Prepare Your Selected Squad During Camp
In Football Manager 27, you can create training plans during national-team camps to prepare your selected squad for tournaments and key fixtures. Build the camp around the next opponent, check your team's Tactical Effectiveness, and use Tactical Tweaks to respond as the match unfolds.
Choose What the Camp Should Prepare You to Do
Team training puts the next match and opposition at the centre of your preparation, with sessions supporting cohesion and shared tactical understanding. Available areas of work include pressing high up the pitch, sitting in a low block and improving the build-up phase. For your national side, choose the focus that serves your intended approach to the fixture, then build the camp plan around it.
Start with a clear football problem: perhaps you want to apply pressure further forward, defend deeper or improve how you begin attacks. Treat that as the reason for choosing your sessions. This gives you a useful question to carry into the fixture: are the players producing the behaviour you prepared?
Set Up Your International Camp Training
- Open Training from the primary navigation bar to reach the planning tools. Training is accessible from this bar regardless of the screen you are viewing, so it provides a direct starting point for preparing your camp.
- Create a training plan for your selected international squad during the camp. This lets you organise preparation ahead of a tournament or another important fixture; use the upcoming challenge as the purpose of the schedule.
- Set the match preparation types for the scheduled sessions leading into the game. You can make these choices directly through the relevant message, allowing you to shape the preparation around your intended approach rather than leaving the schedule without a clear focus.
- Review the physical-load indicators for your training plan. They show the demands of the current week and the period ahead, giving you a broader view of the schedule before you decide whether the workload suits your preparation.
- Edit the weekly training schedule from its training-related message when your preparation needs adjusting. International managers can make these changes directly from messages, so you can refocus the plan without treating the original schedule as fixed.
Check Tactical Effectiveness Before the Fixture
Tactical Effectiveness brings together Tactical Understanding, Player Ability, Player Buy-In and Next Match Information. Its gauges appear in Training and Tactics, helping you judge how comfortable the team is with your instructions and how well equipped it is to execute them. Use this information when weighing whether your intended approach suits the squad you have selected.
Tactical Complexity reflects the positions and instructions you set, including the volume of team, player and opposition instructions. A simpler approach can become effective quickly but have less long-term potential, while a complex system may take longer to learn and offer a higher ceiling. For the coming fixture, favour a plan your squad can execute over extra instructions added without a clear purpose.
Take the Camp Plan Into the Match
- Arrange the available tiles between highlights around the information you need to judge your plan. The match interface supports tile swapping, with Heat Maps and Action Zones among the available insights. Use them alongside the action to assess whether the intended approach is appearing on the pitch.
- Read the dugout advice when the opposition changes its approach. Your staff provide information about the opposing manager's tactical adjustments and suggest when a Tactical Tweak may be useful. This gives you another way to assess whether the situation calls for a response.
- Activate a Tactical Tweak that addresses the problem you want to solve. Available team adjustments include greater urgency, longer passing, exploiting width and reducing the press; individual options include swapping wingers. These tools let you change instructions from the touchline without opening the Tactics screen.
- Deselect a Tactical Tweak when you no longer want its instructions applied. Tweaks remain active until you turn them off, and staff can advise when to stop using one. Reassess an active adjustment when the match situation changes instead of assuming it should remain in place.
- Choose a Shout when you want to address the players' emotional state. Shouts include contextual explanations and affect mental state, with reactions reflected in body language and staff feedback in the dugout feed. Judge the response you receive before deciding how to handle the team next.
Use the Fixture to Shape Your Next Preparation
After the match, the Data Hub offers insights into how play developed, including Pass Maps showing patterns and areas where moves began and chances were created. You can also watch highlights as soon as you leave the match. Revisit the passages that best show whether your camp's focus translated into the football you wanted.
Compare what you intended with what you observed before choosing the next training priority. If the same problem remains visible, consider whether the preparation focus or the tactical demands need changing. Keep the next camp tied to a specific improvement you want to see in the following fixture.