EA unveiled FIFA 17 in June, showcasing the new Journey story mode, but the thing that most FIFA fans have been waiting to find out about is FIFA Ultimate Team, the popular mode in which you put together a team with great chemistry. 

The wait is finally over as EA has revealed the new FIFA 17 Ultimate Team features. Here's everything you need to know about the new FUT.

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The first major update to FIFA Ultimate Team this year is squad challenges, a great new feature that will finally give you a reason to keep all those bronze and silver players you usually don’t care about.

Each challenge asks you to fill a squad that meets a set of requirements. For example, one might ask for a squad of Toronto FC players with at least one Italian player and an average rating of at least 60. If you can do this, the squad you submit will leave your team to be exchanged for a rare or unique item or player.

There’ll be a bunch of squad challenges added throughout the year, meaning you’ll think twice now about quick-selling those Korean K-League bronze players you always get in packs.

Previously in FIFA Ultimate Team, some players would get Team Of The Week or other special cards throughout the season depending on their real-life performance. The problem is, these would count as completely different cards.

For example, if you got a standard Jamie Vardy card at the start of last season, his rating was 71. As Leicester went on their ridiculous run Vardy got a bunch of Team Of The Week and other special cards, including one with a rating of 91, but you had to find those all separately: the 71 card remained unchanged.

In FIFA 17, some players will no longer have normal cards, but special ‘one to watch’ ones. These actually change their stats depending on how well a player performs that season in real life. This almost gives the game a fantasy football element – do you sell that 82-rated card you have now or hold onto it and see if they gain some form in real life, making their card far more valuable?

Once again, the Xbox versions of FIFA 17 will have special legend players that can be found in player packs (but only if you’re obscenely lucky, of course).

New legends will be added to the gae this year to join the ones already in the game. New additions this year include Jamie Carragher, Alessandro Del Piero, Rio Ferdinand, Luis Hernandez, Marc Overmars, Carles Puyol, Paul Scholes, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Emmanuel Petit and Juan Sebastian Veron.

Still no Eric Djemba-Djemba yet, sadly.

If you thought getting to Division 1 in the FUT Online Seasons mode was the ultimate challenge, FUT Champions will change all that.

It’s a new weekend league that you get access to by winning online tournaments or reaching a high division in Seasons mode. Once you’re in the league you get to play up to 40 matches in a weekend to see how many you win.

The more matches you win, the higher you rank and the greater the rewards – plenty of coins, player packs and rare items are on offer if you do particularly well.

Even better, the weekend leagues are a gateway to a new mode that could lead to even greater real-world rewards...

If you continue to do well in the FUT Champions weekend leagues you’ll place on special monthly leaderboards, which give you even greater in-game rewards.

Even better, if you consistently do well in these monthly leaderboards you may end up finding yourself entered into the Ultimate Team Championship Series or FIFA Interactive World Cup, massive live event tournaments with cash prizes.

There’s a total prize fund of $1.3 million up for grabs, so if you’ve got real Ultimate Team skills you might earn good money,

If you’ve been following FIFA 17 news you’ll already know that pre-ordering the game will get you a bunch of special football kits for your Ultimate Team which have been designed by artists and musicians.

Recently, though, EA has started showing some of them off so you can get a better look at what you’ll be getting and decide in advance whether any of them are worth replacing that Bradford City shirt you’ve been using in FIFA 16.

Special kits have been designed by the likes of Damian Marley, Kasabian and Major Lazer, and some of them look genuinely cracking. The Major Lazer one in particular is eye-catching.

Picture the scene – your mate is at your house and you decide to play some FIFA. The problem is, you both usually play Ultimate Team when you’re alone so when you meet up you’re stuck playing with the standard club and national teams that you aren’t used to.

FIFA 17 finally fixes his problem with a new feature we’re amazed hasn’t been added yet. Now your friend can download their Ultimate Team on your system so you can pit your dream teams against each other.

No more 'I’m rubbish with Barcelona, I’m too used to playing as Big Dave’s XI' excuses now – time to see who’s finally the best.

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