How to make Football Manager 2023 more realistic

An initiative that has become tradition here on FM Scout. This is season 3 for our list, following yet another greatly received iteration last year.

Making Football Manager more realistic is possible by installing a number of addons created by the community. And no, this is not about logopacks or facepacks.

Most of the addons featured below are custom data files that either tweak certain aspects of how the game works or add more depth to what's already there.

Certain addons are available as packs which include multiple files. And since these files are created by different people, there are some cases of files that do similar things, so you'd have to choose just one to avoid data conflicts.

I'll briefly explain what all the different files do, where to find them, and when you need to make a choice to avoid possible conflicts.

So, let's get to it.

DLC for a More Realistic Football Manager 2023

Trophies Megapack

Almost 1200 real trophies to add to all playable nations in the game.

Realistic Competition Colors

Over 400 competitions with inaccurate color schemes are updated and fixed.

Competition Colour Fix

A facelift to in-game competitions which are not licensed or are using their nations primary / secondary colours.

Fez's Enhanced Turf Textures

New enhanced look of grass textures making the turf look more realistic.

Realistic Weather

Real-life annual weather data was used to optimize current weather patterns, and create new ones.

Nik33's Club Colours

Changes club titlebar colours to their correct ones based on their logos and football tradition.

Audio Match Commentary Patch

Comprehensive reworked sound files, taken from multiple sources and also real life action.

Star Attributes skin mod

A non-numeric attribute skin for Football Manager 2023 by Sebastian.

Mustermann Graphical Attributes skin

Special version of Mustermann skin designed to make the game unnecessarily harder!

Hide Attributes (on any skin)

This tutorial explains how to turn any FM skin into an attribute-less skin without skinning knowledge.

Real Names License Fix

Fix fake name of competitions, clubs and awards with their real names in Football Manager 2023.

Nik33's Competition Abbreviations

Updates 150+ competition abbreviations to match their licensed names.

FM Transfer Update

This is the best Football Manager transfer update and it comes with nearly daily repacks.

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Club Transfer Preferences

Certain clubs have a strong affinity for a specific nationality of players in the past and present. This is now a criteria in Visions of each Club.

Club Finances Fix

Currently adjusts Chinese Clubs, as their financial representation is still extremely overpowered.

Improved Salaries + Values + Sponsors

Adjusted Market values to replicate transfer fees better. Increased potential Salaries for Top-players. Decreased salaries for some Nations.

Leagues Mega Pack by @Timo@

The largest collection of updates for unplayable nations but also expanding the structure of playable ones.

Around The Globe Megapack

Realistic leagues around the globe made in the advanced editor. With added focus on realism.

Geographics & Languages

Added missing info for 5500+ cities and 1250+ Local Regions. Also added 100+ new languages, edited 181 nations and 1,800+ regions.

Language Overhaul by majesticeternity

Added 80 New languages, 62 New Dialects. Edited 100 Nations and 1,500 Regions.

Media Overhaul

Adds 4,250+ real media, 1,000 real journalists, 80 bookmakers, along with their styles & personalities.

Nik33's Agents pack

Adds more than 1,020 real life agents and their connections to 13.000+ players/clients.

Real Life Agents by pr0

With specific attributes & clients adding more realism to the game.

New Players / Staff by SirTAVARES

Created more than 100 new player and staff to add in your game.

New Players & New Staff by pr0 (2 files)

New players and new staff created who don't exist in the current database.

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Career Plans

Adds career plans to players/staff taking into account their real life choices, interviews and social media posts.

Relationships

Adds more than 110 new relationships depending on player interviews, social media posts and other incidents. Also adds players' idols.

Alternative Youth Rating

Changes the National Youth Ratings, Game Importance and state of development for each Nation.

League Reputation Fixes

Lowers the gap slightly between the Top-Nations and all the others in Europe. Boosts Top-Nations outside of Europe slightly.

Club Reputation Fixes

Contains small reputation adjustments for some Brazilian, Argentinian and Mexican Teams.

Club Data Fixes

Adds a lot of missing data for almost 700 1st and 2nd division clubs in 150 nations worldwide.

Awards Overhaul

160 New Awards, along with a entirely reworked reputation system.

Award Fixes

Fixes all missing and illogical award-reputations in all nations and in all international competitions as well.

Derbies Overhaul

Adds more than 550 derbies all around the world and adjusts their reputations.

Worldwide Derby Fixes

Adds 300+ missing derbies from clubs and nations in over 50 nations.

Citizenship Fix

Corrections for 95 nations for "years to gain nationality".

Other Changes by pr0

Changes in general which include second nationalities, affiliations between teams, new stadiums, favourite personel etc.

Data Tweaks by SirTAVARES

Thousands of changes to improve the gaming experience. Also created people missing from the game.

Data Bundles

Many of the addons listed above are included in the following bundles and you can grab each of them as a single download.

Realism Increase Megapack by Daveincid	Data Update Packs by pr0 & Transfers by FMTU
Nik33's Data Packs	SirTAVARES' Data Tweaks

I will keep updating this list from time to time to ensure it always reflects all the quality addons that raise the realism in Football Manager 2023.

If you think something's missing and should be added, let me know in the comments.
Enjoy!