Steel Backgrounds Megapack for Football Manager 2021 - Over 70,300 Backgrounds

Steel Backgrounds Megapack is a high quality background pack created for Football Manager by Derek. Including over 69,500 individual club, competition, international, and confederation backgrounds.

Steel Backgrounds are available in high resolution.

Created by @Derek 

Researchers : @AndreaSSL1900 , @rioblahbloh , @Markitos  & @ianvou 

Clubs: 64,007

Competitions: 6.051

Nations: 243

Confederations: 7

Total: 70,308

NOTE: THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE AT 69GB SO PLEASE BE AWARE OF THIS BEFORE DOWNLOADING.

-=Download Part 1=-

-=Download Part 2=-

-=Download Part 3=-

-=Download Part 4=-

Thanks to all the researches for their hard work!

Club: 1,315

Competition: 396

Total: 1,711

This brings Steel Backgrounds total background count to 70,308.

-=Download=-

Note: It's important to copy the content only from each folder and paste into the corresponding folders in the megapack. 

Do not copy and paste the actual folders.

A big thank to the research team as Steel Backgrounds passes 70,000 backgrounds!

Installation

Start by downloading all four Steel Backgrounds Megapack parts and place in the below folder. 

You MUST download all four parts as they only work as a collection.

C:\Users\Your Name\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2021\graphics

Once you've done this you will need to select all four parts at once and extract them using your chosen application. I have tested this on both Mac using Keka and Windows using Winrar.

This will create a single file named Steel Backgrounds Megapack.

Then simply reload your skin and enjoy using in the Football Manager 2021.

If you like Steel Backgrounds please check out the Steel Logos Megapack to complete the collection.

Realy, realy nice project. I didn´t test it, but do you mean it is dark enough and you can read all the text?

Thanks mate. Yes I believe its dark enough for sure. You will obviously have times when some text will not be 100% as you can only achieve that with a dark and possibly plain background.

Here are more examples.

@Derek Can the backgrounds pack work well on a laptop with 1920 x 1080 resolution?

They should work fine mate

Hi.

i will test them and download now the files

• but like Pictues - i feel, to read the text the grey is to light - we will see
• (i use little bit darker grey tone - so, maybe you use them also for your background grey - we will see)

🙂

I downloaded and reloaded my skin but it didn't work.

I downloaded and reloaded my skin but it didn't work.

Have you downloaded all four parts mate? If you have then make sure when your extracting the files that they are all selected.

They need to be extracted together to create the single file.

I downloaded all parts and did that but it is not working. 

Can you provide a screenshot of the folders please and ensure the file path is visible?

The problem was that the folders where extracted and well but there was an missing part in the destinated folder so i had to fix that before it worked. 


But they are perfect background and i especially like Feyenoord's. 
 

I only wish there was a star above the Feyenoord Logo as they have been champions 15 times and already have a champion star above their logo on there tracksuits and traing shirts

The problem was that the folders where extracted and well but there was an missing part in the destinated folder so i had to fix that before it worked. 


But they are perfect background and i especially like Feyenoord's. 
 

I only wish there was a star above the Feyenoord Logo as they have been champions 15 times and already have a champion star above their logo on there tracksuits and traing shirts

Why is the download so slow? it says 20 days to go, it's around 22kb/s. Yet my download speed test shows 208mb/s.

Is anyone else suffering with this?

pics look AWESOME!! Superb work as always!!

@FR12010Forever  Here's a 'special edition' one mate with the star and a slightly larger logo.

@crazyanimals  It really shouldn't be taking you so long. I've tried it on a couple of different connections and computers before uploading and it was fine.

Thank you very much derek!

Club: 1,315

Competition: 396

Total: 1,711

This brings Steel Backgrounds total background count to 70,308.

-=Download=-

Note: It's important to copy the content only from each folder and paste into the corresponding folders in the megapack. 

Do not copy and paste the actual folders.

A big thank to the research team as Steel Backgrounds passes 70,000 backgrounds!

New, improved and optimised Steel Backgrounds Megapack 

Club Backgrounds: 66,016

Competition Backgrounds: 6,544

Nations Backgrounds: 266

Confederations: 7

Total: 72,833

Total Size: 21.43 GB

-=DOWNLOAD=-

@Derek and @Footygamer 

Any chance this project could be added to “football manager backgrounds” here? (I would very much like to promote any backgrounds pack available on this site) :

@Qvordrup Hi mate. 

Footygamer and I had discussed this previously and at the moment that pack is absolutely huge. I'm working with one of the skin guys on FMG on a workaround.

The idea for the project is to remove the logo background packs completely and use the contents from our logo megapacks to create the backgrounds.