Football Manager 2023 Base Skins

As with most recent Football Managers for you to make certain changes in Football Manager 2023 you need to create a new skin. Thankfully over the last few years some more stuff has been moved out of the skins folder so you only really need the Base skin if you are wanting to edit the skin graphics, fonts or colours. If you want to edit the match graphics or the most of the panel xml files you no longer really need the base skins.

So to make things easier for people I've put up a base skin that is identical to the default skin that comes with the game, so you can add new files/graphics to these without messing up the original skin, and anything that isn't located in these new skin folders will be taken from the default locations within the game.

FM23 Base

FM23 Base Transparent

Install Instructions

When you extract the file you have downloaded you should have two folders named base22 and fm23BaseTrans.

Now copy the folders into your skins folder within your User Data Location, by default this is:

For Windows:
C:\Users\[Your Windows Username]\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2023\skins\

For Mac:
Users\[Your Mac Username]\Library\Application Support\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2023\skins

How to increase/decrease opacity of background

Go to your User Data Location (Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2023) and find the transparent skin.

Inside the panels folder, go into client_object and open "client object browser.xml" with a program such as notepad++ or VSCode.

Go to line 59: which has this line of code

<widget class="inner_contrast_box" appearance="boxes/custom/interface/content/secondary/paper" transparency="0.7">

The bold value is what you'll need to edit, the lower the number, the more transparent, the higher the more opaque.

Save your changes, clear the cache and reload your skin.

Credits

The base skins of FM23 have been put together by bluestillidie00. He's the author of the popular TCS skin and a moderator on the Skinning Hideout area of SI forums.