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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stevotrueblue
stevotrueblue
I then checked Barcelona tho and not one of their youth players have pics either ,, and yet all the first team pics are updates. Its almost as if its not showing youth team players only. Before I give up and scrub everything is there an option somewhere to not display youth pics or something that could be a simple fix before I resort to starting again from scratch. I assume players in the Rangers and Barca youth are supposed to be there,,esp if I had some of them before?
stevotrueblue
mons
Downloading the 9.0 torrent pack will hopefully help you out. These are the Barcelona and Rangers squads in FM17. There are some small gaps, but you should broadly have everything there
jujigatame
jujigatame
Everything looks fantastic as usual!!
kimkaarlsson
I downloaded the megapack a couple of days ago, and it worked fine. But yesterday - not so much. I only got to the loadingpage at startup, so after a while i tried to remove all of my graphics - and that worked. So i started to import graphics one at a time, and every logo and kit worked fine - but as soon as I imported the megapack it stopped.
While in-game, I got stuck on the loading-message and if i restarted the game, I got stuck on the loadingpage.
I deleted the whole file and downloaded it again, extracting it as I'm writing, so I don't know if its still a problem. But just wanted to know if you've encounterd this problem before?
mons
The huge size of the file means that it will unavoidably increase the startup loading time, especially if you have an older and/or slower PC. I had an older PC which took me some 5-7 minutes to load the game up, for example.
One way round it is for you to be patient and wait for the game to load up the first time you add the megapack. You would then go into the preferences and TICK the use skin cache button. This will mean the game takes a snapshot of your graphics folder (amongst other things) and would use it to load the game the next time round, rather than having to load the whole folder every time FM is loaded. It'll still take a little while, but should not be anywhere as long.
Just keep in mind, however, that you will then need to untick it, load your skin, then tick it again, every time that you add, edit or remove entries from your graphics folder.
Hope I've managed to explain what I mean...
explosivewinger
I downloaded this cut out player faces megapack since last year, I downloaded from torrent since version 8.0 and then I always update regularly from version 8.01 to the latest version for FM 2017, version 9.01, and before I start a new save, I want to make sure, how many total files in this Megapack?
So this is the number of files in my documents folder, faces folder contains 177.020 files and iconfaces folder contains 177.243 files, is that amount of files already correct? or I missed some player faces in the facesfolder? I think there is something wrong here, because the number of files between those two folders did not show the same number.
Thank you in advance.
mons
Over the years, a number of images were either assigned incorrectly, duplicated or deleted from the main folder and the main megapack was amended accordingly. This shouldn't affect your game at all so just don't worry about it
Zeo
please forgive my noobish question here.
Last year I skipped FM16 so I have no downloads from that. I just purchased FM17 and upon downloading the cutout megapack 9.00 + 9.01 changes I only have around the 131.000 images and not the 177.000 as said to be in it.
What am I overlooking here? Do I need to also download another pack of some sort?
thank you in advance for your help.
mons
What download method did you use to get 9.0? How large was the file and how many images did that contain?
Zeo
Hello Mons, thanks for wanting to help here.
I downloaded the files all separately which took me close to a full day.
sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_9.00.part01.rar until sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_9.00.part19.rar
All these files together were: 7,80 GB
And then I also downloaded the sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_9.01_changes.rar
This file was: 54,4 MB
I did get an error here and there when extracting the rar's saying that some of the images in the .rar were broken.
Apart from the links in here I wasn't able to find another download location unfortunately.
thanks for your help Mons
mons
The whole megapack is around 8.3GB and it looks like you're not getting it all somehow.
I suggest you download the torrent file which contains the whole 9.0 megapack. To find it, scroll down this screen until you come to the torrent tabs and download the 9.0 version. To be fully up-to-date, you would still have to download the 9.01 update pack separately as a single file download.
Emre Dicle
mons
To find it, scroll down this screen until you come to the torrent tabs and download the 9.0 version. To be fully up-to-date, you would still have to download the 9.01 update pack separately as a single file download.
Craig Tallentire
Tried to download it twice but it is checking wrong.
mons
Do you mean cutout with the UID 8? You can download it from here
Craig Tallentire
https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/style/1/cut-out-player-faces
mons
I'm not understanding you, sorry. What do you mean number 8?
Craig Tallentire
sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_9.00.part08
is giving errors.
mons
Ah, I see. Can you not try to download it via torrent, as per the first post on this page?
Craig Tallentire
Is there another source for 8 only?
Also for others might be worth it to fix it down the line.
mons
Not as far as I know, I'm afraid, as it's hosted by an external server over which we have little control.
What do you mean by the torrent not being the easiest to find? It's a 1-click download...
Zeo
Thank you Mons, I am downloading the torrent now and hopefully it will be the full thing.
(torrent is on the facepack download page, if you scroll to the bottom you see a button which says torrents)
Zeo
Thanks Mons! The torrent was complete and the file seems to be the full one.
mons
Excellent, just remember to download the 9.01 update pack to be completely up-to-date
Zeo
Works like a charm, and i will be coming back to check for the pack updates.
Time to start my adventure with Vitoria Setubal
mons
While we're on the subject of recommendations, may I also suggest that you download the licenses fix as well?
Zeo
Thank you for the tip and I actually already have everything else set up from the license fix to the logopacks and brighter footballs.
Only thing I've been waiting for years is multiple monitor support. I cant believe why it has been added yet because a game like FM will benefit immensely from it. Unless it now is supported and I'm missing something.
Thinking about switching to a 21:9 monitor to at least be able to have more information screens open in FM.