Build A Soccer Squad Tier List: Best Players
This Build A Soccer Squad tier list ranks cards purely by the overall rating published for them — not by a subjective "meta" read. Every entry names its source, and the table flags the ones only a single guide has reported so far. The game is still Early Beta, so treat every number here as current-as-of-check rather than permanent.
How This Tier List Was Built
Every card below is ranked strictly by its confirmed overall rating (OVR), split into three tiers: S tier for 107+ OVR, A tier for 104–106 OVR, and B tier for everything below 104 — which now spans budget picks in the 80s and 90s alongside 102–103 cards. That's it — there's no separate judgment call about a card's playstyle value or meta strength layered on top. If a higher-OVR card gets confirmed later, or if Bloxheed changes rating curves in a future update, this page gets revised rather than left stale.
Be clear-eyed about where the ratings come from: two outlets publish card numbers for this game at all — Pro Game Guides and All Things How — and Bloxheed has never published a card list, so none of these ratings are officially confirmed. 19 of the 33 cards below appear in both outlets with the same rating for the same card. The other 14 appear in only one of them so far — they're marked single-source in the table (with the guide named), and we're publishing them with that caveat attached rather than leaving them out or presenting them as equally certain.
Looking for the complete roster instead of a ranked tier list? See the full player list.
The Full Tier List
| Tier | Player | OVR | Type | Source | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S | GB Messi | 109 | GB | Dual-source | |
| S | GB Zidane | 108 | GB | Dual-source | |
| S | GB Kahn | 108 | GB | Dual-source | |
| S | James | 108 | standard | Dual-source | |
| S | Muller | 108 | standard | Dual-source | |
| S | GB Modric | 107 | GB | Dual-source | |
| S | E. Fernandez | 107 | standard | Dual-source | |
| S | Di Maria | 107 | standard | Single-source (Pro Game Guides) | |
| A | SB Cannavaro | 106 | SB | Dual-source | |
| A | SB R9 | 106 | SB | Dual-source | |
| A | Pavard | 106 | standard | Dual-source | |
| A | Griezmann | 106 | standard | Single-source (Pro Game Guides) | |
| A | SB Muller | 105 | SB | Dual-source | |
| A | SB Sneijder | 105 | SB | Dual-source | |
| A | Ronaldinho | 104 | standard | Dual-source | |
| A | Maldini | 104 | standard | Dual-source | |
| A | Messi | 104 | standard | Dual-source | |
| A | Ronaldo | 104 | standard | Single-source (Pro Game Guides) | |
| A | Mbappe | 104 | standard | Single-source (Pro Game Guides) | |
| B | Yamal | 103 | standard | Dual-source | |
| B | Cafu | 103 | standard | Dual-source | |
| B | Haaland | 103 | standard | Single-source (Pro Game Guides) | |
| B | Beckenbauer | 103 | standard | Single-source (Pro Game Guides) | |
| B | Cannavaro | 102 | standard | Dual-source | |
| B | Buffon | 100 | standard | Single-source (Pro Game Guides) | |
| B | Van Dijk | 99 | standard | Single-source (Pro Game Guides) | |
| B | Kimmich | 99 | standard | Single-source (Pro Game Guides) | |
| B | Rodri | 99 | standard | Single-source (Pro Game Guides) | |
| B | Hakimi | 92 | standard | Single-source (All Things How) | |
| B | De Bruyne | 91 | standard | Single-source (All Things How) | |
| B | Davies | 90 | standard | Dual-source | |
| B | Mitoma | 90 | standard | Single-source (All Things How) | |
| B | Demichelis | 81 | standard | Single-source (Pro Game Guides) |
Sort by clicking Player or OVR, or filter by Tier/Type above — all client-side, the underlying data doesn't change.
GB and SB prefixes are the game's own card labels — see the note on what they mean below. "Type: standard" cards carry no special prefix in-game.
Check Your Own Squad Against This List
A tier list only tells you half the story — what matters is where your current Starting XI actually sits. Type in the OVR of the eleven cards you're fielding right now to get your squad average, then compare it against the tiers above to see which slots are dragging you down. This tool is pure arithmetic on the numbers you enter; it doesn't read anything from your account.
Enter at least one player's OVR to see your squad average.
Chasing a specific squad-average target instead? The Cup Mode guide covers the entry threshold and where that number is sourced from, and 100+ Rated Team walks through a full worked example.
How to Actually Get These Cards
None of the cards on this Build A Soccer Squad tier list are guaranteed pulls — they show up through the game's existing systems, and the realistic path to any of them is building toward those systems rather than chasing one specific name. The most commonly cited approach across guides is stockpiling roughly 200 Rerolls and Refreshes before making a concentrated push, since that gives you enough attempts to reasonably expect a high-OVR pull instead of gambling a handful of resources at a time.
Captains
Complete a full squad to guarantee a 99 OVR Captain card instead of relying on random pulls.
Read the guide → 93+Cup Mode
Win 5 Cup Mode tournaments for a shot at a 105+ OVR Cup card reward.
Read the guide →Limitbreaker Cards
How cards that push past the normal OVR ceiling get added, and what triggers new drops.
Read the guide →New codes and card updates have historically landed together, so checking the active codes page right after any update is the fastest way to pick up extra Rerolls before a farming push.
What GB and SB Actually Mean
Several of the highest-rated cards on this list carry a GB or SB prefix. Bloxheed hasn't officially confirmed what either abbreviation stands for, so this tier list uses them exactly as they appear in-game rather than guessing at an expansion. See the Limitbreaker cards guide for the full breakdown of what we could and couldn't verify about these two prefixes.
Sources
Every OVR figure on this Build A Soccer Squad tier list traces back to one or more of these guides, most recently updated in early July 2026:
- Pro Game Guides — How to Make a 100-Rated Team in Build A Soccer Squad (Vignesh Raja, updated 2026-07-07)
- All Things How — Build A Soccer Squad: How to Reach a 100 Rated Team (Sehaj Padda, updated 2026-07-08)
- All Things How — Build A Soccer Squad Tips: Chemistry, Rerolls, and Higher OVR (Pallav Pathak, published 2026-07-06)
3 source URLs referenced across 33 cards. Checked 2026-07-19.
Keep Reading
Best Players by Position
The same cards split by GK, CB, LB, RB, CM, LW, RW and ST — because a slot you can actually fill beats a high OVR you can't place.
Read the guide →Chemistry Guide
Why a coherent, linked squad can outperform a pile of unlinked high-OVR cards like the ones above.
Read the guide →Active Codes
The Rerolls and Refreshes you'll need to farm toward these confirmed high-OVR cards.
Read the guide →Update Log
New cards and tier changes get confirmed here first — check before assuming this list is stale.
Read the guide →