Football Manager 2024 Best Assistant Managers

Welcome the ultimate guide to the best Football Manager 2024 assistant managers! Today we would like to help you to set up a 5-star backroom staff team by looking closer at the best assistant managers in FM24.

Since 2012, we have taken great measures to hand you our recommendations of the best staff in Football Manager. This year is no different! Here you’ll get a complete insight into the best Football Manager 2024 assistant managers.

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What’s required of the best Assistant Managers?

The assistant manager is your right-hand man, who will support you in the daily management of your squad by taking care of any tasks you’d like to delegate.

What’s required of the assistant manager depends on his duties and how much of the task you delegate to your assistant manager in Football Manager.

The role of the assistant manager can be as specific or general as you wish. As you’ll notice, it’s a highly sophisticated role which requires a qualified backroom staff who you can trust.

His staff role responsibilities in Football Manager can expand from providing you with feedback on the team and its individual players, or provide you with valuable feedback about your tactics and tactical instructions in-match.

He can even oversee training by setting up training schedules and therefore be highly important for player development.

He can even take care of all the ‘boring stuff’, like pre-match team talk, tactics brief meetings, setting up opposition instructions or attending press conferences for you!

To summarize, a good assistant manager in Football Manager requires – all depending on his tasks;

• Judging Player Ability – to provide an accurate assessment of a players current ability star ratings, or you let him select the team for the upcoming fixture. – Squad Depth
• Judging Player Potential – to judge individual players potential ability – Squad Planner
• People Management – valuable to maintain players happiness on a great level especially if he’s charged at setting up training sessions
• Tactical Knowledge – to provide you with accurate in-match feedback about tactics and tactical instructions. It’s also worthy if you delegate the task to setup opposition instructions to the assistant manager, or let him lead friendly matches
• Motivation – if he shall take care of team meetings and pre-match team talks, or provide other touchline instructions like motivating the players via touchline instructions.

Best Assistant Managers Football Manager 2024

Our list of the Football Manager 2024 best assistant managers lets you scour through and find the most appropriate person according to your individual needs, and how you’d like to use him.

This year, we have sorted the list of best assistant managers in Football Manager 2024 at first by their level of judging player ability, then by judging player potential, and at last their people management.

This is just a brief collection of the best FM24 assistant manager. By customizing the backroom staff search filter which we have made available in the bottom of the post, and/or download our coming FM24 best staff shortlist, you’ll find even more great assistant managers in FM24.

NB! Do note that staff attributes may vary from save to save.

FM24 Assistant Managers

* Scout / Analyst
** Recommended Head of Youth Development
*** Recommended for Director (DoF or TD)
**** Recommended as Coach

Download Instructions

• Download the file above.
• Put the files into folder : My Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 2024 / Filters
• Open Football Manager 2024
• Go to: Staff / Staff Search
• Click Edit Search
• Locate the gear icon in the bottom left corner
• Click Manage Filters
• Import the file: Passion4FM-backroom-staff-search-filter and click Load
• Voila! All the different filters are added and can be selected as a search by clicking the gear icon afterwards.