Football Manager 2023: Controls & Hotkeys

This guide contains all the default controls & keybindings for Football Manager 2023 on PC.

General Controls

• Alt+F4: Quit the Game

• Control+Q: Quit the Game

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

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

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

• Shift+Insert: Paste from clipboard.

• Control+V: Paste from the 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 a file name before saving)

• Left Arrow: Go to the previous screen in the history

• Backspace: Go to the previous screen in the history

• Mouse Back Button: Go to the previous screen in the history

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

• Right Arrow: Go to the next screen in the history

• Mouse Next Button: Go to the next screen in the history

• Shift+Mouse Wheel Forward: Go to the next screen in the 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 center

• 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.

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