FIFA 19 Squad Battles: Tips & Tricks for Beginners & Returning Players

Tips & Tricks for FIFA 19 Squad Battles

Pick Your Difficulty Carefully

Picking the right difficulty for Squad Battles in FIFA 19 is the most vital thing to success. You need to balance being able to beat a difficulty level and being able to score enough that you’re getting more Squad Battles points than you would if you’d played the same match on a lower difficulty.

The AI-controlled teams are slightly improved in FIFA 19 Squad Battles, which may be down to it being harder to score, with them being slightly less likely to fall for the fake shot stops and scoop turns that they couldn’t deal with last year, so you might not want to jump straight into Legendary if that’s what you played on last year.

Since you get quite a bonus for scoring in FIFA 19 Squad Battles, it’s better to win five nil twice on, say, Professional difficulty than it is to win 2-1 once and draw the second on World Class. If you’re sure you’ll win by two or three goals, opt for the higher difficulty, but play it safe if you’re not sure you will, because that’ll maximize the number of points you get.

Tips & Tricks for FIFA 19 Squad Battles

Take Advantage of the Opponent Refresh

While the FIFA 19 Squad Battles opponent refresh happens every day, you might not be able to play every day. That’s why it’s important to take advantage of the refresh.

As long as you’ve logged into FIFA 19 Ultimate Team and taken a quick look at the available Squad Battles opponents, the set of four will be there until you manually choose to refresh them. Therefore, you can leave them until a day you’re able to play them, then refresh the list so that you can play the four for that day straight after.

Leaving them a few days will see you skip a few sets of teams, but it allows you to play four games you otherwise wouldn’t have been able to, maximizing the number of points you’re able to get.

You’re therefore able to approach Squad Battles in FIFA 19 in a way that suits your schedule and ensures you don’t miss out on too many rewards for simply being busy during the week.

Tips & Tricks for FIFA 19 Squad Battles

Play All the Matches

Now, telling you to play all the Squad Battles matches make seem like overly basic advice, but the opponent refresh schedule isn’t the same every day. The week’s competition begins on Sunday night, with rewards being given out for the previous week at 8pm ET, before the leaderboards are wiped and the first set of opponents are given out.

Then, between Monday and Friday, the opponents refresh every 24 hours and the leaderboards refresh every few minutes.

Weekends work a little different in FIFA 19 Squad Battles, however, with the opponents being refreshed every eight hours. Therefore, while you only need to face four games per day during the week, as well as the one additional Featured Squad, which starts in FIFA 19 with Jesse Lingard, you need to face 12 on Saturdays and 12 on Sundays.

Therefore, adding them all up, you need to play 45 games each week in FIFA 19’s Squad Battles. Playing all of the available games will give you a much better chance of finishing high up the leaderboards, and in turn a better chance at getting better Squad Battles rewards.

Tips & Tricks for FIFA 19 Squad Battles

Score Five Goals

Scoring goals in a FIFA 19 Squad Battles match is more important than not conceding them. As has been the case in the years before FIFA 19, you get far more points for scoring that you lose for conceding, with five goals being the maximum number of goals you get points for.

Whether you get five or 100, you get the same number of points, so be sure to try and score five goals. Once you’ve done so, you can worry about keeping a clean sheet, if you haven’t already lost it.

It may also be worth intentionally taking the game to extra time if you need to. For example, if you’re winning 3-1 in the 85th minute of a match, you’ll earn more points by scoring two own goals, taking the game to the additional 30 minutes and scoring two goals to win 5-3 than keeping the score at 3-1.

Of course, there’s the risk that you concede again or aren’t able to win in the extra time, but getting those five goals is lucrative enough that it’s worth it.

For more tips and tricks on FIFA 19, Squad Battles, and Ultimate Team, check out our wiki guide.