Guides
Getting Started with Footy Manager in 5 Minutes
A fast walkthrough of your first hour in Footy Manager, creating a club, picking a formation, assigning roles, and winning your opening fixture.
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The Best Formation for a Browser Football Manager Game
A practical guide to 4-3-3, 4-4-2, 4-2-3-1 and 3-5-2 in Footy Manager, strengths, weaknesses, and the squad profile that suits each one.
Match Engine
How the Footy Manager Match Engine Works
A deep look at the Footy Manager match engine: events, probabilities, player ratings, and how tactics shape every minute of a match.
Tactics
Captains and Set-Piece Takers: Who Should Actually Take Them?
Picking your captain, vice-captain, free-kick taker and penalty taker in Footy Manager, and why the obvious choice is often wrong.
Training
Training Tips: How to Actually Improve Your Players
Practical training tactics for Footy Manager, unit focus, intensity, rotation, and the morale traps that quietly cost you a season.
Transfers
Transfer Market Strategy: Bids, Wages and Budget Discipline
How to scout, bid and negotiate in the Footy Manager transfer market, and the budget mistakes that ruin saves before season two.
News
Reading the Timeline: Turning Narrative into Strategy
The Footy Manager timeline is more than flavour text, it tells you exactly what your squad and board think. Here is how to read and use it.
Guides
Online Competitions: A Strategy Guide
How to survive, and win, Footy Manager online competitions. Squad selection, rotation, tactics and the mindset that beats other managers.