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

Here is everything you need to know about the best coaches to hire in Football Manager to ensure plenty of success on the pitch and hopefully achieve your goals.

Morgan Truder

24th Oct 2023 13:47

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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

Coach stats in FM24

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

Attacking coach in FM24

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.

Name	Nationality	Current job	Age
Neil Thompson	England	Sheffield Wednesday	60
Mirko Vucinic	Montenegro	Free Agent	40
Darren Ryan	Wales	Wolves	51
Matt Thorpe	England	Sheffield United	36
Nicolo Caccia	Italy	Free Agent	53
Turu Flores	Argentina	Las Palmas	52
Robin van Persie	Netherlands	Free Agent	40
Anthony Bancarel	France	AC Ajaccio	52
Michele Albano	Italy	Spezia	47
Jacob Mulenga	Zambia	FC Utrecht	39

Defending coaches

Defensive coach in FM24

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.

Name	Nationality	Current job	Age
Rene Kolmschot	Netherlands	Heracles Almelo	54
Stefano Lucchini	Italy	FeralpiSalo	43
Kevin O'Connor	Ireland	Free Agent	41
Paul McGuinness	England	Free Agent	57
Paolo Bianco	Italy	Free Agent	46
Paul Nevin	England	England	54
Alfonso High	German	Hoffenheim	58
Massimo Innocenti	Italy	Hellas Verona	52
Dario Dainelli	Italy	Genoa	44
Oliver Lancashire	England	Southampton	34

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The best Goalkeeping coaches

FM24 Goalkeeper coach

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:

Name	Nationality	Current job	Age
Alex Brunner	Italy	Watford	49
Lionel Letizi	France	OGC Nice	50
Vicenzo Sicignano	Italy	Empoli	49
Rodrigo Bruns	Brazil	BRA	45
Rene Higuita	Columbia	Atletico Nacional	57
David Watson	England	Stoke	50
Handerson	Brazil	CEA	47
Mauri Lima	Brazil	GRE	58
Willy Grondin	France	FC Nantes	49
Zakaria Alaoui	Morroco	Free Agent	57
Alfred Dossou-Yovo	Benin	Free Agent	39

Best fitness coaches

FM24 Fitness coach

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.

Name	Nationality	Current job	Age
Dani Parra	Spain	Espanyol	37
Martin Kruger	Germany	Union Berlin	44
Martin Sporher	Germany	Eintracht Frankfurt	46
Sebastian Wagener	Germany	SV Wehen Wiesbaden	45
Bjorn Bornholdt	Germany	Hansa Rostock	41
Jonas Grunewald	Germany	Mainz 05	39
Christian Weigl	Germany	TSG Hoffenheim	47
Ben Rosen	England	Free Agent	33
Matthias Schiffers	Germany	VfB Stuttgart	41
Sebastian Lopez-Guia	France	Free Agent	47

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.

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