PES 2017 Facepack 2026:
Updated Player Faces for PC
By Pichatz Official · Full Install Guide · CPK Tutorial
Here is something nobody talks about enough — the faces in PES 2017 out of the box are genuinely bad.
Not all of them. The big names are fine. Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar — those all looked decent when the game came out in 2016. But scroll past the top fifty players in any squad and things fall apart fast. Generic faces, wrong skin tones, hair that looks like it was modeled from a potato. For a game that got so much right about how football actually feels to play, the default face database was always its weakest point.
That is where the modding community comes in. And in 2026, they are still at it. Still releasing updated facepacks, still improving on what was already there, still making a nearly ten-year-old game look more like real football than most people give it credit for. The PES 2017 Facepack 2026 update is the latest example — and if you are still running PES 2017 on your PC, you need this installed.
What Is in the 2026 Facepack Update?
Let's be specific about what you are actually downloading.
The 2026 facepack is a CPK file — or in some versions, a set of CPK files — built by independent modders who have been tracking real player appearances throughout the current season. They pull reference photos from broadcasts, press releases, club social media, and anywhere else they can find accurate source material. Then they model or update the in-game face files to match what those players actually look like right now, not what they looked like in 2016 when this game shipped.
- ▶Face models for players who had no face or a generic placeholder in the original game
- ▶Hair geometry updates for players whose styles have changed significantly over the years
- ▶Skin texture improvements across dozens of players in the database
- ▶Tattoo additions for players who have added ink since the game originally shipped in 2016
- ▶Expression mapping adjustments that make players look less like mannequins during replays and cutscenes
The result is genuinely noticeable. Load up a match with a team that has been updated and the difference between the modded version and the base game is obvious within about thirty seconds. Players look like actual people instead of vaguely shaped approximations.
Why Is PES 2017 Still Worth Modding in 2026?
Fair question. The game is almost ten years old.
The honest answer is that PES 2017 on PC is one of the best football simulations ever made for what it costs to run it. Zero subscription fees. Works on hardware that modern football games would refuse to even attempt to run. Runs at a stable frame rate on machines that should have no business running anything made after 2012. And the gameplay itself — the ball physics, the physical dribbling, the actual football intelligence of the AI — holds up in a way that very few sports games from that era manage.
Modern football games have gotten more expensive and, in a lot of ways, worse for single-player enthusiasts. If you do not want to spend money on card packs and you just want to manage a club through seasons, play matches that feel like real football, and have the game respect your time — PES 2017 is still the answer in 2026.
"Modding is what keeps it current. Facepacks, option files, kit patches, stadium mods — the community builds a new layer on top of the game every single season."
How to Install the PES 2017 Facepack 2026
Take this slowly. The installation process is not complicated, but the order of steps matters and most failed installs come from people rushing through it.
Get the facepack file from the download link on this page. Wait for the download to finish completely before doing anything else. A partially downloaded CPK file will crash PES 2017 on startup and give you no useful error message about why.
If the download came as a ZIP or RAR archive, extract it using WinRAR or 7-Zip. Do not rename the CPK files — the filenames matter.
Navigate to where PES 2017 is installed. For most people this is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\KONAMI\Pro Evolution Soccer 2017\
Inside the PES 2017 root directory, look for a subfolder called download — all lowercase, no spaces. If it does not exist, create it: right-click inside the PES 2017 folder, select New, then Folder, and name it download exactly as written.
Move every facepack CPK file directly into that download folder. Not into a subfolder inside it — directly at the top level. DpFileList Generator will not see anything buried deeper.
If you do not have DpFileList Generator, search for it on any PES modding site — it is free and small. Open it and point it at your PES 2017 download folder. It will scan and show you all the CPK files currently sitting in there.
Your facepack CPK needs to sit above any other face-related CPK files already in the list. PES 2017 loads mods from top to bottom and stops at the first match — if an older facepack is higher in the priority order, the new one never loads. Drag your 2026 facepack CPK to the top of the list.
Click Save in DpFileList Generator. This writes an updated DpFileList.bin file into your download folder. If you do not save, nothing you just did will have any effect.
Launch PES 2017. Go into a match or into the player edit section and check a player you know was updated. If the face looks different from the default — more detailed, more accurate — the install worked. If it looks the same, go back through steps 5 through 8.
When Things Go Wrong
Load order issue. Open DpFileList Generator, move your 2026 facepack CPK above everything else in the list, save, restart PES.
Corrupted download. Delete the CPK from your download folder, download it again completely fresh — not resumed — and reinstall.
The pack covers specific players only — this is normal. Most facepacks target a curated list rather than the entire database. Check the pack description for the full list of included players.
The file is in the wrong location. Confirm it is directly inside the download folder and not inside any subfolder. Also confirm the generator is pointed at the correct PES 2017 root directory.
Face mods add texture data that sits in VRAM. Lower in-game graphics settings — specifically texture quality and shadow resolution — to compensate if you are on integrated graphics or an older GPU.
Pichatz Official does not host, distribute, or link to any copyrighted base game files or original executables. All facepack modification files referenced in this guide are independently created works by members of the PES modding community, shared for personal, educational, and entertainment purposes only. This site carries no affiliation with KONAMI or any official rights holders connected to Pro Evolution Soccer 2017. Users are responsible for owning a legitimate licensed copy of PES 2017 before applying any modifications.
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