Ah, simulation games, the home of realism within the world of gaming. Typically made with more depth than any other genre with the sole focus of immersion, elements that break that immersion can be a pain, but almost all of them have these unfortunate features.

Football Manager 2024 is no different with things such as real kits, logos, and player faces all needing to be downloaded in order to get a true reflection of the real world.

Well, unless you’re fine with players just looking like silhouettes, but trust us, if you play enough of the game you really won’t be.

With that in mind, we’ve put together a handy guide to show you how to install real player faces in Football Manager as well as tell you where to get those real player images for Football Manager 2024 from.

Where to find Football Manager 2024 kit packs

There are a number of places where Football Manager 2024 players can find realistic player face packs, namely sortitoutsi.net and fmscout.com.

These two websites will provide you with a free location to find various face packs and download them to add to your game. On these sites you will also be able to find logo packs as well as kit packs to add to Football Manager 2024.

However, there are two issues with this, which re the following:

• You will need good storage space on your PC, some of these files can become quite large when extracted.
• For downloading bigger files, you may also want to pay for premium downloads. If not, these downloads will be split up into multiple, smaller files.

There is also a third option for getting player faces in Football Manager 2024, and that is to use the Steam Workshop. 

How to install realistic player face packs in Football Manager 2024

Now let’s show you how to install kit mods in Football Manager 2024:

1. Make sure you have WinRAR - you will need this to extract the .zip folders into the right folder within the game files.
2. Download whichever FM24 face pack you like from the aforementioned sites.
3. Find the folder to extract the kits into.
4. To find this kit, go to Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2024 > Graphics > Faces
5. You may need to create the ‘Graphics’ folder. 
6. Additionally, you will need to create a ‘Faces’ folder within the ‘Graphics’ folder.
7. Open Football Manager 2024 and click on ‘Preferences’.
8. Type ‘skin’ in the search bar.
9. Tick the box that says ‘Reload skin when confirming changes’.
10. Click ‘Confirm’ and you should get a dialog box that tells you the skin is being reloaded.

And there you have it, you will now have real player faces in your Football Manager 2024 save. Wasn’t that easy? Happy managing!