the minimum price. It is worth keeping an eye on the SBCs in FIFA 21!
What are events good for? Many SBCs only appear during specific events. The Premier League POTM, for example, is released monthly and usually requires Premier League players. If you keep that in mind, you can stock up on well-rated players from that league while they are still affordable. When the POTM SBC is out, the chances are good that you will be able to sell your cards for a high price.
If a Bayern player is the Bundesliga POTM, it may be worth acquiring Bayern players, as they will likely be needed for the SBC. Special event SBCs can also require specific leagues and nationalities. Events usually start on Fridays at 7:00 PM. So it’s worth keeping an eye on this and picking up players at low prices before they spike shortly thereafter.
Sniping and Flipping
This is how you get players cheaply: “Sniping” in FIFA refers to the targeted purchase of players whose prices are unusually low. The good thing: You basically don’t need any prior knowledge from real football or the community.
An example of a successful snipe: Let’s say a player you want typically costs 50,000 coins. You set your search filters on the market so you can find the player below that price – for example, for 45,000 coins. The lower you go, the less likely you are to find the player at that price.
The catch is that you are probably not the only one looking for that player at a low price. If a corresponding offer appears, it can be gone within seconds. To be the first to grab the player at the lowest price, the following approach has proven effective:
- Set your filter, then press search.
- Close the message that pops up if no card appears.
- If you get no card: Increase the maximum (bid) price with the shoulder buttons. This updates the market offer, and without this step, the method won’t work. Keep the buy now price the same. Then continue searching.
- Repeat these steps until a card appears. If it absolutely doesn’t work, try again at another time or with another card. Alternatively, you can slightly raise the buy now price – just be careful not to exceed a profitable value.
What is flipping? “Flipping” refers to the sale of well-sniped cards. For example, if you bought a Robert Lewandowski significantly below market value, you can at least sell him for the “normal value” again – thus making a decent profit. Even better is if you can sell him for a little above normal price.
What is the risk? Since you are explicitly looking for low-priced cards, there is basically no risk involved. The challenge is rather that you have a lot of competition. In the worst case, you simply won’t get the card or someone snatches it right under your nose.
Mass Bidding Instead of Sniping
This is mass bidding: Sniping targets low buy now prices that lead to success with a single bid. Mass bidding is basically the opposite.
Here, you first choose a suitable time when your player is cheap. If you want to mass bid on TOTW cards, for example, it’s definitely not on the Wednesday evening of their release, but rather one of the following days when the price drops slightly.
Now you start bidding on cheap examples of the player – and on as many as possible. Only a few of these bids will likely go through, but it may happen that a player slips through – landing in your club at a particularly low price.
When is mass bidding most lucrative? Mass bidding is most effective when few other players are bidding. This means: Unpopular players can be more promising but will also sell for a lower price.
A trick is to take advantage of maintenance work. During a season, it happens more often that FIFA servers go offline. If these are planned works, you can use these periods to place bids en masse just before – because the market continues. Ideally, you can snatch a lot of bargains this way – provided other traders don’t take advantage of the same timeframe.
Of course, there are many other trading techniques that can earn you a lot of coins in your club. But don’t forget: Trading is not everything in FIFA 21. First and foremost, the game should be fun on the pitch. Here we have put together a good team for you that can hold its own in FUT right at the start. And you can put together this team without huge amounts of coins.
