Football Manager 2024 Touch and Console Edition

Welcome to the Football Manager™ Console 2024 Manual. It is designed to help familiarise you with the key areas of the game, to make you feel more comfortable as you get to grips with each module, and to hopefully be informative and educational. There are questions posed throughout that are answered to hopefully directly address any issues you might encounter or any queries you might have in your quest for glory. It is intended to appeal to the entire spectrum of football managers, fro

Having installed and launched Football Manager™ Console 2024, you’ll understandably want to get stuck right in to a new game. The very first thing you will need to do after the start screen is to select which mode to play; there are three Single Player modes: Career, Create-A-Club, and Challenge. Career is the full featured simulation experience and the recommended mode to start with if you are new to Football Manager™. Create-A-Club is the same as Career, but you can overwrite an existing

Part of successful team-building is ensuring that your squad comes together in the right way, developing inter-personal relationships and having the right characters to pick the team up when they’re doing badly and to keep things ticking over nicely when doing well. How important is it to maintain a happy squad? It cannot be stated strongly enough that the morale and happiness of your players is one of the biggest factors in whether you succeed as a manager. You can have the most talen

The Development Centre is your one-stop shop for making sure you’re fully informed about the playing future of your club. It is a hub of activity that lets you know exactly how the youngsters at your club are developing and leaves you wanting for nothing in your efforts to develop the next star player for the first team. Overview The Overview screen brings together all the most important information and distils it into  one easily accessible package. The headline section is given over

Overview and Status Flags It’s a simple fact that to be successful, you need the right players. That’s not to say you need the best players, but identifying the necessary players to suit your plans is of paramount importance. Whenever a person – player or non-player – appears in a list, they have a small circle with a silhouette or a profile photo. This is the ‘Information’ pop-up. Selecting it (or hovering over it, depending on your Preferences selection) displays a small box wit

Overview The Staff Overview screen displays the senior staff in charge of running each department of your backroom team, and provides quick-access links to customise the remit of their day-to-day activities. Staff Attributes The following details describe how the ratings model for non-players works in Football Manager™ Console 2024. All attributes work on the 1-20 scale, where 20 is the very best while 1 is the lowest possible value, in the same way as Player Attributes do. C

Tactical Templates To assist you in setting up a tactic, a number of templates are provided for you to use as a foundation for the way you want to play. Each tactical template sets a series of team and player instructions geared towards a particular style of play; once you’ve picked the one that best suits your plans (the textual descriptions on screen will help guide your choice), have a look at the various instructions set as a result to better understand what’s going on. Mentalities

Training has been changed in Football Manager™ Console 2024, with Units replacing the Team section from the previous version. Units Units are part of team training structure and are divided into three sections: Attacking, Defending, and Goalkeeping. Players can only be moved between Attacking and Defending, and once moved or selected for that unit, they will then take part in that unit’s training schedule.It's necessary to remember that players can become unhappy if training isn’t meet

New in Football Manager™ Console 2024 is Dynamics, which helps you to better understand how both the players as individuals and as a squad are responding to your management and to each other. This is further split into three sections: Player Buy-In, Mindsets, and Hierarchy. Player Buy-In This measures the extent to which individual players are acknowledging and responding to your methods with your Principles being the main driving force behind them, as well as the players’ personalitie

Scouting Centre This is the hub of your activity and the singular reference point to return to for all your scouting and player identification business. Everything begins with the choices you make from the bar at the top of the main screen area. Scouting Responsibility: This allows you to either take charge of things yourself or delegate them to a chosen member of your backroom staff. If delegated, scouting assignments are handled automatically, otherwise you get to decide. You can sti

Profile The Club Profile screen gives you a simple and quick look at the club’s key information. Club Details, League History, Staff, recent Results, Kits, Stadium information and Club information are all present and displayed for your perusal. These also all apply to international teams. Information The ‘Information’ sub-tab displays all the information about the club’s stadium and training ground, and any other facilities they may have, such as a youth academy. Trainin

Good financial management is imperative. Your Board expects and demands it. You can be successful on the pitch but if your finances are in a perilous state, you’ll be heading down a troublesome road that many teams struggle to come back from. Furthermore, with ‘fair play’ rules and restrictions coming into effect in more and more competitions, it is imperative to have a firm grasp on the club’s fiscal responsibilities. Basic Finances These options largely deal with the day-to-day finan

If you’re new to football, new to Football Manager™, or just fancy a little bit of a refresher on some core game principles and information, this section should provide some assistance on how best to go about your managerial career. It also contains information about some of the more complicated leagues available to manage in as well as a glossary of terms that you’re likely to encounter as you play. Beginner’s Guide Welcome to Football Manager™ Console 2024! We’ve created a beginner’s

The League/Competition screen holds all the important information and links that you need to check regularly if you are to be successful. Keeping up to date on the very latest information from your opponents is a massive factor, and Football Manager™ Console 2024 allows you to do this in many ways. The sections described below are all found from the tabs menu on any league or competition screen. They are also accessible from the competitions screen, which can be found on the Side Bar (containing

Season Limit Football Manager Mobile™ 2024 allows the user to experience a career spanning 30 seasons over one saved game. At the end of your career you will be presented with a review of your performance as manager as well as a variety of information, and if you've been successful, you may have boosted your ranking in the Hall of Fame. Bonus Content Football Manager Mobile™ 2024 includes a number of gameplay features that can be activated based on user achievement throughout a ca

So, with everything covered up to this point, it’s probably time to play a match. Team Selection If you haven’t settled on your team selection by match day, this is your final chance to put your plans into action. Selection Advice In the build-up to a match, running through the items below as something of a checklist will serve you well ahead of kick-off: -          Are your players appropriate for the Positions, Roles and Duties defined in your tactics? -         

Advanced Game Setup If you want to have greater control about the setup of your new career, and include several more leagues than the Quick Start setup allows, then you should use the Advanced Setup option. Rather than selecting a team and getting into your career as quickly as possible, you can tweak and tailor things to your exact requirements here. The Active Leagues in the main screen area are available for selection; add as many as you wish after ticking the ‘Remove nation and lea

Unlockables The Steam Workshop is your one-stop shop for additional Football Manager™ content. You can find customisable content as well as challenges and unlockables. Challenges There are a number of challenge situations to immerse yourself in; each challenge can be continued upon completion into a full saved game. The Saviour Cometh Your team are embroiled in a relegation battle halfway through the season. Can you take the reins and guide them to safety? Injury Cr

The fantasy draft mode allows you to build a brand-new squad from a pool of players. Every participating club takes it in turn to select a player from the pool, until the squads are complete, at which point they are pitted against one another in a league or cup format. When starting the Fantasy Draft mode, you have three options: Quick Start, Create Draft or Join Draft. The quickest way to get stuck in is to join an existing Fantasy Draft game; selecting ‘Join Draft’ allows you to filter ou

Football Manager™ Console 2024 comes with a thirty-season playing limit on mobile devices. Should you wish to continue your career beyond that point you can do so only on the PC version of the game.

Football Manager™ Console 2024’s interface has been designed to ensure that playing the game is as easy as possible. The following is a glossary to help explain some of the terms referred to in this manual that appear frequently in the game. Let’s begin with a short explanation on the two main control methods. Control Methods ●        The main control methods for mobile devices can be found under the ‘Touch Controls’ tab on the Preferences screen when using that version of the gam

Your ‘Inbox’ is the central point around which your experience with the game is built. Communication crucial to the management of your chosen team is delivered to you in a prompt and timely fashion – the game brings you back from processing whenever your input is required – and the majority of your key decisions and actions are taken in response to content arriving here. Look at things that interest you When you move the mouse cursor around the screen, it highlights people, clubs, and

In recognition that some new Football Manager™ users are also not totally familiar with some of the terms used within the world of football, we’ve put together a glossary of some of the ones more common terms you might encounter within the game. It is not exhaustive, but it is hopefully comprehensive and will be of assistance should you find yourself wondering about some of the terminology you’ve encountered playing the game.   Administration: A process where a club is unable to fulfi

Profile As a manager, you have a profile in the same way as all players and staff have a profile. Your managerial attributes are displayed on the ‘Manager Profile’ section from the Home screen. The ‘Manager Profile’ section also details your personal biographical information. Your profile is directly impacted by the decisions you make as manager. It also features seven characteristics, in addition to the coaching attributes found on every non-player. Those characteristics are as follow

Inbox Your Inbox is the main ‘hub’ of your game world. All important information relating directly to you, or any part of your club arrives here in the form of a news item. How do I know what’s important and what isn’t? It is open to a degree of interpretation. You might consider anything that comes to your Inbox should be classed as being important, as it’s always going to concern you or your job as manager in some form or another. However, there are some items that are classed a

Squad and Team Report You’ll spend much of your time poring over the Squad screen as you look to develop and mould a group of individual players into a finely tuned machine capable of success. Overview The Overview screen presents an immediate and detailed look at the team. Report The  Report tab is the best way to take both an at-a-glance look and a detailed study of the players available to you. Stats This section presents a breakdown of team statistics acros

The Data Hub is where you can find a dedicated and comprehensive suite of analytic tools designed to help you find that winning edge. It is entirely customisable, available on-demand once a small handful of matches have been played, and comes with a wide range of information, stats, data visualisations and more that will really leave you with no excuse not to be prepared ahead of every match. Overview The customisable Overview screen is broken into three main sections: Team Report, Tea