GAMEPLAY
Create more scoring opportunities than ever before with all-new dynamic attacking systems in the most intelligent FIFA gameplay to date.
FIFA 21 raises players’ intelligence and decision-making to new levels both on and off the ball, creating more realistic and informed movement, building on the intensity of 1v1 situations, and unlocking the conditions for a true-to-life footballing experience that rewards you for your creativity and control all over the pitch.
Agile Dribbling
In FIFA 21, the new Agile Dribbling system puts more tools at your disposal when you come up against a defender.
Positioning Personality
In FIFA 21, Positioning Personality elevates footballers’ in-game intelligence to match their real world understanding of space and time, allowing top players to anticipate the play, move more intelligently across the pitch, and take up more advantageous positions.
Creative Runs
New options for influencing your team’s movement off the ball revolutionize attacking build up play in FIFA 21, giving you more ways to break down the defense.
Natural Collision System
A re-imagined player collision and movement system unlocked by brand new animation systems create smoother player interactions all over the pitch.
Competitor Mode
Replicating the play style of the best FIFA players in the world, the Competitor Mode setting gives your opposition a better grasp of skill moves, dribbling types, and tactics to give you a more challenging and rewarding opponent to match up with on Legendary and Ultimate difficulty.
Fundamentals of Football
Informed by feedback from the community, revisions to the fundamentals of football in FIFA raise the game throughout the pitch.
CAREER MODE
Manage Every Moment in FIFA 21 Career Mode with new innovations that create additional depth in matches, transfers, and training to give you more control over your team’s rise to the top and make it easier than ever for you to begin your managerial career.
Interactive Match Sim
Experience a whole new way to play out your season with the Interactive Match Sim, a huge leap in gameplay interactivity that gives you control over the outcome of every game. Jump in and out of matches at any point during the 90 minutes to influence the course of the action, or take charge of key moments including penalties and free kicks thanks to new contextual prompts that let you change the outcome of the match. Enhanced match data also enables you to manage the game with precision, giving you the ability to make changes directly from the sim based on the match stats and your players’ performance levels and stamina.
Player Development
Manage your players’ development in greater detail with a revamped growth system.
Active Training and Match Sharpness
Get more insight into your squad’s performance levels with match sharpness, a new attribute that indicates how likely your players are to perform in the most crucial moments during the course of a game. Increase your players’ sharpness with a new Active Training System that gives you the ability to set up group training sessions to improve the likelihood of your strikers putting big chances away or of defenders making key tackles.
Weekly Schedule Planning
Plan your team’s training schedule with a new activity management system.
Player Feedback System
A new system gives you a visual indication of your players’ readiness for the upcoming game, enabling you to see your players’ morale, sharpness, and fitness at a glance.
Enhanced Opposition AI
Enhanced opposition AI sees opponents approach games with more intelligence in both defence and attack.
New Transfer Options
Enhanced transfer realism provides both human and AI-controlled teams with new ways to sign players.
New Set-Up Options
Customise your Career Mode with new initial set-up options.
Expanded League Themes
Enjoy deeper immersion and authenticity with expanded custom league-specific themes for some of the world’s most prestigious and most played competitions that now span more areas of Career Mode – including the UEFA Champions League and CONMEBOL Libertadores.
EA SPORTS VOLTA FOOTBALL
More ways to play. More customisation. More locations. Experience the soul of the streets together with friends as you show off your style in cages and courts around the world throughout various forms of small-sided football.
Volta Squads
Experience a more social street football with VOLTA SQUADS, a new way to join together with up to three friends or drop into the community with other VOLTA FOOTBALL players and win as one in 5v5 online cooperative play.
Gameplay
New VOLTA FOOTBALL gameplay additions make for a more realistic and rewarding small-sided football experience, with a new game pacing and intelligent squad movement creating more opportunities to let you play to the rhythm of the streets.
Customisation
Bring football and fashion together as you customise and personalise your male or female VOLTA AVATAR with a vast array of new apparel from adidas, professional football clubs, street football teams, and celebrity-designed collections.
Featured Battles
Recruit the biggest names from the world of football and beyond to your VOLTA SQUAD in the all-new FEATURED BATTLES mode.
Locations
In VOLTA FOOTBALL, over 20 unique pitches across six continents come to life with truly unique atmospheres that give you a taste of each location’s authentic street football culture.
Match Types
Play it your way. Enjoy various forms of small-sided football including 3v3 Rush (No GKs), 4v4, 4v4 Rush, 5v5 and Professional Futsal, and play matches on various pitch sizes with or without walls.
FIFA ULTIMATE TEAM
Enjoy brand new ways to play the most popular mode in FIFA as you build your dream squad of players past and present in FIFA 21 Ultimate Team.
FUT Co-Op
Win as One in FIFA 21 Ultimate Team with FUT Co-Op, a new way to team up with friends online and compete for rewards.
Expanded Club Customisation
Make your FUT Club truly unique with a range of new and expanded ways to customise your team’s look both on the pitch and in the stands.
One FUT Club
If you upgrade to the next generation consoles using Dual Entitlement you can take your FUT Club from PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 5 or Xbox One to Xbox Series X and back again with cross-gen transfer markets and leaderboards in FUT 21.
UNRIVALED AUTHENTICITY
Play with unrivaled authenticity in FIFA 21 with over 17,000 players and 700+ teams alongside more than 90 stadiums and 30+ leagues that give you the most true-to-life experience of The World’s Game.
FIFA 21 is the only place you can experience exclusive access to the world’s biggest competitions including the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, CONMEBOL Libertadores, CONMEBOL Sudamericana, Premier League, Bundesliga, and LaLiga Santander.