⚽ Ultimate Matchball Megapack – FM24 / FM26
Hello FM Community!
I’m proud to present my Ultimate Matchball Megapack for Football Manager 2024–2026, featuring 130+ custom 3D matchballs designed to enhance realism and immersion in your saves.
This megapack includes a wide variety of competition-specific matchballs, complete with winter versions and special knockout-stage designs for major tournaments — giving decisive matches the atmosphere they deserve.
🔹 What’s Included
130+ custom 3D matchballs
Competition-specific designs
Winter editions where applicable
Unique templates for knockout stages of major competitions
Each ball has been carefully crafted to improve authenticity and visual variety throughout your season.
All textures are HD wherever possible.
If anyone has access to higher-resolution references that could improve certain balls, contributions are always welcome!
🔹 Highlights
This project builds upon the fantastic work of @bartdude and @JakDevlin , whose original 3D Balls Match Pack inspired this expansion.
I’ve refined, updated, and extended their work with additional leagues, details, and variations.
Special thanks to @DashingDaz8 for the go-ahead, valuable files, and continuous support.
This megapack is a community-driven effort — feedback, suggestions, and requests are always appreciated!
🔧 Installation Instructions
Download the megapack file.
Extract the balls zip file.
Move the balls folder to:
Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 20XX\graphics\
(Create any missing folders if necessary and overwrite all the existing files.)
Restart Football Manager (FM26).
If playing on FM24, reload your skin.
⚠️ Important – Clean Installation Required
Please make a clean installation by deleting your old balls folder before extracting this new version.
Starting from this release, the pack uses a new folder structure, organised by continents and nations, with subfolders for better organisation and easier future updates.
Keeping old files may cause conflicts or prevent certain balls from loading correctly.
🔁 Alternative & Brands Folder Instructions
If you want to use a ball inside the alt or brands folder:
Rename the original ball by adding -OLD at the end
(Example: ENG-premierleague → ENG-premierleague-OLD)
Copy the new ball into the appropriate folder
Rename it with the original file name
(Example: ENG-premierleague)
If you want to use a clubs or nations ball inside the 0-Generic Balls folder, simply rename the xml file from config_alt.xml to config.xml
🎮 FM26 Users
For an even better experience in some top-tier leagues, it is possible to use the balls included in the “FM26 3D Stadium Megapack” made by @BassyBoyYT .
⚠️ Important Notice
This megapack is and will always remain completely free.
Recently, I’ve been informed that some people are redistributing this pack while asking money for access. Please note that this project is shared freely with the community and must never be sold, monetized, or placed behind any kind of paywall.
A huge amount of time, research, and passion goes into creating and maintaining these matchballs. I do this for the community and for the love of the game.
Starting from this version, small and almost invisible details have been embedded within some files. These will help me identify unauthorized redistributions if necessary.
If you appreciate the work and would like to support it, you’re very welcome to offer me a coffee — but that’s entirely optional and never required.
Thank you for respecting the spirit of this project.
While many balls have been tested in-game, I haven’t had the chance to test every single one.
If you encounter issues or inconsistencies, please report them — your feedback helps improve future updates.
I wish you all the best in your managerial adventures! ⚽🔥
- Date Created
- 16 Sep 2024 21:22:25
- Date Updated
- 28 Apr 2026 19:04:28
- Last Comment
- 04 Jun 2026 10:08:51
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Thanks man
Jhon AF
Thank you and may the Football Manager 3D ball graphics community continue to grow.
StuartNG
Any chance of creating the new USL ball please for the 2025 season? Many thanks in advance.
BabaYaga89
Sure, I‘ve already made it, I am going to release an update before tomorrow night
StuartNG
Nice one, many thanks pal
BabaYaga89
VERSION 1.3 RELEASED
What's New:
All the previous balls
18 Adidas balls and 4 Puma balls in brands folder
Australia: Hahn Australia Cup - NPL - VPL
Brazil: Supercopa do Brasil
Italy: Supercoppa
Japan: J1 League - Emperor's Cup - Levain Cup
Russia: Russian Kubok
USA: USL Championship
AFC: AFC World Cup Qualifiers
UEFA-CONMBEOL: Club Challenge
NATIONAL: Japan
KI5
Great work again. I like it very much. Thanks!
But is there maybe a problem with the winter balls (in my case the Premier League, Carabao Cup and Champions League)???
In my game for example the Premier League winter ball works from 1.2. (I thought it was from november or december till february?)
Or can I change the date maybe in the Pre Game Editor and how???
Wroot1FM
Please check out the new premier league ball
DashingDaz8
Here are a few options….
BabaYaga89
Thanks a lot, going to add them in the next update!
DashingDaz8
fmilln7
do these need to be transparent or can they have a white background or doesnt it matter? many thanks
DashingDaz8
all the balls in the pack have a white background!!!
But does not matter
BabaYaga89
VERSION 1.4 RELEASED
All the previous balls
What's New:
England: Premier League - Premier League Winter
Malta: Malta Leagues
Morocco: Botola 1 Pro
Nicaragua: Liga Primera
Qatar: Stars League
Romania: Liga I - Liga II - Liga III
Singapore: Premier League
FIFA: Club World Cup
UEFA: Champions League Knock-Out stage
DashingDaz8
Thanks mate, downloading now, top work as usual.
KI5
Thanks, great work again!!!
I have a problem with the winter balls, they don't work in my game.
What could be the problem?
Can somebody help me please?
Nuno Claro
Any chance of creating this ball for my FM 2022? Many thanks in advance.
Jeff50
Here you go
Nuno Claro
Thank you 🙂
BabaYaga89
Do you have the issue in different leagues?
BabaYaga89
VERSION 1.5 RELEASED
All the previous balls
What's New:
Brunei: Super League - FA Cup
China: League One
Spain: La Liga alternative ball
Uzbekistan: Superligasi
DashingDaz8
I am deleting this post, no adboards talk please, you should know by now that we were warned not to make any by Sports Interactive themselves.
Mayor Smith
I just want to say thank you for your work. We appreciate you
Maverick200993
Hi! Thanks for the great work. I think there is an error in the new Premier League ball, it's not working properly in the match engine. Can you check it out?
BabaYaga89
Hi, i did a quick check and i see it correctly, try to delete the balls folder, download the new version, and copy it again in graphics.
Just to be sure, i always clear the cache and reload the skin in preferences.
DashingDaz8
Just tested and as expected, its works as it shoud both summer and winter balls work.
So no error in the file.
BabaYaga89
you beat me to the answer.
Maverick200993
Hi BabaYaga89! The error I'm referring to can be seen in the screenshot I attached. As you can see (both on the right sphere and on the left one), the two halves of the ball don't match (you can see that especially with the ball on the right), and the design on the ball appears broken. Is this normal or is it a mistake?
BabaYaga89
We can only use two “flat“ images to make a ball, then the game “convert” them in a 3d sphere, so more or less, the two halves when merged together, won’t be too much precise.
The best solution at the moment, is to use a frontal view for the first half, and rotate it by 80 degrees for the second half.
Of course it can be possible to try to have a better results, but it needs a lot of tries, and results won’t be like a real match ball
RisingStarKiller
This seems good
DashingDaz8
FFS mate, its a tiny little circle to be fair, you are taking it a little too far in my opinion, if your eyes can see such perfect details in the 3d match then fair enough but due to the limitations of FM you have to realise you are not playing EAFC