General tactical assumptions | Tactics FM 2014 Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

Tactics are the most important, along with the team, factors affecting the victory. Repeatedly, there are surprising match outcomes in football, when a weaker team demolishes a stronger one. To do it, you need to have proper tactical principles, formation, commands etc. Experimenting with strategy, players and their tasks is the best way to choose proper tactics. This way, by trial and error, everyone can choose right tactics for their team.

For every match you can have one main strategy and two alternative ones that your players can learn during trainings. You can see a bar that represents the players' knowledge of a specific strategy below it. The rule is simple - the more they know it, the better they play. Changing strategy too often may cause your players to play below their best in every formation.

Using the Tactics creator is a fast and easy way to create a proper tactic, you can get to it from a menu in the Tactics screen. It lets you easily, step by step, choose a formation, command the team and choose player roles for each position.