EA Sports FC 24: Top 100 rated players

  • Man City's Kevin De Bruyne and Erling Haaland are two of the highest-rated players
  • Alexia Putellas is one of an unrivalled nine Barcelona Femeni players in the top 100
  • Cristiano Ronaldo has received a hefty downgrade
Kevin De Bruyne (left) and Erling Haaland are two of the highest rated players on EA Sports FC 24
Kevin De Bruyne (left) and Erling Haaland are two of the highest rated players on EA Sports FC 24 / Marc Atkins/GettyImages
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The name may have changed but the debate created by the annual release of the most popular football video game is very much alive and well.

Thiago Silva had a knowing smile on his face when he joked that the creators of EA Sports FC 24 - the latest version of what was known as FIFA 23 last season - are "not watching any games". Chelsea's wizened centre-back - who made his debut on the game in FIFA 10 - has his overall score dropped from 86 to 84 over the summer.

What the Brazilian clearly felt to be an unwarranted downgrade has nudged Silva out of the 100 highest-rated players in the new version of the game.

Here are the footballers that made the cut for this year's elite crop - although it may still include some unhappy individuals.


Top 100 rated players in EA Sports FC 24

For the second consecutive season, Paris Saint-Germain's Kylian Mbappe and Manchester City's Kevin De Bruyne are the highest-ranked players in the game with a score of 91.

Both wholly warrant a place among the elite. Mbappe claimed the Golden Boot at the mid-season World Cup, including a hat-trick in the final which his France team lost to Argentina, while De Bruyne was the creative hub of a Manchester City team that won the European treble.

Of the 28 goals which De Bruyne created last season, Erling Haaland scored 11. City's ruthlessly prolific forward also boasts a 91 rating.

Barcelona Femeni's Alexia Putellas is the highest-rated female player with the same lofty score. Spain's World Cup winner claimed consecutive Ballons d'Or between 2021 and 2022 but a knee injury prevented her from making a single league start last season. Putellas was only brought off the bench in the 90th minute of the final against England in Sydney but the quality which she clearly possessed before the layoff - rather than her understandably stilted cameos since - has ranked her above the rest.

Rank

Player

Club

Rating

1.

Kylian Mbappe

PSG

91

2.

Erling Haaland

Man City

91

3.

Alexia Putellas

Barcelona

91

4.

Kevin De Bruyne

Man City

91

5.

Lionel Messi

Inter Miami

90

6.

Sam Kerr

Chelsea

90

7.

Robert Lewandowski

Barcelona

90

8.

Harry Kane

Bayern Munich

90

9.

Karim Benzema

Al Ittihad

90

10.

Thibaut Courtois

Real Madrid

90

11.

Caroline Graham Hansen

Barcelona

90

12.

Aitana Bonmati

Barcelona

90

13.

Marc-Andre ter Stegen

Barcelona

89

14.

Neymar

Al Hilal

89

15.

Casemiro

Man Utd

89

16.

Virgil van Dijk

Liverpool

89

17.

Ruben Dias

Man City

89

18.

Alex Morgan

San Diego Wave

89

19.

Alisson

Liverpool

89

20.

Ada Hegerberg

Lyon

89

21.

Kadidiatou Diani

Lyon

89

22.

Rodri

Man City

89

23.

Vinicius Junior

Real Madrid

89

24

Mohamed Salah

Liverpool

89

25.

Mapi Leon

Barcelona

89

26.

Antoine Griezmann

Atletico Madrid

88

27.

Ederson

Man City

88

28.

Jan Oblak

Atletico Madrid

88

29.

Bruno Fernandes

Man Utd

88

30.

Joshua Kimmich

Bayern Munich

88

31.

Bernardo Silva

Man City

88

32.

Alexandra Popp

Wolfsburg

88

33.

Debinha

Kansas City

88

34.

Irene Paredes

Barcelona

88

35.

Wendi Renard

Lyon

88

36.

Guro Reiten

Chelsea

88

37.

Victor Osimhen

Napoli

88

38.

Patri Guijarro

Barcelona

88

39.

Fede Valverde

Real Madrid

88

40.

Christiane Endler

Lyon

88

41.

Marie-Antoinette Katoto

PSG

88

42.

Sophia Smith

Portland Thorns

88

43.

Manuel Neuer

Bayern Munich

87

44.

Son Heung-min

Tottenham

87

45.

Luka Modric

Real Madrid

87

46.

Marquinhos

PSG

87

47.

Mike Maignan

Milan

87

48.

Martin Odegaard

Arsenal

87

49.

Frenkie de Jong

Barcelona

87

50.

Lautaro Martinez

Inter

87

51.

Gianluigi Donnarumma

PSG

87

52.

Lena Oberdorf

Wolfsburg

87

53.

Beth Mead

Arsenal

87

54.

Ewa Pajor

Wolfsburg

87

55.

Gregor Kobel

Borussia Dortmund

87

56.

Lina Magull

Bayern Munich

87

57.

Rose Lavelle

OL Reign

87

58.

Sandra Panos

Barcelona

87

59.

Lucy Bronze

Barcelona

87

60.

Fridolina Rolfo

Barcelona

87

61.

Paulo Dybala

Roma

86

62.

Cristiano Ronaldo

Al Nassr

86

63.

N'Golo Kante

Al Ittihad

86

64.

Sergej Milinkovic-Savic

Al Hilal

86

65.

Joao Cancelo

Barcelona

86

66.

Ilkay Gundogan

Barcelona

86

67.

Nicolo Barella

Inter

86

68.

Christopher Nkunku

Chelsea

86

69.

Sadio Mane

Al Nassr

86

70.

Toni Kroos

Real Madrid

86

71.

Marco Verratti

Al Arabi

86

72.

Trent Alexander-Arnold

Liverpool

86

73.

Andy Robertson

Liverpool

86

74.

Selma Bacha

Lyon

86

75.

Lauren Hemp

Man City

86

76.

Jamal Musiala

Bayern Munich

86

77.

Rafael Leao

Milan

86

78.

Ronald Araujo

Barcelona

86

79.

Pedri

Barcelona

86

80.

Jude Bellingham

Real Madrid

86

81.

Eder Militao

Real Madrid

86

82.

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia

Napoli

86

83.

Mary Earps

Man Utd

86

84.

Bukayo Saka

Arsenal

86

85.

Kim Little

Arsenal

86

86.

Sandro Tonali

Newcastle

86

87.

Lea Schuller

Bayern Munich

86

88.

Jill Roord

Man City

86

89.

Grace Geyoro

PSG

86

90.

Wojciech Szczesny

Juventus

86

91.

Riyad Mahrez

Al Ahli

86

92.

Matthijs de Ligt

Bayern Munich

86

93.

Vivianne Miedema

Arsenal

86

94.

Sakina Karchaoui

PSG

86

95.

Dani Parejo

Villarreal

86

96.

Mallory Swanson

Chicago Red Stars

86

97.

Ousmane Dembele

PSG

86

98.

Lindsey Horan

Lyon

86

99.

Ashley Lawrence

Chelsea

86

100.

Cristiana Girelli

Juventus

86

Putellas is one of nine players from Barcelona's women's team to rank among the top 100 highest rated players in EA FC 24. No other club, whether it be the men's or women's branches, can boast as many players in the elite century.

Barcelona's Caroline Graham Hansen and Aitana Bonmati both carry the hefty score of 90. Bonmati was crowned the best player at this year's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand and is expected to end Putellas' reign as Ballon d'Or holder when the winner is announced at the end of October.

Chelsea's Sam Kerr (90) and Guro Reiten (88), along with Beth Mead (87) of Arsenal, are the only three representatives of the English Women's Super League ranked above 86. Mead finished second behind Putellas in the vote for the 2022 Ballon d'Or but wasn't even nominated for this year's gong after sitting out the vast majority of the season with an ACL injury.

Thibaut Courtois (90) famously complained it is "impossible" for a goalkeeper to win the Ballon d'Or. Real Madrid's outspoken number one will have to be content with his status as FC 24's highest-rated goalkeeper - just one rating below the leading quartet in the game - but has himself fallen foul of a season-ending knee injury.

Intriguingly, there is not a single teenager included in the game's top 100 highest-rated players. Jude Bellingham, Jamal Musiala and Pedri were all 20 and ranked at 86 when the ratings were released at the start of the season.

Karim Mostafa Benzema
Karim Benzema is one of the headline figures in the expanding Saudi Pro League / Francois Nel/GettyImages

Saudi Arabia's extravagant spending during the summer transfer window has been reflected in EA's ratings. Clubs from the country's aggressively expanding Pro League spent more on transfer fees than their counterparts in Germany, Italy or France. Consequently, the SPL boasted seven players in the top 100, more than the Bundesliga (six), Serie A (six) or Ligue 1 (four) could offer.

The reigning Ballon d'Or holder Karim Benzema is the highest-ranked player plying their trade in the Kingdom but he is not the only 90-plus rating outside of Europe.

Al Ittihad's well-paid new striker once said: "He who criticises Messi knows nothing about football." What Benzema makes of the decision-makers at EA remains to be seen after they bumped Lionel Messi's overall score down from 91 to 90 following his move to Inter Miami.

For the first time since FIFA 18, Messi (90) is not the highest-rated player in the game. When he was nudged into second place six years ago, Cristiano Ronaldo predictably claimed top spot. However, for the latest iteration of EA's flagship game, Ronaldo has been given a lowly score of 86 - the same figure as Villarreal's Dani Parejo. If anybody is going to kick up a fuss about their rating this year, Ronaldo would be a prime candidate.


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