FM23 Skin - WTCS5

The official TCS skin returns for Football Manager 2023 created by Bluestillidie00 and WorkTheSpace.

The official TCS skin returns for Football Manager 2023 created by Bluestillidie00 and WorkTheSpace.

After the success from TCS '19 to TCS3 (2021),  Bluestillidie00 and WorkTheSpace have once again worked together to create the optimal Football Manager skin for the 2023 iteration of the game.

Noting the lack of progression between the 2022 and 2023 game releases, the goal for the skin is to give the end user a brand-new experience while retaining the vibe of the original skin, and v1.0 is the first step in the process.

As it is only v1.0, the first iteration is basic, featuring changes to key panels like the club and player overview screens, as well as many other Quality of Life features, such as:

• Instant Result
• Featuring tweaks to the popular TCS4 skin's player and club overview panels to further enhance the user's experience.
• An adaptable experience to support the skin on a range of resolutions. (Not perfect, but its ok.)
• Player faces on the Tactics screen

Skin Preview

Skin Installation Instructions

After you have downloaded a file, it will generally come in one of three formats:

• zip 
• rar
• 7z 

Zip files should be automatically supported by your OS and may show up as compressed folders; Rar and 7z files may require you to download some software to extract the files. 

The below software is recommended:

• Windows users - WinRar (Choose the most recent .exe file)

WinRar is installed using the .exe you download, following the instructions on-screen. Download the top option from the downloads page. 

• macOS users - The Unarchiver

To install The Unarchiver, simply double-click on the .zip file you download from their website, then drag the program it extracts (called 'The Unarchiver') into your apps folder.

Once you've installed the extracting software on your operating system, create a new folder and place your downloaded skin rar in it.

1. Extract the skin files as follows:

• Windows - Right-click on your rar. Choose WinRar from the menu, then select 'Extract Here'.

• macOS X - Right-click (or ctrl + click) on your zip, rar or 7z. Choose 'open with', then select 'The Unarchiver'.

2. Locating Your User Data Location

Once you have downloaded and extracted your files, move them over to your 'user data location' so the game can read them.

The default location of your 'user data location' will be slightly different depending on the OS you are using;

• Windows users - C:\Users\\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2023\skins

• Mac OS X users - /Users//Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2023/skins

Now open up your skins folder and place the folder you extracted inside it.

*if this folder doesn't exist, just create a new folder and call it 'skins'.

3. Displaying Skins In-Game

To select the skin in-game, load Football Manager 2023 and go into;

• Preferences > Advanced > Interface
• In this panel, you'll find an option called 'Skin' with a drop-down menu next to it. 

Select the drop-down menu to view your installed skins, then select and confirm.

If the skin is not showing in the game

If the skin you want isn't showing, then go to;

• Preferences > Advanced > Interface

Scroll down the interface page to Skin instructions; here, you must;

• untick 'Use caching to decrease page loading times' 
• tick 'Reload skin when confirming changes in preferences' 
• then select confirm

When you re-enter the preferences menu, it should have refreshed the list of skins to show your skin in the above list.

Once the skin is loaded, you can turn the skin cache back on and un-tick the 'always reload' button.

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• INFO
• Skins will only work on the version of the game they are designed for (so FM 23 skins will only work with FM 2023 and not older versions of the game, nor newer ones), and Touch and Full Mode skins aren't compatible, so if you are using the Touch version, you will only be able to use Touch skins.