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.
All Winning 4-2-2-2
78280 7511 6In my opinion, this is the best tactic in the history of FM by MarioPL.
Machine Learning Tactic // FM 21.2.x
20166 1183 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
43987 5895 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
11420 1205 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
31458 3081 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
24344 1606A winning enjoyment with 3 attackers it's my baby. Real football possession, goals and trophies.
Van Gaal's Ajax Invincibles 3-4-3
41616 4572 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
12914 1224The 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
31655 4461 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
14337 1103Goals for fun. Outscore anybody even from going behind. Worked wonders over 2 saves with Wolves.
Goals Goals Goals! Broken 4-3-1-2 Tactic!
35565 4987 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
23463 1987 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
46299 12745THIS 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
26504 3117 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
18568 2915 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
16821 1209 1Offensive tactics tested with Legia and Polish National team.
GYRFM 72% Win Percentage w/ Arsenal
24956 3176 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
29132 4187 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
62390 8138 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
15319 1468 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
25712 2428Throughout 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
23330 2064Great FM21 tactic that worked brilliantly in Valencia, winning the league in the last matchday.
FM21 Goal Machine Tactic | 331 goals between 3 teams!
69984 14890 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
35503 3411 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
62380 11825 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
41619 5416 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
23405 3545 1The rise of the unemployed without a license to one of the best clubs in the world.
3-4-1-2 Underdog High Pressure
31444 4244 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
16045 1129This 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
46980 6352 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.
