Women can play in FIFA 23’s Career mode thanks to an interesting bug

ALEXIA Putellas is now the highest-rated player in FIFA 23 with a whopping 92-rating, but you can’t normally have her on your team in Career mode.

While FIFA 23 has more female players than ever before, they can only be used in Tournament mode, and the upcoming Women’s World Cup mode.

We'd be glad to have Chloe Kelly on our FUT. — We’d be glad to have Chloe Kelly on our FUT.Credit: EA Sports

However, due to the limited number of women’s leagues in the game, there is no Career Mode for female players.

Also, despite having some of the highest-rated players, you can’t have a woman join your team in FIFA’s most popular mode, FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT).

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, though, as players have found a bug that allows women into teams in Career mode.

This bug shows how female players could easily integrate into mixed-gender teams in a mode like FUT.

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As discovered by user theOUTCOME3 on Reddit, once they entered into their third year of Player Career mode, female players started being signed onto teams.

Not only the team the player was on, but managers on opposing teams also started scooping up these talented women.

This was not intended by publisher EA Sports, though some users commented that they encountered the same bug in FIFA 22.

Women were introduced into FIFA games in 2016, with the roster of available players expanding every year.

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Reactions to the bug were mixed, with some complaining that mixed gender teams broke their immersion.

However, other players were pleased with the bug, finding it amusing and stating that the game isn’t true to life anyway.

One player said: “I started the career mode in Barcelona, world class difficulty and they put me in the first squad straight away.

“I was expecting them to send me on a loan or something, but no. The coach somehow prefers a 70-rated player on left wing over Ansu Fati.

“That is already immersion breaking.”

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Another rightfully points out: “Wish this was a feature. If I can play with Ted Lasso and the AFC Richmond players, then surely I could use Sam Kerr and Beth Mead too.”

This bug shows how women could be easily integrated into FUT, just as well as the ghost of Maradona blends in.

Written by Georgina Young on behalf of GLHF.