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Hi all, I’ve been working on a number of background projects, this one is adding competition pictures to the background of various club and international competitions throughout the game, I’ve been doing this for my own personal use, but decided to share with the community. All are 2560x1600 at 227px, which is basically MacBook Pro Retina size, so the quality is superb in most instances. They have been compressed to their smallest file size without loss of quality. It's currently 417 pictures strong (around 138mb in file size) but I am however happy to update this over time, likewise if you notice any errors or any additions you'd like please let me know in this thread and I'll correct/add them. I've also added in the newly created UEFA Europe Conference League as a placeholder, and will update once official branding becomes available. Steps to add to your game; 1. Download here 2. Unzip and place here: ‎⁨ [PC] Documents⁩ ▸ ⁨Sports Interactive⁩ ▸ ⁨Football Manager 2020 ▸ ⁨graphics⁩ ▸ ⁨backgrounds⁩ ▸ ⁨comp [MAC] Users ▸ YOURNAME ▸Library ▸ Application Support ▸ Sports Interactive ▸ Football Manager 2020 ▸ graphics ▸ backgrounds ▸ comp 3. Go to preferences (advanced and select interface) and ensure "Reload Skin" is ticked (you may need to clear your cache too) and click "confirm". As per the below screenshot. Please note: For these to work you'll need to use a custom or base skin with transparency that supports backgrounds. If you are going to redistribute these, please ask permission. Enjoy... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Some examples below (these are from Beta): Thanks to @wkdsoul for the Base Skin with transparent background to illustrate how these will work in game.

Hi all, I’ve been working on a number of background projects, this one is adding stadium pictures to the background of clubs and stadiums throughout the game, I’ve been doing this for my own personal use, but decided to share with the community. All are 2560x1600 at 227px, which is basically MacBook Pro Retina size, so the quality is superb in most instances. They have been compressed to their smallest file size without loss of quality. It currently covers 211 different countries over the world so it's pretty extensive (930mb in file size) but I am however happy to update this over time, likewise if you notice any errors or any additions you'd like please let me know in this thread and I'll correct/add them. Steps to add to your game; 1. Download here 2. Unzip and place here: ‎⁨ [PC] Documents⁩ ▸ ⁨Sports Interactive⁩ ▸ ⁨Football Manager 2020 ▸ ⁨graphics⁩ ▸ ⁨backgrounds⁩ ▸ ⁨stadium [MAC] Users ▸ YOURNAME ▸Library ▸ Application Support ▸ Sports Interactive ▸ Football Manager 2020 ▸ graphics ▸ backgrounds ▸ stadium 3. Go to preferences (advanced and select interface) and ensure "Reload Skin" is ticked (you may need to clear your cache too) and click "confirm". As per the below screenshot. Please note: For these to work you'll need to use a custom or base skin with transparency that supports backgrounds. If you are going to redistribute these, please ask permission. Enjoy... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Some examples below (these are from Beta): Thanks to @wkdsoul for the Base Skin with transparent background to illustrate how these will work in game.

Hi all, I’ve been working on a number of background projects, this one is adding manager/staff pictures to the background of various football managers/staff throughout the game, I’ve been doing this for my own personal use, generally for the leagues I load up on my saves but it's now expanding. I've continued this on from FM19 and updated, all are 2560x1600 at 227px, which is basically MacBook Pro Retina size, so the quality is superb in most instances. They have been compressed to their smallest file size without loss of quality. It's currently 1287 pictures strong (around 352mb in file size) but I am however happy to update this over time, likewise if you notice any errors or any additions you'd like please let me know in this thread and I'll correct/add them. Steps to add to your game; 1. Download here 2. Unzip and place here: ‎⁨ [PC] Documents⁩ ▸ ⁨Sports Interactive⁩ ▸ ⁨Football Manager 2020 ▸ ⁨graphics⁩ ▸ ⁨backgrounds⁩ ▸ ⁨managers⁩ [MAC] Users ▸ YOURNAME ▸Library ▸ Application Support ▸ Sports Interactive ▸ Football Manager 2020 ▸ graphics ▸ backgrounds ▸ managers 3. Go to preferences (advanced and select interface) and ensure "Reload Skin" is ticked (you may need to clear your cache too) and click "confirm". As per the below screenshot. Please note: For these to work you'll need to use a custom or base skin with transparency that supports backgrounds. If you are going to redistribute these, please ask permission. Enjoy... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Some examples below (these are from Beta): Thanks to @wkdsoul for the Base Skin with transparent background to illustrate how these will work in game.

Hi all, I’ve been working on a number of background projects, this one is adding countries flags to the background of all international football teams throughout the game, I’ve been doing this for my own personal use, but decided to release this for the community. I've continued this on from FM19 and updated, all are 2560x1600 at 227px, which is basically MacBook Pro Retina size, so the quality is superb in most instances. They have been compressed to their smallest file size without loss of quality. These backgrounds will show on the "nation" and "team" (main, u21, u20, u19, u18 etc) screens but not the "stadium" screen, so it's compatible with other stadium background packs. Nations Teams pack is 227 pictures (298mb in file size). Continents Pack is 7 pictures (1.1mb in file size). If you notice any errors or any additions you'd like please let me know in this thread and I'll correct/add them. Steps to add to your game; 1. Download here and Download here 2. Unzip and place here: ‎⁨ [PC] Documents⁩ ▸ ⁨Sports Interactive⁩ ▸ ⁨Football Manager 2020 ▸ ⁨graphics⁩ ▸ ⁨backgrounds⁩ ▸ ⁨nation [PC] Documents⁩ ▸ ⁨Sports Interactive⁩ ▸ ⁨Football Manager 2020 ▸ ⁨graphics⁩ ▸ ⁨backgrounds⁩ ▸ ⁨continent [MAC] Users ▸ YOURNAME ▸Library ▸ Application Support ▸ Sports Interactive ▸ Football Manager 2020 ▸ graphics ▸ backgrounds ▸ nation [MAC] Users ▸ YOURNAME ▸Library ▸ Application Support ▸ Sports Interactive ▸ Football Manager 2020 ▸ graphics ▸ backgrounds ▸ continent 3. Go to preferences (advanced and select interface) and ensure "Reload Skin" is ticked (you may need to clear your cache too) and click "confirm". As per the below screenshot. Please note: For these to work you'll need to use a custom or base skin with transparency that supports backgrounds. If you are going to redistribute these, please ask permission. Enjoy... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Some examples below (these are from Beta): International Team examples; Continents examples;

Hi all, I've finally completed this project, all are 2560x1600 at 227px, which is basically MacBook retina size, so the quality is superb. It's 880 pictures strong (around 220mb in file size) but I am however happy to update this over time, likewise if you notice any errors or any additions you'd like please let me know and I'll correct them. Steps to add to your game; 1. Download here 2. Unzip and place here: ‎⁨ ▸ ⁨Documents⁩ ▸ ⁨Sports Interactive⁩ ▸ ⁨Football Manager 2019⁩ ▸ ⁨graphics⁩ ▸ ⁨backgrounds⁩ ▸ ⁨managers⁩ 3. Go to preferences and click "Reload Skin" Please note: For these to work you'll need to use a custom transparent skin, or the Base Skins. There is a Background Mod here too if needed. If you'd like to use the transparent panels from my screenshots, then; 1. Download my background and background fade folders here 2. Unzip and place here: ‎⁨‎ ▸ ⁨Documents⁩ ▸ ⁨Sports Interactive⁩ ▸ ⁨Football Manager 2019⁩ ▸ ⁨skins⁩ ▸ ⁨skin name⁩ ▸ ⁨graphics⁩ ▸ ⁨boxes⁩ ▸ ⁨custom⁩ ▸ ⁨background fade⁩ ▸ ⁨Documents⁩ ▸ ⁨Sports Interactive⁩ ▸ ⁨Football Manager 2019⁩ ▸ ⁨skins⁩ ▸ ⁨skin name⁩ ▸ ⁨graphics⁩ ▸ ⁨boxes⁩ ▸ ⁨custom⁩ ▸ ⁨background 3. Go to preferences and click "Reload Skin" Enjoy... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi all, I’ve been working on a project of adding manager pictures to the background of various football managers throughout the game, I’ve been doing this for my own personal use, just for the leagues I load up on my saves, and never shared anything like this before but happy to share if allowed and people are interested. Background images are just from Google search, aspect-ratio-scaled down to 1500x1000, good quality and compressed to their smallest file size without loss of any quality. You obviously need to use a transparent skin to be able to view these in game. So far, as of December 2018, I’ve done manager backgrounds for the following leagues (around 650 pictures in total): BRAZIL: Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (Complete) CHINA: Chinese Super League (Complete) ENGLAND: Premier League (Complete) Championship (Complete) League One (Complete) League Two (Complete) Vanarama League (Complete) FRANCE: Ligue 1 (Complete) GERMANY: Bundesliga (Complete) GREECE: Superleague (Complete) INTERNATIONAL: A random bunch of random international managers so far (Complete) ITALY: Serie A (Complete) NETHERLANDS: Eredivisie (Complete) PORTUGAL: Primeira Liga (Complete) RANDOM: I’ve added a few random backgrounds of ex-players that are now coaches/managers; Maradona, Van Nistelrooy, Carrick etc… (Complete) RUSSIA: Premier League (Complete) SCOTLAND: Premiership (Complete) Championship (Complete) SPAIN: La Liga (Complete) TURKEY: Super Lig (Complete) UNEMPLOYED: A random bunch of unemployed, high-profile managers that are likely to be re-employed (Complete) UKRAINE: Ukrainian Premier League (Complete) USA: MLS (Complete) Couple of examples below: Links to my downloadable FM files: FM19: Managers Background Pack FM19: International Team Background Pack FM19: Competition Background Pack (Club & International) [FM19] - Long Team Names - English Leagues

The largest backgrounds pack available for FM 2018 including thousands of pictures for competitions, stadiums, cities and many more. Starting from this year, I am responsible for the backgrounds megapack. Initialy DazS8’s project, he handed it down to me when he had to leave the community for personal matters. Since ManagerOnline has evolved a lot, few changes have been made (~100). A monthly update will be offered for this megapack. If you run into any mistake, or if you would like to suggest an improvement on an existing image, let me know by commenting. I am listening to the community in order to make this pack yours. For many years DazS8 have wanted to make a large pack using the many backgrounds by himself and others. Well here it is, got to be a must for every FM fan a super pack full of quality images to enhance your gaming experience. All have the correct xml/config files to work correctly and I have fully tested the whole pack with no problems. Certain backgrounds will show on certain screens…. City pack images will show on all Club screens. Stadiums will show on all Team screens, etc. Download the pack and extract the file (using either 7-Zip for Windows or The Unarchiver for Mac) and Place the « backgrounds » folder here (create the folder « graphics » if it don’t exist) : Windows : Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2018/graphics Mac : Utilisateurs/ »Nom d’utilisateur »/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2018/graphics Linux : /home/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2018/graphics DOWNLOAD What’s in the pack ? Competitions Club stadiums City pack Mini stadium pack (FMC/FMT) Confederations Stadiums (overview) National stadiums National flags Players backgrounds Thousands of backgrounds all in one very impressive pack. Owner : Vulrak Initiator : DazS8 Thanks : DazS8, Kenneth Nielsen, Sudak Dinakar, FLUT, arturm, asket, bigboss96, carsty, fcdm3357, ilham, kruj, luciano vietto, petercrouch, plumps, pmark, v-toll, wolverine78, zzpiggy (Cities), a special mention to Rune who had the original idea; Mons, kizar, Deano1903, geordie1981, Evil-Muffin7, joecondor, Cizzu, tv_capper, tyler16, Vlastik14, Romme90, keysigame, Persee, Nuno Rebelo and to all those who contributed. If I missed anyone then accept my apologies.

Are there any config file creator programs available that make them for backgrounds in FM17/18, many years ago i used to use one that had the background option but can't remember the name of it plus i doubt it will even be compatible with FM17/18 now.

That annoying background won't change no matter what skin I choose. I've checked the skin files, and they all have the correct background folders and file names, so they should be working. I've reinstalled the game, and it's still there... I don't understand how to fix it. Any ideas?