Download Excellent FM 2011 English Stadiums Background Pack

I found a great addition to Football Manager 2011 today, a superb English Stadium Backgrounds pack and I have already downloaded it and installed into my game. What it does is that it adds stadium backgrounds for no less than 640 teams in England, from Arsenal or Chelsea to the smallest clubs in the nation. The pack was made by MinneapolisJon from FM-View, here is how it looks in my game:

As you can notice I have also installed a new skin to go with this pack because the default FM 2011 skin might not allow these backgrounds to show properly. I would advise you to install a new background-friendly skin before adding the backgrounds, here’s how the process works:

How To Install a New Skin and the Backgrounds

The skin that I chose is called «Galaxy» and you can download it right from the source by clicking here. After downloading it you have to extract the file to My Documents>Sports Interactive>Football Manager 2011>skins. If you don’t have a «skins» folder in there then you will have to create it yourself. After extraction the «skins» folder should look like this:

Now you can proceed to downloading the backgrounds pack, click on the image below and you will be able to get the pack directly from the source. The pack has around 500MB so you will need some free space on your disk ;)

After downloading you have to extract the file to My Documents>Sports Interactive>Football Manager 2011>galaxy>graphics>backgrounds. That is if you are using the Galaxy skin, if you are using a different skin then you must extract to that skin’s graphics>backgrounds folder. Here’s how that «backgrounds» folder looks on my computer after extracting the pack:

After completing that step start your Football Manager 2011 game, go to Preferences>Display & Sound and select your skin from the drop-down menu like I did in the screen shot below.

Before clicking on «confirm» make sure that you enable the «show background pictures» option in the same screen.

That’s about it, if you followed the steps correctly then the backgrounds should show in your game. I hope you’ll enjoy it!