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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ClemCK13
I need help to "cut out player faces".
I downloaded the Cut Out Player Faces Megapack "complete pack" but I can not extract the archive since it seems imcomplète and I can not get the downloaded again.
mons
What is the total size of the file? Which version are you downloading? What program are you using to extract the pack? Why can you not download it again?
ClemCK13
5,4gb and the version is 5.2 my program is win zip or win rar. It's ok to download again, it's just that the speed is slower than the first.
kieran davies
I am really losing my mind with these facepacks. As I was unable to get a fix to my problem outlined with you I proceeded to try to download the 5.02 version. Considering the size of these files it takes the best part of 7 hours to download so when I return to laptop in morning to find numerous errors from winzip telling me the file may be corrupt and to try downloading again then 7zip saying it cannot open as an archive. When the downloading takes so long it is not viable to keep downloading.
What is wrong with these megapacks?
ClemCK13
I have the same problem as you. I hope we can have a solution.
mons
kieran davies
Susie,
As previously explained, this applies to both megapacks now, with 7Zip it gets to 25% extraction and seems to get stuck on readme file but will not progress. As it is stuck you can only close it. With WinZip or WinRar it starts extraction and finally comes up with a diagnostic message saying the file is corrupt and to redownload. I have now downloaded the newest megapack version twice. The same happens both times.
Im fairly competent on the PC as I work in IT and have tried troubleshooting ie changing config file, trying to re-extract skipping existing files so it should in essence pick up from 25% but still doesnt progress so am looking for specific possible fixes to this please.
Thanks
Kieran
Rowan
It is highly likely that the winRAR extraction worked, but threw up an erroneous error message. This has been a reported problem.
It makes no difference to the pack, so some questions:
1) What is the total size of the zipped pack after download (hopefully you used a download manager to ensure a smooth download)
2) After extraction using winRAR how many images do you have inside the unziped Megapack folder? And do you have a config file in there?
joe finnigan
Rowan
Are you using winRAR? Also what is the filesize of the zipped up file that you have downloaded?
Meguel
NesaStrah
mons
I've asked our site owner Rob to check the answer to your query.
You can create a config file with fmXML yourself too.
mons
I'm told it's fine to download it now
stemanders
Meguel
Thanks.
mons
How many images do you have in all?
lostintravise
EDIT: Also, every one of the newgens on the game are bald! hahah, I do not know what happened.. :/
EDIT *FIXED*: So, I somehow fixed the problem. I am not sure what was wrong because I fixed so many things, but I'll list what I did just in case anyone else runs into the problem I was having. I verified the games local content (via steam), changed the unarchiving program that I use (I am on a mac, changed from UnrarX to the Unarchiver), deleted the steklo skin from my computer.. and a couple of other things that I do not think would have influenced. Not really sure what happened.. all well.
Thanks for this great pack, everyone who is involved! Love the support that is received with this pack.
stemanders
there is 8039 items in the folder.
mons
Then it's nowhere near being the full pack, which has over 120,000 images. Which download method did you use?
stemanders
oh right. i downloaded the megapack from one of the free sites. i will become a premium member and re download.
DarkXess
the Megapack 5.0 (torrent file) do I also need to download the Megapack 4.0 also? or the 5.0
pack has everything I need from the 4.0 pack too?
Thanks
mons
5.0 will be enough, also remember to download any update packs released since then
stemanders
mons
Do you still have the file on your computer? Try re-extracting it with winrar. It might give some error messages, but the whole file will still extract nonetheless.
stemanders
Brilliant. Ive done that and its worked. Thanks for the help.
DarkXess
Thanks alot mate
gwentdragoon
mons
Download time depend on your internet speed and which file download method you use so that's not for us to judge. The file size is displayed before downloading it.
Try downloading the file using a download manager so that the download doesn't get interrupted or corrupted in any way.
pk45
I've downloaded from this website compete pack 5.2 and I can't get it uznipped - windows says file's bad, so I used 7zip - file was opened, but for every graphic file I get message "file compression method is not supported" and file's not extracted. I am using 9.20 WinZip on Windows 7 64 bit - what's wrong? I downloaded second time but story's the same again.
Thanks for any comments