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).
tmillsy98
11 years ago
11 years ago
8
I suspect you haven't extracted the downloaded files as the teams you mention are licensed in FM and therefore already have player faces out of the box. As explained earlier, you should use winrar (or an equivalent) to extract the compressed megapack files.

Can you please post a screenshot of your megapack folder so I can see the layout and perhaps spot what's wrong? You should have 150,000+ images in it...


https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/Q4GdgZ5vjLdLztQmTfRNmoHYV04n9lYmOT2uz4d9.png
mons
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
Hello Sortitoutsi.

I just paid for a year subscription to download many of your great graphics. However, to my big disappointment, I have troubles downloading them. The metallic logo pack "completes" at anything from 10 MB to 50 MB, even though the RAR file is 4 GB. The cutout megapack is now going at the speed of 0 KB per second having downloaded 2.7 GB out of 6.9 GB.

Please help :-)

As you may appreciate, we have no control over your internet speed or provider, so if it's a problem at their end, then there's not much we can do Is download speed and consistency for other larger files from elsewhere also slow? Try restarting your modem and/or router - that may help.

If you think it's clearly an issue from our servers, then please post in this forum so that Rob, our site admin, can check from things our end




As I suspected, the files have not been extracted yet. It's a bit like buying something from the shop, not opening the packaging and wondering why they don't work The good news for you is that at least the hard part is done, however. Just download winrar and double-click on the file ending part01. I believe the files are linked and that opening the first file will extract ALL the remaining files. Then have a look at the OP and follow the instructions on how to place them in the correct folder for the game to read them and how to amend your FM preferences to make the game display the images.

Same goes for the icons pack.

As an aside, I am also the creator of the Real Names Fix file, which is shown in your screenshot, and you also need to read the installation instructions and follow them carefully, as it won't work like that, either.

Hope I have answered your query...
tmillsy98
11 years ago
11 years ago
8
As you may appreciate, we have no control over your internet speed or provider, so if it's a problem at their end, then there's not much we can do Is download speed and consistency for other larger files from elsewhere also slow? Try restarting your modem and/or router - that may help.

If you think it's clearly an issue from our servers, then please post in this forum so that Rob, our site admin, can check from things our end

As I suspected, the files have not been extracted yet. It's a bit like buying something from the shop, not opening the packaging and wondering why they don't work The good news for you is that at least the hard part is done, however. Just download winrar and double-click on the file ending part01. I believe the files are linked and that opening the first file will extract ALL the remaining files. Then have a look at the OP and follow the instructions on how to place them in the correct folder for the game to read them and how to amend your FM preferences to make the game display the images.

Same goes for the icons pack.

As an aside, I am also the creator of the Real Names Fix file, which is shown in your screenshot, and you also need to read the installation instructions and follow them carefully, as it won't work like that, either.

Hope I have answered your query...


I'm sorry for being so incompetent. I'm usually very good with computers, but where can I download 'Winrar' from? Lots of different things appear when I type it on Google. I've downloaded some things that say 'Winrar' but they're different. Could you link a site to download it from?
mons
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
I'm sorry for being so incompetent. I'm usually very good with computers, but where can I download 'Winrar' from? Lots of different things appear when I type it on Google. I've downloaded some things that say 'Winrar' but they're different. Could you link a site to download it from?


Nothing to apologise for my fried.

Try this page...
JasonLFC10
15 years ago
1 day ago
2,887
Premium
Is it possible to upload the facepack without losing the graphics within the game already?

Started a game on FM15 as Luton but don't want to lose all the under 18s faces that are in the game by adding the facepack which they aren't currently included in.
mons
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
Is it possible to upload the facepack without losing the graphics within the game already?

Started a game on FM15 as Luton but don't want to lose all the under 18s faces that are in the game by adding the facepack which they aren't currently included in.

In cases, such as this, where SI have included images of players which are not in our megapack, these should be displayed in your game anyway.
Canceltodebug
13 years ago
11 years ago
2
Hoping someone could help. I can't seem to get any additional graphics to load in game.
I've linked to my folder structure and image of my preferences in FM2015. Any help would be appreciated.

http://i57.tinypic.com/x4omj6.png
http://i57.tinypic.com/24ln0cg.png

edit - Just after posting I've found that there are 2 FM2015 folders. 1 within *username* and the other in *Public*. I'm in the process of moving my image data into Public and will see if that works.

edit 2 - All working now. For anyone else having a problem with images, first make sure the folder is in the Public Documents, not your user documents.
acarloscc
18 years ago
1 year ago
45
151.571 pics. is this correct? (i dowloaded the torrent file)
Canceltodebug
13 years ago
11 years ago
2
151.571 pics. is this correct? (i dowloaded the torrent file)


minus the xml and document files
acarloscc
18 years ago
1 year ago
45
thanks mate.
i was in doubt because of this:

Latest Release:
7.00 - 22 Oct 14
Image Count:
151782
mons
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
thanks mate.
i was in doubt because of this:

Latest Release:
7.00 - 22 Oct 14
Image Count:
151782

Some of those images have been deleted from the config file and from the torrent download, due to them being mistakes, duplicates etc. So you're good to go
tmillsy98
11 years ago
11 years ago
8
Nothing to apologise for my fried.

Try this page...


This is what downloads when I download Winrar.

http://imgur.com/gallery/SFXNmvl/new

I mean, the files are opened with WinZip, which is surely a similar service. Can I do something from there?
mons
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
mackie2424
13 years ago
11 minutes ago
416
Maleven
12 years ago
8 years ago
29
Hi,

I transferred my save over to my new laptop, and also transferred over the face pack, and put it into the graphics folder etc., and ticked the correct boxes in the preferences menu, but the faces aren't there.

Can anyone help?
mons
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
Hi,

I transferred my save over to my new laptop, and also transferred over the face pack, and put it into the graphics folder etc., and ticked the correct boxes in the preferences menu, but the faces aren't there.

Can anyone help?

Can we have a screenshot of your megapack folder please?
Maleven
12 years ago
8 years ago
29
Hi,

I transferred my save over to my new laptop, and also transferred over the face pack, and put it into the graphics folder etc., and ticked the correct boxes in the preferences menu, but the faces aren't there.

Can anyone help?
mons
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
Is there an echo in here?
Maleven
12 years ago
8 years ago
29
Hahaha sorry, no, just an blundering idiot who posted his comment twice.

I'll try to get a screenshot now, hang on.

Ta
Maleven
12 years ago
8 years ago
29
Okay, I'm now bewildered. I checked the folder, and the actual images aren't there, and that's because they're not there on Dropbox on this machine, even though they're there on Dropbox on the other machine? Any chance anyone could shed any light on why that might be? The folder is there, but it says it empty. Again, this is despite the files appearing there in Dropbox where they are on the original machine.

Just to clarify something if this can't be resolved: if I repeat the download process for the Facepack and logo packs etc. on the new machine, will they work in the existing save?
mons
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
Okay, I'm now bewildered. I checked the folder, and the actual images aren't there, and that's because they're not there on Dropbox on this machine, even though they're there on Dropbox on the other machine? Any chance anyone could shed any light on why that might be? The folder is there, but it says it empty. Again, this is despite the files appearing there in Dropbox where they are on the original machine.

Just to clarify something if this can't be resolved: if I repeat the download process for the Facepack and logo packs etc. on the new machine, will they work in the existing save?

I'm not the best person to ask regarding Dropbox issues tbh, so I can't really help there.

But all graphics, including this megapack, will work even if applied after starting a new save-game
Maleven
12 years ago
8 years ago
29
I'm not the best person to ask regarding Dropbox issues tbh, so I can't really help there.

But all graphics, including this megapack, will work even if applied after starting a new save-game


Excellent, thanks. Sod Dropbox, I'll just repeat the process from scratch the new machine. I've got time to kill, haha.
tompb9
14 years ago
3 months ago
1
Is there anyway to get hold of the config file for Megapack 7? I have a Mac and FMXML does not work on it. Thanks
rasll2
13 years ago
4 years ago
1
hi when im extracting the file from winrar it say i cant do it and the file is broken some how?
mons
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
hi when im extracting the file from winrar it say i cant do it and the file is broken some how?

How large is the file you downloaded? It's possibly an interrupted download and you'd have to download it again...
aandersenlive
15 years ago
10 years ago
16
Hi

I would like to keep the original pictures of the players whose pictures already exist in the game before installing the megapack.

How can I get those pictures back after installing the megapack?


Thanks,

Best regards
Jesper
mons
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
Hi

I would like to keep the original pictures of the players whose pictures already exist in the game before installing the megapack.

How can I get those pictures back after installing the megapack?


Thanks,

Best regards
Jesper

Follow the steps described in this thread.
aandersenlive
15 years ago
10 years ago
16
Thank you, mons!
aandersenlive
15 years ago
10 years ago
16
I'm not able to get access to that Resource archiver Rowan uses nor download a program to open pak. files.
The FM 15 devtools resource is a pak. file.

Are there any help for a computer idiot like me?

Anything is appreciated
mons
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
Why can you not get the Resource Archiver? It's a free tool with FM15, you just need to download it separately from Steam...

The file you're looking for is in fmf format not pak - no idea what devtools is either, especially in this context.

To be honest, I really don't understand why one should go to such lengths to get this season's images. If it's just for 3/4 pixels' worth of this season's kits, then that point is moot as soon as the game starts since players can easily move clubs in the game world, thus losing the relevance of that point. If there is a particularly old image, it'd be much easier to point it out or find a newer source to include in the megapack in the future.

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