FIFA 17 Ultimate Team: FUT Team of the Year Announced, Player Ratings Revealed

The best cards you'll see on FIFA 17 Ultimate Team are up for grabs after EA Sports announced its Team of the Year on Monday, with Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi headlining a star-studded cast. 

As expected, the developer has based its latest FUT Team of the Year around FIFPro's World XI and announced its official TOTY forward lineup via its official Twitter account, with Ronaldo boasting a coveted 99 card:

Luis Suarez is the third member of the attack, alongside Messi and 2016 Ballon d'Or winner Ronaldo, who also captured the Best FIFA Men's Player award on Monday, per FIFA.

Ronaldo bagged honours as the highest-rated player in FIFA 17 after seeing his TOTY card pushed to a ridiculous 99, while Messi is a close second after seeing his overall rating upgraded to 98.

All three of Ronaldo, Messi and Suarez are available in packs as of Monday evening, while the remainder of the team will have their stats announced and cards released in due course.

Luka Modric, Andres Iniesta and Toni Kroos have the privilege of making up a three-man midfield, as the likes of Paul Pogba, Gareth Bale and Eden Hazard missed out:

While Kroos' 60 pace makes him the slowest member of the midfield, his passing rating of 98 means he beats even Iniesta in that regard, and the German's 90 shooting makes him a menace in attack.

Iniesta's shooting also underwent a drastic makeover after being boosted by four points, as shown by FUTHead, which posted a look at the Spaniard's TOTY in-game stats field, where the green marks run rampant:

Modric, meanwhile, has barely a yellow in sight in his new Team of the Year form, where it's his dribbling stats that make him a coveted asset, with the lowest of those in-game stats (dribbling) still a monstrous 93:

In defence, Sergio Ramos partners Real Madrid colleague Marcelo, Gerard Pique and Dani Alves—now at Juventus. Full-backs Marcelo and Alves both have new ratings of 93, while Pique has improved by eight points to a terrifying 94, and Ramos has a gleaming 86 to his name. 

Real veteran Ramos is kingpin in central defence with respective defending and physical stats of 97 and 96, while a pace rating of 85 makes the player nearly impenetrable. EA Sports confirmed the pack's release on Thursday:

Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer may, however, be the jewel in the back line's crown after keeping his place in FUT's Team of the Year for the fourth year in succession. The Bayern Munich marauder was only too quick to show off his new 98 TOTY card, via his club's official Twitter account:

Juve flyer Alves is the quickest of the latest released bunch, and his 95 pace means wingers will be having a hard time making it down the Brazilian's flank anytime soon.

Pique's 95 defending stat makes him a fearsome force in his own right, but FIFA YouTuber Chuboi wasn't looking past Ramos as the belle of the ball:

The release of the last pack means we now know ratings for the entire FUT 17 Team of the Year, which is expected to be released in its entirety on Saturday, if previous years are anything to go by.

It's then that FUT 17 players will have their chance at landing all 11 megastars in the lottery, and with it their opportunity to assemble the one team to rule them all.