FIFA 2005 (Xbox)

Easy goals
1)You can score easy goals by crossing the ball in from one side and pressing B for a bicycle kick/header. some people have a 90% success rate with this method.

2) This one's a bit lame, but it works. Simply swap sides and sabotage your opponent's line up. Yeah, it's that easy. Take off the king-pins, put center backs up front, etc. Then, resume control of your original team again and continue playing.

3) To easily fake the goalie out on the opposite team, press Black. The goalie will dive to a ball that is not there most of the time. Then, make a left or a right and press Y. Do not press B or the ball will go in an unwanted direction.

4) Move the Right Analog-stick slightly towards you then immediately press B. You will be able to score a beautiful goal from about 30 yards with some nice action.

5) Penalty shot. To score an easy goal from a penalty, just tap B with no direction pressed. You will sometimes score a very sweet goal.

Unlimited Points (manager mode)
Go to the main menu and highlight game modes and then push the following buttons:
x, x, x, b, b, y, Left trigger, Left trigger, right trigger ,x ,x ,b ,y.

Celtic or Rangers
When you first try to start a career in Region 1, you will notice that you cannot be Celtic or Rangers. However, if you select "Back" then go in again several times, Celtic and Rangers will appear at the selection screen. Weird, but useful.

Changing Teams
Similar to the above cheat, when you start a new season and cannot find the team, go back one level and then enter that category again. With any luck the teams will change.

Team selection
Yet another cheat in the vein of those above, if you cannot find your team in a region in career mode, choose that team as your "Own Team" in your 'profile' in "My FIFA 2005". You will then find that team listed first in its current region. Too easy.

Free kicks
In order to get a good free kick, you must stop the meter at the green spot and the ball must be curved or curled to fool the keeper. There is no need to bend the ball, because it bends itself. If you bend it, you will miss the goal. The meter must stop near the green spot. Just aim the ball by the side of the keeper, slightly to the right of your screen. Try this in practice mode and you'll get onto it. It's very successful at scoring goals.

Another method is to put the target in the top corner of the side of the goal that the wall (of hudled players) is standing in front of. Make sure that you do not press Spin and that the spin target is in the dead center of the ball. Put a fair amount of power in, and make sure the accuracy is in the middle of the green and with some practise the ball will shoot over the wall and into the top corner for the most stunning free kick.