19. FIFA 12: Wayne Rooney and Jack Wilshere were on the cover for UK and Ireland. Landon Donovan and Rafael Márquez were featured in North America. | © EA Sports
20. FIFA 13: Lionel Messi landed his first of quite a few covers in 2012 for the FIFA 13. Joe Hart and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain were also there in the UK version. | © EA Sports
21. FIFA 14: The global cover was once again dominated by Lionel Messi. Local cover stars worth mentioning were Radamel Falcao in Argentina, Chile, Panama, Venezuela ad Gareth Bale for the UK and Ireland edition. | © EA Sports
22. FIFA 15: Lionel Messi was joined by Eden Hazard on this one in the UK, Ireland, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Regional versions saw Gonzalo Higuaín in Italy, Robert Lewandowski in Poland, Xherdan Shaqiri in Switzerland, Javier Hernández in Mexico, and Arda Turan in Turkey, among others. | © EA Sports
23. FIFA 16: It was again Messi and only Messi for the FIFA 16 global cover. Antoine Griezmann graced the French one, while Eden Hazard appeared only in Belgium. Arda Turan was still on the cover for Turkey. | © EA Sports
24. FIFA 17: Marco Reus, sporting the Borrusia Dortmund colors, got this cover after being selected by popular vote over James Rodríguez, Eden Hazard, and Anthony Martial. The game itself was the first in the series to use the Frostbite engine and to feature a story mode, dubbed The Journey. | © EA Sports
25. FIFA 18: After Real Madrid defended its Champions League title, Cristiano Ronaldo was the natural choice for the global cover. Brazillian legend Ronaldo graced the Icon edition. The game was the first one to have Ultimate team ICONS on all platforms. | © EA Sports
26. FIFA 19: Cristiano Ronaldo reprised his cover star role in this edition, but he was removed five months after the game was released. Manchester City's Kevin De Bruyne, Paris St. Germain's Neymar and Juventus Paolo Dybala replaced him on the cover. Although EA presented the change as a mere mid-season refresh, some media speculated that rape allegations against CR7 played a role in his removal. | © EA Sports
27. FIFA 20: The latest game cover stars included Eden Hazard for the Standard Edition, Virgil van Dijk for the Champions Edition and French legends Zinedine Zidane for the Ultimate Edition. | © EA Sports
28. FIFA 21: The most recent FIFA cover has French star Kylian Mbappé's face on all editions. Now we can only ask the question: who's next? | © EA Sports
29. FIFA 22: Is the next streak coming up? For the second year in a row, Mbappé appears on the cover of FIFA. For the French, things are still only going upwards ... Will he be able to reward himself with the Champions League title this year? Maybe the cover will bring him luck! | © EA Sports
We reach the third and final installment of our FIFA cover history series. In the first two parts, we went all the way from FIFA International Soccer (FIFA 94) to FIFA 11. In the third and final part, we will take a peek at the FIFA covers from FIFA 12 until the most recent release - FIFA 22.
