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 450,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.

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  • 2024.06 - Released on 17 Mar 2024
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. 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'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, starting with the oldest.
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:
https://i.imgur.com/85lGeDc.png

The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:

https://i.imgur.com/jbZkFfw.png

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.
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’

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:
https://i.imgur.com/jbZkFfw.png

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.
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.
If you're using Gamepass, then you have to use the default user data folder (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)
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.
You need to copy and overwrite the faces and the new config file from the update pack into the faces folder and follow the same procedure for the iconfaces 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.
Please report this so that they can be reuploaded.
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.
This download has two folders: one is the faces folder which contains the cut-outs which should be displayed on this screen. There is also a file titled config.xml which tells the game which images to assign to which person. The other folder is the iconfaces folder which contains the smaller images displayed near a person's name on the menu which comes up when you right-click on them, and also includes a different config file for this folder.

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.
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 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).
starspangledbanner
8 years ago
8 years ago
4
C:\Users\vaio\Downloads\rebuilt.sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_8.00.rar: Checksum error in sortitoutsi\faces\1903107.png. The file is corrupt
C:\Users\vaio\Downloads\rebuilt.sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_8.00.rar: Unexpected end of archive

What are these? Can't seem to find a way around it. :/
starspangledbanner
8 years ago
8 years ago
4
C:\Users\vaio\Downloads\rebuilt.sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_8.00.rar: Checksum error in sortitoutsi\faces\1903107.png. The file is corrupt
C:\Users\vaio\Downloads\rebuilt.sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_8.00.rar: Unexpected end of archive

What are these? Can't seem to find a way around it. :/


I've managed to get the pack into the right folder, C:\Users\vaio\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2016\graphics\faces... I've got 138,003 items in the folder which sounds about right but in the game i've got loads of players faces missing. Debouchy and Mertesacker, Alexis Sanchez and Welbeck all missing from Arsenal, the first team I checked. What have I done wrong? :/
mons
17 years ago
5 hours ago
85,497
I've managed to get the pack into the right folder, C:\Users\vaio\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2016\graphics\faces... I've got 138,003 items in the folder which sounds about right but in the game i've got loads of players faces missing. Debouchy and Mertesacker, Alexis Sanchez and Welbeck all missing from Arsenal, the first team I checked. What have I done wrong? :/

There should be over 163,000 images in your megapack folder and so there are a number of missing images. It looks to be like the download was truncated part-way, according to the error message you posted. I would suggest that you try downloading it again...
Jamie Frankland
9 years ago
7 years ago
1
Hi,

I downloaded all the updates yesterday for FM16. I have done the correct procedure in moving the MP to the correct folder. I have cleared cached in the game, ticked the correct reload in the game.

Also cleared cache in the c drive and still not all graphics appear.

Kits and logos work perfectly.

Help please!!!
ipswichjon
15 years ago
1 week ago
1
Hi,

I downloaded all the updates yesterday for FM16. I have done the correct procedure in moving the MP to the correct folder. I have cleared cached in the game, ticked the correct reload in the game.

Also cleared cache in the c drive and still not all graphics appear.

Kits and logos work perfectly.

Help please!!!

Same i badges d logos work but all the faces have gone now
starspangledbanner
8 years ago
8 years ago
4
There should be over 163,000 images in your megapack folder and so there are a number of missing images. It looks to be like the download was truncated part-way, according to the error message you posted. I would suggest that you try downloading it again...


Just tried unzipping the Stadium Backgrounds download and WinRAR punched up the same errors. Something wrong with my program it seems. Any suggestions?
richacarle
13 years ago
4 months ago
4
Premium
How do i unzip the file on a mac?

Just got a macbook and won't let me use this file after downloading it. Had no trouble last year when doing it on a pc. Am i being stupid??
mons
17 years ago
5 hours ago
85,497
How do i unzip the file on a mac?

Just got a macbook and won't let me use this file after downloading it. Had no trouble last year when doing it on a pc. Am i being stupid??

I'm not a Mac user so can't really offer any specific help. However, can you try extracting the file with the Mac version of winrar instead of iZip - that may be the issue. Also, are you sure that the file downloaded fully?
ClarkyQPR
17 years ago
6 years ago
6
Any one out there who can tell me what I am doing wrong please?

I have downloaded some faces etc, saved them in the appropriate folder, then clear the cache to get the "new" faces working within the game.

However, there are now some faces that I didn't download that were working fine, but now that are missing, for example Charlie Austin, he is not the only one there are quite a few.

What am I doing wrong?

Cheers
Cube
16 years ago
1 week ago
83
Could be the face-pack interfering, reinstall another face-pack to see if the problems persists.

Face-pack install guide:

''Put files from archive into “Graphics” subfolder of your Football Manager data folder. Here is the path you need for that:

My Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2016/Graphics/faces

If you don’t see Graphics subfolder, just create it manually.
Go to FM 2016 Preferences –> Interface.
Untick “Use caching to decrease page loading times” setting.
Enable “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” setting.''
Mike Coll
9 years ago
23 hours ago
55
Premium
Is anyone else having a problem for FM16 downloading the megapack and not all the faces are showing? I get a select few work it seems?
mons
17 years ago
5 hours ago
85,497
Is anyone else having a problem for FM16 downloading the megapack and not all the faces are showing? I get a select few work it seems?

Looks like you're not managing to download the full megapack. How many images does your megapack folder contain please?
Mike Coll
9 years ago
23 hours ago
55
Premium
Looks like you're not managing to download the full megapack. How many images does your megapack folder contain please?


Couldnt tell you now im afraid, i deleted the whole folder and download.

Re-downloading the content now, how many images should it contain so I know it downloaded ok?
mons
17 years ago
5 hours ago
85,497
Couldnt tell you now im afraid, i deleted the whole folder and download.

Re-downloading the content now, how many images should it contain so I know it downloaded ok?

Over 163,000.
wicksyFM
15 years ago
2 months ago
71
Premium
any idea why france national team players dont show. only ones that do are arsenal players. im managing arsenal. all france international players are in the pack
mons
17 years ago
5 hours ago
85,497
any idea why france national team players dont show. only ones that do are arsenal players. im managing arsenal. all france international players are in the pack

This is a licensing issue and has nothing to do with this file per se. Download this file to fix this.
emildebski85
15 years ago
2 years ago
128
What it going on?!

I have now waited 2-3 times X 1 -2 hours in order to downlload the newest version of the cut-out facepack, just to learn it stop downloading after 4.2GB the first time, 1.2GB the second and 6.8GB the third?!?!

"Unknown network error"?!?!

What is going on?
charjamol
15 years ago
1 year ago
2
I don't have enough space on my laptop. Is there anyway I can download only some of the faces
Outlaw King
15 years ago
7 hours ago
342
Premium
Unsure where this query should go but I've used the Resource Archiver to extract existing facepacks. All good except the one of rangers isn't there in Scotland (yet they are definitely one of the standard ones)....can anyone point me in the right direction please?
wicksyFM
15 years ago
2 months ago
71
Premium
This is a licensing issue and has nothing to do with this file per se. Download this file to fix this.


i already have that installed. the french players faces from the facepack have suddenly gone. they was there. pressed continue. then they was gone. all faces are in the graphics folder and the config is set up right.
AnnieRuOK
12 years ago
1 year ago
2
I only want to have Turkish league faces. is it possible to seprate them by range of the photos ? for exp. "photo number ID 800-1800 is turkish league" , can we say this ?
PhilLFC85
10 years ago
1 year ago
41
I cant seem to find show unique ids in fm 16 preferences anyone point me in the right direction, i have about 80 names but no ids, going to give it a go myself got names and images but cant find id setting
Deano1903
17 years ago
2 weeks ago
1,598
Premium
I cant seem to find show unique ids in fm 16 preferences anyone point me in the right direction, i have about 80 names but no ids, going to give it a go myself got names and images but cant find id setting


Or you could use the editor?
PhilLFC85
10 years ago
1 year ago
41
finding the players in the game as and when they show up and then having to search the editor was my last resort im doing this while im in work so im writing them down thought it would be alot easier to have it in front of me straight away
mons
17 years ago
5 hours ago
85,497
i already have that installed. the french players faces from the facepack have suddenly gone. they was there. pressed continue. then they was gone. all faces are in the graphics folder and the config is set up right.

After the beta was patched, the above file needs to also go into the 1601 directory...
mons
17 years ago
5 hours ago
85,497
I only want to have Turkish league faces. is it possible to seprate them by range of the photos ? for exp. "photo number ID 800-1800 is turkish league" , can we say this ?

I'm afraid not. There isn't any way of sorting out the megapack in any way, be it league, country or nationality...
IrishOwen
8 years ago
8 years ago
4
Banned
I only want to have Turkish league faces. is it possible to seprate them by range of the photos ? for exp. "photo number ID 800-1800 is turkish league" , can we say this ?

Not much detail but if you want league only faces, then you can't. Well, you probably could but they will be out of date. Nobody does that anymore it's mainly megapacks with lots of leagues.
fontanslb
11 years ago
9 months ago
4
Premium
Not sure if this has been answered yet so bear with me.
Whenever I try to open or extract the fully downloaded megapack I get the message saying "Can not open file 'C:/Users/set up/Desktop/sortioutsi_cutout_megapack_8.01.rar' as archive "
I have downloaded, deleted and re-downloaded the file 3 times and each time this has happened.
Has anyone experienced similar problems and if so is there a way around it?
The Logo Megapacks worked a treat but the faces I'm having real trouble with
First time in about 4 FM's I can't yet get the faces!
mons
17 years ago
5 hours ago
85,497
Not sure if this has been answered yet so bear with me.
Whenever I try to open or extract the fully downloaded megapack I get the message saying "Can not open file 'C:/Users/set up/Desktop/sortioutsi_cutout_megapack_8.01.rar' as archive "
I have downloaded, deleted and re-downloaded the file 3 times and each time this has happened.
Has anyone experienced similar problems and if so is there a way around it?
The Logo Megapacks worked a treat but the faces I'm having real trouble with
First time in about 4 FM's I can't yet get the faces!

How large is the file you are managing to download?
fontanslb
11 years ago
9 months ago
4
Premium
How large is the file you are managing to download?

7.47GB is what it shows when I right click the ZIP folder (The full file is 7.48 right?)
Obviously not downloading fully, something wrong with my downlod or laptop in that case. It's certainly not a lack of diskspace...
I shall try downloading it again after clearing up some more diskspace running a mini clean, see if it solves it

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