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
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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.
All Winning 4-2-2-2
79941 7532 6In my opinion, this is the best tactic in the history of FM by MarioPL.
Machine Learning Tactic // FM 21.2.x
20855 1204 4This FM 2021 tactic is based on the principles of machine learning. The training model used only the most successful tactics for the current match engine.
WIN AGAINST ALL ODDS! 4-1-3-2 Underdog Tactic by RDF
45772 5991 1This FM21 tactic is designed to keep things tactically simple, but VERY effective and win against all odds outscoring your opponents!
3-5-2 Montella's Revenge
11850 1213 2Created this FM21 tactic during my 2nd season at Cremonese and it works fine with an extremely poor lineup. Very solid, concedes very few chances, always threatening up front.
Unbeatable OP 4-2-3-1 Gegenpress
32476 3119 1I have used this tactic with Manchester United for about 1 and a half seasons and it has worked brilliantly! Would definitely recommend using this tactic.
Olelbis 4-3-3 with 3 strikers
25023 1620A winning enjoyment with 3 attackers it's my baby. Real football possession, goals and trophies.
Van Gaal's Ajax Invincibles 3-4-3
42988 4606 6Recreating the tactics used by Van Gaal's all-conquering Ajax side of the '90s. Dominate possession, score goals for fun and strangle teams in defence.
The Schlouh 4-4-2 / FM21 Tactic
13397 1238The Schlouh tactic is the best realistic tactic I used in FM21, it is a regular yet very efficient 442 that makes wonders.
4-2-4 Control Possession Score LOADS of Goals
32371 4490 3The BornOffsideFM Hand Of The King helps control the opposition and score LOADS of goals. 140 goals when tested with PSG and Villa got in the top 4.
The Holy Grail / Outscore them
14820 1110Goals for fun. Outscore anybody even from going behind. Worked wonders over 2 saves with Wolves.
Goals Goals Goals! Broken 4-3-1-2 Tactic!
36776 5128 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.
4-4-2 Lobanovskiy Scientific Football
24409 2007 6"[...] in my concept of football it only takes universal men, capable of doing everything."
(Valeriy Lobanovskiy)
Deadly Counter-Attack! NO HIGH PRESS! 4-4-1-1
47680 12867THIS IS A COUNTER ATTACK TACTIC! So, there is no high press or attacking mentality, something new for you on FM21
Relentless 4-3-3 Domination
27390 3137 3100+ Goals a season between your strikers! A mixture of route one, vertical tiki-taka and gegenpress. High tempo. High press.
Einaudi 4-4-2 / Die Maschine
19445 2936 2A tactic built around the Die Maschine philosophy within Football Manager. It is defensively solid but plays beautiful attacking football at the same time.
FM21 Tactic: 3-6-1 by mithriandir
17447 1223 1Offensive tactics tested with Legia and Polish National team.
GYRFM 72% Win Percentage w/ Arsenal
25571 3186 1A 4-3-2-1 tactic tested with Arsenal and had 72% win percentage using it.
Strikers Paradise! RDF's 3-1-3-2-1
30219 4210 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!!
Total Football Johan Cruyff's 3-4-3 Diamond
64705 8205 2Dominate possession, score beautiful goals and defend as one to overwhelm opponents. Most goals scored, most passes made, highest possession% and best defence.
Van Mond's - Darkness Imprisoning Me
15929 1479 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.
Ralph Hasenhuttl's Electrifying 4-4-2
26313 2438Throughout 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!
Dominant & Very Attacking 3-1-4-2
23863 2074Great FM21 tactic that worked brilliantly in Valencia, winning the league in the last matchday.
FM21 Goal Machine Tactic | 331 goals between 3 teams!
71304 14992 12Tested with 3 different teams with mixed media predictions and all three teams scored 100+ in the season
Don Capello's Roma 3-4-1-2
37479 3453 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.
Unstoppable 4-3-3 | PSV Invincibles + UCL Final
63601 11879 10This unstoppable tactic secured the Eredivise title for unbeaten PSV + UCL Final! + £100 transfer-profit! GOALS & STRONG DEFENCE!
Jose Mourinho's 4231 Spurs by RDF
42944 5484 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.
4-2-3-1 Instinct Victory by SilentSoul14
23916 3555 1The rise of the unemployed without a license to one of the best clubs in the world.
3-4-1-2 Underdog High Pressure
32132 4261 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.
4-4-1-1 Counter Tactics by Daveincid
16731 1143This 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!
Solskjær's 4-2-3-1 Man Utd Tactics
48544 6429 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.
