Football Manager 2021 Tactics
Find successful Football Manager 2021 tactics to download. Share your best FM 2021 tactics to help fellow managers struggling to create good FM21 tactics.
How to create a successful tactic on Football Manager
What makes a tactic successful? Which factors can we fine-tune until we get ourselves a tactic that works? What steps to take? Read this guide.
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What makes a tactic successful? Which factors can we fine-tune until we get ourselves a tactic that works? What steps to take? Read this guide.
Marcelo Bielsa 4-1-4-1 Leeds Tactics
44520 4506This Football Manager 2021 tactic is my interpretation of Marcelo Bielsa's tactics at Leeds United.
PASS-CELONA 4-2-3-1 | The Game Breaking Tiki-Taka Tactic
48711 5209 4This is a Tiki-Taka tactic for FM 2021 that looks stunning. See your team dominate possession! Watch the most beautiful football unfold with this incredible tactic!
4-1-2-1-2 Diamond / Outscore Every Opponent By LSPlaysFM
45112 5176 10Outscore every opponent with this narrow diamond counter attacking tactic! Atalanta as Serie A winners, Aston Villa 4th In The Prem & even more!
4-4-2 Ralf Rangnick "The Professor"
24504 2047 2The 4-4-2 of Ralf Rangnick, "guru" of German football and mentor of many coaches in the Bundesliga.
4-4-1-1 Benito's FFONETOONE GEGEN - Wolves Control the World
11007 1353 1Combined high intensity Klopp's style and attacking options via Zidane with winning the Champions League and the EPL in the second season with Wolves.
THE BLUE LIONS - TREBLE WINNING TACTICS
18848 2378 2Tactics which resulted in mesmerizing "liquid football" at its finest which brought me tons of trophies during my save with Chelsea!
Very Attacking 4-3-3 / The Arthamart 2021
20282 2669 24-2-3-1 Tiki-Taka by Kostas Dimis
9389 770
Frank Lampard's Chelsea 4-2-3-1
28092 2445 3I have replicated the Frank Lampard 4-2-3-1 that he used with Chelsea at the start of the 2020/21 season.
Solskjær's 4-2-3-1 Man Utd Tactics
47824 6386 3Replicate the way Man Utd play in real life under Ole Gunnar Solskjær. Attacking play and get Bruno Fernandes firing! A set of 2 tactics for FM 2021.
4-4-1-1 Counter Tactics by Daveincid
16311 1140This tactic follows the rule: A good offensive wins games, a good defensive the championship. But there is a small difference... you score a lot too!
3-4-1-2 Underdog High Pressure
31638 4249 1Great tactic for underdogs (works with good teams as well). You have a great solid defense, and fast counter attack. Over 12 years of game experience.
4-2-3-1 Instinct Victory by SilentSoul14
23644 3550 1The rise of the unemployed without a license to one of the best clubs in the world.
Jose Mourinho's 4231 Spurs by RDF
42106 5433 1Play just like Mourinho and dominate world football! Replicating the tactics the special one is using at Tottenham during the 2020/21 season for FM 2021.
Unstoppable 4-3-3 | PSV Invincibles + UCL Final
62880 11845 10This unstoppable tactic secured the Eredivise title for unbeaten PSV + UCL Final! + £100 transfer-profit! GOALS & STRONG DEFENCE!
Don Capello's Roma 3-4-1-2
36237 3423 2Recreating the Scudetto winning Roma side from 2000/01 season. Solid in defence with creativity provided by Treq and RWB. Won the league-best attack and defence.
FM21 Goal Machine Tactic | 331 goals between 3 teams!
70530 14927 12Tested with 3 different teams with mixed media predictions and all three teams scored 100+ in the season
Dominant & Very Attacking 3-1-4-2
23486 2070Great FM21 tactic that worked brilliantly in Valencia, winning the league in the last matchday.
Ralph Hasenhuttl's Electrifying 4-4-2
25955 2432Throughout Hasenhüttl's career, he has preferred the 442 which has to press, and have a very narrow attacking shape. On FM, we recreate just that!
Van Mond's - Darkness Imprisoning Me
15528 1471 3Amazing underdog tactic for FM 2021 that encompasses the full throttle gegenpress whilst embracing a tika-taka approach causing chaos and upset in the Bundesliga.
Total Football Johan Cruyff's 3-4-3 Diamond
63128 8163 2Dominate possession, score beautiful goals and defend as one to overwhelm opponents. Most goals scored, most passes made, highest possession% and best defence.
Strikers Paradise! RDF's 3-1-3-2-1
29554 4198 10The strikers in this tactic simply perform amazing, given you have a decent enough striker. Unorthodox shape with the 3-1-3-2-1, but it scores goals!!
GYRFM 72% Win Percentage w/ Arsenal
25169 3179 1A 4-3-2-1 tactic tested with Arsenal and had 72% win percentage using it.
FM21 Tactic: 3-6-1 by mithriandir
17099 1215 1Offensive tactics tested with Legia and Polish National team.
Einaudi 4-4-2 / Die Maschine
18906 2923 2A tactic built around the Die Maschine philosophy within Football Manager. It is defensively solid but plays beautiful attacking football at the same time.
Relentless 4-3-3 Domination
26896 3123 3100+ Goals a season between your strikers! A mixture of route one, vertical tiki-taka and gegenpress. High tempo. High press.
Deadly Counter-Attack! NO HIGH PRESS! 4-4-1-1
46792 12793THIS IS A COUNTER ATTACK TACTIC! So, there is no high press or attacking mentality, something new for you on FM21
4-4-2 Lobanovskiy Scientific Football
23808 1998 6"[...] in my concept of football it only takes universal men, capable of doing everything."
(Valeriy Lobanovskiy)
Goals Goals Goals! Broken 4-3-1-2 Tactic!
36070 5007 2This is by far the most OP Tactic I have come across this year. Works with virtually any style of team and you will get rewards straight away.
The Holy Grail / Outscore them
14525 1107Goals for fun. Outscore anybody even from going behind. Worked wonders over 2 saves with Wolves.
