Best coaches to hire in Football Manager 2024, attacking, defensive & more

Finding the very best coaches in Football Manager 2024 will help a lot with achieving your long-term goals. To have the best backroom staff possible, you will need great attacking coaches, defensive coaches, goalkeeping coaches and fitness. All of these combined will help transform a successful save into a dynasty.

Having good coaches in the game will mean your tactical vision can be successfully executed, exactly how you intended when you first fired up the save. Once you have your coaches and system set up, it will also make finding wonder kids and recruitment much easier too.

We have listed the coaches below by attacking stats, defensive stats, as well as the best goalkeeping and fitness coaches you can find.

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Best coaches to hire in FM24

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It is important when getting your coaching team together to have a good balance all over the pitch and coaches have their attributes on what they can coach best. These attributes are:

• Attacking 
• Defending 
• Fitness 
• Tactical 
• Technical 
• Mental 
• Set Pieces
• Working with youngsters

The best Attacking coaches 

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Depending on how many coaches you are allowed at your club will dictate where you focus your attention, but you will always need some attacking options. Here are the best coaches you can hire for attacking in FM24. 

Defending coaches 

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After the attack, it is time to focus on defence which is equally as important and will help contribute towards a full balanced squad. Here are the top coaches with high defending stats in FM24. 

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The best Goalkeeping coaches 

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Goalkeeping coaches will focus on different stats from other coaches, these stats include: 

• GK Distribution 
• GK Handling 
• GK Shot stopping 

With that in mind, here are the coaches who excel in these areas and are must-haves on any save on Football Manager: 

Best fitness coaches 

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If you want a high-pressing game, where your players can cover plenty of ground and hopefully run your opposition off the pitch. The main focus for a fitness coach will be the Fitness stat but they will usually have very high Mental attributes too. 

Sorting out my coaching set-up is always the first thing I do in a new Football Manager, once I have settled on how I want to play. If you recruit well, this can be the difference across the course of a season - especially in the lower leagues. 

That’s all there is to know about the very best coaches you can hire in FM24, we have also got a comprehensive guide on how to get your players a work permit in the game. For even more guides, check out our Football Manager homepage.