FIFA 17 Winter Upgrades and Downgrades: EPL and Serie A

EA Sports has started rolling out winter upgrades to player stats in FIFA 17, with players in the English Premier League and Italian Serie A (or Calcio A) having already received a new overall score.

Read: Winter Upgrades and Downgrades for French Ligue 1 here and La Liga here.

The winter upgrades in FUT 17 ratings will be rolled out between February 17 and February 27, as part of the Ratings Refresh Campaign.

While there are several players who see a rise in their overall score, there are also a few who have received a downgrade.

“The updated ratings will apply to new base items which are found in packs however some existing In-Form versions of select players will be automatically updated,” EA Sports stated.

Upgrades to Key Players

A host of popular as well as young talent has been awarded new overall scores based on their performance since the game came out in September 2016.

English Premier League

Attack

• Eden Hazard (Chelsea): 88 — 89
• Alexis Sanchez (Arsenal): 87 — 88
• Diego Costa (Chelsea): 85 — 86
• Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur): 84 — 85
• Roberto Firmino (Liverpool): 82 — 83
• Sadio Mane (Liverpool): 79 — 82
• Jermain Defoe (Sunderland): 80 — 81
• Alvaro Negredo (Middlesborough): 80 — 81
• Divock Origi (Liverpool):  78 — 79
• Troy Deeney (Watford):  76 — 78
• Marcus Rashford (Manchester United):  76 — 77
• Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City):  74 — 76
• Viktor Fischer (Middlesbrough):  74 — 75

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Midfield

• Coutinho (Liverpool): 85 — 86
• Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur): 84 — 85
• N’Golo Kante (Chelsea): 81 — 83
• Adam Lallana (Liverpool): 82 — 83
• Ander Herrera (Manchester United): 82 — 83
• Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur): 80 — 82
• Jordan Henderson (Liverpool): 80 — 82
• Idrissa Gueye (Everton): 76 — 82
• Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace): 79 — 80
• Nordin  Amrabat (Watford):  79 — 80
• Heung-Min Son (Tottenham Hotspur):  79 — 80
• Victor Wanyama (Tottenham Hotspur):  78 — 79
• Michail Antonio (West Ham United):  76 — 78
• Robert  Snodgrass (Hull City):  75 — 77
• Mohamed Elneny (Arsenal):  74 — 77
• Matt Phillips (West Bromwich Albion):  74 — 75
• Oriol Romeu Vidal (Southampton):  74 — 75
• Harry Arter (Bournemouth):  74 — 75
• Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton):  74 — 75
• Alex Iwobi (Arsenal):  70 — 74
• Harry Winks (Tottenham Hotspur):  64 — 70

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Defense

• Joel Matip (Liverpool): 82 — 83
• Virgil van Dijk (Southampton): 79 — 82
• Kasper Schmeichel (Leicester City): 81 — 82
• Antonio Valencia (Manchester United): 80 — 82
• Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur): 81 — 82
• Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur): 80 — 81
• Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal):  79 — 80
• Marcos Alonso (Chelsea):  77 — 79
• Marcos Alonso Mendoza (Chelsea):  77 — 79
• Victor Moses (Chelsea):  77 — 78
• Tom Heaton (Burnley):  76 — 78
• Jordan Pickford (Sunderland):  73 — 76
• Darren Randolph (West Ham United):  74 — 75
• Danny Simpson (Leicester City):  74 — 75

Serie A

Attack

• Gonzalo Higuaín (Juventus):  88 — 89
• Paulo Dybala (Juventus): 85 — 86
• Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli): 83 — 84
• Dries Mertens (Napoli): 83 — 85
• Mauro Icardi (Inter): 82 — 84
• Mohamed Salah (Roma): 81 — 82
• José Callejón (Napoli): 81 — 82
• Ciro Immobile (Lazio): 80 — 81
• Edin Džeko (Roma): 80 — 81
• Felipe Anderson Pereira Gomes (Lazio): 79 — 81
• Keita Baldé Diao (Lazio): 78 — 80
• Alejandro Gómez (Atalanta): 80 — 81
• Andrea Belotti (Torino): 77 — 80
• Jesús Joaquín Fernández Sáez de la Torre (Milan): 77 — 80
• Gianluca Lapadula (Milan): 74 — 76
• Matteo Politano (Sassuolo): 74 — 76
• Gregoire Defrel (Sassuolo): 74 — 75
• Giovanni Simeone (Genoa): 69 — 74
• Andrea Petagna (Atalanta): 66 — 73

Midfield

• Radja Nainggolan (Roma): 84 — 85
• Ivan Perišić (Inter): 83 — 84
• Giacomo Bonaventura (Milan): 82 — 83
• Juan Cuadrado (Juventus): 82 — 83
• Federico Bernardeschi (Fiorentina): 78 — 80
• Marcelo Brozović (Inter): 79 — 80
• Piotr Zieliński (Napoli): 76 — 78
• Sergej Milinković-Savić (Lazio): 76 — 78
• Lorenzo Pellegrini (Sassuolo): 71 — 77
• Amadou Diawara (Napoli): 74 — 76
• Diego Laxalt (Genoa): 74 — 76
• Roberto Gagliardini (Inter): 61 — 75
• Luca Rigoni (Genoa): 74 — 75
• Karol Linetty (Sampdoria): 74 — 75
• Lucas Torreira (Sampdoria): 71 — 75
• Franck Yannick Kessié (Atalanta): 70 — 75
• Seko Fofana (Udinese): 68 — 75
• Jakub Jankto (Udinese): 68 — 74
• Luca Mazzitelli (Sassuolo): 67 — 73

Defense

• Kalidou Koulibaly (Napoli): 82 — 83
• Wojciech Szczęsny (Roma): 79 — 81
• Daniele Rugani (Juventus): 79 — 80
• Federico Fazio (Roma): 77 — 80
• Antonio Rüdiger (Roma): 77 — 79
• Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan): 76 — 78
• Etrit Berisha (Atalanta): 75 — 77
• Wallace Fortuna Santos (Lazio): 75 — 77
• Luca Rossettini (Torino): 75 — 77
• Andrea Masiello (Atalanta): 74 — 75
• Matías Silvestre (Sampdoria): 74 — 75
• Adam Masina (Bologna): 74 — 75
• Angelo Esmael da Costa Júnior (Bologna): 72 — 74
• Mattia Caldara (Atalanta): 69 — 74
• Emerson Palmieri dos Santos (Roma): 69 — 73
• Antonio Barreca (Torino): 67 — 73

Downgrades to Key Players

As the saying goes ‘some you win, some you lose’ and as much good news it is that the aforementioned players will be getting an upgrade on their overall scores, there are a few players who haven’t been so lucky and have instead received a downgrade on their previously held scores.

English Premier League

Attack

• Oumar Niasse (Hull City): 77 — 75

Midfield

• Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United): 83 — 82
• Lazar Markovic (Hull City): 78 — 76
• Stephen Ireland (Stoke City): 76 — 74
• Evandro Goebel (Hull City): 76 — 74
• Bakary Sako (Crystal Palace): 75 — 72

Defense

• Nicolas Otamendi (Manchester City): 85 — 84
• Steve Mandanda (Crystal Palace): 85 — 84
• Claudio Bravo (Manchester City): 85 — 83
• John Terry (Chelsea): 84 — 82
• Robert Huth (Leicester City): 80 — 78
• Wes Morgan (Leicester City): 79 — 77
• John O’Shea (Sunderland): 76 — 74
• Gerhard Tremmel (Swansea City): 75 — 71

Serie A

Attack

• Carlos Bacca (Milan): 84 — 83
• Antonio Cassano (Sampdoria ): 78 — 76
• Maxi Lopez (Torino): 78 — 75

Midfield

• Gary Medel (Inter): 83 — 82
• Alberto Aquilani (Sassuolo): 78 — 76
• Simone Pepe (Pescara): 77 — 74

Defense

• Pepe Reina (Napoli): 84 — 83
• Vassilis Torosidis (Bologna): 77 — 75
• Danilo (Torino): 76 — 74