crouchaldinho Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 This is either really nerdy or very interesting, depending upon your perspective! Basically, what I have done is gone through the excellent website at www.football-lineups.com and made up a list of the most popular formations used in different countries. When I move around in the FM world, I like to try to adopt a playing system that is 'traditional' for the country that I am playing in. Some of these are very obvious. In British football it's 4-4-2, in Spanish the 4-2-3-1, in Italian the 4-3-1-2/diamond and in Dutch football the 4-3-3. I was curious about other countries though and so came the following list: Europe Austia - 4-4-2 or 4-2-3-1 Belarus - 4-2-3-1 or 4-4-2 Belgian - 4-2-3-1 or 4-4-2 Bulgarian - 4-2-3-1 or 4-4-2 Cyprus - 4-2-3-1 or 4-4-2 Czech Rep - 4-4-2 or 4-2-3-1 Denmark - 4-4-1-1 or 4-4-2 England - 4-4-2 or 4-2-3-1 France - 4-2-3-1, 4-3-3 or 4-4-2 Germany - 4-2-3-1 or 4-4-2 Greece - 4-2-3-1 or 4-4-2 Hungary - 4-4-2, 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 Ireland - 4-4-2, 4-3-3 or 4-5-1 Italy - 4-3-1-2, 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 Israel - 4-2-3-1 or 4-1-3-2 Netherlands - 4-3-3 or 4-5-1 Northern Ireland - 4-4-2 Norway - 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 Portugal - 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1 Romania - 4-4-2 or 4-2-3-1 Russia - 4-2-3-1 or 4-4-2 Scotland - 4-4-2, 4-4-1-1 or 4-2-3-1 Slovakia - 4-4-2 or 4-1-3-2 Spain - 4-2-3-1 or 4-4-2 Sweden - 4-4-2 or 4-2-3-1 Swiss - 4-1-4-1, 4-4-2 or 4-2-3-1 Turkey - 4-2-3-1 or 4-4-2 Ukraine - 4-2-3-1 or 4-4-2 Americas Argentina - 4-4-2, 4-3-1-2 or 3-4-1-2 Brazil - 4-2-2-2, 4-3-1-2 or 3-4-1-2 Mexico - 4-2-3-1 or 4-4-2 USA - 4-1-3-2 or 4-4-2 Asia Australia - 4-2-3-1, 4-3-1-2 or 4-4-2 Japan - 4-2-2-2, 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 South Korea - 3-4-1-2, 4-2-1-3 or 4-4-2 Africa South Africa - 4-4-2 or 4-5-1 The formations listed next to each country are the two or three most popular formations and they are listed in order of their popularity. The stats are only considered from the top flight leagues of each country. What's interesting to me is the proliferation of 4-4-2 in Northern Europe, 4-2-3-1 on the continent and in the major European leagues, and the range of formations used in some countries like Italy in Brazil. It's also interesting to see that in South America and Asia, there are more likely to be playing systems in use in the top flights of these countries that we consider very rare over here in Europe (e.g. the wingback system, three at the back and so on). Anyway, just thought I would share. If you are even in doubt as to what playing system to use, you could always give something 'traditional' from your country's league a go. Feel free to comment or ignore as takes your fancy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
upthetoon Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 thanks for the read. seems everyone likes to use 4 defenders. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crouchaldinho Posted February 16, 2011 Author Share Posted February 16, 2011 Brazil, Argentina and South Korea all have a three at the back system in their most popular couple of formations. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Who Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Denmark should have 4-2-3-1 and 4-4-2 as the most used. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crouchaldinho Posted February 16, 2011 Author Share Posted February 16, 2011 This is based on the records at Football-Lineups Doctor Who, which list 4-4-1-1 and 4-4-2 for the last couple of seasons. 4-2-3-1 is lower down the list but not as popular as the other two. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mangelito Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 This is based on the records at Football-Lineups Doctor Who, which list 4-4-1-1 and 4-4-2 for the last couple of seasons. 4-2-3-1 is lower down the list but not as popular as the other two. I think that it's easy to mix the 4-4-1-1 and the 4-2-3-1 up as it's all about the position and the role of the wingers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crouchaldinho Posted February 16, 2011 Author Share Posted February 16, 2011 Yeah, you could be right there. Also the position of the deeper-lying midfielders in a 4-2-3-1 too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karnage94 Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Yay for Northern Ireland only having 4-4-2... We are so tactically diverse and modern :/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crouchaldinho Posted March 29, 2011 Author Share Posted March 29, 2011 Anyone been using this or am I the only nerdy one here! Thinking of heading off to a new country on FM soon myself so will be sure to try to implement one of their most common playing systems. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karnage94 Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 I tend to just stick with whatever suits the team I have, if my team is best suited to a 3-1-4-1-1 formation, then I'll play that. I like to be a bit different when I do things, doesn't always work though Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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