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Author: LukasRumi

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 title: 'Football Manager 24 - Face Pack Guide'
 description: 'Explains how to install and fix problems with face packs'
 pubDate: 'Apr 02 2025'
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+heroImage: '../../assets/images/fm24banner.png'
 category: 'Football Manager'
 tags: ['FM24', 'Guide']
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+title: 'Football Manager 24 - Custom Stadium Guide'
+description: 'Explains how to get custom stadium pictures for FM24'
+pubDate: 'Apr 23 2025'
+heroImage: '../../assets/images/fm24banner.png'
+category: 'Football Manager'
+tags: ['FM24', 'Guide']
+---
+
+Have you ever wondered: How you can get your own Stadium Picture in FM24 for your team or even a custom Team? Well, you don’t have to look further. I am here to show you how it’s done! I will use Team Rejects from my Blue Lock Dataset as an example, but it will work for every team.
+Here is an example of how it could look like.
+![](../../assets/images/fm24stadiumguide/stadiumguide1.png)
+
+## Step 1. - Preparation
+
+What do we need:
+
+- Pre Game Editor, if you want to create a complete new Stadium.
+- A .jpg of the Stadium, the size shouldn’t be above 800 x 480 pixels.
+- A skin, that is able to show the stadium. I’m using Sas.
+
+Well, that is basically everything.
+
+## Step 2. – Create a stadium
+
+This step is only important, if you want to create a new stadium. If you just want to replace the picture of an existing stadium, you can skip this.
+
+Start the Pre Game Editor. Load up the dataset you want to edit and go to “Stadiums”. ![Either you can copy a stadium from here, or you can create a new one.](../../assets/images/fm24stadiumguide/stadiumguide1.png)
+Here you can change everything you want about your stadium. Feel free to experiment. The important part in that window is the unique ID. You have to write that down.
+
+In my case it is 2000342656.
+
+We also have to choose this stadium for the club you want to use.
+So, go to “Clubs” and look for the team. In my case, it is “Rejects”.
+Press Edit and go to Stadium. There you have to change the stadium to the one you just created. In my case, it’s Rejects Arena.
+Save the dataset.
+
+## Step 3. -  File Structure
+
+So, now let’s do the slightly complicated part. Putting the files in the right folder and do the config.xml.
+
+What do we need?
+
+- the .jpg 800 x 480 pixels or tinier
+- the unique ID for the stadium.
+
+Where do we get the unique ID from?
+Either the Pre Game Editor, as I have shown before, or in game, if you enabled “Show unique IDs in header”.
+
+Okay, let’s start.
+Go to your graphics folder, if you don’t have one, you need to create it. It’s most likely located in:
+
+_C:\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2024\graphics_
+
+And create a folder and call it stadiums or whatever you want. I would recommend, to just download my zip file and unzip it there.
+Open the folder and move the .jpg to it. Rename the .jpg to the unique ID.  In my case it is 2000342656. Your folder should now look similar to this:
+
+Now create a file and call it _config.xml_.
+Open the file and copy this code in there.
+
+```
+<record>
+            <boolean id="preload" value="false"/>
+            <boolean id="amap" value="false"/>
+            <list id="maps">
+                <record from="UNIQUE ID" to="graphics/pictures/stadium/UNIQUE ID/stadium"/>  
+            </list>
+</record>
+```
+
+Replace UNIQUE ID with the correct ID and you should be good to go!
+
+## Step 4. – Reload Skin
+
+Now you need to load your files in game:
+
+Go in game -> open Preferences -> Interface -> make sure use caching is disabled -> reload
+
+Make sure, to enable the Dataset when you start a new career, if you have a custom stadium or a custom team.  
+
+## Problems
+
+The 3D Model of the stadium looks bad: Unfortunately, that is kind of annoying or at least unsatisfying to fix. You can't really choose what stadium you want and how it looks like.
+
+If your stadium has gaps, it means you can upgrade it. So for example:
+My stadium has 100000 seats. I can upgrade it to 200000. That means, that half of your stadium is not build and it will create gaps. Maybe some other setting could also influence this.
+
+Now everything should work. Let me know if you encounter any problem! Have a great day and enjoy playing!