Football Manager 2020: Taking over the training - all info

Like most facets of the game, the training in Football Manager 2020 also offers quite a few setting options that need to be known first. We explain the basics on the subject.

Practice makes perfect: In Football Manager 2020, this is even more true.

With a well-set training session, you can drive your team's progress decisively. However, due to the variety of options, you first need an overview.

Football Manager 2020: The training area is so comprehensive

The training area can be found in the left-hand main menu, where you can access all the important functions:

• The focus is on team training. Several factors are important here, first and foremost co-trainers and assistant coaches, which you can assign to different types of training. The skills of the coaches are crucial for the effect of the training. More trainers also mean less burden on the individual employee, which also increases efficiency.
• It also makes sense to divide the players into training groups. In this way, specific areas can be trained in a targeted manner.
• Fitness trainers should also definitely be part of your staff, as you can improve the physique of your players.
• In team training, you can select predefined focus areas for the coming weeks under "Calendar". This is important if you want to improve certain areas, whether it is the switching game, tactical defensive behavior or standards.
• Equally important is the assignment of tactics (s) in training. This namely increases the tactical familiarity of the players, which has a huge impact on the implementation. You can train the two other tactics in addition to the primary tactic. You can see and set this in the bar at the top of the training area.
• In addition, there is the individual training of the players. This includes three aspects, namely getting used to a certain position, training certain skills and learning player characteristics.

Not least, you can also adjust the load in training (intensity), which affects freshness and risk of injury. Because of all these factors, it is advisable not to neglect training, as it has strong effects on many areas in both the short and long term, from player development to fitness.