Hello everyone!
I still haven’t bought FMRTE24 and, as per title, I’d like to know if it’s possible to mass edit coaches favourite formations.
Basically, what I’d want is for every AI coach in the game to use exclusively formations with NO defensive midfielders.

My idea was to filter coaches by favourite formation, and replace each formation with its no-DM counterpart. But it seems I can’t filter coaches by formations, so is there any other way? Maybe a custom preset?

Doing so for every coach one by one would be a MASSIVE pain :D

P.S. I own both a mac and a windows desktop

Hi

The option to set a preset is there, and therefore in theory be able to mass edit

but I have had to add the value myself and didnt get it to work as intended

so only @BraCa can confirm if this does work and what goes into the value field to get the desired result

cheers

Ok, thank you!
From what I’ve gathered, even if I were to understand how to use a preset like that, it seems it’d still be impossible to, say, mass edit all coaches with a 4231 DM favourite formation, as I can’t filter them by that attribute.

So, unless @BraCa can save me, one-by-one it is, I guess 🤣

Oh, great, I’ve bought FMRTE only to find out that when I edit an AI coach favourite formation, it becomes “not set” after loading the game.
Feel so cheated right now.

13 hours ago, culturedleftfoot said:

Hi

The option to set a preset is there, and therefore in theory be able to mass edit

but I have had to add the value myself and didnt get it to work as intended

so only @BraCa can confirm if this does work and what goes into the value field to get the desired result

cheers

59 minutes ago, Cesco Muja said:

Oh, great, I’ve bought FMRTE only to find out that when I edit an AI coach favourite formation, it becomes “not set” after loading the game.
Feel so cheated right now.

I took my time to test this for you[this is not my job]

I literally told you it wasn't working as intended and tagged the Dev for an explanation so why didn't you wait?

It was your decision to buy the product before getting an update

So do not say you were cheated

you didn't wait and that is your own fault

I suggest you read the forum rules here

k) Do not post anything that label/imply the developers as swindlers or cheats as this will be deleted and the user Banned. 

I mean, my question was about mass editing, but I never even considered the possibility that the feature itself, to change an ai coach favourite formation, would not be working correctly in the first place.

Though, to be honest, I didn't mean I felt cheated by you guys specifically, but in a broader sense. A license for FMRTE is so cheap, considering all it can do, I’m a happy costumer anwyay.

I also think I understand WHY it isn’t working. FM24 AI simply can’t handle another formation that is different from the few ones they have hardcoded. I gave Ancelotti the 433 narrow favourite formation, and he got sacked after ten matches!!
I guess they programmed the AI for only a few formations because of the new positional play they added this year.

This is why I said lets wait for the Dev to elaborate😉

eg the system 4-3-3 in game isnt called that in FMRTE it is 4-1-2-3

I believe it will work but we need to know the correct value to enter is it just

4-1-2-3 or 4-1-2-3 DM Wide or

4-1-2-3DMWide it has to be exactly right

please be careful in future using terms like that as I do not want to warn/ban users due to something like this, but it is sorted now😉

I will add this to things I discuss with Braca and I will update the thread if I get clarification

happy editing

I was impatient! 🤣

But what I meant is that I successfully gave Ancelotti the 433 narrow favourite formation (it’s called like that in FMRTE) instead of the preset 4123… and he couldn’t handle it! It was a total disaster for Real Madrid, and Ancelotti got sacked after ten matches.

FM24 simply can’t handle any formation without a DM, except for the 442 which is still very leacky.
I guess that’s also why, when you load the game, such formations such as 433 narrow are not saved - the game is not programmed to use them.

Just the way it is, I’m afraid.

9 minutes ago, Cesco Muja said:

I was impatient! 🤣

But what I meant is that I successfully gave Ancelotti the 433 narrow favourite formation (it’s called like that in FMRTE) instead of the preset 4123… and he couldn’t handle it! It was a total disaster for Real Madrid, and Ancelotti got sacked after ten matches.

FM24 simply can’t handle any formation without a DM, except for the 442 which is still very leacky.
I guess that’s also why, when you load the game, such formations such as 433 narrow are not saved - the game is not programmed to use them.

Just the way it is, I’m afraid.

yes you are right SI messed it up and have restricted the coding for tactics a couple of years back there were many options now as you correctly state it is very limited

we should be able IMO to use our own created tactics for an AI manager to use

There are only 2 available options that do not have DM preset, that is poor

1 hour ago, culturedleftfoot said:

There are only 2 available options that do not have DM preset, that is poor

Lol, if you go and check, the 442 diamond, even though it hasn’t a DM in the name, still uses a DM! 🤣
I was trying to remove DMs from the game because they heavily impact attacking midfielders performances. They’re always marked out of the game, and that really frustrates me!
But alas, nothing that can be done

yes its frustrating the AI tactics are being limited IMO a terrible decision by them to give so little options

Hi! Was a solution ever found to this problem? I'm trying to change certain AI manager's formations to a) reflect real life a bit, and b) make it a bit more interesting with a wider range of formations, many that aren't in the game's default AI formation options. For example, changing Pep's formation to the 4-1-3-2 DM (as it appears on FMRTE24) does show up, but when I re-load the game it goes to 'not set'.

Sorry if this is the wrong thread but it's the closest one I can find to the question I have.

N.B. I'm still playing FM24, not a fan of 26. Any help would be appreciated!

1 hour ago, smoriz said:

Hi! Was a solution ever found to this problem? I'm trying to change certain AI manager's formations to a) reflect real life a bit, and b) make it a bit more interesting with a wider range of formations, many that aren't in the game's default AI formation options. For example, changing Pep's formation to the 4-1-3-2 DM (as it appears on FMRTE24) does show up, but when I re-load the game it goes to 'not set'.

Sorry if this is the wrong thread but it's the closest one I can find to the question I have.

N.B. I'm still playing FM24, not a fan of 26. Any help would be appreciated!

Hi

I believe this is a possible bug that has been present going back to FMRTE 23

couldnt agree more regards FM26 its awful

The Dev has been tagged into this thread but hasnt replied

I will try again @BraCa

other than that please submit a bug report and or contact support via your client area

cheers

This may be fixed in FM26 I will check when free

40 minutes ago, culturedleftfoot said:

Hi

I believe this is a possible bug that has been present going back to FMRTE 23

couldnt agree more regards FM26 its awful

The Dev has been tagged into this thread but hasnt replied

I will try again @BraCa

other than that please submit a bug report and or contact support via your client area

cheers

This may be fixed in FM26 I will check when free

Thank you! Feel free to DM me if you do find a solution. Glad to see people are still keeping up with FM24 - I was worried everyone would be forced to go over to 26...

@smoriz

FYI in FMRTE 26 I have changed formation and its working so it looks like it is fixed in FM26

however there is no option to create a preset or mass edit formations that I can see

On 3/1/2026 at 9:20 PM, culturedleftfoot said:

@smoriz

FYI in FMRTE 26 I have changed formation and its working so it looks like it is fixed in FM26

however there is no option to create a preset or mass edit formations that I can see

Thanks for checking! Any idea why it seems to stick in '26 but not '24? I'm still hesitant to move over to the new version.

I'm personally not concerned about the mass edit function, but just tacked myself on to this thread because it was the closest I could find to my query. Thanks all - if there is a fix for this in FM24 that comes to light I'd love to know.

2 hours ago, smoriz said:

Thanks for checking! Any idea why it seems to stick in '26 but not '24? I'm still hesitant to move over to the new version.

I'm personally not concerned about the mass edit function, but just tacked myself on to this thread because it was the closest I could find to my query. Thanks all - if there is a fix for this in FM24 that comes to light I'd love to know.

1. Lot has changed between the 2 game versions,only the Dev can say why its fixed now

2. There wont be a fix for FM24 as the Dev usually only updates the current game.

I would contact support via client area and ask if they would consider fixing this in FMRTE 24

cheers