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
44265 4501This 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
48163 5193 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
44817 5173 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"
24345 2045 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
10939 1347 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
18779 2374 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
20113 2662 24-2-3-1 Tiki-Taka by Kostas Dimis
9347 770
Frank Lampard's Chelsea 4-2-3-1
27928 2442 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
47416 6372 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
16128 1134This 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
31496 4245 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
23492 3546 1The rise of the unemployed without a license to one of the best clubs in the world.
Jose Mourinho's 4231 Spurs by RDF
41783 5420 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
62537 11834 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
35768 3416 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!
70174 14906 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
23410 2066Great FM21 tactic that worked brilliantly in Valencia, winning the league in the last matchday.
Ralph Hasenhuttl's Electrifying 4-4-2
25795 2431Throughout 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
15393 1470 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
62649 8152 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
29315 4192 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
25040 3177 1A 4-3-2-1 tactic tested with Arsenal and had 72% win percentage using it.
FM21 Tactic: 3-6-1 by mithriandir
16942 1211 1Offensive tactics tested with Legia and Polish National team.
Einaudi 4-4-2 / Die Maschine
18641 2919 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
26653 3120 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
46469 12761THIS 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
23561 1990 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!
35713 4991 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
14384 1104Goals for fun. Outscore anybody even from going behind. Worked wonders over 2 saves with Wolves.

