diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 24d9295..bc53fc9 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2293,6 +2293,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "eframe",
  "egui",
  "openfut-common",
+ "parking_lot",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "tokio",
diff --git a/openfut-common/src/lib.rs b/openfut-common/src/lib.rs
index 71eaeca..45db714 100644
--- a/openfut-common/src/lib.rs
+++ b/openfut-common/src/lib.rs
@@ -53,6 +53,17 @@ pub mod default_ports {
     pub const BLAZE_REDIRECTOR: u16 = 42127;
     /// OpenFUT FIFA 17 Blaze main listener.
     pub const BLAZE_MAIN: u16 = 42130;
+    /// OpenFUT FUT web-file (CDN) content server. Unlike the others this is not
+    /// an EA redirect target: the client never dials it directly, because its
+    /// `RS4::ServerSettings` CDN base arrives EMPTY in the emulator. The hook
+    /// supplies the missing `<base>/fut/` prefix, and the base is built from the
+    /// configured server host plus this port.
+    ///
+    /// 8085 is the POW content server (`pow_server.py`, kind "content"), which is
+    /// the port Blaze already advertises to the client as its content host and
+    /// which serves `/fut/packs/loc/storepackdescriptions.en_us.xml`. Verified
+    /// live: that path returns 200 with a 180-byte XLIFF document.
+    pub const FUT_CONTENT: u16 = 8085;
 }
 
 /// OpenFUT destination ports. Each field is where an intercepted EA source port
@@ -66,6 +77,9 @@ pub struct OpenFutPorts {
     pub blaze_redirector: u16,
     /// Destination for EA :42127 traffic (Blaze main).
     pub blaze_main: u16,
+    /// FUT web-file content server. Not a redirect destination — see
+    /// [`default_ports::FUT_CONTENT`].
+    pub fut_content: u16,
 }
 
 impl Default for OpenFutPorts {
@@ -74,6 +88,7 @@ impl Default for OpenFutPorts {
             https: default_ports::HTTPS,
             blaze_redirector: default_ports::BLAZE_REDIRECTOR,
             blaze_main: default_ports::BLAZE_MAIN,
+            fut_content: default_ports::FUT_CONTENT,
         }
     }
 }
@@ -244,6 +259,7 @@ impl ServerConfig {
                 "https_port" => ports.https = parse_port(value)?,
                 "blaze_redirector_port" => ports.blaze_redirector = parse_port(value)?,
                 "blaze_main_port" => ports.blaze_main = parse_port(value)?,
+                "fut_content_port" => ports.fut_content = parse_port(value)?,
                 other => {
                     return Err(ConfigError::MalformedConfig(format!(
                         "line {}: unknown key '{other}'",
@@ -260,8 +276,27 @@ impl ServerConfig {
     /// Serialize to the structured `openfut.cfg` format.
     pub fn to_cfg_string(&self) -> String {
         format!(
-            "host={}\nhttps_port={}\nblaze_redirector_port={}\nblaze_main_port={}\n",
-            self.host, self.ports.https, self.ports.blaze_redirector, self.ports.blaze_main
+            "host={}\nhttps_port={}\nblaze_redirector_port={}\nblaze_main_port={}\nfut_content_port={}\n",
+            self.host,
+            self.ports.https,
+            self.ports.blaze_redirector,
+            self.ports.blaze_main,
+            self.ports.fut_content
+        )
+    }
+
+    /// Base URL the FUT web-file (CDN) prefix is built from, e.g.
+    /// `http://10.10.0.120:8085/fut/`.
+    ///
+    /// The client's `RS4::ServerSettings` CDN base arrives EMPTY in the emulator,
+    /// so FUT web-file urls reach the download entry point as bare relative paths
+    /// and fail. The hook supplies this prefix. Built from the SAME configured
+    /// host as every other redirect, so a lab address is never compiled in.
+    pub fn fut_content_base(&self) -> String {
+        format!(
+            "http://{}:{}/fut/",
+            self.host.trim(),
+            self.ports.fut_content
         )
     }
 
@@ -449,12 +484,36 @@ mod tests {
                 https: 8443,
                 blaze_redirector: 10041,
                 blaze_main: 42127,
+                fut_content: 8085,
             },
         };
         let s = c.to_cfg_string();
         assert_eq!(ServerConfig::parse(&s).unwrap(), c);
     }
 
+    /// The FUT web-file prefix follows the CONFIGURED server, so no lab address
+    /// is ever compiled into the hook.
+    #[test]
+    fn fut_content_base_follows_the_configured_host() {
+        let c = ServerConfig::parse("host=192.168.1.50\n").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(c.fut_content_base(), "http://192.168.1.50:8085/fut/");
+
+        let c = ServerConfig::parse("host=fut.mylan.home\nfut_content_port=9110\n").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(c.fut_content_base(), "http://fut.mylan.home:9110/fut/");
+    }
+
+    /// A cfg written before `fut_content_port` existed must still parse, taking
+    /// the default rather than failing the whole config (which would disarm the
+    /// network redirect too).
+    #[test]
+    fn cfg_without_content_port_takes_the_default() {
+        let c = ServerConfig::parse(
+            "host=10.0.0.5\nhttps_port=8443\nblaze_redirector_port=42127\nblaze_main_port=42130\n",
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(c.ports.fut_content, default_ports::FUT_CONTENT);
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn configured_ipv4_becomes_correct_sockaddr() {
         // Resolve an IPv4 literal and confirm the sin_addr value.
diff --git a/openfut-hook/src/season_trace.rs b/openfut-hook/src/season_trace.rs
index 96c9536..9dd135c 100644
--- a/openfut-hook/src/season_trace.rs
+++ b/openfut-hook/src/season_trace.rs
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 //! (no rip-relative / rel32 in the copied bytes).
 
 use core::sync::atomic::{AtomicUsize, Ordering};
+use std::sync::OnceLock;
 
 use windows_sys::Win32::System::Diagnostics::Debug::FlushInstructionCache;
 use windows_sys::Win32::System::LibraryLoader::GetModuleHandleA;
@@ -388,6 +389,7 @@ unsafe extern "system" fn final_completion_wrapper(
             "SEASONS_LOAD_CALLBACK: final kind={kind} result={shown:?} flag={flag:?} ctx={ctx:#x} cbref={cbref:#x}\n"
         ));
     }
+
     let t = FINAL_COMPLETION_TRAMP.load(Ordering::Acquire);
     if t == 0 {
         return 0;
@@ -434,9 +436,30 @@ unsafe extern "system" fn stage1_completion_wrapper(
 }
 
 // WEBFILE_DL download start FUN_18017ff90(url, ctx): param_1 (rcx) is the C-string
-// URL of the pack-names/cards-tournament-list web file. Passive capture. Its
-// prologue has a rip-relative `MOV R8,[DAT_1802e6580]`, so it uses the relocating
-// installer (disp32 at copied offset 7, instruction end 11).
+// URL of the pack-names / cards-tournament-list web file. Its prologue has a
+// rip-relative `MOV R8,[DAT_1802e6580]`, so it uses the relocating installer
+// (disp32 at copied offset 7, instruction end 11).
+//
+// BASE-SUPPLY: the client's RS4::ServerSettings CDN base (DAT_1802e6408+0x30) is
+// EMPTY in the emulator — FUN_180124270 only sets it when the OSDK getter
+// slot0x3f8 is non-empty, and it has no default (unlike the API base). So every
+// FUT WEBFILE url arrives here as a BARE relative path and 999s (client
+// sentinel). We supply the missing intended `<CDN>/fut/` prefix so the REAL file
+// downloads and parses. This is a data-supply, NOT a success-forcing bypass;
+// absolute urls (containing "://", e.g. the "http://sbc/..." tile route) pass
+// through untouched.
+//
+// The prefix comes from `openfut.cfg` via `openfut-common`, the same single
+// source of truth as every redirect target, so no lab address is compiled in.
+// Unset (config missing/unusable) means NO rewrite: a url is left exactly as the
+// client built it rather than pointed at a guessed host.
+static FUT_CONTENT_BASE: OnceLock<String> = OnceLock::new();
+
+/// Arm the FUT web-file prefix from the resolved configuration. Idempotent: the
+/// first call wins.
+pub(crate) fn set_fut_content_base(base: String) {
+    let _ = FUT_CONTENT_BASE.set(base);
+}
 static URL_CAPTURE_TRAMP: AtomicUsize = AtomicUsize::new(0);
 unsafe extern "system" fn url_capture_wrapper(
     rcx: usize,
@@ -444,12 +467,31 @@ unsafe extern "system" fn url_capture_wrapper(
     r8: usize,
     r9: usize,
 ) -> usize {
+    let orig = rd_cstr(rcx, 256);
+    let mut arg_rcx = rcx;
+    // Owned buffer that stays alive across the original() call below. The caller
+    // frees its own url buffer immediately after FUN_18017ff90 returns, so the
+    // client copies the url synchronously during the call — a local buffer is
+    // sufficient and nothing is leaked.
+    let mut full: Vec<u8> = Vec::new();
+    if let Some(base) = FUT_CONTENT_BASE.get() {
+        if !orig.is_empty() && !orig.contains("://") {
+            full.extend_from_slice(base.as_bytes());
+            full.extend_from_slice(orig.trim_start_matches('/').as_bytes());
+            full.push(0); // NUL terminator for the C-string
+            arg_rcx = full.as_ptr() as usize;
+        }
+    }
     let n = REPORTS.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed);
     if n < 64 {
-        write_log(&format!(
-            "SEASONS_WEBFILE_URL: url={:?}\n",
-            rd_cstr(rcx, 256)
-        ));
+        if arg_rcx != rcx {
+            write_log(&format!(
+                "SEASONS_WEBFILE_URL: orig={orig:?} rewritten={:?}\n",
+                rd_cstr(arg_rcx, 256)
+            ));
+        } else {
+            write_log(&format!("SEASONS_WEBFILE_URL: url={orig:?} (unchanged)\n"));
+        }
     }
     let t = URL_CAPTURE_TRAMP.load(Ordering::Acquire);
     if t == 0 {
@@ -457,7 +499,9 @@ unsafe extern "system" fn url_capture_wrapper(
     }
     let original: unsafe extern "system" fn(usize, usize, usize, usize) -> usize =
         core::mem::transmute(t);
-    original(rcx, rdx, r8, r9)
+    let ret = original(arg_rcx, rdx, r8, r9);
+    drop(full); // ensure the url buffer outlives the download-start call
+    ret
 }
 
 unsafe fn worker() {
@@ -614,6 +658,46 @@ unsafe fn worker() {
 /// Arm the passive season-flow diagnostics on a deferred thread (CardsDLL is not
 /// yet loaded at DllMain time). Read-only: never changes game behavior.
 pub(crate) fn install() {
+    arm_fut_content_base();
     write_log("SEASON_TRACE: requested; deferred signature validation starting\n");
     std::thread::spawn(|| unsafe { worker() });
 }
+
+/// Resolve the FUT web-file prefix from `openfut.cfg` next to the game exe, via
+/// the shared `openfut-common` parser — the same single source of truth the
+/// network redirect uses, so the lab address is never compiled in.
+///
+/// Fails SAFE: an absent or unusable config arms nothing, and the url rewriter
+/// then leaves every url exactly as the client built it.
+fn arm_fut_content_base() {
+    let path = match std::env::current_exe()
+        .ok()
+        .and_then(|p| p.parent().map(|d| d.join("openfut.cfg")))
+    {
+        Some(p) => p,
+        None => {
+            write_log("SEASONS_WEBFILE_BASE: cannot locate openfut.cfg — no url rewrite\n");
+            return;
+        }
+    };
+    let contents = match std::fs::read_to_string(&path) {
+        Ok(c) => c,
+        Err(e) => {
+            write_log(&format!(
+                "SEASONS_WEBFILE_BASE: {} unreadable ({e}) — no url rewrite\n",
+                path.display()
+            ));
+            return;
+        }
+    };
+    match openfut_common::ServerConfig::parse(&contents) {
+        Ok(cfg) => {
+            let base = cfg.fut_content_base();
+            write_log(&format!("SEASONS_WEBFILE_BASE: armed {base}\n"));
+            set_fut_content_base(base);
+        }
+        Err(e) => write_log(&format!(
+            "SEASONS_WEBFILE_BASE: openfut.cfg unusable ({e}) — no url rewrite\n"
+        )),
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/config.rs b/src/config.rs
index 2587efd..158607b 100644
--- a/src/config.rs
+++ b/src/config.rs
@@ -325,6 +325,7 @@ impl LauncherConfig {
                 https: self.openfut_https_port,
                 blaze_redirector: self.openfut_blaze_redirector_port,
                 blaze_main: self.openfut_blaze_main_port,
+                fut_content: openfut_common::default_ports::FUT_CONTENT,
             },
         }
     }