Best center-backs for FIFA 23 Ultimate Team

In FIFA 23 Ultimate Team, the quest for the best center-backs is crucial to forging an impenetrable defense. This guide will spotlight the best quality CBs to fortify your defensive squad, ensuring robustness and dependability.

The role of center-backs is central to your defensive game plan, serving as the cornerstone of a competitive team.

A center-back’s core role is to stop the opposing team from scoring goals so you’ll ideally want to have some of the best players in the position on your team to make your defense as effective as possible. There are a lot of players to choose from in the game, so knowing who the best center-backs are can be extremely helpful.

With that in mind, here are the very best center-backs available in FIFA 23.

Contents

• Best CBs in FIFA 23
• Best meta CBs in FIFA 23
• Fastest CBs in FIFA 23

Best center-backs in FIFA 23

The game’s player ratings and overalls are known to the world, meaning we can see the very best that the game has to offer, as well as the fastest.

Whether you have two or three center-backs, they ideally need to have a good balance of speed, height, strength, mobility, and tactical nous.

To do this, we present to you the best meta center-backs in FIFA 23, but also the quickest ones as well to cope with pacy forwards.

Best meta center-backs in FIFA 23

As we are now well into FIFA 23’s lifecycle and Team of the Year has crashed the market as usual, the cost of the game’s highest-rate CBs is quite low now – outside of maybe Van Dijk.

For the most part, though, you get what you pay for, and these are the best center-backs for a reason in FIFA 23 Ultimate Team.

These are the ratings for the best center-backs in FIFA 23.

Fastest center backs to buy in FIFA 23

As well as the best-rated CBs in FIFA 23 Ultimate Team, you also need to know who the absolute fastest players are because sometimes ‘best’ doesn’t actually mean the best.

An 86-rated CB may have the defensive qualities to read the game, but if they’re slow, then someone like Mbappe will absolutely burn them with pace.

So here are the game’s absolute fastest defenders to consider for your Ultimate Team.

That wraps up both of our comprehensive FIFA 23 CB lists with you now having full knowledge of the best and fastest center-backs in the game.

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