FUT coins, ever-controversial, are your main - if not only - way to acquire new player cards in FIFA 17 Ultimate Team. Affording you the ability to open packs, buy players outright on the Transfer Market, and even enter tournaments and challenges like the returning FUT Draft mode, acquiring and using FIFA coins is going to be a central part of what you do if you're getting into Ultimate Team.

You can, of course buy these coins with real money. Dedicated coin-selling sites are frowned upon by the community for a number of reasons, but you can purchase them directly in-game through FIFA Points - EA Sports term for what we call "money".

If you're here though, you probably don't want to do that - although of course there's no judgement if you do - and so this guide will be dedicated to explaining the best, fastest, and most efficient ways to earn FIFA coins in FIFA 17, without spending any money of your own.

Before we address what we feel to be the best ways to earn coins, it's worth quickly highlighting all the ways it's possible to do so. Here's how:

     Playing matches in Ultimate Team mode - The most obvious way to earn coins in FIFA is simply playing games of football. You'll earn around 400 coins for a win against a human opponent in FUT's online mode, give or take a few dozen depending on your performance. Keeping this up for a while will also see you earn rewards for promotion and conquering your division, which involves winning a set number of games in online leagues.
   

     Coin boosts - Your post-match earnings can also be modified by coin boosts, which are unlocked with EA Football Club Credits. We know, another currency. It's fairly simple though, simply playing the game will unlock FCCs, which you can spend in the Football Club Catalogue by pressing R3/Right Stick and browsing from the menus. Different catalogue rewards unlock as you 'level up', which again requires you to simply keep on playing. Coin boosts vary, starting at a boost of 200 coins per game for a set period.

    Completing weekly challenges and tournaments - EA Sports kindly provide a roster of new tournaments and/or challenges every week in FIFA Ultimate Team, which normally boast some fairly decent coin rewards as a result. Check into the Tournaments section on the Ultimate Team menus every week to see what's new - but even standard tournaments have decent payouts of 500 coins or more for victory, on top of what you earn from winning games.
   

    Playing the Transfer Market - This method's probably seen more YouTube videos and blogs dedicated to it than any other, thanks to the irrefutable draw we all have to the idea of playing the market. If you fancy yourself a wheeling, dealing, definitely-not-Harry-Redknapp businessman, then there's a potential fortune to be earned from Transfer Market methods like 'sniping' undervalued players as soon as they hit the market and isntantly reselling them, or mass-bidding on swathes of player cards in the hope of making marginal profit on each. We'll go into more detial on just how to do this below, as although there's quite literally no gameplay involved, it is indeed one of the fastest ways to earn coins in Ultimate Team.