Kit buttons on every club
Every club page has Home, Away, Third and GK buttons. Click one to open the kit creator with that club selected.
Football Manager 27
Free BepInEx plugin
v0.20.1
FM Kit Creator Connect
Pick a club in Football Manager 27, design its kits in FM Kit Creator and install them in your save with one click. With the Bulk Kit Generator, you can make kits for a whole league at once.
Features
Install kits without touching the graphics folder
No copying files, editing config.xml or restarting the game.
One-click install
Click Install in FM27 in the creator and the kit is in your game, without a restart.
Whole leagues at once
Click Generate League on a league's page to open the Bulk Kit Generator with every club and logo loaded, then install all the kits at once.
Kit colors in the game data
The kit's colors and designs are written into your save, like with the Live Editor, so the game's kit data matches the new kit.
Goalkeeper kits in 3D
Without the plugin, keepers never wear graphics-folder kits in FM27. With Connect, your goalkeeper kits are used in 3D matches.
Your old kits are kept
Replaced kits from other packs are moved to graphics\backup, so you can restore them.
How it works
Club kits, leagues, goalkeepers and the dressing room
Club kits
Start from the club in your save
Open any club in FM27 and click one of its kits in the FM Kit Creator box to open the kit creator with the club's name and colors filled in.
- Home, away, third and goalkeeper kits
- For reserve and women's teams the tool automatically edits the parent club's kits
Install
Install with one click
When the kit is done, click Install in FM27. The kit is saved to your graphics folder, its colors are written into your save and the game's graphics are reloaded, so you see the new kit without a restart.
- Kits from other packs for the same slot are moved to a backup, not deleted
- "Allow licensed kits" is turned on, so the kit is used in matches too
Leagues
Kits for a whole league
Click Generate League on a league's page to open the Bulk Kit Generator with the league's clubs and logos loaded. Generate the kits and click Install in FM27 to install them for every club with a single reload.
Matches
Keepers in their own kits
In FM27, goalkeepers wear kits generated from the kit colors, even if your graphics folder has goalkeeper kits. With Connect, keepers wear the goalkeeper kit from your graphics folder that matches the kit chosen for the match.
Dressing room
The right colors on the hangers
FM27 mixes up the colors of graphics-folder kits on the dressing room's hangers, so a blue shirt shows up pink. Connect fixes this, so your kit looks the same before the match as it does on the pitch.
- Turned on by default
- Also fixes kits from other packs in your graphics folder
Installation
Set up in four steps
To use Connect, you need BepInEx 6, a mod loader for Unity games. You only have to set it up once.
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Install BepInEx 6
Download the latest BepInEx 6 bleeding edge build for Unity IL2CPP, Windows x64 (build 791 or newer) from builds.bepinex.dev and extract it into your FM27 folder, next to
fm.exe. BepInEx 5 and older builds aren't compatible with FM27. -
Start FM27 once
The first start with BepInEx takes a few minutes. Close the game once you reach the main menu.
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Add the plugin
Extract the downloaded zip into the same FM27 folder, so
FMKitCreatorConnect.dllis inBepInEx\plugins\FMKitCreatorConnect. -
Open a club and make a kit
Start FM27, load your save and open a club's page. Click a kit in the FM Kit Creator box, design it and click Install in FM27.
FAQ
Questions and answers
Does it work with FM26?
No, Connect is for Football Manager 27 only. For FM26, you can make kits in FM Kit Creator and install them by hand, or edit the kit data in your save with the Live Editor.
Is it safe?
Connections are only possible from your own computer, and kits are only accepted from the FM Kit Creator and Bulk Kit Generator pages. Only files in your graphics folder are changed, apart from plugin updates, and updates are only installed if we signed them.
How do updates work?
Shortly after you start the game, new versions are downloaded in the background and used from your next game start. To turn off automatic updates, set AutoUpdate = false in BepInEx\config\com.fmkitcreator.fmkitcreatorconnect.cfg.
Where do the kits go?
Into Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 27\graphics\kits, one folder per club. Kits from other packs for the same slots are moved to graphics\backup with the config lines that used them, so you can put them back.
My kits have the wrong colors in the dressing room
This is an FM27 bug with all graphics-folder kits, not only ours. Connect includes a fix, which is on by default. If the colors are still wrong, check that DressingRoomKitColors = true is set in BepInEx\config\com.fmkitcreator.fmkitcreatorconnect.cfg (config files from older versions may still have it set to false), then restart the game.
How do I remove it?
Delete the BepInEx\plugins\FMKitCreatorConnect folder. The kits you installed stay in your graphics folder and are still used without the plugin, except for goalkeeper kits in 3D matches.
Download FM Kit Creator Connect
For Football Manager 27 on Windows, with BepInEx 6.