Today we're proud to present a new skin - FM.Zweierkette!
This was done in deep cooperation between Tery, founder and head of Germany's biggest FM Community
and myself.
From a feature perspective, it contains everything from my main Skin Darkside Base.
Visually, we changed it from scratch and adjusted it deep into details, to fully reflect the environment of the FM.Zweierkette Community.
We hope you enjoy this experience!
Quick note: MacOS Bundle is untested, due to a capabilty from my side doing so. If it does not work, please let me know.
First of all, my special thanks goes to lotsgon, sic, MW90, MrTini23, LuckyLuke - and in general to the community on FMML discord, for massive support and sharing stuff and ideas while trying to work into this new environment, as well as ongoing - as this is and has been incredibly valuable - and finally to my old friend Flut who teached me so many things in the past.
Additional credits going to
TinyHips for sharing his prematch lineups
Ferrigi97 for providing a load of additional prematch lineups as of V3.0
In this skin, there goes a particular thanks to Tery (founder and owner of FM.Zweierkette) for our amazing collaboration to make this skin happen and share it with the community
This is a call to the FM26 player community…
Please check and go here .
We, the skinners do all this for free and in our spare time. However, without having a proper tool not much of this would be possible or even coming back after SI patches usually within hours or even after major updates within 24 hours.
All this requires ressources (servers, spaces and bandwidth) and those cost money. So I kindly ask all of you who can, support the community and make it possible to continue with the project.
Update 1.2
- Implemented new PlayeProfile
- Added new panel for transfer history (thanks to @MrTini)
- Player: redone career tab
- Player: redone performance tab
- redid attribute highlighting
- fixed bug in individual training allowing player interaction again
- Added improved PlayerRecommendation View (Danke @SAS)
- Added performance report for players loaned out
- Added detailed player form information to Playerprofile
- Added detailed Player analysis to Player performance tab
- Added player milestones to player career tab
Added FM.Z Lineup- and Teamcolorchanger
With that small Skinbuilder Addon, you're able to select you're preferred Prematch-Lineup - including the new and exclusive FM.Z Prematch-Lineup!
You can also activate switching the Main-Menu Header ingame using Teamcolor.
For using it, you need the latest Skinbuilder Beta 0.6-0.6 which you can find here
I cannot support Skinbuilder, if you want to use it, please find help here
Version 1.3
(ready for SI Patch as of 9.03.2026)
- fixed minor issue in Staff search Filter
- minor Color Adjustment in Messages footer
- Major clean up of unused variables and classes - if something suddenly changed (color-wise) let me know so I can investigate...
- Adjusted new SI Fixtures page pre/postgame
- Added FM.Zweierkette Prematch-Lineup
- some minor additonal color adjustments
Due to some major changes within the code, for now we can't continue using the redesigned Playerprofile - so for the time being it reverts back to default. However, the feature to be able to scroll that page is still there!
Summarizing, all features which had been in 1.2 should be fully reinstated.
Enjoy - and this time an additional big hug to @lotsgon for making this happen so quickly!!!! The whole community owes you on this!
Version 1.3
(ready for SI Patch as of 9.03.2026)
Just a quick one this time - PlayerProfile is fully back, also readded the Lineupchanger with capability to switch Mainmenuheader to Teamcolor…
Version 1.6
- Aligned Scoreboards to left (not for MacOS yet)
- Playereport Pros/Cons now proper 50:50 splitted
- minor Color adjustement
- added new Background Mappings for tunnel interviews
- fixed a visual issue with Board Targets and expectation when starting a save
Version 1.7
- fixed a minor Color tab issue in Fixtures&Results/Matchday Roundup page
- added Player Picture to IP/OOP/Both view in tactics page
a BIG thanks this time goes to Tangfu!!!
he shared a way with us, which makes it possible to add the PlayerPics to the tactics views!
Version 1.8
- added PlayerPictures to the combined Tactics view
- added Player Picture to Squadoverview in 3D game
Thanks to @Matt for this incredible finding and job!
MacOs version will follow at a later point
Version 2.1
- add direct tile link to training assigment on assistants profile
- made a minor color adjustment on pre-game team talk for better visibility
- adjusted Squadoverview and menu button to scheme colors in 3D game
Version 2.5.1
- readded background to "start new carreer"
- readded missing header and picture to Player tooltip
- added Player pictures to tactic view in 3D game and last macth screens
For the last change, big tnx to Matt for sharing this with the community and approval for usage!
As always. for quickest updates. switch to Skinbuilder and get them there. I will not update the versions on a regular base here…
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Mark C 123
Nice skin
Wojtek Turczyk
Hello. Will you make this skin for lower resolutions, for laptops? It looks great. Amazing work.
xxx Darkside xxx
Unfortunately, the answer is no.
The reason behind it is, that for various pages and popups, SI has provided different layouts for higher and lower resolutions. Those, I started to add (and cover a couple already) and redo them for lower res as well. Though, this is not a consistent concept in the game, so in the end it would require two different versions to cover those screens which only exist in one resolution version.
This would lead to having to maintain two different versions of the same skin, which is just too much effort in the long run. So I will continue adding more screens for low-res over time, as it's a once and done thing and they will peacefully co-exist within one skin. Beyond that, sorry - it's just too much additional effort…
Jay Baston
Amazing skin! One of my favourites of this games cycle! If anything actually made me like the game a little more than I did before! Bonus point for also adding the one feature that NO OTHER SKIN has done which is the (SQUAD MINDSET TILE) do we know why this feature isn't within the standard menu's? and why no other skin makers have it incorporated into their skins? Keep up the amazing work!
xxx Darkside xxx
Tbh, only SI could answer this question - or maybe not ;-)
It's in the game and it shows different results in different saves. At worst, it might do nothing following out of that status. But even then, there would be no harm showing it. It would only be one more useless information . so why not :-)
Arvid01
Great skin! - But the background image is too bright; it's jarring between the tiles. It would be really great if the turquoise color in particular were a little darker!
xxx Darkside xxx
Update 1.2 available, see Update notes in 1st posting.
Underdark
Nice skin
I think scrollable player profile is a bad idea
MrTini23
fmskinbuilder.com
xxx Darkside xxx
No problem. Use a skin not having it…
kwiatek23
It freezes on the required answer continue on mac and it won't go any further, but it's a cool skin
xxx Darkside xxx
This is weird, as I have confirmation from the German Community, that the Macversion just works fine for them.
kwiatek23
After the match breaking news I can't continue, I just type the required answer, click and nothing scrolls further
xxx Darkside xxx
Added FM.Z Lineup- and Teamcolor Changer.
For more information, please check initial posting.
SpenComms
I've just downloaded the lineup changer file but I can't find any instructions for how to get them into my game?
So can anybody help me out?
xxx Darkside xxx
For using it, you need the latest Skinbuilder Beta 0.6-0.6 which you can find here
I cannot support Skinbuilder, if you want to use it, please find help here
Triggerdad
i just tried out this skin and found an issue shown in the pic. The lower panels at the players card are not shown. I only changed the downloaded files, all other are original i think.
Ryukage
Das ist so gewollt, du kannst runterscrollen 😉
Triggerdad
Ach gugg…das crazy. Wieder sitzt das Problem vor dem Bildschirm 😉
Translation:
Ah look…thats crazy. The problem is in front of the screen 😉
xxx Darkside xxx
New update working with SI Ptach 09.03.2026 - for changes see first posting…
black.sail.crypto
Horseshit update, crashes all the time
Dmytro Kh
It keeps crashing when you go to the player's profile.
Damien 14
Can you please be respectful. The skin creators are all facing these issues and did not ask for them.
Be patient and please learn to be grateful.
xxx Darkside xxx
If you're experiencing a crash when clicking on PlayerProfile - please redownload the File. In the first version I've overseen to delete that panel which doesn't work for now…
Sorry for inconvinience…
Dmytro Kh
Now it's fine, after the update. Thank you
MrDonNelson
after update how to upload to Mac?
xxx Darkside xxx
I added the MacOS bundle. Unfortunately I have no opportunity to test it myself, so use it at own risk :-)
xxx Darkside xxx
Quick Update to bring back Custom PlayerProfile - also readded FMZ Lineup/Teamcolor changer…
MrDonNelson
Try it yesterday and doesn’t work unfortunately
xxx Darkside xxx
Must be something wrong on your side. I got confirmation from the community, that the Mac bundles worked.
Do the following:
Verify your game files in steam
When repaired, copy the bundles over again.