As the Team of the Year promo approaches its final hours in EA FC 25, you’ll be scrambling to complete any and every challenge to fetch one of those coveted cards. Of all things, repeatable SBCs like the 82+ x20 are what we recommend focusing on during the ultimate minutes.
The 82+ x20 is not just repeatable, but the rewards should provide you with good enough cards that’ll substantially help for another run. Plus, the rewards for the individual challenges within the SBC are tradable which opens up the possibility of a big sale should you pack a really good card.
All that said, here’s our suggestion for grinding the 82+ x20 challenge in EA FC 25.
Best Ways To Farm 82+ x20 SBC For TOTY In EA FC 25
There are two separate challenges that you’ll need to complete for 82+ x20 SBC — an 83-rated squad and an 84-rated squad. This makes fodders really important and without them, it’ll be a struggle. You can check our brief guide that’ll help you get them quickly.
With zero fodder, you need around or more than 50,000 coins to buy players to complete the entire challenge once. Keep in mind that the closer we get to the promo winding down, the more expensive these prices will get.
The best way to grind is to start with dailies, cycle through lower Upgrade Challenges, and then use rewards from those for 82+ x20. So, continue feeding common golds to Crafting Upgrade and use the rare ones that are less than 82 OVR on the Premium League upgrade. As we suggested in our Upgrade Packs farming guide, only the PL & BWSL and LL & LF upgrades are worth doing.

It is important to do these as it both builds your stock for the 82+ x20 challenge and also improves your odds of getting a TOTY. For challenges like the Crafting Upgrade, you can do Silver Upgrades if you have run out of common golds and have a lot of silvers.
Once you’ve sorted the base, you can move to the actual challenge. The first of the two is an 83-rated squad, which is easy enough to build, but the worst part is it requires a TOTW player. Unfortunately, everybody and their mothers know you’ll be farming for it, so you won’t get them cheap in the transfer market.
For a TOTW player, the 83+ TOTW Player Pick SBC is better and cheaper than buying a card off the market. You can check places like FUTBIN for solutions and then buy players to build the squad for the same.
Another option for TOTW players is the Halftime TOTW Provisions pack. It is cheaper than the market. But whether or not it is cheaper than SBC depends on the time and platform. You get three TOTW players for 50,000 coins in the pack, which comes to about 16,666 for each. Considering the 83+ TOTW Player Pick also requires fodders that can be of better use elsewhere, the pack isn’t a bad choice, at least until you exhaust it.
The second challenge does not have a strict requirement and all you need is to have eleven players to form an 84-rated squad with one player being rated 86. The reward for each of these individual challenges, as well as the 82+ x20 Pack, should provide a good amount of cards for your next run.

If you’re lucky, you will get a TOTY. If you don’t, you can recycle the rewards for another shot. In case you get a high-rated card (87 OVR and above), best to keep it for other challenges. Also, since the individual rewards for two challenges within the SBC are tradable, you can sell high-rated cards from them to finance your fodders when you find yourself short of cards.
So, to conclude, here’s how the cycle for 82+ x20 grind should look like:
- Daily Login, Bronze, Silver, and Gold upgrades.
- Use commons for the Crafting Upgrade (for the one rare requirement, use a card with an OVR lower than 81).
- If you’ve exhausted the Crafting Upgrade, you can do these two instead:
- 75+ Player Pick
- Base League Upgrade
- If you’ve exhausted the Crafting Upgrade, you can do these two instead:
- Rare golds rated lower than 82 in Premium PL & BWSL or La Liga upgrade.
- Recycle among them until you have no fodders lower than 82 OVR.
- Finally, 82+ x20 SBC time!
- Get the TOTW players through SBC or Halftime TOTW Provisions pack.
- Recycle the 82+ x20 SBC rewards again.
- Sell high OVR cards from individual challenges to get funds for another run or keep them for other challenges like 85+ positions and individual player challenges.
There is a high chance you’ll get a couple of high-rated cards in 82+ x20 that’ll help to complete the challenge again. Even with a half-decent fodder stock, you can loop it many many times. It guarantees 22-plus players, so the numbers are on your side. We can’t really speak to your luck, but this is the best shot you have.
For more on EA FC 25, check out the promo calendar to see what’s next. Maybe you’ll have better luck in the future!
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