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 475,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.
- 480,827
- 2025.00 - Released on 29 Oct 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
Mike Coll
Done all that and hasnt worked since i moved it to where you suggested - the folder i shown you has a few things within it.
I downloaded via steam and have a HP laptop rather than a Mac if that helps or provides you with information thats useful too!
mons
Let's continue this discussion via PM - I have a proposal
MarcekYNWA
mons
If you can give us a bit more detail, maybe I can manage to understand your problem and help you solve it, or forward you to a place where you can get help with your issue.
Secondly, I have uploaded 8.06 to sendspace, as per your earlier request.
MarcekYNWA
After downloading this update. https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-data-update Ben Arfa as a free player. No face. With this is a problem. Updates face 8.06 already downloaded. Previously, everything was ok. The game is original, zero problems, and here such surprise. Ben Arfa free transfer, without a face. I do not know what this could go.
mons
As I've already shown you, Ben Arfa's face has not been changed with this file for around a year now. Therefore, the issue is nothing to do with this megapack but somehow with the data update. I would suggest that you ask in that forum for a solution.
Also, can you confirm that your megapack folders are located anywhere within Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager / graphics please? If they're anywhere else, then you may have issues.
MarcekYNWA
Do you have me for an idiot? Yes they are in the right place in the Football Manager sit for a few good years. Everything was ok until upload this update (which is great, but it has this tiny defect)
mons
Great way of showing your appreciation for somebody who's trying to help you
I only ask because of this conversation earlier this week in which a user mentioned that he had been placing his graphics in the installation folder instead of the Documents folder. I thought your's may have been a similar case.
If you have a problem with the update file, then please post in that forum. It's got nothing to do with this pack, I'm afraid.
MarcekYNWA
I did a clean install. Upgrade from you. (From this forum, the presence of which I gave), it faces the MEGAPACK. And still the same. Where do I write this comment? For how to say you are not an admin?
mons
I may be a staff member but I mostly take care of this forum (and the real name fix), so I can't really help on any data update issues as I'm not involved in that aspect and I honestly wouldn't know what to do.
A quick search on the forums led me to this thread. Perhaps you can ask there if anybody has had a similar issue and, if yes, perhaps they can tell you how to solve it.
Sir William
mons
Hmmm, that's a very good spot - I hadn't thought about it. If you download and apply the real name fix, it removes this issue, which is a licensing matter. This fix is save-game compatible.
FAO @MarcekYNWA
MarcekYNWA
I'll know if anything has changed after installing the fix.
mons
I've moved everything to this thread to keep everything in the right thread
isthatyoujoebob
I have downloaded all the update packs however I am unsure as to where to put them ?
Please can anyone help?
Cheers
mons
Place the images into the main megapack folder. If you are doing it right, you should be prompted to replace/overwrite images; which you say yes to.
You should have one folder and one folder only, with all the images in it, and no sub-folders.
isthatyoujoebob
Thanks
RafinhaMikinha
C:\Users\xxxxx\OneDrive\Documentos\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2016\graphics
I´ve always manage to get all the ad-ons to work on my old laptop, but now the faces don't appear, the logos and kits are fine.
Any ideia why is this happening?
mons
How many images in total do you have in your megapack folder? Which download method did you use? Can you please upload a screenshot of the folder?
RafinhaMikinha
In the screenshot the folders are out of OneDrive, I've relocated but it still doesn't work (now not only the faces but logos and kits too). Previously they were located in OneDrive as I said.
This are the same exact folders I used on my old laptop, and the same location.
mons
Bit in bold is what's wrong. Whichever download method you used, you should have substantially more than that. If you just downloaded the 8.0 torrent, then you should have well over 160,000 images.
Additionally, you should place the contents of update packs within the megapack folder. If you do it right, you should be prompted to confirm the overwriting of x amount of images - to which you say yes/OK. Basically, you need to have one folder and one folder only with all the images in it.
Looks like you'll have to re-download the torrent file, I'm afraid...
RafinhaMikinha
Ok, I'll see if that works.
Thanks for the help.
Tomaz Ordovic
I've downloaded part 1 of the cut-out faces megapack, but now can't access the links to all the other parts, only the updates. Where can I find the links again? Have I missed something obvious?
Thanks.
Svila
xCOLLZYx
mons
Svila
mons
Pantoflas
Thanks in advance!