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 over 480,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.
- 482,917
- 2025.01 - Released on 04 Dec 2024
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. Although it is for an older version of FM, the steps are still the same. You need to use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract the downloaded file.
This is what the MP folder should look like for the respective version of FM you're using:
Anything beyond the blue line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.
The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.
Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).
Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked
After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.
Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
2. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using a Mac OS?
From FM20 onwards, there's been a substantial change to how Mac FM documents are stored. Previously the files would automatically go in the Documents folder here:
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x
Now the files will instead appear in the following location:
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x
By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:
Open Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 202x -> graphics’ (create the last folder if necessary
Anything beyond this path line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.
The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.
Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).
Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked
After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.
Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
3. I don’t want to have the megapack in the default user data folder – can I place it elsewhere and how would I do so?
You need to change your user data location. Simple steps on how to do so can be found here.
The above step does not apply if you’re playing on Gamepass, in which case the user data location has to be the default one (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)
It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.
4. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using Gamepass?
If you're using Gamepass, then you have to use the default user data folder - point 4 above does not and can not apply to you.
Frequently Asked Questions
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, starting with the oldest.
This is what the MP folder should look like:
The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.
Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).
Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked
After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.
Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x
Now the files will instead appear in the following location:
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x
By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:
Open Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 202x’
Anything beyond the blue line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.
The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.
Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).
Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked
After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.
Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
The above step does not apply if you’re playing on Gamepass, in which case the user data location has to be the default one (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)
It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.
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.
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.
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.
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 likelihood is that you've put the iconfaces in the faces folder, or used the wrong config file for each folder. As a result, the smaller images (in 25x18) are being upscaled to be displayed in the person's profile, hence the blurring. Re-install the update pack again, making sure you put the contents of each folder in the right place.
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.
To get them to show, you should individually download the cut-out faces that you want 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).
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mons
Good to see it's all been sorted
jamiejumpgaming
I've had the megapack for around a week and it has been working smoothly. However, in one save the faces have stopped appearing in the team that i am managing. This for me wouldn't be a problem but because i am producing content for my Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUfrcS5-O1vrTHLNui5yUiA i want to try and solve it before it effects any of my youtube saves
mons
Did you add or remove any other graphical add-ons (not necessarily faces) since you last saw these faces?
Also, in total, how many images do you have in your megapack folder?
Thomas Ford
mons
I suspect you only downloaded the 7.05 update pack rather than the whole 7.05 megapack. You should have over 158,000 images in your megapack folder, can you confirm whether this is the case or not?
ThomasW
mons
All you now need to do is to follow the same steps with the main megapack files and you should be fine
mwhitehorn07
mons
I'll have a word with the site administrator and get back to you. Have you tried downloading it again in the meantime?
mwhitehorn07
gio10
mons
There doesn't seem much wrong in the first two screenshots, though...
gio10
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/a1kcky5bhd2s6vc/AADFCHR_wvBBrmSL62iFuhrIa?dl=0
mons
Can you confirm if there is a config.xml file within the megapack folder?
gio10
I have installed steam on C: and the FM2015 on D: (2 partitions/same DISC)
hardworkinghonduran
Thanks, Craig
mons
1. Open the main megapack folder.
2. Extract the update packs to individual folders on the Desktop (or anywhere you like really)
3. Move the images (not the whole folder) from update pack 7.01 into the main megapack folder.
4. Accept overwrite when prompted.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 with update packs 7.02 to 7.06.
At the end you should have all the 159,000+ images in one folder. The main megapack folder should contain no sub-folders.
hardworkinghonduran
batiron
Thank you
mons
I definitely remember tuodi8shi releasing a number of quite large Chinese mixpacks so to say there's almost no faces available is a bit of an exaggeration I suspect. I also recall a number of Hong Kong releases in the past, as well as the usual individual cut-outs produced in the missing and improvement threads.
However, there's "only" 159,000 images in this megapack out of a total of over half a million persons in the FM database so there will inevitably be gaps, especially in countries which are not used very frequently by FM players where gaps may not be as noticeable. In some cases, cuttable sources for players within the FM database will also prove frustratingly hard to find.
If you come across some workable sources, then by all means please post them in the individual or teampack threads respectively according to the thread's rules
batiron
Any where I can download these 3 leagues? Just the top division is fine..Thank you.
mons
To add to your query today, the deal with the megapack is that you get all the images in the megapack. It's already hard enough keeping up with all the images being produced, so you can imagine the work involved in separating the megapack by country or division. Add to that the continual moving around of players and staff between club, nations and divisions, promotions and relegations, retirements, new additions etc. and that should give you an idea of the scale of the task involved in categorising the megapack in any way, shape or form.
So basically, you should just download the whole megapack and you'll be able to enjoy everything
I'll leave this here for a day or two and then move any subsequent communication to the technical support thread
batiron
Lando84
I'm having a strange problem with the pic of Van Persie. I'm in 2016 and he got released from Man U, so I scouted him and in my inbox there is the scouting report with Van Persies pic. However, when I select Van Persies profile the pic disappears, and it is the usual black "picture". His pic then won't appear again, unless I either restart the game or reload the skin. Really strange one, as I also never had any issues with the cut out megapack at all.
mons
I think that is because he is currently in the Dutch national team. If you view a player from within the French or Dutch national team rather than his club (or if he is in the national squad but unattached), then his image will not be displayed. This is due to licensing reasons.
Download this file to solve the problem
mons
It looks like you have a wrong impression as to where the icon faces appear. As far as I am aware, this is the only place you can see them:
batiron
Thank you bro, I ll post it to the technical support thread next time, sorry for the inconvenience!
Lando84
mons
Daniel Fitton