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
54698 7150 6In my opinion, this is the best tactic in the history of FM by MarioPL.
Machine Learning Tactic // FM 21.2.x
14177 1115 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
30826 5088 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
9309 1148 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
22500 2872 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
17302 1523A winning enjoyment with 3 attackers it's my baby. Real football possession, goals and trophies.
Van Gaal's Ajax Invincibles 3-4-3
31220 4314 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
11219 1169The 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
23673 4175 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
12251 1060Goals for fun. Outscore anybody even from going behind. Worked wonders over 2 saves with Wolves.
Goals Goals Goals! Broken 4-3-1-2 Tactic!
27134 4634 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
18059 1811 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
39387 11744THIS 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
22337 3002 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
15898 2819 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
10183 1135 1Offensive tactics tested with Legia and Polish National team.
GYRFM 72% Win Percentage w/ Arsenal
19847 3081 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
22874 3971 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
49587 7612 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
12887 1417 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
18936 2296Throughout 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
19943 1974Great FM21 tactic that worked brilliantly in Valencia, winning the league in the last matchday.
FM21 Goal Machine Tactic | 331 goals between 3 teams!
58489 14176 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
27871 3183 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
50212 11375 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
32245 5045 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
19387 3486 1The rise of the unemployed without a license to one of the best clubs in the world.
3-4-1-2 Underdog High Pressure
26966 4010 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
10769 1050This 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
36987 6008 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.
