FIFA 22 wonderkids: the best young players to sign in Career Mode

A good football scout does two things: keep an eye on both the established names and on the youngsters making waves in academies or smaller leagues around the world. In FIFA 22, you needed to keep tabs on those young names as you worked your way through the Career Mode, especially if you were looking to sign some pretty exceptional FIFA 22 wonderkids.

As any good manager will know, signing the highest-rated player with the top FIFA 22 Career Mode potential made a pretty hefty dent in your transfer budget for the season, so opting for a relatively unknown youngster was a good tactic.

However, without effective scouting, searching for the best young players in FIFA 22 was pretty tricky. That’s why we went through the database to bring you the best FIFA 22 wonderkids your transfer budget could buy in what was one of the best sports games on PS5 and Xbox.

FIFA 22 wonderkids

Wonderkids these days are considered to be under the age of 22. That meant the wonderkids for FIFA 22 featured some pretty high-profile names, all of whom had pretty good potential. You can find a full list of the highest-rated FIFA 22 Career Mode potential players here.

These were the top ten FIFA 22 wonderkids:

Player	Age	Position	Rating	Potential
Kylian Mbappe	22	ST	91	95
Erling Haaland	21	ST	88	93
Gianluigi Donnarumma	22	GK	89	93
Phil Foden	21	CAM	89	93
Kai Havertz	22	CAM	84	92
Trent Alexander-Arnold	22	RB	84	92
Pedri	18	CM	81	91
Joao Felix	21	CF	83	91
Jadon Sancho	21	RM	87	91
Ryan Gravenberch	19	CM	78	90

FIFA 22 best young players

If you couldn’t afford some of the wonderkids on the list above, then it wasn’t the end of the world – there was still lots of untapped talent in Career Mode. So, these were the best young players in FIFA 22 sorted by position.

FIFA 22 best young goalkeepers

Player	Age	Position	Rating	Potential
Maarten Vandevoordt	19	GK	71	87
Lautaro Morales	21	GK	72	85
Illan Meslier	21	GK	77	85
Diogo Costa	21	GK	73	85
Charis Chatzigavriel	17	GK	58	84
Giorgi Mamardashvili	20	GK	75	83
Joan Garcia	20	GK	67	83
Bart Verbruggen	19	GK	65	83
Dogan Alemdar	18	GK	68	83
Konstantinos Tzolakis	18	GK	67	83

FIFA 22 best young defenders

Player	Age	Position	Rating	Potential
Alphonso Davies	20	LB	82	89
Nuno Mendes	19	LWB	78	88
Josko Gvardiol	19	CB	75	87
Pedro Porro	21	RWB	80	87
Goncalo Inacio	20	CB	76	86
Jurrien Timber	20	CB	75	86
Maxence Lacroix	21	CB	79	86
Leonidas Stergiou	19	CB	67	86
Wesley Fofana	20	CB	78	86
Sandro Tonali	21	CDM	77	86

FIFA 22 best young midfielders

Player	Age	Position	Rating	Potential
Phil Foden	21	CAM	84	92
Pedri	18	CM	81	91
Jadon Sancho	21	RM	87	91
Ryan Gravenbach	19	CM	78	90
Florian Witz	18	CAM	78	89
Jude Bellingham	18	CM	79	89
Eduardo Camavinga	18	CM	78	89
Mason Greenwood	19	RM	78	89
Jamal Musiala	18	LM	76	88
Noni Madueke	19	RM	77	88
Gabriel Martinelli	20	LM	76	88

FIFA 22 best young wingers

Player	Age	Position	Rating	Potential
Ansu Fati	18	LW	76	90
Vinicius Jr.	21	LW	80	90
Ferran Torres	21	RW	82	90
Dejan Kulusevski	21	RW	81	89
Rayan Cherki	18	RW	73	88
Jeremy Doku	19	RW	77	88
Antony	21	RW	79	88
Rodrygo	20	RW	79	88
Kayku	18	RW	66	87
Harvey Elliott	18	RW	73	87

FIFA 22 best young attackers

Player	Age	Position	Rating	Potential
Erling Haaland	21	ST	88	93
Jaoe Felix	21	CF	83	91
Giacomo Raspadori	21	ST	74	88
Adam Hlozek	19	ST	76	87
Moise Kean	21	ST	79	87
Dane Scarlett	17	ST	63	86
Benjamin Sesko	18	ST	68	86
Goncalo Ramos	20	CF	72	86
Santiago Gimenez	20	ST	71	86
Jonathan David	21	ST	78	86

That’s our list of the best FIFA 22 wonderkids that you could draft into your team.