Cut-Out Player Faces Megapack

Our Cut-Out Faces Megapack is the biggest collection of Football Manager Player Faces available. All players are available in the default cut-out style. When you download our Cut-Out Faces Megapack, you'll receive just under 550,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.

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  • 2026.06 - Released on 10 May 2026
Cut-Out Player Faces Megapack

Installation Instructions

1. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using Steam on Windows?

Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. You need to use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract the downloaded file.

 

Contrary to previous versions of the game, there is no need to change any settings in the preferences in FM26.

 


2. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using a Mac OS?

*awaiting feedback from Mac users on this

 

Frequently Asked Questions

If you've never downloaded the pack before, you should just download the larger "complete pack".

If you're not a premium member, it is recommended that you download the base megapack via torrent by going to our cut-out megapack download page. After which, you should then download all the update packs released to date and apply them chronologically.

If you're a premium member, just download the most recent complete pack.

If you already have a version of our Cut-Out Faces Megapack installed, then click "Download Latest Changes" and you'll be presented with a list of all the updates we've released since you've last downloaded a file. Simply download any you might have missed, applying the oldest first and continuing to apply update packs in the chronological order in which they were released.
Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. You need to use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract the downloaded file.

Contrary to previous versions of the game, there is no need to change any settings in the preferences in FM26.
You need to copy and overwrite the faces and the new config file from the update pack into the faces folder.

If done correctly, you should be asked if you want to overwrite files – accept. You should have one folder for faces and another folder for iconfaces, and no sub-folder whatsoever in them.

These steps are to be repeated for every update pack downloaded, and they are to be installed chronologically.

Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. It might be for FM24, but the steps are exactly the same.
It's a known issue with FM26 - read this. We're assuming this issue will get resolved in upcoming official patches/updates.
The new players were added before FM26 was released and didn't have the right UID yet. We've started the process of mapping them to the correct person's UID.
When you have a blank space instead of a cut-out, it means there is a config file pointing to a folder in which an image with that UID is not present. This generally happens when an update pack is installed in a separate folder and not part of the overall faces folder, or there is a rogue config file somewhere. It could also be that you have somehow not downloaded the full megapack but only part of it. Search within the graphics folder for the UID of this person, and you will probably find the secondary image. Delete that folder, and it should be fine.

Otherwise, follow the steps in this comment and post the results so that we can assist you.
In line with guidance on the official SI forums, At present, FM26 cannot handle multiple files with the same name. For example, if you have two files with the name "kit.png", it will not load both. and Player Faces: These work fine. You do not need the icon files anymore, and they can cause issues with the note above. Delete them.

As a result, the iconfaces are no longer available for download because they're not needed. You should also delete the iconfaces folder manually from your system too 👍
You need to change your user data location. Simple steps on how to do so can be found here.

It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.
The torrent file includes the base megapack uploaded just before that year’s FM version is released. Any and all subsequent update packs are to be downloaded separately.
For those who have never used torrents, in the vast majority of cases, it's just a question of downloading the client program (a small file, less than 1MB) and then downloading the megapack torrent file (a tiny file, around 20k) and then letting the program do the job.

Torrent files need a torrent client to be downloaded. I personally use µTorrent but other common clients are BitTorrent, Vuze and Deluge. For those using torrents for the first time, here is a general walk-through on how to download torrents and a specific guide for µTorrent.

Be aware that it will take a substantial amount of time to download the file due to its sheer size and that other people depend on you hosting the file to get it so please leave your torrent client on after you have fully downloaded it. The etiquette is generally accepted to be to upload as much as you download, although this might not always be possible. The older the torrent file, the less likely it is that there will still be users seeding it.
Please report this so that they can be reuploaded. Since the files are hosted outside our pages, there isn't much we can do about this unfortunately. You could try downloading the pack via torrent and get it this way.
Extracting the file will take a while, but it shouldn't take the hours and hours that the program extracting will sometimes say it will. To speed it up, it is recommended that you have as few programs running as possible so that the system can dedicate as many resources to the extraction as it possibly can.

Secondly, for files as large as this, the calculation of the extraction time will be wildly incorrect at the start. After a while, it'll show a more realistic timeframe, which shouldn't be more than an hour or two if you have a good setup and few programs running at the same time.
You might have a poor internet connection or your browser might have some extensions which interrupt this download. Having loads of downloads ongoing and/or streaming may also de-prioritise this download.

Try using Google Chrome in incognito mode (or the equivalent mode for other browsers) and you should be able to resume the download from the point it was interrupted, if that happens.
The most recent update pack will include the most recent config file, so you can choose to download it and use it from there.

Alternatively, you can download fmXML and generate a config yourself. There's a video on YouTube on how to use it but it's really easy and the instructions are quite straight-forward.
Down the years, after an update pack was released, it was noted that some images included therein where of the wrong person, with a wrong extension or duplicated. Due to the way the download system is structured, these cannot be removed from the download, so there may well be a couple of hundred images’ worth of difference, depending on the version you download.
Our megapack covers 25,000 teams and it's impossible to cater for these kind of requests since players and staff get transferred or sacked or retire etc and recreating and reuploading 25,000 different smaller packs would be an impossible task. That's why we have all the images in a megapack so that everything is captured therein.
These persons do not appear in the default database for licensing reasons. This means that they only appear in your save-game because they were added via a custom file, generally the real name fix file. However, this means that their UID (which is what is used to map a person's image to the right individual) is different, and so the game cannot assign the image to them from your existing facepack.

To get them to show, you should individually download any previously available cut-out faces from here (or use the UID to find them in your existing facepack if you don't use the cut-out megapack), put them in a separate folder to your existing facepack and create a config file just for them using the method outlined in here (which works for all facepack styles, not just the cut-out megapack).
priest
14 years ago
2 years ago
4
Megapack 6.0 config file for mac is missing. is there someone how upload it for me please
Gabriel100699
12 years ago
9 years ago
3
Hi, is it possible to use the megapack in Football Manager 2008 ?
Thanks
mons
20 years ago
19 minutes ago
101,346
Hi, is it possible to use the megapack in Football Manager 2008 ?
Thanks

I don't see why not.
Gabriel100699
12 years ago
9 years ago
3
I don't see why not.


Because some faces not appear
mons
20 years ago
19 minutes ago
101,346
Now that you mention it, I seem to remember that FM08 couldn't handle folders with so large an amount of images in them. Try splitting the megapack into two folders and generate a config file for each with fmXML.
blackmetalboon
16 years ago
3 years ago
264
Now that you mention it, I seem to remember that FM08 couldn't handle folders with so large an amount of images in them. Try splitting the megapack into two folders and generate a config file for each with fmXML.


FM08 has a limit of either lines it can read in a config file or amount of files in a folder, I can't remember the exact number but its around 10,000-15,000 lines, so you would have to split it up into at least 15 parts.
Gabriel100699
12 years ago
9 years ago
3
Now that you mention it, I seem to remember that FM08 couldn't handle folders with so large an amount of images in them. Try splitting the megapack into two folders and generate a config file for each with fmXML.


FM08 has a limit of either lines it can read in a config file or amount of files in a folder, I can't remember the exact number but its around 10,000-15,000 lines, so you would have to split it up into at least 15 parts.


Thanks, I will test
Kytz
14 years ago
7 years ago
32
EDIT: NVM FIXED IT
Tatavo
14 years ago
2 weeks ago
2,746
Some help please. Recently downloaded some smaller face-packs and after restarting my comp today I loaded up my game, refreshed the skin and all my images (faces) were gone. They are still in the folder, and I have FMXML with a config file. Don't understand what's going on...
mons
20 years ago
19 minutes ago
101,346
Some help please. Recently downloaded some smaller face-packs and after restarting my comp today I loaded up my game, refreshed the skin and all my images (faces) were gone. They are still in the folder, and I have FMXML with a config file. Don't understand what's going on...

You should have one folder and one folder only with all the images in it. Can you upload a screenshot of your megapack folder please?
Tatavo
14 years ago
2 weeks ago
2,746
mons
20 years ago
19 minutes ago
101,346
Everything looks in order there, I have to say.

How many images in total do you have in your megapack folder?

Have you tried quitting the game, restarting your PC and reloading FM?
Tatavo
14 years ago
2 weeks ago
2,746
Total of 146,477 images.
mons
20 years ago
19 minutes ago
101,346
Have you tried reloading the game to see if they appeared?
Tatavo
14 years ago
2 weeks ago
2,746
Just restarted the comp, restarted FM and still no images.

http://oi59.tinypic.com/25k0sck.jpg
marrtac
18 years ago
11 hours ago
32,095
Do you have this two added to your config Andre Moreira GD Ribeiro and Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh? If so just delete them and reload the game.
Tatavo
14 years ago
2 weeks ago
2,746
Do you have this two added to your config Andre Moreira GD Ribeiro and Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh? If so just delete them and reload the game.

I'll try it but I don't understand how that will make any difference.

Would me loading the game with several leagues have anything to do with it? I have 31 leagues going from 22 nations.
mons
20 years ago
19 minutes ago
101,346
I'll try it but I don't understand how that will make any difference.

Would me loading the game with several leagues have anything to do with it? I have 31 leagues going from 22 nations.

That shouldn't make any difference at all.

Perhaps the accent in the Moreiro name or the | character messed up something in the config.
Tatavo
14 years ago
2 weeks ago
2,746
Seems like it just might have. It works now! Thanks guy, really appreciate you both taking the time to help.
marrtac
18 years ago
11 hours ago
32,095
When making a config with fmXML and the file is a name the line in config will look like for example <record from="mohammad reza khanzadeh" to="graphics/pictures/person/0/portrait"/> then I noticed recently for some reason FM14 wont read the config and no images in game.

If you are using files Andre Moreira GD Ribeiro and Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh as a cut out for anybody just rename it to ID
simonloschiavo
16 years ago
3 months ago
31
Can someone please post the last config.xml for megapack?thank you very much!
mons
20 years ago
19 minutes ago
101,346
Can't you generate one with fmXML?
simonloschiavo
16 years ago
3 months ago
31
Can't you generate one with fmXML?


Unfortunately i'm not able to generate it..i have problems because some face player that before was ok now does not work like like id 43153074..this id (yuri maleleo) two days ago worked but now does not works<!!!
mons
20 years ago
19 minutes ago
101,346
simonloschiavo
16 years ago
3 months ago
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thank you very much, you are the best!salut
GiantKiller
12 years ago
11 years ago
5
Hi,

Could you upload the config file for 6.08, mines gone awol and I don't really want to download the torrent again due to lack of bandwidth.

Many thanks

GK
mons
20 years ago
19 minutes ago
101,346
Hi,

Could you upload the config file for 6.08, mines gone awol and I don't really want to download the torrent again due to lack of bandwidth.

Many thanks

GK

You can either generate one yourself using fmXML or download it from the attachment in one of my more recent posts in the technical support thread...
GiantKiller
12 years ago
11 years ago
5
Cheers, I thought I posted this in the technical support thread. Obviously not
mons
20 years ago
19 minutes ago
101,346
You have - what are you on about?
Vladislav95
12 years ago
8 years ago
3
https://scontent-b-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/10497277_837303202949067_5504264793083863059_o.jpgI have some problem with very young players.I put their pictures in folder but in game there is no pictures on their profiles.

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