Forty-eight national squads, names drawn from every alphabet in use, and a tournament where a wrong caption travels further than anything else you file all year. SnapCaption builds any national squad in about a minute with names already folded to clean ASCII, for Photo Mechanic and GalleryID Desktop.
Free. No account required to build and download a file.
Every sport breaks a roster file in its own way. These are the ones that bite in FIFA World Cup 26.
A World Cup field carries spellings that break in a caption field and arrive at the desk garbled. Exported names are folded to US-ASCII so what you see is what ships.
A national side is not written the way a club is. Long-form caption strings are built for the national-team convention rather than club phrasing.
A group stage puts you in front of squads you have no familiarity with, on back-to-back days. Pulling a squad takes the same minute regardless of how well you know it.
The export is not locked to one program. The same FIFA World Cup 26 roster file loads into Photo Mechanic and into GalleryID Desktop, with identical shortcodes either way.
Edit > Settings > Set Code Replacements > Load, then pick the file. The shortcodes are live in the caption fields immediately.
Code Replacement is the name Camera Bits, Inc. gives the feature in Photo Mechanic's own documentation, which is why this file is often called a code replacement roster file.
Attach the same file as a roster and the identical shortcodes expand while you caption. Nothing about the export changes.
GalleryID Desktop goes further than shortcodes — it identifies athletes by facial recognition and writes the names into the photo, so there is no code to type at all. See GalleryID Desktop
The h is the prefix you assigned the first side, 10 the shirt number. Both squads go in one file with separate prefixes, which matters in a tournament where you shoot two unfamiliar teams in a day.
You choose the columns. The export is a tab-separated file, so anything that reads a tab-delimited roster can use it.
48 teams, kept current from in-season sources. Pick any two and build one file for the whole game.
In Photo Mechanic, go to Edit > Settings > Set Code Replacements, click Load, and select the file. GalleryID Desktop attaches the same file as a roster with no change to the export.
All 48 national team squads in the tournament are available, listed on this page.
Names are folded to US-ASCII on export so they survive Photo Mechanic and the wires intact rather than arriving as replacement characters.
Yes. Give each side its own prefix and export once, which is worth doing when you are covering several matches in a short window.
Pick your teams, set your codes, download the file. Free, and no account required.
Open the roster builder