Breaking Down FIFA's Youth Academy System!

The youth academy is one of the most loved parts of career mode, but as a community we actually know very little about it. Have you ever wondered what the best possible youth player is? Have you wondered what the highest value a youth player can have is? Well today i’ll be explaining both of these points, and sharing a few other bits of information i’ve found about the youth academy in FIFA career mode.

So, how did i get this information? I ran FIFA 23 on my PC, using a cheat engine to have scouts with 5 stars for experience and judgement. I also enabled the cheat to get 15 players per report meaning each reload i was getting 45 new players generated. From here I set up a script that will screenshot every single player, and finally I used python to take the text from the screenshot and put it in a excel sheet.

This resulted in me having information about over 2,000 generated players, a data set that at least help us to make some assumptions of how the academy worked. While i’ve tried to be as accurate as possible in this video its possible that there are even better players than what I found, so let me know if you find a player thats better in any of the areas we’ll talk about today.

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[farm]

I have a striker from the ivory coast 6'4 with 99 strength. He started out at 68 overall and is now 95. I also have a brailisn keeper at 95 and an Argentinan CAM at 94. It's really worth focusing on youth development

[mohammedfaiisal]

I always look at overall when signing a youth player not potential. Because I know their potential will change based on performance anyway and most my high 60s rated players always end up reaching 90+. Always

[dntpeekmete]

In fifa 22 I had a striker who was 6'7 and a 74 overall at the start of the career mode in league 2. He ended up being a 93 by the time I made it to the prem. James Rice was his name

[bostonpj]

I started a Bolton career mode this year and in the youth academy was a 68 rated striker with 88-92 potential and he was 15!! By the time he was 21 he was 91 rated and peaked at 96 rated 🎉

[MatviykoIN]

I had a player who was 95 in his 19. He was ST from England (but when I took him to my academy he was CM, but I changed his position to ST and he was +20 (from 61 to 81).

Changed: He was my favorite player, his name was Kai Fletcher. In first season he scored 40+ goals, because I was in fourth English league. I also had 2 more talents. One of them was my CDM Scott Sanderson, he was 77 in his 17 and his final rating was 86. Second was goalkeeper Andrew Williams, he was 81 in his 18 and 91 was his final rating. They all were in 1 career. I love them.

[shadow]

This year i had a 17 year old ST who was 194 cm tall and had 94 potential, he was 71 rated. Then i retrained him to CB and he became 75 rated. Loaned him out for 2 seasons and now turning 20 he is 83 rated, still with potential to be special

[dr.juliushibbert]

This is some impressive stuff. Well done!

[Ryan-vrgb]

tried getting a full 99 team this year. literally impossible. tried it with only youth players got pretty close

[alennalic]

As soon as you sa8d spreadsheets & 2500 players test, inknww this was quality

[ROYALPRIYANSHU]

I once got the best Youth Academy player ever . He was 16 yrs 73 rated at an market value of 12 million . He was RM but when I converted him to LWF he became 76 rated . He was a beast and His name was Miguel Machado from Portugal .

[rafaelpimenta]

Eu tive um meia croata que era sensacional. Baixinho, chegou a 89 overall, mas era tão ligeiro e o chute certeiro que tomou conta da posição. Me trouxe 3 champions no Espanyol.

[Shadwcarab]

One of my favourite ways to use the academy is to try to make my full starting XI players from the youth academy and from the same nation as the team in playing. Currently doing this with Schalke and I’m 2 positions away from having a whole team of 85+ German players from the academy, all of which have potential to be special. Just need a ST and a CAM. The hard part is growing them to a high enough overall to use in the first team

[jordanboys]

I got a 6 ft 7 keeper with a high reflexes rating in my first fifa 23 save scouting Romania of all places, he's been super solid since starting him at 16

[anon-xcfi]

Weird must’ve been very very lucky had a guy in my third div german career mode who was LM and when swapped to cam was a 79 - 17 yo off the bat

[ReallyTom]

In fifa 22 I had signed an 98 rated french CAM on a free transfer and I know how insane that sounds but try to trust me. I miss him, he was amazing

[chaoticsniper]

I'm glad i'm not the only one that feels like 5 star skillers have better ball control when dribbling

[norgeball]

A few years back, I had a really good defender from England. CB, only like 175cm tall but was a menace in the air. Became 93 rated in the end👍

[cikjamal]

my favourite youth player I had was a Spanish left-back named Hurtado, with a potential of 81-92, and I got him to 81 rated when I won the UCL. I know he can be much better than that, but he was class.

[cesarjoss]

I played with the cheat table to get higher potentials but I didn’t change the ratings and I found a youth player valued at 13 millions. Idk if it counts thought

[zMarsIsCool]

In the start of this year i was doing a rtg with Harrogate town and i hired some cheap cheap youth scouts then early in the first season i got a 68 rated Cam with 79-94 potential with 1 start scout