Football Manager Guides

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The complete Football Manager guide into the pairings and combinations that will help you come up with a logical selection of instructions when selecting the player roles and duties for your team. Updated for Football Manager 2015.

Detailed guide for selecting individual training roles in Football Manager 2013.

Playing the Australian league on Football Manager can be both a fun and rewarding process, while also providing good amounts of frustration.

How to make your team have perfect familiarity with as many tactics as you want.

Why is it that the TC changes the creative freedom values for every philosophy? Do some philosophies fit more to specific tactical shapes / formations than others?

An in-depth Football Manager guide by sporadicsmiles. Know yourself and know your opposition are key to be successful at the game.

A few helpful tips that can help make managing a flexible tactics system much easier.

If you're always on the lookout for quality newgens in Football Manager 2013, this list of dates will help you find them the moment they are generated.

This is a comprehensive guide on Football Manager team training for the first, second and third team for professional teams.

The eleven step guide to help kick start your playing experience with Football Manager 2014.

Player traits can make or break a tactic, and just when you need your players most - a trait can let you down. Understanding them is crucial to success in Football Manager.

A beginner’s guide to surviving the boot on Football Manager 2014.

A non exhaustive list of the most commonly held ideas which regularly show up in some guise or another when FMers are seeking help with building FM tactics.

What makes a tactic successful? Which factors can we fine-tune until we get ourselves a tactic that works? What steps to take? This is what you’ll learn in this guide. Updated for FM17.

A brief guide that explains how to best handle press conferences and team talks in order to give an edge to your team or at least make your team fight for every ball on the pitch.

This Football Manager guide analyzes a practical framework which will help you organize a tactic under different fluidity/mentality combinations and give you tips on applying specific tactical settings.

Good information for beginners

Which factors affect club finances? How to keep your balance tight and increase your earnings without cheating? What steps to take? This is what you’ll learn in this guide. Freshly written for FM 2014.

My personal guide to Lower Level Management

optimusprimal82 sheds light on some of the less known / exciting aspects of the game. An in-depth guide about how to survive 90 grueling minutes in Football Manager.

A guide which covers the most fundamental aspects of any title-winning side. Follow this guide and find yourself becoming one of the true legends within the game.

Pitches are the often overlooked home advantage, forget the 12th man, each blade of grass can be your teams best friend or worst enemy!

FM 2017 Regen Dates. Know when to send your scouts to scan a certain nation to discover the next generation of gems that will take the football world by storm.

The one true training guide for Football Manager 2019. A collective effort by Seb Wassell, Rashidi, Cleon and herne79. Officially approved training tips.

This is a guide, not an exploit. Should you really be training players in the roles/position they're playing in? How many coaches do you need for best results?

The definitive guide to managing in the lower leagues. What team to choose? How to handle finances? What players to look for? This (plus a lot more) is what you'll learn in this guide for LLaMas.