The flags that ship with FM27 do their job, but they all look the same: flat rectangles with no finish. That is why we made an FMPortugal national team flags pack with a style of its own, designed for the game from scratch. The Blade flags for FM27 are one of the five styles in that pack, and each style has its own article and download.
The Blade style is a slanted parallelogram, with a thin gold line on one side and a diagonal shine. It is the style with the most movement, with a TV-graphics feel, so it brings national team screens and call-ups to life.
What the Blade flags look like in FM27
Each flag has soft lighting, a subtle shadow and a thin rim, so it stands out from the background without being loud. We also designed the pack to read well in the three sizes the game uses: the large flag on national team profiles, the medium one on cards and lists, and the small icon next to player names.
What is in the pack
The pack covers 229 nations, that is, every nation that has a flag in FM27 and still exists today. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own flags, as do Kosovo and the territories the game treats as national teams. There is one exception: historical nations that no longer exist (USSR, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and so on) keep the game’s original flag.
The pack also works for men’s and women’s national teams. In FM27 each country has two database entries, one for each team, and the config file links both to the same image. So the flag is the same throughout your career, whichever team you manage.
- First, download the .zip and extract the «FMPortugal Bandeiras Lamina» folder.
- Copy that folder to Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 27\graphics\.
- If you have another flags or nation logos pack, remove it first. Use only one style at a time.
- Finally, in FM27 go to Preferences > Interface, turn off skin caching, turn on «Reload skin when confirming changes» and confirm. If nothing changes, restart the game.
The other flag styles
Not quite your thing? Then check the other styles in the same pack: Capsule, Bevel, Petal and Double Rim. They all have the same 229 nations and the same three sizes; only the finish changes. Looking for more graphics? See the FM27 downloads.
The Blade flags are an FMPortugal production. The base flag artwork comes from the flag-icons project by Panayiotis Lipiridis (MIT licence); the style, sizes and FM27 configuration are ours.
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