All FC 27 Basic Controls, Animated
Every basic control on the game's own 13 pages, every input animated.
Every one of the 190 basic-control entries in EA FC 27, on the game's own 13 pages, in the game's own order. Each input is played for you, one row at a time — tap a row to replay it, and use the dock at the bottom to switch PlayStation or Xbox, colour or white buttons, and the game's wording or a simplified reading. Rows marked new were not in FC 26.
The core attacking inputs every outfield player uses in every match: the basic pass and shot family, plus the fakes that sell a dribble. Start with Ground Pass / Header and Through Pass, then learn Finesse Shot and Power Shot for finishing, and Fake Shot to buy yourself a yard in the box.
16 actions — the game's order
Ground Pass / Header
Lob Pass / Cross / Header
Through Pass
Shoot / Volley / Header
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Low Driven Shot
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Chip Shot
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Finesse Shot
+ +
Low Driven Finesse Shot
+ +
Power Shot
+ + +
Low Driven Power Shot
then + 
Direction
Fake Shot
then + Direction
Fake Pass
+ then 
+ then
Fake Shot to Stop
+ + + DirectionHold + + + Direction
Directional Fake Shot to Stop new
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Driven Through Pass
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Rewind and Try Again (Kick-Off Only)
The bigger attacking toolkit: weighted and driven passing variants, ways to move teammates, and the flair options. Pro Clubs players lean on Trigger Run and Call for Support to shape a move, Driven Ground Pass and Lobbed Through Pass to break lines, and Player Lock to make a run of their own while a teammate holds the ball.
33 actions — the game's order
Protect Ball
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Driven Ground Pass
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Lofted Ground Pass
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Lofted Through Pass
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Lobbed Through Pass
+ +
Driven Lob Pass / Driven Cross
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High Lob / Cross
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Ground Cross
+ + +
Driven Ground Cross
Trigger Run
Call for Support
+ + Direction
Trigger Curved Runs new
+ +
Pass and Follow new
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Double Teammate Support
+ Hold
Dummy a Pass
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Flair Pass / Swerve
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Flair Shot / Outside The Foot
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Flair Lob / Cross / Outside The Foot
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Flair Through / Swerve
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Let Ball Run
Flick Up for Volley
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Disguised First Touch
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Pass and Go
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Direction + Direction + Direction
Pass and Move
+ + Flick
Directional Runs
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Player Lock
Switching (Player Lock)
+ + +
Hard Super Cancel
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Cancel Foul Advantage
Shield Step In / Push back
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Precision Ground Pass
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Precision Swerve Ground Pass
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Precision Lob Pass
How your player carries and receives the ball when no pass or shot is involved. Sprint and Controlled Sprint decide how much of the ball you keep at pace, First Touch / Knock-On and Controlled First Touch / Effort Touch decide how the first contact lands, and Strafe Dribble lets you face goal while shuffling sideways past a marker.
11 actions — the game's order
Move Player
+ Direction
Sprint
+ Direction
Shield / Jockey
+ Direction
First Touch / Knock-On
+ Direction + Flick
Controlled First Touch / Effort Touch
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Stop and Face Goal
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Strafe Dribble
Controlled Sprint
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Stop Ball
Jostle (Ball In Air)
Skill Moves
In-match tactical changes, which in Pro Clubs mostly matter to whoever is captaining the side. Quick Tactics opens the shortcuts for Offside Trap, Team Press and Get In Box, while My Tactics swaps in one of your saved custom setups without pausing the game.
19 actions — the game's order
Quick Tactics
then
Offside Trap
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Team Press
then 
Extra Striker
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Get In Box
Tactical Focus
then
Default
then
Defending
then
Attacking
My Tactics
then
Custom Tactic 1
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Custom Tactic 2
then
Custom Tactic 3
then
Custom Tactic 4
Tactical Suggestions
then
Tactic Suggestion 1
then
Tactic Suggestion 2
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Tactic / Focus Suggestion
then
Substitution
Everything you do without the ball: switching, tackling, clearing and pulling the goalkeeper off the line. Hard Tackle, Sliding Tackle and Shoulder Challenge / Sealout are the bread-and-butter challenges, Sprint Jockey is how you stay goal-side of a quicker winger, and Professional Foul is the deliberate one for when the runner is through.
22 actions — the game's order
Change Player
Direction
Change Player (Manual)
Icon Switching
Tackle / Push or Pull (When Chasing)
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Hard Tackle
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Professional Foul
Sliding Tackle
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Hard Slide Tackle
Clearance
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Technical Clearance
Shoulder Challenge / Sealout
Contain (Technical & Legacy Defending)
Physical Tackle (Advanced Defending only)
Teammate Contain
+ Hold
Partial Team Press
+ Hold
Sprint Jockey
Quick Get Up (after slide tackle)
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Engage Shielding Opponent
Rush Goalkeeper Out
+ Hold
Goalkeeper Rush To Contain
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Goalkeeper Rush to Center
Goalkeeper Rush to Center Cancel
Distribution and positioning for anyone playing in goal, with the ball in your hands or at your feet. Throw / Pass and Driven Throw get the ball out quickly, Drop Kick clears the lines, and Move Goalkeeper plus GK Cover Far Post are the manual positioning options for crosses and set pieces.
9 actions — the game's order
Drop Kick
Throw / Pass
Drop Ball
Pick Up Ball
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Driven Throw
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Driven Kick
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Move Goalkeeper
GK Cover Far Post
Switch Camera (Goalkeeper Only)
The basic free-kick controls for both the taker and the defending side. Aim and Reticle Aim set where the ball goes, and Select Kick Taker decides who stands over it. If you are in the wall, Wall Jump and Wall Charge are the two things you can do as the kick is struck.
10 actions — the game's order
Aim
Reticle Aim
Ground Pass
Lob Pass / Cross
Wall Jump
Wall Charge
Move Wall
Select Kick Taker
Add Kick Taker
Move Goalkeeper
Multi-taker routines and the free-kick tactics menu. Call 2nd Kick Taker and Call 3rd Kick Taker bring extra players to the ball, 2nd Kick Taker Run Over Ball sells the dummy, and Display Free Kick Tactics opens the options for adding runners or setting the defence. Co-op change Set Piece user is the one that matters in Clubs, since it lets a different user take the kick.
16 actions — the game's order
Call 2nd Kick Taker
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2nd Kick Taker Shot
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2nd Kick Taker Layoff Pass
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2nd Kick Taker Lob
+ then
2nd Kick Taker Run Over Ball
Call 3rd Kick Taker
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3rd kick Taker Shot
+ then
3rd Kick Taker Run Over Ball
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Co-op change Set Piece user
Display Free Kick Tactics new
then
Add Player to Set Play new
then
Run Near Post (Attacking) new
then
Run Far Post (Attacking) new
then
Remove Player from Set Play new
then
Drop Back (Defending) new
then
Offside Trap (Defending) new
Corners and throw-ins, attacking and defending. Corners - Lob Cross is the standard delivery, with Display Corner Tactics for sending runners to a post or switching the defence between zonal and player marking. From a throw, Short Throw In and Long Throw In cover most situations, and Fake Throw buys a second against a tight press.
18 actions — the game's order
Corners - Lob Cross
Corners - Pass
Aim Kick
Reticle Aim
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Shielding new
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Avoidance new
Display Corner Tactics
then
Add Player new
then
Run Near Post
then
Run Far Post
then
Remove Player new
then
Zonal Marking (Defending) new
then
Player Marking (Defending) new
Move Along Line (Throw In)
Short Throw In
Short Throw In (Manual)
Hold
Long Throw In
+ +
Fake Throw
Penalties from both ends, whether in a shootout or during the match. The taker has Aim, Shoot and Finesse Shot to choose between, while the keeper reads the run-up with Goalkeeper Move Side to Side and commits with Goalkeeper Dive. Pick your spot before the run-up and commit to it.
8 actions — the game's order
Aim
Shoot
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Finesse Shot
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Chip Shot
Select Kick Taker
Direction
Goalkeeper Move Side to Side
Direction
Goalkeeper Dive
Goalkeeper Gestures
The page most specific to Pro Clubs: what you can ask for while a teammate has the ball. Call for Pass and Call for or suggest Through Pass are the everyday ones, Call for Lobbed Through Pass asks for a ball over the top, Call for Ground Cross tells the winger to keep it low, and Suggest Shot nudges a teammate to pull the trigger.
10 actions — the game's order
Call for Pass
Call for or suggest Through Pass
Suggest Shot
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Call for Driven Ground Pass
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Call for Threaded Through Pass
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Call for Lobbed Through Pass
+ +
Call For Driven Lobbed Through Pass
Call For Cross / Lob
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Call for Ground Cross
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Call for High Cross
What a Clubs goalkeeper can do while their team is attacking at the other end. Suggest Through Pass, Suggest Cross and Suggest Shot let you prompt teammates from the back, Autopositioning lets the game position you so you can watch the play, and Toggle Camera Target switches what the camera follows.
7 actions — the game's order
Call for or suggest Pass
Suggest Through Pass
Suggest Cross
Suggest Shot
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Outfielder Controls
Autopositioning
Toggle Camera Target
The goalkeeper's controls when the ball is in or near your own box. Dive is the committed save, Punch / Reaction Save and Grab Ball handle crosses and loose balls, Rush closes down a striker who is through, and Reaction Dive On Demand forces an immediate dive rather than waiting for the game to trigger one.
11 actions — the game's order
Direction
Dive
Autopositioning
2nd Defender Contain
Toggle Camera Target
Jockey
Rush
Sprint
Punch / Reaction Save
Grab Ball
+ Hold Direction
Reaction Dive On Demand
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Camera Pan
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How to do a fake shot in FC 27
then + Direction
Fake Shot
The fake shot is a basic control, not a skill move — it sits on the Attacking – Simple page of the Button Help menu: press Circle, then Cross while pushing the left stick in any direction on PlayStation, B then A on Xbox. The row above plays it; the dock switches platform. The Giant Fake Shot on the skill-move pages is a different thing: the 3-star flair version.
Is the fake shot a skill move in FC 27?
No. It needs no skill stars — every pro can do it from level 1. Only the Giant Fake Shot and the other flair fakes on the skill-moves list are star-gated.
FC 27's basic controls, page by page
The Button Help menu splits FC 27's basic controls across thirteen pages, and the tabs above follow them exactly. Attacking – Simple (16 entries) is the bread and butter — ground pass, lob, through ball, every shot type from finesse to the low driven power shot, and the fake-shot family. Attacking – Advanced is the deepest page in the menu at 33 entries: driven and lofted passing, crosses, the flair set, precision passing, player lock, and FC 27's new Trigger Curved Runs and Pass and Follow.
Movement (11 entries) covers sprinting, shielding, first touches and stopping the ball dead; Defending (22) runs from jockeying and tackling to teammate contain and the press calls; and Goalkeeper (9) has rushing, diving and keeper movement. Tactics (19 entries) is the d-pad layer — quick tactics, custom tactics and suggestions, all playable above.
Set pieces take four pages: free kicks basic and advanced, corners and throw-ins, and penalties. This is where FC 27 actually changed: the set-piece tactics system puts pre-set player instructions on D-pad up at free kicks and corners — add or remove a runner, send them near or far post, switch zonal and player marking — and the corner-tactics menu itself moved from D-pad down to D-pad up. Throw-ins gain Shielding and Avoidance. The three Be A Pro pages at the end cover playing a single position: calling for passes and crosses off the ball, and the goalkeeper's own defending controls — pages most control lists skip entirely.
Everything else carries over from FC 26 input for input. The complete year-over-year list — every addition, rename and rebind — is in what changed in FC 27's controls, and the other two lists cover every skill move and every celebration. The FC 27 controls hub ties the three together the way the game's own menu does.
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