FM24 tactics: Best formations in Football Manager 2024
Employing the best Football Manager 2024 tactics and formations will help elevate your team up the league tables and into the history books.
Whether you’re looking to emulate a particular style of the world’s best managers like Pep Guardiola (we’re loving big Ange instead) or want to force your squad into playing your way, we’ve done the research to help you decide what formations and tactics to use.
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It’s worth noting that this isn’t an exact science, and your crop of players might be best suited to different tactical approaches and formations.
There’s a lot of differentiators at play in FM, and you can always chop and change your managerial approach on the fly if something isn’t working.
With all of that in mind, read on below for what we think are the best FM24 tactics and formations to choose in this year’s management sim.
The counter-pressing gegenpress is as useful and relevant in FM24 as it was in FM23.
You’ll want to use this tactic if you're aiming to try and win the ball back off of the opposition as soon as you lose it. It also works in that classic 4-2-3-1 formation!
Set the mentality to Positive and remember to play a Defensive Midfielder in a support role to get the most out of attacking and defending. A good pressing forward should help you press from the front and win the ball back more easily, too.
Check out YouTuber JoshDaly’s video below on how to best set up a 4-3-3 formation:
If you have excellent wingers and wing backs and are aiming to make the most of them, you’ll want to try your managerial hand at the Wing Play tactic.
Both 3-4-3 and 5-2-3 formations work here, but you’ll need to make sure you have the correct players to make it work
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