Football Manager 26 Icons and Symbols Meaning

Learning the Football Manager 26 icons and symbols’ meaning will change how you manage your team. From creating your manager to running matches, these icons make every action faster and easier to understand. As you get used to them, moving between tactics, transfers, and training becomes smoother and more natural. Check them out!

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Football Manager 26 Manager Creation Icons

Creating your character in Football Manager 26 is easier and more detailed than ever. You can customize your appearance, outfit, and coaching background, which affects your starting reputation, jobs, and attributes.

Football Manager 26 Icons	Description
1. Body icon	Body Type – This option allows you to select your character’s overall physique and build.
2. Head with brush icon	Skin Tone – Select from a wide range of realistic skin tones to accurately represent yourself.
3. Body icon with vertical arrow	Height – Adjust your character’s height using a slider or preset options.
4. Curved arrow facing left	Reset Changes – This icon instantly reverts all customization choices back to default settings.
5. Criss cross arrow icon	Shuffle Options – Randomly generates your character’s appearance by automatically selecting random options across all categories.

Football Manager 26 Icons	Description
6. Face icon with lines inside it	Face Shape – Sculpting tool to modify your character’s facial structure.
7. Hair icon	Hair – Library of hairstyles, including short cuts, long styles, bald options, and various modern cuts.
8. Eyebrow icon	Facial Hair – Add character with beards, mustaches, goatees, stubble, or remain clean-shaven.
9. Eye icon	Eyebrows – Customize eyebrow thickness, shape, and arch.
10. Ear icon	Eyes – Select eye color and shape from multiple realistic options.
11. Nose icon	Ears – Adjust ear size and prominence.
12. Mouth icon	Nose – Modify nose shape, size, and bridge prominence.
13. Lips icon	Mouth – Select mouth and lip shape from available options. This will affect your character’s default expression.
14. Make-up brush icon	Cosmetics – Access additional facial details like moles, freckles, scars, or other distinctive marks.
15. Four circles icon	Skin Details – Fine-tune skin texture, wrinkles, and aging features. T

Football Manager 26 Icons	Description
16. T-Shirt and Pants icon	Outfits – Select your manager’s complete outfit style from casual to formal wear.
17. T-Shirt icon	Tops – Choose specific upper garments, including shirts, polo shirts, t-shirts, sweaters, jackets, and suit jackets.
18. Pants icon	Bottoms – Select trousers, jeans, tracksuit bottoms, or shorts to complement your chosen top.
19. Shoe icon	Shoes – Pick from formal dress shoes, casual sneakers, or training shoes.
20. Watch icon	Wristwear – Add watches or wristbands to accessorize your manager’s appearance.
21. Ring icon	Rings – Include rings on your manager’s fingers for additional personalization.
22. Badge icon	Lapel Badges – Select club badges, national emblems, or commemorative pins to wear on suit lapels.
23. White T-Shirt icon	Style – Choose your overall outfit aesthetic from preset style categories like Formal, Smart Casual, Casual, or Athletic.
24. Color ring icon	Colour – Customize color schemes for each clothing item separately.

Football Manager 26 Icons	Description
25. Half-body icon with yellow cone	Coaching – Pick this if you’ve worked directly with players as part of a coaching team. This includes roles like assistant coach, youth coach, or first-team coach.
26. Binoculars icon	Recruitment & Football Operations – Choose this if you’ve worked behind the scenes in football, like handling scouting, recruitment, or team operations.
27. Med Kit icon	Medical – Select this if you’ve worked in player health or fitness. This includes roles like physio, sports scientist, or fitness coach.
28. PC monitor icon	Punditry & Media – Pick this if you’ve worked in football media as a pundit, commentator, or analyst. You can also list your exact role.
29. Whistle icon	Referees & Match Officials – Choose this if you’ve worked as a referee, assistant, or VAR official.

Football Manager 26 Icons	Description
30. Gold shield icon	Continental Pro – Pick this if you have the highest coaching licence. It means you’re one of the top coaches with advanced knowledge and skills.
31. Silver icon	Continental – Choose this if you have a Continental A, B, or C Licence (same as UEFA A, B, or C). It shows you’ve worked hard to build your coaching skills and are ready for higher levels.
32. Bronze icon	National – Select this if you have a National A, B, or C Licence. It’s a good start for new managers focused on learning and growing.

Football Manager 26 Portal Icons

The Portal in Football Manager 26 is your new main hub, replacing the old inbox. It brings everything you need into one easy screen. Here are the icons:

Football Manager 26 Icons	Description
1. Square icon with diagonal arrow	Pop Up Menu – Opens more options based on what you’re looking at.
2. Cone icon	Training – Takes you straight to your club’s training setup. You can adjust training intensity, create player plans, assign coaches, and manage how the team prepares and develops.
3. Bed icon	Rest – Lets you manage how much rest your players get.
4. Two cones in a circle icon	TBA
5. Note icon	TBA
6. Dumbbell icon	Physical Training – Focuses on player fitness and conditioning.
7. Magnifying glass icon	Search – Opens the upgraded search bar that can find almost anything — players, clubs, news, or game menus. Just type a keyword like “Tactics” or “Finances” to jump straight there.
8. Rectangular shape with a folded corner icon	Bookmark – Shows your saved shortcuts for easy access to your favorite screens. FM26 starts with six bookmarks, but you can add up to 24 and customize them however you like.
9. Globe icon	News – Keeps you updated on everything happening in your world.
10. Pencil icon	Edit – This lets you instantly change player stats, club money, or transfers while playing.
11. Cog icon	Settings – Opens your game options. You can change graphics, sound, match speed, shortcuts, etc.

Football Manager 26 Icons	Description
12. Chat bubble icon	Messages – This is where you get all your messages from the board, players, agents, staff, and other clubs.
13. Jersey icon	First Team – Gives you a quick look at your main squad. You can see player stats, fitness, morale, form, and roles all in one place.
14. Rectangular with arrow facing up	Tactics – Takes you straight to your tactics setup. You can change formations, assign roles, adjust team instructions, and plan for different matches.
15. Person icon with magnifying glass	Player Database – Opens the full list of players in the game.
16. Rotating arrow icon	Transfer Activity – Shows what’s happening in the transfer market. You can check ongoing deals, budgets, loans, contract endings, and other clubs’ transfers to spot new chances.
17. Medal icon	Competitions – Gives you details about the tournaments your club is in. You can see how your team is doing in every competition.

Message Icons

Football Manager 26 changes how you manage messages with a clearer and faster system. This helps you see what’s important right away without opening every message.

Football Manager 26 Icons	Description
1. Two people icon with circular arrow	Transfer Related Message – Covers anything about transfers, like bids, offers, player interest, or deadline reminders.
2. White plus icon inside a red circle	Injury Related Message – Comes from your medical team about injuries, recovery, or player fitness.
3. Briefcase icon	Tasks – Shows things that need your attention, like board requests, staff advice, or contract reminders.
4. Notepad icon with circular arrow	⁠Contract Related Message – Includes all messages about contracts.
5. Star icon	Favorite – Lets you mark key messages so you can find them later.
6. Magnifying glass icon	Search Message – Lets you quickly find messages by typing a player’s name, date, or topic instead of scrolling through everything.
7. Two green checkmark icons	Read Messages – Shows only the messages you’ve already opened.
8. Three dots icon	More Options – Opens extra tools like archive, delete, or bulk manage your messages.
9. Green and red circular icon	Player Transferred To – Shows where a player went after leaving your club. Appears in transfer confirmations for sales, loans, or releases.
10. Price tag icon	Player’s Value / Price – Shows the money side of a deal — transfer fee, wage, or release clause.
11. Checkmark icon in green circle	Done Deals – Marks completed transfers once everything’s signed and approved.
12. Globe icon with green arrow facing left	Foreign Import – Appears for international transfers that need work permits or visas.
13. Three coins stacked icon with two waves	Average Transfer Value – Shows what similar players in your league are worth, helping you judge if a deal is fair.
14. Three coins stacked icon	Total Spent – Tracks how much you’ve spent in the current window or season to help manage your transfer budget.
15. Three coins stacked icon with green and red arrows	Net Spend – Shows your total balance from transfers.

Tactics Planner Icons

Here, icons show how well players fit your system, understand their roles, and are physically and mentally ready to perform.

Football Manager 26 Icons	Description
1. Gold star icon	Player’s Tactic Ability – Shows how well a player fits your chosen tactic.
2. Joystick icon	TBA
3. Green gauge bar icon	Player’s Good Familiarity – Green bar means the player understands your tactic well. Familiarity grows through training and playing matches with the same setup.
4. Yellow gauge bar icon	Player’s Bad Familiarity – Yellow or orange means the player doesn’t fully get your tactic yet.
5. Green heart icon	Player’s Condition – Shows how fit a player is. Green means they’re fresh and ready, while orange or red means they’re tired and risk getting injured.
6. Red square with X icon	Player’s Sharpness – Shows how match-ready a player is.
7. Yellow circle with arrow icon	Player’s Morale – Shows how happy a player is. Either they’re confident and performing well, or they’re unhappy and may play poorly.

Football Manager 26 Match Simulation Icons

These icons, found in the match interface, control how you watch, interact with, and adjust the flow of each game:

Football Manager 26 Icons	Description
1. An arrow with four dots icon	Tactics – Opens up the in-match tactical adjustment screen.
2. Notepad icon	Instructions – Gives you quick access to touchline shouts and simple tactical changes without opening the full tactics screen.
3. Two arrows icon	Balanced – Displays your current team mentality setting. Representing the neutral middle ground between attacking and defensive approaches
4. Cog icon	⁠ ⁠Match Simulation Settings – Opens detailed match viewing configuration options.
5. Three dots icon	Match Simulation Dropdown Menu – A quick-access dropdown providing instant preset simulation options.
6. Two-line icon	Match Simulation Pause – Controls when matches automatically pause for your input and tactical adjustments.

That’s the end of our Football Manager 26 icons list. Learn them early, and you’ll manage faster, smarter, and more successfully throughout your management journey!

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