FIFA 22 Wonderkids: Best Young English Players to Sign in Career Mode

We’ve got ALL the best young English players to sign in FIFA 22.

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Published on: Sep 27, 2021 | Updated on: Mar 13, 2023

Contents

1 1. Phil Foden (84 OVR – 92 POT)
2 2. Jadon Sancho (87 OVR – 91 POT)
3 3. Mason Greenwood (78 OVR – 89 POT)
4 4. Jude Bellingham (79 OVR – 89 POT)
5 5. Noni Madueke (77 OVR – 88 POT)
6 6. Bukayo Saka (80 OVR – 88 POT)
7 7. Callum Hudson-Odoi (77 OVR – 87 POT)
8 All of the best young English players in FIFA 22

With the likes of Bobby Charlton, David Beckham, Bobby Moore, Peter Shilton, Wayne Rooney, and Gary Lineker headlining the history books, young English talents have a high bar to meet.

For the most part, the pressure has been too much for the first-team to find success, but individually, England squads have rarely been bereft of a few world-class stars, which is why the nation is so often scouted in-depth in FIFA Career Mode.

Here, to save you from doing the leg work, we’ve assembled all of the best English wonderkids in FIFA 22.

Choosing FIFA 22 Career Mode’s best English wonderkids

Featuring the likes of Jadon Sancho, Jude Bellingham, and Phil Foden, England looks to have a bright future if all of these wonderkids reach their potential.

Still, to be classed as one of the best English wonderkids to sign in Career Mode, each player has to have England down as their football nation, be 21-years-old at the most, and have a potential rating of at least 82.

At the base of the piece, you’ll find a complete list of all of the best young English wonderkids in FIFA 22.

1. Phil Foden (84 OVR – 92 POT)

FIFA 22 Wonderkids best young english player Phil Foden

Team: Manchester City
Age: 21
Wage: £110,000
Value: £81.5 million
Best Attributes: 91 Balance, 90 Agility, 88 Ball Control

Classed among England’s most exciting young talents for the last few years, Phil Foden manages to climb above the rest of the class with his 92 potential rating.

The 5’7’’ English wonderkid is already primed to operate just behind the forward line, with his 86 dribbling, 88 ball control, 84 vision, 82 positioning, and 83 reactions making him a potent weapon around the box.

Foden may have only made his England debut last year, but he’s already been leaned on as a creative output in Gareth Southgate’s ultra-conservative set-up. While his minutes faded throughout the Euros, few would argue that he’s set to become a core piece of the national team.

2. Jadon Sancho (87 OVR – 91 POT)

FIFA 22 Wonderkids best young english player Jadon Sancho

Team: Manchester United
Age: 21
Wage: £130,000
Value: £100 million
Best Attributes: 92 Dribbling, 91 Agility, 90 Ball Control

Easily the most seasoned of the best English wonderkids in FIFA 22, Jadon Sancho just misses out on the top spot with his 91 potential rating.

A menace down the right wing, FIFA players already fear this 21-year-old due to his 85 acceleration, 78 sprint speed, 91 agility, 92 dribbling, five-star skill moves, and 83 finishing. At 87 overall, Sancho is certainly worthy of a starting XI place on almost every team.

The Manchester City trainee played 137 games for Borussia Dortmund, yielding 50 goals and 64 assists, cementing him as one of the hottest talents in the world. His start at Manchester United hasn’t gone as smoothly as many would have hoped from the £75 million signing, but he’s got plenty of time ahead.

3. Mason Greenwood (78 OVR – 89 POT)

FIFA 22 Wonderkids best young english player Mason Greenwood

Team: Manchester United
Age: 19
Wage: £48,000
Value: £26 million
Best Attributes: 84 Sprint Speed, 83 Acceleration, 83 Shot Power

Still only 19-years-old, Mason Greenwood adds to a potentially stacked group of forwards contending for England caps in the future, coming into Career Mode as one of the best young players with an 89 potential rating.

Greenwood’s positional bias in FIFA 22 is as a right midfielder, but given his attribute ratings, he also makes for a fine striker. The Bradford-born wonderkid already boasts 77 finishing, 75 curve, 83 shot power, and 78 long shots, which only improve as he develops.

Having surged through the youth ranks as a sharpshooter, Greenwood burst into the first-team at 17-years-old, and has since racked up over 100 appearances and more than 30 goals.

4. Jude Bellingham (79 OVR – 89 POT)

FIFA 22 Wonderkids best young english player Jude Bellingham

Team: Borussia Dortmund
Age: 18
Wage: £17,500
Value: £31.5 million
Best Attributes: 87 Stamina, 82 Reactions, 82 Aggression

Taking a similar path to another English wonderkid on this list, Jude Bellingham has established himself as a grand young CM FIFA player with Borussia Dortmund, earning himself an 89 potential rating in FIFA 22.

Despite being 18-years-old with a 79 overall rating, Bellingham is already well-suited to starting in your midfield. His 87 stamina, 82 aggression, 80 ball control, 78 long passing, 79 passing, 77 interceptions, and 78 defensive awareness make the Stourbridge-native a superb box-to-box centre-mid.

Bellingham is already a locked-in starter for Dortmund, with 55 appearances, six goals, and eight assists to his name at the time of writing. However, this is yet to translate into many minutes for the national team, with only a couple of starts in his opening eight caps.

5. Noni Madueke (77 OVR – 88 POT)

FIFA 22 Wonderkids best young english player Noni Madueke

Team: PSV Eindhoven
Age: 19
Wage: £9,100
Value: £19.5 million
Best Attributes: 92 Acceleration, 89 Sprint Speed, 86 Dribbling

Another of the best English wonderkids in FIFA 22 who has found that going overseas is preferable to waiting for a chance in the Premier League, Noni Madueke muscles into the top end of this list thanks to his 88 potential rating.

Stacking up the RM position for a potential English wonderkids line-up, Madueke starts Career Mode as an outright speedster, with 92 acceleration, 89 sprint speed, 84 agility, and 86 dribbling.

Having shifted from the Crystal Palace youth set-up to Spurs’ system, the Londoner then made his way to the Netherlands in 2018, quickly moving up the ranks. Still only 19-years-old, Madueke has already hit the 50-game mark for PSV Eindhoven, scoring 15 goals and setting up nine more by that point.

6. Bukayo Saka (80 OVR – 88 POT)

FIFA 22 Wonderkids best young english player Bukayo Saka

Team: Arsenal
Age: 19
Wage: £42,500
Value: £39 million
Best Attributes: 86 Acceleration, 84 Dribbling, 83 Agility

Also making it into the top-end of this list with an 88 potential rating is Bukayo Saka, who’s yet another RM-listed English wonderkid. Of course, the young Gunner is far more versatile than that would suggest.

The left-footed Londoner offers bundles of pace wherever you start him in Career Mode, with his 84 dribbling, 80 ball control, 82 sprint speed, 86 acceleration, and 78 positioning allowing him to be a threat constantly.

As Arsenal rebuild under Mikel Arteta, Saka is being looked to as a core piece of the puzzle – despite the hundreds of millions spent on his attacking colleagues. Still, breaking through from the youth set-up, the winger notched 13 goals and 22 assists by the 96-game mark.

7. Callum Hudson-Odoi (77 OVR – 87 POT)

FIFA 22 Wonderkids best young english player Callum Hudson-Odoi

Team: Chelsea
Age: 20
Wage: £77,000
Value: £20 million
Best Attributes: 87 Acceleration, 85 Agility, 83 Dribbling

With a 77 overall rating, 87 potential rating, and once again being listed as a right-sided winger, Callum Hudson-Odoi joins the upper-echelons of the best English wonderkids in FIFA 22.

At £20 million in value with gaudy attributes like 87 acceleration, 85 agility, and 83 dribbling, Hudson-Odoi comes into Career Mode as a top transfer target. As shown above, taken a couple of weeks into a new game, big clubs are ready to snap up the Chelsea talent from the get-go.

Understandably seeking a move away a couple of seasons ago, with Bayern Munich hot in pursuit, Hudson-Odoi is still struggling to truly break into the starting XI. He may have played over 100 games for the club, but his three starts in the first nine games would suggest that the English wonderkid is a bit of a fringe player.

All of the best young English players in FIFA 22

Below, you’ll find the full list of all of the best young English wonderkids to sign in FIFA 22’s Career Mode, with the table being sorted by potential rating.

Name	Overall	Potential	Age	Position	Team	Value	Wage
Phil Foden	84	92	21	CAM, LW, CM	Manchester City	£81.3 million	£108,000
Jadon Sancho	87	91	21	RM, CF, LM	Manchester United	£100.2 million	£129,000
Mason Greenwood	78	89	19	RM, ST	Manchester United	£26.2 million	£48,000
Jude Bellingham	79	89	18	CM, LM	Borussia Dortmund	£31.8 million	£18,000
Noni Madueke	77	88	19	RM, ST	PSV	£19.8 million	£9,000
Bukayo Saka	80	88	19	RM, LM, LB	Arsenal	£39.1 million	£43,000
Callum Hudson-Odoi	77	87	20	RW, LW	Chelsea	£19.8 million	£62,000
Harvey Elliott	73	87	18	RW, CM	Liverpool	£6 million	£25,000
Emile Smith Rowe	76	86	20	CAM	Arsenal	£14.2 million	£42,000
Dane Scarlett	63	86	17	ST	Tottenham Hotspur	£1.3 million	£3,000
Fabio Carvalho	67	86	18	CAM	Fulham	£2.2 million	£5,000
Reece James	81	86	21	RWB, RB	Chelsea	£31.8 million	£65,000
Curtis Jones	73	85	20	CM	Liverpool	£6.5 million	£42,000
Jayden Bogle	74	85	20	RWB, RB	Sheffield United	£7.7 million	£15,000
Oliver Skipp	75	85	20	CDM, CM	Tottenham Hotspur	£9.9 million	£38,000
Liam Delap	64	85	18	ST	Manchester City	£1.6 million	£8,000
Marc Guéhi	73	84	20	CB	Crystal Palace	£5.2 million	£22,000
Carney Chukwuemeka	63	84	17	CAM	Aston Villa	£1.3 million	£860
Shola Shoretire	62	84	17	RM, LM	Manchester United	£1 million	£2,000
Antwoine Hackford	59	84	17	ST	Sheffield United	£602,000	£817
Jarrad Branthwaite	66	84	19	CB	Everton	£1.8 million	£8,000
Ryan Sessegnon	75	84	21	LWB, LM, LB	Tottenham Hotspur	£10.3 million	£38,000
Louie Barry	63	84	18	ST, LW	Ipswich Town (on-loan from Aston Villa)	£1.3 million	£4,000
Morgan Rogers	66	84	18	LW	Bournemouth	£1.9 million	£3,000
James Garner	69	84	20	CDM, CM	Nottingham Forest (on-loan from Manchester United)	£2.8 million	£22,000
Tariq Lamptey	74	84	20	RWB, RB	Brighton & Hove Albion	£7.7 million	£25,000
Cole Palmer	64	84	19	RW, CAM	Manchester City	£1.4 million	£12,000
Miguel Azeez	62	83	18	CM	Portsmouth (on-loan from Arsenal)	£1.1 million	£3,000
Joseph Willock	75	83	21	CAM, CM	Newcastle United	£10.8 million	£22,000
Tyrhys Dolan	68	83	19	RW, LW, ST	Blackburn Rovers	£2.5 million	£9,000
Dwight McNeil	77	83	21	LM	Burnley	£14.6 million	£23,000
Jacob Ramsey	68	83	20	CAM, CM	Aston Villa	£2.5 million	£14,000
Maximillian Aarons	75	83	21	RB	Norwich City	£10.3 million	£18,000
Lewis Bate	63	83	18	CM, CDM	Leeds United	£1.1 million	£4,000
Samuel Edozie	62	82	18	LW	Manchester City	£947,000	£7,000
Teden Mengi	64	82	19	CB	Manchester United	£1.2 million	£9,000
Joe Gelhardt	66	82	19	ST, CAM	Leeds United	£1.9 million	£11,000
Louie Sibley	68	82	19	CAM, RM	Derby County	£2.5 million	£3,000
Matthew Longstaff	71	82	21	CM, CDM, CAM	Aberdeen (on-loan from Newcastle United)	£3.6 million	£15,000
Conor Gallagher	74	82	21	CM	Crystal Palace (on-loan from Chelsea)	£8.2 million	£47,000
Tyrese Campbell	70	82	21	ST, RM	Stoke City	£3.4 million	£11,000
Ethan Laird	67	82	19	RWB	Swansea City (on-loan from Manchester United)	£2 million	£12,000
Karamoko Dembélé	63	82	18	RM	Celtic	£1 million	£3,000
Levi Colwill	65	82	18	CB	Huddersfield Town	£1.5 million	£645
Sam Greenwood	65	82	19	CF, CAM, CM	Leeds United	£1.6 million	£9,000
Alfie Devine	57	82	16	CM, CDM	Tottenham Hotspur	£430,000	£860
Luke Mbete	62	82	17	CB	Manchester City	£860,000	£602