FM26 Has Been Updated
FM26 was just updated on March 30th which will have broken many skins so you may have to wait for the author to update this file.
This is a generic message applied to all FM26 Skins, check the comments for more accurate information.
Last Edited: 13th March (v4.0)
Note: This skin is built to my own personal spec. I also work alongside Darkside and Luke on skins so I know about the features in their skins. Help and support available on https://discord.gg/Dr9gaChvRG. The Skin Builder version is no longer included within the download package following an incident where someone took the skin and tried to claim it as their own on Sortitoutsi. A skin builder version is available to Patrons. Any request to 'revert' will be ignored.
Changelog v4.0
- Renamed to 4.0 to avoid patch-related confusion
- Fixed a bug that saw player profile images being duplicated
- Fixed a bug that saw staff images being cut off
Changelog v3.4.1
- Fixed two bugs related to the player profile (had to rework the layout)
Changelog v3.4
- Modified Portal to include news (Replaced tiles now in a stack with the data hub)
- Player profile modified with larger player images and working polygon switch
Changelog v3.3.1
- Player profile edited to readd Pros and cons and polygon as standard
- Added a 1 tile spacing to stop the top of the scrollable layout from showing on the overview page.
Changelog v3.3
- v26.2 patch now supported
- Edited new fixtures panel to remove some blank spacing
- Reverted player profile attributes block to default (Tom is working on a Skin Builder fix)
- Added scrollable player profile option as default whilst also keeping in other tiles for those who prefer not to scroll (best of both)
Changelog v3.2
- Fixed bug with role selector panel and font in default colours mode
- Added option for scrollable player profile as standard
- Reworked player profile tooltip
- Additional stacked tiles added thanks to Darkside
- Personal and Performance layouts added for loaned out players
Changelog v3.1
- Player profile rework
- Changes to the individual training screen to readd some unintentionally removed features and fix some issues
- Some small bug fixes to various page
Changelog v3.0.1
- Fixed an issue where edit search was failing to load correctly
Changelog v3.0
- v26.1.3 hotfix patch now supported
- Added new version for those on low res setups
!IMPORTANT! Only use low res if high res tile layouts don't show
- Individual training screen reworked to add weak foot and pros and cons
- New portal and squad layouts to include more information
- Removed purple colour from club vision
- Removed circle background from behind player faces
- Player profile reworked to have more info, plus additional pros and cons toggle
- Passmap pages in Data Hub have been enlarged
- New club site layouts with thanks to WorkTheSpace
- Transfer history layout reworked so In and Out have their own page
- 2d match viewer option added to in-match screen
- Fixed issue where training tile would leave a blank space on players not at user club - now shows transfer status
- Fixed issue where the scout report and traits tiles weren't appearing correctly on player tooltip
- Fixed issue where agent offers weren't appearing on deadline day
- Fixed colour of familiarity lines and some graphs
- Fixed issue where icons weren't displaying correctly on the staff page
- Fixed issue where reputation segments weren't displaying correctly
Changelog v2.0
- v26.1.3 patch now supported (I hope, let me know of any issues)
- Pass maps and other patch-specific things should now be added
- I'm hoping the new build will fix crashes related to the previous version being a pre-patch build
- Staff page now works again
- Notification icon colour changed to make it more noticeable
- Border colours changed to make them a little bit more subtle
- Fixed an issue with overlapping text within the team talk section
- Fixed League Table view when clicking live league table in match
- Added a coach report tile to individual training to allow pros and cons to be viewed properly.
- Changed shape of header buttons which thanks to MW90 on Discord
- Various other bug fixes (I'm rubbish at taking notes)
Here we are, the first release of a skin I've ever done! Thanks to Lotsgon and his excellent Skin Builder tool, we have been able to edit not only colours but also tile layouts, giving the game a fresh feel and making things a little bit easier to see. A version with default colours is also available.
Here we are, the first release of a skin I've ever done! Thanks to Lotsgon and his excellent Skin Builder tool, we have been able to edit not only colours but also tile layouts, giving the game a fresh feel and making things a little bit easier to see. A version with default colours is also available.
Tutorial Videos
PC
MAC
Bundle Text Tutorial
For those who don't want to make any changes to the skin, there is the option for a copy-and-paste install. In the download folder, you will find a 'Copy + Paste' folder which will contain bundle files. One set of bundles is for the dark skin and the other is for the default colours with the changed layouts.
Choose which one you want to use and copy all of the bundle files. Then paste them into your game installation files. The default location for PC Steam users is C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Football Manager 26\fm_Data\StreamingAssets\aa\StandaloneWindows64. You will be prompted to replace files; do this. The MAC file location will differ; to find it, in the Football Manager folder, you need to right-click the Football Manager icon and click ‘show package contents’ . The files will then show up. From there, navigate to the bundles folder as above.
It is also good practice to make a backup of anything you replace before installing.
FM Skin Builder Install (Inactive for now)
IMPORTANT
Whenever a patch is announced, restore to the original game files before the patch is rolled out and downloaded. This will mean the Skin Builder tool always uses the most up-to-date default files.
To do this on Steam, right click on Football Manager 26, click properties, installed files then choose Verify Integrity of game files
This installation method is for anyone who fancies making changes to the skin. There will be a tutorial video coming out for this soon, which I'll link as soon as I have it.
The first thing you need to do is download the FM Skin Builder tool that can be found here https://fmskinbuilder.com. Make sure to always download the latest beta version. Help and support for using the tool can be found in the FM Matchlab Discord here: https://discord.com/invite/Dr9gaChvRG
To do this, make sure beta is highlighted, then go ahead and download the installer and run it.
Once installed and run for the first time, the program should create a skins folder in your Documents folder (Documents\FM Skin Builder\skins).
Download the skin zip file below, unzip and copy the MrTini23 v1.0 Skin folder from the Skin Builder version folder. Then go over to the skins folder inside the FM Skin Bulder folder and paste the skin here.
With that copied, open up the skin builder tool, which by default is installed in C:\Program Files\FM Skin Builder.
The first thing to do will be to make sure the tool is finding the bundle files it needs. To do that click on the cog bottom left.
Locate the Game Bundles Directory and click browse. You then need to select the folder where the FM bundles are located. Typically on PC this is C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Football Manager 26\fm_Data\StreamingAssets\aa\StandaloneWindows64
Once that has been selected, click on explorer at the top left.
Click on open skin and select the MrTini23 skin.
The skin will then be loaded. I won't go into how to edit it here, since the tutorial video will cover that. We'll skip to installing.
To install, click on build on the left-hand side.
Then click build on the top right and the tool should build the skin.
The tool will take a minute or two to build the skin files. Now make sure FM is closed! Once it is done, click apply to game and you are ready to play FM with a fresh look and feel!
Credits:
Massive thanks to Darkside, Luky Luke, Sic and MW90 who have been crucial to me being able to make this skin. You can check out some of thwir work at the following links:
Darkside Base Skin V 4.0 Release - Update 19.02.2026, ready for SI Hotfix! - Football Manager Skins - FM26 - Football Manager 26
ASF skin FM26 Patch 26.1.3 Update 17.02.2026 - Football Manager Skins - FM26 - Football Manager 26
TinyHips and Ferrigi97 for sharing their pre-match lineups
Lotsgon for his excellent tool, which has changed the skinning game
Sasmaz for allowing me to use his excellent scouting table templates
Everyone else at the Match Lab Discord who has helped with the discovery of new features
Comments
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ilhan22gs
very good skin No 1
20comer
Hello, I don't know if it's a problem with the skin or the game itself, but here it is. When a player wins for their national team and we receive that information, a red ball appears along with the result. But in reality, they won the game. It gives the impression that they lost the game, and that's not what happened.
MrTini23
Definitely not something the skin would cause to my knowledge. I've not touched any part of that
xxx Darkside xxx
These are messed up by SI all over the place, potentially showing wrong… Not only for international Games but league games as well…
Berkeedv2
Hello. Thank you for your hard work. I have a suggestion. Instead of providing all the files in a single file, what if you separated them like a Mac PC, so that the size of the file we download would be reduced
samOM2605
Hey Mister ;-)
In the latest update, you've significantly increased the size of the player profile popup when you hover over the "i".
This is certainly intentional, but I'm quite surprised.
This popup would seem more useful if it condensed the most important information while remaining a normal-sized popup.
What we're primarily looking for in this popup is a quick overview, at least that's my perspective ;-)
From my point of view, the default popup is the right size; it just needs customization to provide all the necessary information. This includes the information already present in the default popup, along with form over the last 5 matches, pros and cons, match ratings, etc.
MrTini23
I must have missed the memo where it told me I work for you. As the disclaimer says “Note: This skin is built to my own personal spec.”. Either use another skin or better yet, visit the FM Skin Builder website and build your own
chaser2k9
Enjoying the skin, It might just be my game but it doesn't seem to open the player overview from any screen apart from the squad page, links in the inbox etc don't seem to open the overview page.
Blr Wllm
Wow this is a beautiful skin
disnemar
Has the font been changed in the skin or it's the same as in the original layout?
20comer
Speaking for myself, I only commented because I'm just starting to play the game seriously and it could be the skin. I decided to start playing with this skin; I didn't check if it was a game problem. But honestly, when people comment here, I think it's to try and improve things. You only do it if you want to, and although it's your personal preference when you share, I think you could accept our suggestions or even criticism. We appreciate you making the skin available, but I don't think anyone here has treated you badly or your work badly. Thank you.
xxx Darkside xxx
Even though not my thread…
“I think you could accept our suggestions or even criticism” - and that's were you are dead wrong. It's fairly easy - you don't like something? Feel free to make your own changes - the tool is available. And yes, that would be possible, at least for basic things like background replacements or potentially even layout changes.
However, that would require some effort needed to be put into, some basic learning how things work and understand them - something a lot of people obviously refuse nowadays.
It was all there in the beginning, we shared our complete work as Skinbuilder templates, so pretty much all “secrets” had been open.
What happened? Within no time it was stolen, copy/pasted and sold as “new skin” of some of those people. So we stopped sharing it, as we don't support that someone just takes the work we have put hundreds of hours into and claim it being their work. Pretty much as a “proof of concept” eversince not much new skins have shown up, guess why…
So people coming into our threads and start “demanding” changes or masking it behind questions like "why this or that thing isn't in the skin” are tiring in the beginning and annyoing after a while… Because there might be one thing you don't see. It's not only here within a thread, it's in PM's, on X, in discord, or Patreon which some creators have. So don't be surprised if sooner or later creators might just stop doing what we're doing…
But back to your “I think you could accept our suggestions or even criticism” - the answer is no. We don't need to do that… as Tini has said already, we do skins like WE (the creators) like them and gladly share them with the community. But that's about it…
MrTini23
Darkside put it better than I ever could so i'm not going to comment. The next skin update will be my last for the forseeable, atleast on free platforms anyway
Bielsa is a legend
dont be driven away by the odd BellEnd mate, there are 3 types of poster on here
1.) those that just browse
2.) those that take the work done by modders and complain, without being able to do it themselves, and
3.) those of us that are in awe of the modding community and really appreciate the work, particularly this year with the inflexible coding by SI
I for one (and many others) are appreciative of your work and polishing a game that was not fit for purpose, the game in Feb26 is a far cry from our initial experiences in Oct 25, with a base,bug ridden, ugly game-your work has been a major part of that fix for tens of thousands of players
Keep it up matey
MrTini FM26 Skin v3.1 - Dark Colours = looks wonderful.
Thank You very much for your Work!
i use that now, the Skin is wonderful! ❤️
MrTini23
Tbh it's not here that's the problem really, most go about it the right way but when i can't have a day off without getting DMs and comments saying “why isn't this in the skin?” “Can you add this?” “This skin is shit because X isn't in it” Baring in mind the X requested today isn't even posssible in the game.
This is draining and just demotivating. I'd rather spend my time on my retro databases
Mark C 123
Thankyou for your skin it makes the game look and feel better. I appreciate your work. i have tried modding myself and suck so im grateful for these
20comer
I gave my opinion without intending to attack anyone. I spoke in a calm and constructive tone. When I said I accept our suggestions, I'm not saying you're obligated to do so. Just read it if you want and analyze whether it's worthwhile or not. I don't think anyone said it's written that they work for the people here.
20comer
If you're calling me an idiot just because I gave an opinion without offending anyone. In Portugal, we say “vai para o caralho”
MrTini23
Please see my other post..Thank you
Bielsa is a legend
Never mentioned you being an idiot. I called you a bellend.
embe1989
will the skin builder version return?
samOM2605
Hi MisterTini Dark
I wasn't aware you were receiving so much harassment...
I'm sincerely sorry if I offended you.
I've been playing FM for almost thirty years and I've always felt that what makes this game so strong is its community!
My only goal was to give my personal opinion and share it, but without any obligation on your part, just an opinion.
And I've always said that your work is fantastic and that I thank you for the time you've put in. Your two skins are exceptional and make the game enjoyable again, it's great! All the best to you guys and thanks again for all your hard work and patience :-)
Willz71172
can we get boxes around accept, cancel etc
MrTini23
It is available on Patreon
MrTini23
No
MrTini23
Please take things like this to DMs. It's not needed or wanted in this thread
Bielsa is a legend
its done, noted
Flying Scotsman
@MrTini23 fantastic work as always
MrTini23
Changelog v3.2
- Fixed bug with role selector panel and font in default colours mode
- Added option for scrollable player profile as standard
- Reworked player profile tooltip
- Additional stacked tiles added thanks to Darkside
- Personal and Performance layouts added for loaned out players