What the top 100 clubs actually play
We looked at the last 10 league matches of every club in EA's all-time Clubs top 100: 1059 players across 967 matches. Here's what wins.
Archetype usage
Share of all players who played at least 3 of their club's last 10 league matches with that archetype.
Most played archetypes by position
Defenders
- Boss49%
- Marauder20%
- Progressor18%
- Recycler6%
Position is EA's broad position group (forward, midfielder, defender) the player lined up in for most of their matches.
Archetype stats
Averages per match. Height is the median with the middle 50% in brackets.
| Archetype | Build guide | Players | Height (cm) | Rating | Goals | Assists | Shots | Tackles | Pass % | Win % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finisher | Finisher build → | 169 | 173 (168–182) | 7.79 | 1.14 | 0.56 | 2.30 | 1.12 | 82% | 80% |
| Boss | Boss build → | 154 | 196 (189–196) | 7.26 | 0.08 | 0.04 | 0.32 | 0.89 | 81% | 77% |
| Maestro | Maestro build → | 136 | 172 (168–177) | 7.69 | 0.16 | 0.33 | 0.41 | 1.66 | 82% | 80% |
| Marauder | Marauder build → | 86 | 181 (177–186) | 7.24 | 0.09 | 0.11 | 0.22 | 1.11 | 82% | 79% |
| Creator | Creator build → | 82 | 171 (166–175) | 7.61 | 0.25 | 0.75 | 0.70 | 1.46 | 78% | 80% |
| Recycler | Recycler build → | 82 | 182 (177–188) | 7.59 | 0.05 | 0.08 | 0.15 | 1.48 | 86% | 83% |
| Progressor | Progressor build → | 79 | 189 (186–195) | 7.44 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.19 | 1.26 | 79% | 76% |
| Magician | Magician build → | 78 | 171 (164–177) | 7.49 | 0.85 | 0.60 | 1.84 | 1.51 | 82% | 82% |
| Spark | Spark build → | 76 | 173 (167–177) | 7.69 | 0.67 | 0.52 | 1.59 | 1.28 | 80% | 84% |
| Disruptor | Disruptor build → | 53 | 178 (173–182) | 7.44 | 0.05 | 0.08 | 0.12 | 1.73 | 83% | 73% |
| Goalkeeper | Goalkeeper guide → | 41 | 197 (192–197) | 6.07 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.07 | 0.05 | 81% | 71% |
| Target | Target build → | 23 | 194 (182–195) | 7.55 | 0.83 | 0.42 | 1.90 | 0.73 | 84% | 81% |
Meta history
Tracking started on Oct 8, 2026. We take a new snapshot of the top 100 clubs every week, and these charts fill in as the meta shifts with patches and title updates.
What this tells you
- Height splits the pitch. Defenders and Target forwards sit in the 190s, while the most popular attacking and creative archetypes cluster around 170–175 cm, well inside the 182 cm limit for Explosive AcceleRATE. See Lengthy vs Controlled vs Explosive and our height and weight guide.
- Finisher and Boss lead the way. Together they make up 31% of all players in top clubs.
- Two ways to hold midfield. The Disruptor wins the ball (1.73 tackles per game), while the Recycler keeps it (86% pass accuracy). See the Disruptor and Recycler pages.
- Goalkeepers are mostly AI. Only 35% of the top 100 had a human keeper in their recent league games.
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How we got the numbers
Source: EA SPORTS FC's public Clubs data for the crossplay platform (PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC), collected on October 8, 2026. We took the 100 clubs on the all-time leaderboard and their last 10 league matches each (967 matches). A player counts for an archetype if they used it in at least 3 of those matches; a player who switched archetypes counts once for each. Player names were removed before analysis. Rating is EA's match rating. EA's data names archetypes by number only, so we matched each number using where it plays, height and match stats (for example, the Disruptor makes the most tackles of any midfielder and the Recycler has the best pass accuracy). The two goalkeeper archetypes are grouped together because match data can't tell them apart reliably. These are the best clubs in the game, so treat this as the top-end meta, not what works in Division 10.