Lineup builder · formation creator
Make your football team from a real squad. Pick a club and an opponent, choose a formation, drag your starting XI onto the pitch, set the plan, then play the match and see how your line-up does. Injured and unavailable players are marked.
Premier League
Emirates Stadium, London
Drag a player onto the pitch, or tap a player and then a shirt. I'll tell you what I think of every one.
Every pick and every change of plan moves these numbers.
A lineup builder, sometimes called a lineup maker, team maker or formation creator, lets you pick a starting XI and arrange it in a formation. This one uses the real squads of AC Milan, Arsenal, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Inter, Juventus, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Napoli, with squad numbers and the players who are injured or unavailable marked, so the team you build is one that could really take the field.
Then it goes one step further than a drawing of a team: press kick off and the match is played. Your eleven, your formation and your plan decide how it goes, and you can share the line-up as a picture when you are done.
1. Pick the club and the opponent. Choose home or away, then press Build this line-up. 2. Choose a formation. 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1, 3-4-2-1, 3-5-2 or 4-4-2. 3. Fill the eleven. Drag a player onto a shirt, or tap a player and then a shirt; Best XI fills it for you. 4. Set the plan. Tempo, width and risk. 5. Kick off.
4-3-3. Four defenders, three central midfielders and a front three. Wingers stay high and wide, so it suits teams that want the ball and want to press.
4-2-3-1. Two holding midfielders protect the back four and a number ten plays behind the striker. Balanced, and the most common shape in the modern game.
3-4-2-1. Three centre-backs, wing-backs who cover the whole flank, and two attacking midfielders behind one striker. Strong in the middle, demanding for the wing-backs.
3-5-2. Three centre-backs, a midfield five and two strikers. It floods the centre of the pitch and gives the forwards a partner.
4-4-2. Two banks of four and two strikers. Simple, compact and hard to play through.
Yes. The lineup builder (also searched for as a line up builder or lineup maker) is free, with no sign-up and nothing to download, and it works on a phone or a computer.
Pick a club and a formation, then drag or tap players from the club's real squad into your starting XI. Choose an opponent and press play to see how your team does.
Yes. Switch between 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1, 4-4-2, 3-5-2 and 3-4-2-1 at any time, move players between positions, and try different elevens from the same squad before you play.
The match plays in a 3D stadium with commentary and an analysis of your team: how it rates, where the game should be won, and how it is going.
For a specific fixture, the Starting XI pages show the predicted line-up and team news before kick-off. To replay a match that has already happened, with the real line-ups, try the match simulator.