NewGen AI Faces FM27 is a pack of 200 AI-generated faces to give your most special newgens. It comes from FranklyFM84, the content creator who also made the 2026/27 kitpack. The idea is simple: no more 16-year-olds who look 40, and no more of the odd stares the game produces on its own.
What NewGen AI Faces FM27 includes
The ZIP holds 200 PNG portraits, numbered a001 to a200, a config.xml and an instructions file in English. Every face is a teenage boy, with a neutral background and a dark shirt. On top of that, there is plenty of variety in origin, skin tone and hairstyle. So you can find a face for an Ivorian winger as easily as for a Japanese midfielder.
However, this is not an automatic facepack. In other words, you choose the face and link it to a player yourself, one by one, through his ID. So it makes more sense for your best prospects than for a whole youth squad.
Sixteen of the 200 faces in the pack (Image: FranklyFM84)
How the swap works
Each line in config.xml belongs to one face. Then, to give face a001 to a player, you type r- and his ID between the two slashes on that line. Finally, you save the file and the game shows that portrait on the player’s profile.
The config.xml line before and after the swap (Image: FMPortugal)
Who it is for
It is for managers who follow their academy closely and want the next homegrown star to look like a real footballer. If you would rather have an automatic option for every newgen, NG_Regens is a different beast: it has hundreds of thousands of faces and an app that hands them out by nationality. On the other hand, if you do not fancy dealing with IDs, FaceDrop FM27 lets you drag any of these images onto the portrait. You can also pair the pack with FranklyFM84’s kitpack.
Download NewGen AI Faces FM27
The pack came out at the end of October 2026 and the ZIP is about 16.4 MB. Since it is only images and a config file, there is nothing to install beyond the folders.
- First, open FM27 and go to Preferences > Advanced > Audio & Visual. Turn on Show pictures of players and staff who have been generated by the game and Use pre-generated images rather than dynamically generated images.
- Then find the newgen you want to give a new face and write down his ID.
- Next, extract the ZIP. In
Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 27\graphics, create aFacesfolder (and thegraphicsfolder, if it is missing) and copy the pack’s folder into it. - Pick the face you want, for example
a001, and openconfig.xmlin Notepad. - On that face’s line, put
r-and the player ID between the two slashes:<record from="a001" to="graphics/pictures/person/r-ID/portrait"/>. Repeat for the other faces and save. - Finally, start the game and look up the player: the new face should be there.
Things to watch
Always use the player’s ID, not his name, because the game only recognises the number. Also, each face goes to one player at a time. If the face does not show, check that both preference options are on and that config.xml sits inside the pack’s folder. To undo it, just delete the ID from the line or remove the pack’s folder from graphics\Faces.
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