This is brilliant work, thanks a lot.

This is brilliant. If you've grown attached to how your manager looks and want to use a photo that looks like him, rather than adding your own real-life image, you can use this AI prompt (attach a screenshot of your existing manager generated image from FM26) to produce a photo of what your in-game manager might look like if he was real (and then use something like remove.bg to cut him out):

Use the uploaded image as the ONLY identity and likeness reference. Do not invent a new face. Stay anchored to the uploaded reference image and treat it as a low-quality scan of the same person, not as loose inspiration.

Create a highly photorealistic head-and-shoulders portrait of a real human who plausibly matches the person shown in the reference image. The reference is a low-resolution, computer-generated face from a poorly made football management game, so do not copy its artificial textures, rendering artefacts, or game-like features literally. Instead, interpret it as a rough facial guide and translate it into a believable real-life person.

The output should look like a professional modern portrait photograph, not digital art, not a painting, not CGI, not a game render.

Important goal:

Preserve the overall resemblance and "feel" of the face from the reference image while improving it into a realistic human portrait. Keep the same apparent sex, approximate age, hairstyle, face shape, skin tone range, brow shape, eye spacing, nose structure, mouth shape, jawline, chin proportions, and general facial proportions as closely as possible. The likeness should feel like a realistic version of the uploaded character, not a different person.

Facial interpretation guidance:
- Hairstyle exact as the reference image
- Adult male, approximately 30s to early 40s
- Neutral to slightly serious expression
- Direct eye contact with camera
- Natural asymmetry in the face
- Realistic pores, skin texture, subtle under-eye detail, natural lips, realistic ears, believable scalp texture
- Refine the eyes, nose, and mouth into anatomically correct real features while keeping their relative placement and proportions consistent with the reference
- Keep the face broadness, cheek structure, and jaw/chin balance similar to the source
- Do not beautify excessively
- Do not make him look like a model or celebrity
- Do not make him too old, too young, too muscular, or too polished
- Keep him believable as an ordinary real person

Photography and composition:
- Tight head-and-shoulders portrait
- Frontal or very slight three-quarter angle only if it helps realism, but stay close to the original orientation
- Centre composition
- Studio-quality portrait photo
- Neutral dark grey, charcoal, or softly blurred plain background
- Soft cinematic portrait lighting, balanced and flattering but realistic
- Sharp focus on eyes and face
- 85mm lens look
- Shallow depth of field
- High detail skin
- Natural colour grading
- Subtle contrast
- Realistic photographic dynamic range

Realism requirements:
- The image must read as a genuine photograph of a real person
- No game-engine look
- No plastic skin
- No airbrushed beauty retouching
- No uncanny facial proportions
- No exaggerated masculinity
- No fantasy or stylised elements
- No visible artefacts from the original game image
- No warped ears, broken eyes, melted features, duplicated features, or strange hairline artefacts

What to preserve from the reference:
Preserve the core identity cues visible in the uploaded portrait, especially:
- hair style

- head shape
- general face width and skull shape
- eye placement and brow set
- nose length and width
- mouth width and lip shape
- chin and jaw structure
- skin tone family
- overall stern, plain, grounded look

What to improve:
- replace low-quality CGI textures with real skin
- replace synthetic game lighting with realistic studio lighting
- correct any awkward game-model anatomy into believable human anatomy
- add realistic detail to pores, eyelids, lashes, lips, ears, neck, and scalp
- make the result look like a high-resolution real photo taken with a professional camera

Final output:
A realistic photographic portrait of a normal adult man who clearly resembles the uploaded game-generated face, as if the fictional in-game character had been recreated as a real human and professionally photographed.

I'm FC St Helens in the Premier League but the 3D kits only seem to work like one in ten games. Any idea why that might be? I have a few mods.

Annoyingly all other kits seem to work.

Where does this store profiles?  I want to move my profile from my Laptop to my PC.  

FC St Helens FM26 One-Season Challenge

I’ve put together a challenge for anyone who fancies something different.

I’m sharing my Football Manager 2026 save and handing it over at a very specific moment. The in-game date is 1st July 2037, and FC St Helens have just had a completely ridiculous treble-winning season. They’ve won promotion to the Premier League for the first time in their history, while also winning the FA Cup and the Europa League.

So instead of building something from scratch, you’re stepping into a club that’s already punched way above its weight and is about to deal with the consequences of that.

You’ll be competing in six competitions in the 2037/38 season:

1. Premier League
2. Champions League
3. FA Cup
4. Carabao Cup
5. Community Shield
6. UEFA Super Cup

The squad is not great and it’s massively overperformed to get here, and the clubs finances are in a mess The whole idea is to see how people handle that step up when everything suddenly gets harder at once.

The challenge

You play one season only, starting from 1st July 2037 and finishing on 4th June 2038. Once you reach that date, save the game and submit it using the form below.

Download the save:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UZlBHKpEae416lx8apbkug-pmZH7RMKd/view?usp=sharing

Submit your save by 3rd May 2026:
https://forms.gle/nG5a4hVPHM8gr2xs5

A couple of important rules:

You must continue with the existing manager (don’t add a new one)

No editor use

No save scumming

Play the season properly, not on holiday

Upload your saved game no later than 3rd May 2026.

Beyond that, it’s up to you. Transfers, tactics, squad changes, all fair game.

Scoring

Everything you do across the season adds up into one final score.

Premier League
You get:

Your total points

Your goal difference (can be negative)

A position bonus (1st = 20, down to 20th = 1)

Champions League
League phase:

Points + goal difference + position bonus (1st = 20, down to 20th = 1, 21st–36th get 0)

Knockouts:

Each knockout round won = +10

Runner-up = +25

Winner = +50

Playoff round gives no points

FA Cup

+10 per round won

+25 for winning the trophy

Carabao Cup

+10 per round won

+15 for winning the trophy

Super Cup

+20 for winning the trophy

Community Shield

+10 for winning the trophy

Everything gets added together and I’ll keep a leaderboard going.

I've made a video with a few examples and longer explanation here:

Deadline

The deadline for entries is:

Sunday 3rd May 2026

Just make sure your save is taken on 4th June 2038 in-game before submitting.

I’ll be running it myself as well and will share how I get on, but the main aim is just to see how differently people approach the same situation.

It’s one of those saves where it could go either way. You might stabilise and have a great season, or it might completely fall apart once the fixtures pile up and the level jumps.

Interested to see what people do with it.

Great use of AI. Well done on creating this.

Remember when Miles Jacobson said FM26 would be "slick" and "when the UI clicks it's awesome"? Or how "special" the 3D animations are?

Well, I went back and watched all his FM26 interviews and compared them to the current state of the game for your viewing pleasure. 

I spent way too long clipping up every interview Miles Jacobson gave before FM26 launched. Remember all the hype about the new Unity engine, the slick UI, and how cancelling FM25 meant they wouldn't have to patch FM26 into a good state?

Well, I decided to take those pre-release quotes and put them right next to actual FM26 gameplay footage for comparison. It's only 12 minutes long but took a lot longer to make so would appreciate any engagement whatsoever.

Spoiler alert: 

I’m not going to lie, I lolled out loud so many times when making this video, mainly out of pure disbelief at how different the promises were not only from the beta version that shipped but also in its current state (after however many "MUs"). It might not actually be the 21st worst ever game like the Steam reviews show, but it's still pretty laughable comparing what we were sold vs what we got.

If you’ve experienced ridiculous match engine behaviour, the game crashing to your desktop because you dared to look at the Transfer Room screen, or a UI that feels anything but slick and awesome, this video is for you. Hopefully you get a good laugh out of it, too.

I’d love to hear your feedback on the video, or just your own horror stories with FM26 so far. Miles did a fantastic job of hyping it up to the moon, I'll give him that. Unfortunately, he sold us false hope.

Thanks for this. So helpful!

Do you have this Nike template please?
 

Does anyone know why my 3D kit isn't working? I've added this to the long list in the config file from the 3D pack:

<record from="2000180964_home_3d" to="graphics/pictures/team/2000180964/kit_textures/home"/>

My file name is 2000180964_home_3d.png and it's a 1024x1024 image.

My team is FC St Helens: https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-2026/team/2000180964/fc-st-helens

Feels like I'm missing something really obvious.

EDIT: it started working in my second game. Odd.

Owen Collinge (2000117440) and Dominic Hoppe (2000380373) and Mackenzie O'Neill (222732)  and Ethan Van-Aston (2000050231) and Harry Rimmer (2000207422) all play for FC St Helens. 

https://www.nwcfl.com/lineups.php?id=21334 

https://www.nwcfl.com/lineups.php?id=21243

https://www.nwcfl.com/lineups.php?id=21252

https://www.nwcfl.com/lineups.php?id=21261

etc.

== Special Credit of Project List

 -- KitManCal _The Main of all Kits   (https://x.com/KitManCal)
 -- DN7 _The Main of all Fonts     (https://x.com/DN7_Kits)
 -- NonoKitmaker _Full LaLiga Kits    (https://x.com/Nono1978Amc)
 -- PES 2021 Kitmaker
   - scottish_carson
   - @meryoju_
   - @JinKitmaker
   - @jean_penot
   - @Original_Broo
   - @gilmont_michel
   - @cosmoskits91
   - @Neju_SomHi

== Thank you of all..........................
 

I have 3D kit templates for the following leagues:
TUR - Trendyol Süper Lig
BEL - Jupiler Pro League
DNK - 3F SuperLiga
ENG1 - Premier League
ENG2 - SkyBet Championship
ESP1 - LaLiga EA Sports
ESP2 - LaLiga Hypermotion
FRA1 - Ligue 1 McDonald_s
GER - Bundesliga
ITA1 - Serie A Enilive
ITA2 - Serie BKT
JPN - Meiji Yasuda J1 League
NLD - Vrienden Loterij Eredivisie
OEU - Other European Clubs
PRT - Liga Portugal Betclic
SCO - William Hill Premiership
SUI - Brack Super League
 

If someone could test the attached Liverpool kits and confirm they work, I can provide the full pack (or whatever isn't already done)

Hello

I've turned on player ID's and it's working for players at my club but not staff.  I'm signing a Set Piece coach, who is a regen, so I would like to add a face in, but can't work out how to find his ID, what am I missing?

Thanks

On Touch 23 on iOS, you has to install the game, then use a PC to copy the face pack/kit pack/logos over BEFORE starting the game up.  If you’d already started it, deleting the game and reinstalling, then adding them in before loading the game worked too.

What exactly does FM23 Sortitoutsi Licenses Fix - Manchester Utd fixes.fmf do, please?

Hello.  Could anyone make these, I got the third kit for Christmas, and have started a save with them.  

Thanks.

Alebrijes de Oaxaca

Home:

Away:

Third:

Hello.  Could anyone make these, I got the third kit for Christmas, and have started a save with them.  

Thanks.

Alebrijes de Oaxaca

Home:

Away:

Third:

Real. 

Sorry of this is a daft question, I didn't want to start a new thread for it.  Is there a kit request thread?

Is it possible to add more without having to copy everything over again?

Got faces and badges sorted.  Couldn’t get the kits to work though, ah well.

Brilliant this! Thanks.

Are all the club and player ID’s the same as the full version, or does it need new config files? 

Is it not like on PC where you need to make the folder yourself?

You can add files via iTunes.  There is even a pictures folder already there.  Hopefully someone makes a pack with the correct config file.

Also, is there a way to pick a larger database?

Thanks, sorry it's my first time.

I have a ton of kits (converted from PES) but it's just too time consuming. 😢

Why does it say Levels 1-6 but only has Premier League, Championship & League One?

Great read and thanks to everyone who helps keep the site going in anyway.  Used it loads over the years but have tended not to post. 

Does this effect leaderboards?