A captain-owned planning layer: declare your formation and XI, draw the game plan on a tactics board, write each player's job, and walk the whole thing live before kickoff.
Squad tactics shows up in three places, each more specific than the last:
Private squads and match plans are visible to your roster only — the opponent never sees them. Only the captain (or co-captain) can edit; everyone else reads.
Pick a formation from the full EA set, then drag your roster onto the slots on the pitch. You can fine-tune where a player sits by dragging their token.
Lineups are always a full eleven. Any slot you can't — or choose not to — fill with a human becomes a bot, shown as “AI” everywhere. You place bots yourself; there's no availability poll.
On a match plan you get a full tactics board — open it to draw the game plan over your formation. It works like a lightweight whiteboard:
Select a player on the board to set their job — pick from suggested instruction presets and add your own free-text note, plus a written game plan for the whole team. When you publish, every assigned player is notified and can read their position, their instructions, and the board ahead of the match.
Before kickoff, hit Present. Your online players tap Join liveand see the board update in real time as you walk through it, with a presence list of who's watching. It's a shared whiteboard moment — voice still lives in Discord; this is the visual.