Custom Formation
A lot of people ask the best FIFA players – what formation do you use? The answer will be different from people because of a few factors. The team they are using and the style of play and tactics they use. To take your game to the next level a custom formation is essential. This is because when you use them you can tell the players if to have high attacking and defending work rates. Which way to move in attack and defence and where they play on the field generally. As Ultimate Team and Head to Head games are so different it is best to use varied custom formations. The main example being stamina which drains quickly in head to head so setting players to high attack and defence work rate can be dangerous. However if you have lots of in form players in UT this can really help you win.
We have created videos of setting up custom formations to the right and how effective they are in games. One major difference to custom tactics is that you can’t change formations during play. You have to stop the game and use one of your pauses. So it is good to create one that you like with your different tactics for Ultimate team and one that you like for Head to head.
Can I use a custom formation in fifa 14 H2H seasons? I can see my custom formations (I have 3) before the start of the game and can choose them as well. However I cannot see them during the match. Moreover if the game that is going to take place have me as the home side it will not launch and gives me this message: “We Have Detected your Squad file does not match that of your opponent, and have cancelled the match to prevent unfair play. Should your squad be corrupted or tampered with, you will need to delete your online squad file and re-download.” Any ideas please?
Just an addition to the above, today I went into H2H again, and what I did differently (I do not see what it has to do) was that I purchased a classic kit and played with it. The match did take place with me as the home side (no message came up) and I could see (and choose) my custom formations even throughout the match, so is this a bug in Fifa or what?
Not quite sure why not letting you see the custom formations or why buying a kit made any difference?
I find that the away team isn’t allowed to use custom formations. No idea why. Probably because FIFA games are incredibly buggy in terms of off the pitch menus etc.
The squad file needs to be the latest one which you can download in the customize menus before you play. Unfortunately have to do that every time you start playing FIFA as they are updated almost every day. For people to play each other they need to be the same. Just a way to stop people adding their own players into teams and trying to use them.
I update the squad file but to no avail. today all my matches I was playing away, and when I was going to play a match at home the message listed above showed up. When I am playing away I cannot see my custom formations during online play
Wow! You really are a genius – this is undoubtedly the best Fifa advice site on-line and I’ve learned more on one page of this than hours on other sites. I had no idea about the level of sculpting you can apply to your team and this answers most of my questions and allays the vast majority of my frustrations.
(On my 3-5-2 Serie A team I can now have the slow CDM (De Rossi or Inler) staying back to drop back into the space left for when one of my CB’s has to go wide to challenge a winger and my other faster CDM (Vidal or Marchisio) can be more of a forward playmaker. I’ve also dropped my Left ST (Di Natale) slightly back so he can operate as a sort of ‘second striker’ to Cavani and can link-up play with my CAM (Hamsik) or LM (El Sharaawy). I’ve also set my attacking work rate of my CB’s to Low and yes, it totally counteracts the normal pace abuse and lobbed-through-ball abuse you usually find on-line. Awesome!)
Regarding saving and using custom formations in FUT I’ve found the following:
a) You can apply a saved custom formation in Fifa 12 but not Fifa 13 FUT
b) You can apply a custom formation in Fifa 13 FUT but you have to start from scratch in the 30 second window during the match and make sure that you save it. You can save the formation which can be reloaded and applied in an exhibition match but it won’t load up in your next FUT game on-line, and you have to start from scratch again.
c) I did find one exception to the rule in FUT: you can save a custom formation and reaload it in the following match in FUT if you are playing the computer in a tournament or division but only if you play the games consecutively without exiting FUT. If you exit and re-enter FUT and continue the tournament, again like a h2h FUT match the formation will disappear.
Needless to day – having discovered how effective custom formations are it’s really disappointing to find that EA have cocked this up in FUT. It’s really disappointing because you can only tweak the custom formation so much in 30 secs, and this obviously totally rules out switching between different custom formations in the middle of the match if the work-rates and positioning isn’t working with a specific opponent.
Did anyone eventually find out whether this was (for some odd reason) intentional or just a mistake?
I hope it’s reinstated properly in Fifa 14 FUT! Does anyone know the answer to this?
Thanks again B4RCA for this awesome web-site.
Glad to be of help Alex, plenty more for FIFA14.
Can I man to man mark in Seasons?
Can man mark in any game if quick enough in the menus
Your striker is a bit to forward, try to put him in the same line as the other midfielders.
Thanks a lot! This suggestion made more difference than almost any other I have seen on a FIFA website. You are a genius!
Cheers spread the word 🙂
Porque o fifa 13 é ruim de fazer formações.
O custom tatics posse de bola é bom para usar com formação da Holanda no fifa 13.
Como faz para usar a formação da Holanda da melhor maneira.
hey again B4RCA, thanks again for an excellent website. Have you any advice on a custom formation/custom tactics to modify the 4-2-2-2 formation. I think it’s an excellent one to use but was wondering if you had any ways to improve it.
Why does whenever I save a custom formation on 3-4-2-1 it comes back as 3-4-3. I know not too much difference but it does move postions slightly. Any reason?
Sounds like not saving? Although might get name wrong it shouldn’t move the positions of players.
The problem is that I save a customized formation and when I try to use it Ultimate team it has dissapeared!!
How can I fix that? What am I doing wrong?
Says top of page doesn’t save on Ultimate team.
Have you found out a reason why you can’t use saved custom formations in UT?
Hey, thanks for another great post, do you have any custom formations that is a variation of the 4-2-2-2 formation in the game? if you do, could you post pls? would be greatly appreciated
Going through formations at mo. Then custom ones so will tweet out in future.
I created the Spain formation from your video exactly as you showed it, plugged it in for Chelsea and had a 98 pt season! Premier League record for points if it happened in real life
Ha nice work.
Another great article! Thanks guys.