← FC 26 Realism Mod
Version 1.0

Features

Everything the FC 26 Realism Mod adds, updates and fixes.

Lines tagged Requires Live Editor only work when using Live Editor.

Anthems & Goal Songs Mod

  • Adds real goal songs for 239 teams
  • Adds real club anthems for 285 teams

Boots & GK Gloves Mod

  • Adds 1873 new boots
  • Updates 279 existing boots
  • Adds 159 new GK gloves
  • Updates 94 existing GK gloves
  • Updates 412 existing boot minipics
  • Updates 121 existing GK glove minipics

Accessories Mod

  • New accessories
    • Adds winter glove compatible short wrist tapes
    • Improves long wrist tapes, and keeps the original ones as a separate accessory
    • Replaces ankle tape with gripper sock
    • Adds new ankle tapes (pair with gripper socks for extended gripper socks)
    • Adds Edgar Davids style glasses
    • Adds 2 nose guard styles
    • Adds 3 nose strip styles
    • Adds head guard
    • Adds protective head band
    • Adds lower and smaller knee athletic tapes
    • Adds sweatbands
    • Improves finger tape texture
    • Improves knee athletic tape and knee brace
  • Socks and sleeves
    • Adds 4 new sock lengths (low, very low, rolled low, rolled very low)
    • Adds 3/4 undershirt and extra-long undershirt
    • Adds full and 3/4 compression sleeves (left or right)
    • 3/4 undershirt can now be worn with wrist accessories
    • Fixes socks dropping to the default length when a sock style isn’t available at the chosen length
    • Created players and Virtual Pros now wear normal sleeves in warm weather and their seasonal jersey in cold weather, like real players (EA ignored the weather for them)
  • Colors and codes
    • Adds 57 new accessory colors, including 9 that automatically match the team’s colors
    • Adds ability to apply any left-side accessory to both sides by increasing the accessory code by 50
    • Adds ability to restore accessories removed by a restriction by increasing the accessory code by 1000
    • Accessories that would clip are hidden automatically: winter and GK gloves hide wrist accessories and finger tape, and long sleeves and full-length undershirts hide wrist accessories
    • Brightens EA’s yellow accessory color, keeping the original as Muted Yellow
    • Adds 16 kinesiology tapes (9 arm, 7 leg)
  • Winter gloves
    • Adds 85 new winter gloves
    • Improves all existing winter glove textures to fix lighting issue
    • Adds the Dynamic Winter Gloves system: players wear their team’s kit manufacturer’s gloves (21 manufacturers, 838 teams mapped)
    • Adds 158 winter glove designs, with various combinations of club crests, numbers and the team’s kit manufacturer logo (92 brands supported)
    • Adds 47 club-specific winter gloves
    • Created and customized players and Player Career Pros now only wear winter gloves in cold weather, like real players Requires Live Editor
    • Adds Lua Overrides: CSV files to change any team’s kit manufacturer and/or winter gloves assignments
  • Edit Player Requires Live Editor
    • Adds an Accessories section to edit the 4 accessory slots and 4 color slots (45 accessories, 71 colors)
    • Adds our 4 new sock lengths to the Sock Length option
    • Adds Sock Style option with 8 styles
    • Increases the number of Jersey Sleeve Length options to 8, adding new mod styles
    • Adds Seasonal Jersey option
    • Improves support for editing accessories, sleeves and socks for created players and virtual pros
    • Gripper sock can now be used with boots that EA blocked it on
    • Adds an Extra Jersey styles row in the Tattoos section to enable more jersey style combinations
    • Adds an Advanced Options row in the Tattoos section (face override and Real Face Customizer switch)
    • Adds 311 accessory icons and new sock, sleeve and seasonal jersey icons; updates wrist accessory and ankle tape previews

Face Updates Mod

  • Updates 380 existing player faces
  • Adds 43 extra face variations
  • Players whose face variation is missing now load their real face instead of a generic one
  • Setting a player’s Head Class to “Override Realism Mod” turns off the mod’s face update for them

Core Realism Mod

  • Menus and settings
    • Updates bootflow graphics
    • Stops EA’s live squad, attribute and fixture downloads from overwriting the mod’s data
    • The World’s Game can now be played offline
    • Unlocks 5 hidden tactical roles (Ball-Playing Keeper Attack, Roaming Striker Attack and Versatile, False Winger Attack and Build-Up)
  • Career Mode
    • Unlocks 26 career mode settings so they can be changed mid-save
    • Fixes prize money always being paid in euros, ignoring the career currency Requires Live Editor
  • Avatar screens: unlocks almost every option on the create and edit screens in the main menu, Manager Career, Player Career and tournaments
    • Height 130–257 cm and weight 30–150 kg
    • No name length limits
    • Birth years 1970–2010
    • Name, kit name, nationality, birth date, height and weight can now be edited for real and created players
    • Adds Composure and Defensive Awareness
    • Edit Players in Manager Career, Player Career and tournaments can now edit names, nationality, birth date, kit number, position, role, preferred foot, height, weight, weak foot and every attribute
    • Adds goal celebration, running style, free kick style and penalty style options to Edit Real Player and to Edit Players in career and tournaments
    • Managers: name, nationality, gender and birth date can now be edited, all outfit tops are unlocked, and there’s an extra outfit layer
    • Player Career Virtual Pros: gloves, gripper socks, height, weight, body type, position, role and physical attributes can be edited after creation, and preferred foot can be changed with position
    • Player Career: name, nationality, birth date, height and weight can be edited for real players
  • Head editor Requires Live Editor
    • Adds 422 hidden hairstyles and all 105 facial hair options to every head editor
    • Fixes hidden hair and facial hair resetting after re-entering Edit Player
    • Adds the Head category to player and manager editors that lack it
  • Play as Real Manager Requires Live Editor
    • Adds an Unemployed tab, with 716 real unemployed managers grouped A–Z
    • Makes national team and CONMEBOL managers selectable
  • Social media
    • Adds 12365 new social media comments
    • Replaces all generic social media accounts with real ones: 5401 fan accounts and 1193 media accounts, with most assigned a specific country
    • All accounts use their real name, profile picture and verified badge from X, including the organization verified badge
    • Updates comment, like and verification badge images
    • Adds 18 emojis and updates 52
    • Updates 40 player head backgrounds
    • Updates social media like and comment ranges to be more realistic with more variance
    • Updates social media UI to be more realistic
  • Algorithms
    • Updates Injury algorithm with a new realistic injury system based on real data, with more realistic injury types, probabilities and recovery times and stages
    • Updates Simulation algorithm, based on real data across over 30,000 games, with changes to scoring chances, injuries, subs, cards, penalties, match ratings, fatigue, and results
    • Unlocks all cameras in full match simulation
    • Updates Player Retirement algorithm based on real data of over 33,000 real retirements
      • Realistic retirement ages for each position: goalkeepers play the longest, wingers retire the earliest, and some players keep going past 40
      • Very good older players are more likely to keep playing
      • Nations keep enough players for full national teams in long careers
      • A realistic number of new women’s players are generated (EA generated far too many)
    • Updates Player Wages algorithm based on real data
      • Realistic wage levels for each league (EA’s were far too high in leagues like Ligue 1, Portugal and Argentina, and far too low in leagues like the Saudi Pro League, MLS and League One)
      • Club profitability no longer affects wages
    • Updates Player Values algorithm based on real market values for both men and women
      • Values reflect what a player is worth to their own club, so young players are worth much more and players lose value from their late 20s
      • Values rise smoothly with rating, and more steeply for world-class players
    • Updates Release Clause algorithm based on real release clause data
      • Every player in La Liga and La Liga 2 has a release clause, as Spanish law requires
      • No release clauses in Ligue 1 and Ligue 2, and far fewer in most other leagues, like in real life
      • Release clauses are much more common for young players than older ones
      • Bigger clubs set bigger release clauses, and the amounts depend on the league
    • Updates Youth Academy with real heights and weights per position based on real data, realistic weak foot and skill moves, and a max youth age of 16
    • Updates GTN Scouting algorithm
    • Updates International algorithm, with real World Cup host stadiums for 2026, 2030, 2034 and 2038
    • Updates Match Importance algorithm
    • Updates Coming in as a Sub algorithm
    • Updates Commentary algorithms
  • Crowd: improves crowd settings (more hardcore and ultra fans, more people of the prominent gender, fewer children, more realistic home, away and neutral distribution)
  • Database
    • Adds real data (name, nationality, birthdate, card strictness, foul strictness) for 159 referees
    • Updates adboard assignments
    • Expands generated name pools (first names 11848 → 64997, surnames 9442 → 53425, common names 489 → 59777)
    • Adds 12 new name groups for 23 nations, so generated players get more region-appropriate names
    • Generated names are now weighted on how common they are in real life, instead of every name being equally likely Requires Live Editor
    • Updates goal net tension for 63 stadiums
    • Fixes 11 stadiums where managers stand in front of the wrong dugout
  • Language strings
    • Adds real names for 119 competitions
    • Updates Lazio, Atalanta, Milan and Inter to their real names
  • Competitions
    • Removes low celebration level from some competitions

Graphics Mod

  • Kits
    • Adds real kits for Lazio, Atalanta, AC Milan and Inter
    • Adds third kits for Lazio, Atalanta, AC Milan and Inter
    • Replaces 347 generic GK kits with real ones
    • Adds right-aligned shorts numbers for 23 kits across 6 teams
    • Adding 2 to a kit’s Jersey Name Layout turns off the mod’s kit changes for it, and adding 4 keeps only the mod’s fonts
    • Competition badges and captain armbands are now applied to the kit’s surface detail too, so they look like real patches instead of flat prints (EA had this turned off)
  • Kit numbers and fonts
    • Adds real kit numbers for every La Liga and La Liga 2 team, with the club’s crest instead of the La Liga logo
    • Adds real kit numbers for all 20 Serie A teams, with each club’s own design on the Serie A numbers, and updates their number colors, name colors and outlines to match
    • Improves kit number spacing for kit numbers 10–19 across all kit number fonts
    • Improves wide letter spacing on outlined jersey names Requires Live Editor
  • Jackets and pants
    • Adds 416 team jackets across 165 teams
    • Adds 361 team pants across 130 teams
    • Subs and warming-up players wear jackets more often in warm weather
    • Adds Lua Overrides: CSV files to change any team’s jackets and/or pants, allowing you to assign custom anthem jackets
  • Balls
    • Adds 26 new balls
    • Updates 95 existing balls
    • Adds 32 new ball minipics
    • Updates 89 ball minipics
  • Banners, flags and scarves
    • Updates 5687 existing team flags across 868 teams
    • Updates 3468 existing team scarves across 867 teams
    • Updates 869 existing team banners
  • Adboards
    • Adds 1339 new adboards and updates 34 existing ones
    • Updates 70 competition adboard textures and adds 3
    • Adds 24 and updates 5 competition center adboards
  • Trophies
    • Adds real World Cup trophy
  • Props
    • Replaces generic water bottles with Gatorade bottles
    • Improves the corner flag mesh to be more accurate
  • Goal Nets
    • Adds realistic goal net physics with 3 different styles
    • Improves goal net color to be more realistic
  • Presentation
    • Disables HyperMotion and POV wipes
    • Fixes fans wearing whichever kit their team is wearing: they now wear the home shirt, and some wear the away or third shirt
    • In Player Career, the TV logo now stays on screen all match, including when you come on as a sub Requires Live Editor
  • Minifaces, logos and backgrounds
    • Adds 2963 new player minifaces and updates 30
    • Adds 145 new The World’s Game minifaces and updates 109
    • Adds 1271 new manager minifaces
    • Updates logos for 69 competitions
    • Adds 76 new calendar matchday backgrounds and updates 1
    • Unlocks custom calendar matchday backgrounds for domestic cups and super cups

Manager Faces Mod

  • Adds 568 new manager faces
  • Updates 26 existing manager faces
  • Assigns 27 existing manager faces
  • Adds 9 extra manager face variations
  • Managers’ sideburns setting now works, enabling face overrides and the Real Face Customizer for managers Requires Live Editor

New Faces Mod

  • Adds 3378 new player faces
  • Adds 21 extra variations for 20 of them
  • Assigns 470 existing faces
  • Fixes 1 existing face

Tattoos Mod

  • Adds 2083 new player tattoos
  • Adds 36 new manager tattoos
  • Updates 55 existing tattoos
  • Adds 1786 generic tattoos that can be applied to any player (1411 arm, 375 leg)
  • Adds the Tattoos section to Edit Player, with support for assigning all the mod’s generic arm and leg tattoos as well as EA’s generic head tattoos Requires Live Editor
  • Adds support for adding generic head tattoos to players with real faces
  • Adds support for adding generic tattoos and kinesiology tapes to players with real tattoos
  • Fixes real tattoos not showing when a player uses a face variation or an assigned face, or retires to become a manager in Player Career

Squad File

  • Teams and players
    • Re-adds 13 CONMEBOL teams featuring 308 players
    • Re-adds 500 players removed by EA
    • Adds 97 wonderkids
    • Adds real squads for Iran, Curaçao, Algeria, Iraq and Jordan, with 77 new players
    • Adds real managers for the 5 unlicensed national teams, with realistic appearances, details and tactics
  • Stadiums and teams
    • Adds real stadium names for 570 teams
    • Updates stadium capacities for 436 teams
    • Corrects team coordinates for 528 teams
    • Corrects UTC offsets for 7 teams
    • Corrects pitch surface for 22 teams
    • Corrects team colors for 3 teams
    • Updates domestic prestige for 50 teams
    • Improves stadium assignment for 10 teams
    • Enables banners and scarves for all teams that have them, and fan flags only for teams whose fans use them in real life
  • Accessories
    • Assigns real boots for 5447 players
    • Assigns real GK gloves for 1121 players
    • Assigns gripper socks for 17360 players
    • Assigns sock lengths for 2408 players
    • Assigns sock styles for 35 players
    • Assigns sleeve lengths for 67 players
    • Assigns winter gloves for 178 players
    • Assigns various accessories for 56 players
  • Managers
    • Adds real details (names, nationalities, appointed dates, birthdates) for managers of 660 teams
    • Unlocks all managers for play as real manager
    • Updates manager assignments for 18 teams
    • Managers with fake scanned faces assigned now use custom generic ones
    • Updates star ratings for 44 managers
  • Competitions
    • Updates competition colors for 99 competitions
    • Updates goal-line technology settings for 46 competitions
    • Corrects subs on the bench for 17 competitions
    • Updates competition ball assignments for 30 competitions
    • Updates adboard settings for 22 competitions
    • Adds goal scoring records for 46 competitions
  • Kits
    • Updates kit colors for kits we modify
    • Removes all jersey restrictions
    • Disables the alternate sponsor-free kits EA uses in countries where some sponsors are banned, so all kits always show their real sponsors
    • Unlocks some hidden kits
  • Loans and icons
    • Updates loan to buy settings for 490 loans to be accurate
    • Unlocks all 219 icons for manager and player career

Lua Script

  • Assigns real boots for 6462 players
  • Assigns real GK gloves for 719 players
  • Assigns gripper socks for 18173 players
  • Assigns sock lengths for 3314 players
  • Assigns sleeve lengths for 70 players
  • Assigns winter gloves for 257 players
  • Assigns various accessories for 23 players (including winter glove compatible wrist tapes and kinesiology tape)
  • Updates appearances and details for 9840 players and 1015 managers (changes made in EA’s squad updates, for careers started on older squads)
  • Applies team, competition, stadium, banner, flag and scarf updates (528 team coordinates, 99 competition colors, 114 bench sizes, 59 ball assignments, 28 adboard settings)
  • 5 extra Lua scripts:
    • Add gripper sock to all players
    • Apply Real Manager Details
    • Change age of all career selectable icons
    • Disable flags for all teams
    • Enable flags for all teams

Addons

  • Always On Strand Hair Addon
  • Disable Player Career Performance Widget Addon Requires Live Editor
  • No HUD Addon
  • Only Show High Quality Faces In Unemployed Manager Selection Addon
  • Real Face Customizer Addon
  • Unlock All Outfits for Manager Customization Addon Requires Live Editor
  • Unlock All Stadiums In Career Mode Addon (Only Use When Playing With A Team Without A Real Stadium)
  • Fewer Simulation Injuries Addon (Less Realistic)
  • Higher Player Wages Addon
  • Lower Player Wages Addon (Less Realistic)
  • More Fans Wearing Jerseys Addon
  • No Crowd Addon
  • 1 addon to disable mod features (Disable Consistent Winter Glove Weather Logic Addon)
  • Curved Goal Nets Addon
  • Extra Curved Goal Nets Addon
  • Tight Goal Nets Addon
  • Retro & Loose Goal Nets Addon
  • MLS Style Goal Nets Addon
  • No Baseframe Addon
  • Default Goal Net Color Addon (Less Realistic)
  • Goal Nets Sounds Addon
  • 4 goal net addon versions for Anth James’ gameplay mod
  • Higher Quality Banner Textures Addon (194 teams)
  • LTA Compatibility Addon
  • Expanded Height & Zoom Ranges For All Cameras Addon (also hides the on-pitch crest and score graphic)
  • 564 Player Indicator Addons (12 styles, 4 sizes, 8 disables, 108 colors for each of 5 controllers)
  • Anth James’ FC26 Gameplay - FREE VERSION - V5 REGULAR
  • More Difficult Goalkeeper Option for Anth James’ gameplay mod
  • Huge Ball Test Option for Anth James’ gameplay mod
  • Realism Mod Goal Nets + Anth Gameplay Compatibility Addon
  • 14 Scoreboard Pack Addons, 2 international scoreboards and 8 individual scoreboard addons
  • 796 4K TV Logo Addons
  • 1168 4K season-specific Premier League TV Logo Addons (73 logos, for every season from 2025-26 to 2040-41)