Football Manager 2021 PC Keyboard & Gamepad Controls

Keyboard & Gamepad controls for the PC version of Football Manager 2021 are as follows:

Keyboard Controls

General Shortcuts

Alt+F4: Quit Game

Control+Q: Quit Game

Alt+Enter: Switch between full screen and windowed mode (if system supports windowed mode)

Control+F: Switch between full screen and windowed mode (if system supports windowed mode)

Tab: Move to next control on screen that can take a keyboard focus.

Shift+Insert: Paste from clipboard.

Control+V: Paste from clipboard.

Control+Insert: Copy to clipboard

Control+C: Copy to clipboard

Shift+Delete: Cut (copy to clipboard, then delete)

Control+X: Cut (copy to clipboard, then delete)

Control+P: Print screen (if something on the screen is printable)

Control+A: Select all (only really applies to edit boxes)

Control+Z: Undo (edit boxes)

Control+Shift+Z: Redo (edit boxes)

Control+Y: Redo (edit boxes)

Control+S: Save game (to current name – will do a Save As if the game has not been saved yet)

Control+Shift+S: Save Game As.. (always asks for file name before saving)

Left Arrow: Go to previous screen in history

Backspace: Go to previous screen in history

Mouse Back Button: Go to previous screen in history

Shift+Mouse Wheel Backward: Go to previous screen in history

Right Arrow: Go to next screen in history

Mouse Next Button: Go to next screen in history

Shift+Mouse Wheel Forward: Go to next screen in history

Alt+F11: Content fullscreen (hides title bar, tree menu and footers) (different from the window fullscreen)

Specific Shortcuts

F1 – Help/Tutorial

F2 – Home page

F3 – Squad screen

F4 – News screen

F5 – Player search

F6 – Shortlist

F7 – Scout search

F8 – Staff list

F9 – Club transfers

F10 – First team fixtures

F11 – Team information screen

F12 – Game status

Control+D: Continent transfers

Control+E: Finances (Expenditure)

Control+G: Finances (Transfers)

Control+H: Manager chat

Control+I: Finances (Income)

Control+J: Job centre

Control+L: League table

Control+M: Finances (Summary) (or National Pool for national teams)

Control+N: New Game (Intro/Startup) or New User (in game).

Control+R: Training (Coaches) (On the Intro/Startup screen this is “Load Last Game” if available)

Control+T: First team tactics

Control+U: Training (Players/Schedules)

Control+W: Finances (Salary)

Control+O: Startup/Intro screen only: Load Game (Open File).

Shift+P: Go to the Preferences screen.

Spacebar: Continue game (on the News screen this is ‘read next unread’). Not valid while keyboard focus is on an edit box or in a dialog.

Dialog Shortcuts

Enter: Default action (generally OK/Yes)

Escape: Cancel and close.

Gamepad Controls

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