Guide · 5 November 2026
FM27 coach assignments: more training stars with the best assignment
To optimise your FM27 coach assignments, open your club in MacLibero RT and go to the “Staff” tab. The “Coaching staff” card calculates the stars of every training category with Football Manager 27's own formula, finds the “Best assignment” of your coaches, and “Apply the best assignment” writes it to the game in one click. Everything can be undone from History.
In FM 27, the Training › Coach Assignments screen has you tick each coach category by category. The stars move with every box, but nothing tells you which combination gives the most stars overall: you go by trial and error, and every staff signing starts it all again. MacLibero RT, the native Mac app that reads and edits your single-player FM 27 save, does that calculation for your whole staff at once.
How do you optimise coach assignments in FM27?
- Open MacLibero RT, click “Launch FM 27”, load your save, then click “Refresh from game” (⌘R).
- In the sidebar, under “My save”, click your club (“My club”).
- Open the “Staff” tab.
- Read the “Coaching staff” card: for each “Category”, the “Current” stars, the “Lead coach” and the stars of the “Best assignment”, with the name of the coach who changes.
- In FM 27, close the Coach Assignments screen.
- Click “Apply the best assignment (+1 stars)”: the number is the total gain.
- Confirm “Reassign the coaches?” with “Apply to game”.
If your staff is already well placed, the card says so: “Your assignment is already the best possible with this staff.” The card is shown for the first team of the club you manage.
How does FM 27 calculate training stars?
The card's 9 categories are the game's own: “Physical”, “Goalkeepers”, “Defending Tactical”, “Defending Technical”, “Possession Tactical”, “Possession Technical”, “Attacking Tactical”, “Attacking Technical” and “Set Pieces”. For each one, MacLibero RT applies the same rule as FM 27:
- a coach's ability in a category comes from his coaching attributes for that category (defending and tactical for Defending Tactical, for example), plus his mental side: motivating, authority and determination;
- a coach spread thin is less effective: the more categories he has, the less he counts in each;
- only the best coach in the category sets its stars, from half a star to five stars. Adding a weaker one gains nothing.
We checked this calculation on a copy of a PSG save: 14 categories out of 15 showed exactly the same stars as the game's screen. The last one was half a star off, because FM also weighs that week's training schedule, which the card leaves out.
Why does removing a coach gain stars?
This is what FM's screen doesn't show. A coach ticked everywhere splits his time between all his categories; if he isn't the best in one of them, he wastes time there for nothing. Taking him out of that category makes him stronger in the others.
A real example from our test: the best assignment took one coach out of Defending Technical, where a colleague already did better. Freed from it, he became better at Defending Tactical and Set Pieces, and the team gained one star overall. The other way round, removing the only good coach from a category makes it drop: MacLibero RT weighs that trade-off for all 9 categories at once.
What does “Apply the best assignment” change in the game?
The button ticks and unticks the same boxes as FM 27's Coach Assignments screen, nothing more:
- only coaches already assigned to the team are moved; your manager keeps his own assignments;
- the game's rules are respected: a fitness coach stays on Physical, a goalkeeping coach on Goalkeepers;
- each changed box is logged in History, with the coach's name and the category.
In our test, the reopened FM screen showed the new boxes and the new stars. If you have already opened that screen during the session, FM may keep its old display: the assignments are changed all the same, and the screen shows them after a save and reload. If you have delegated training to your assistant, he may redo his own assignments.
How do you undo the new assignment?
Open History and click “Undo batch”: every assignment goes back to how it was. In our test, the original state read back exactly. More in our guide on how to undo editor changes in FM27.
Single-player saves only. Keep a copy of any save you care about before editing it.
What you need
The stars and the best assignment are free to view, like all of MacLibero RT's scouting. Applying them to the game needs a licence: €6.99 once for FM27, on up to 3 Macs (see pricing and the FM27 Mac editor comparison). Once your coaches are in the right place, set your players' FM27 individual training, or upgrade your club facilities.
Questions
How do I get more training stars in FM27?
Open your club in MacLibero RT, “Staff” tab: the “Coaching staff” card calculates the stars of each category like the game and suggests the “Best assignment” of your coaches. If it gains stars, the “Apply the best assignment” button writes it to FM 27.
Are MacLibero RT's stars the same as the game's?
They use FM 27's formula. In our test on a copy of a PSG save, 14 categories out of 15 showed exactly the same stars as the game's Coach Assignments screen; the last one was half a star off, because of the weight of that week's training schedule.
Why can removing a coach from a category gain stars?
In FM 27, a coach assigned to several categories is less effective in each, and only the best coach in a category sets its stars. Taking him out of a category where a colleague does better makes him stronger in the others.
Can I undo the new assignment?
Yes. Each change is logged in History; “Undo batch” puts every assignment back as it was. In our test, the original state read back exactly.
Is it free?
The stars and the best assignment are free to view. Applying them to the game needs a MacLibero RT licence: €6.99 once for FM27, on up to 3 Macs.