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 just under 550,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.
- 548,701
- 2026.06 - Released on 10 May 2026
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. You need to use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract the downloaded file.
Contrary to previous versions of the game, there is no need to change any settings in the preferences in FM26.
2. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using a Mac OS?
*awaiting feedback from Mac users on this
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, applying the oldest first and continuing to apply update packs in the chronological order in which they were released.
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, applying the oldest first and continuing to apply update packs in the chronological order in which they were released.
Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. You need to use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract the downloaded file.
Contrary to previous versions of the game, there is no need to change any settings in the preferences in FM26.
Contrary to previous versions of the game, there is no need to change any settings in the preferences in FM26.
*awaiting feedback from Mac users on this
You need to copy and overwrite the faces and the new config file from the update pack into the faces 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.
Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. It might be for FM24, but the steps are exactly the same.
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.
Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. It might be for FM24, but the steps are exactly the same.
It's a known issue with FM26 - read this. We're assuming this issue will get resolved in upcoming official patches/updates.
The new players were added before FM26 was released and didn't have the right UID yet. We've started the process of mapping them to the correct person's UID.
When you have a blank space instead of a cut-out, it means there is a config file pointing to a folder in which an image with that UID is not present. This generally happens when an update pack is installed in a separate folder and not part of the overall faces folder, or there is a rogue config file somewhere. It could also be that you have somehow not downloaded the full megapack but only part of it. Search within the graphics folder for the UID of this person, and you will probably find the secondary image. Delete that folder, and it should be fine.
Otherwise, follow the steps in this comment and post the results so that we can assist you.
Otherwise, follow the steps in this comment and post the results so that we can assist you.
In line with guidance on the official SI forums, At present, FM26 cannot handle multiple files with the same name. For example, if you have two files with the name "kit.png", it will not load both. and Player Faces: These work fine. You do not need the icon files anymore, and they can cause issues with the note above. Delete them.
As a result, the iconfaces are no longer available for download because they're not needed. You should also delete the iconfaces folder manually from your system too 👍
As a result, the iconfaces are no longer available for download because they're not needed. You should also delete the iconfaces folder manually from your system too 👍
You need to change your user data location. Simple steps on how to do so can be found here.
It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.
It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.
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.
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.
Please report this so that they can be reuploaded. Since the files are hosted outside our pages, there isn't much we can do about this unfortunately. You could try downloading the pack via torrent and get it this way.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 any previously available cut-out faces 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).
To get them to show, you should individually download any previously available cut-out faces 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).
It's a licensing issue. Download this file (or the equivalent for your version of FM) to resolve it.
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mons
Moved this to here in case of further follow-up questions.
Once extracted, it would go into Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 2017 / graphics.
Greg Brooking
mons
Can I have a screenshot of your megapack folder and of how it looks in-game?
Do you have any other facepacks loaded perchance? Or did you download any others in the past? Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it may impact occasionally how the game reads them
Greg Brooking
Greg Brooking
mons
Apologies for the very late reply, I somehow did not see this.
I'm afraid you've placed them in completely the wrong folder; what you have shown me in the screenshot is the game installation folder, whereas the files must be installed in Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 2017.
All you need to do is cut your graphics folder from the path in the screenshot and place it in the above. Should do the trick
jcwolf
Its sad cause I have being using it for ever..but now I can not make it work..
Today downloaded the XML tool and still no go...
Tis FM its a pain in the ... to install graphic Mods ...
mons
Can I have a screenshot of your megapack folder? Do you have a config file?
I would recommend downloading the megapack via torrent, it's much quicker to download and install
Damian30
I recently made the mistake of deleting a graphics folder from my onedrive folder and lost all my graphics, even though I still had them in the correct FM17 graphics folder.......
I'm not sure why the onedrive folder mattered because I've never set it to be used, however now I cannot get my graphics to work properly. I've even put the folder back in onedrive!
I seem to have some graphics but the top divisions in each country seem to be mainly missing barring a couple of clubs.
I've tried deleting all my graphics, including faces, pictures and logos and it hasn't made any difference.
Any ideas please?
mons
Have you tried clearing the game cache from within the preferences?
jcwolf
Hi there thanks for the reply..yesterday tried the DF11 mega pack just to see if would happen the same thing and , yes it doesn't show as whell---
I do not understand this cause in other previous versions of FM I always used your Cutout Facepack and this is the first time I am having problems to install any Facepack...
mons
Can I have a screenshot inside your megapack folder please?
Also, what are those 2 .fmf files, and where did you get them from?
jcwolf
Those fmf files is the same packs that I have done with the Football Manager 2017 Resource Archiver...it turns the Folders into fmf files...
Its another try to see if it worked or not..but don't work as well...
Inside the pack either the cutout mega packs plus updates and the DF11 megapack plus updates there are just the png images plus XML file of the Df11 and from the cutout mega pack to sub folders one with faces and another with icons both with their respective XML file...
Believe me nothing is badly installed it just doesn't work on this version and I have no idea why...
Maybe its a windows 10 issue..don't know what is wrong..
mons
jcwolf
I add a screenshot attachment in my previous post ???!!!
mons
I want to look inside your cutout faces megapack folder. Can you give me a screenshot of that pls?
jcwolf
Give me 6 minutes ...I am unpacking the all thing again..cause I am using the DF11..but since none of the 2 work I will unpack The cutout again ...
Question do I have to download the all updates or just the 9 version and then the latest 9.05...cause this is what I have done...
jcwolf
Sorry about the double post..
What should be the graphic folder structure !
mons
You will need to have the 9.0 pack, then apply all 5 update packs in order, overwriting when prompting. At the end you should have all 182,000+ images (plus config file) in one folder, similar to what the DF11 folder looks like, basically.
Can you then try loading up the game then and giving me a screenshot of a player who doesn't have a cutout but which you think should have one? And also of the interface section of the preferences please.
Once the process is complete, apart from the screenshot inside the megapack folder, can I also have a screenshot of the main Documents / SI / FM2017 folder?
jcwolf
ok...I will have to download the other updates then..cause I didn't but the DF11 haves all updates and still doesn't work..
I will download every update and then will make the screens you want will post later when I have everything installed...
mons
Excellent
Once you have downloaded and applied all the files, and once you have loaded the game, and before taking the screenshots, can you also try clearing the cache from within the preference? That could also perhaps be the cause...
jcwolf
Ok...I have done again every step by the book...And still nothing..only this time I downloaded all the updates..but no go...here Ill attach the images files...
mons
All looks perfectly in place except for one thing.
In-game, there is an empty space where faces should be. If it was an issue with the megapack itself, the black default face would be displayed instead.
Since it's a blank space, this means that there is a "rogue" config file somewhere within the graphics or FM17 folder, which is forcing to game to look for images in a folder where there are no images. I cannot ask you to screenshot every folder in there, but do you think it would be possible to type config in the search field and screenshot the results?
Also, can you try swapping the in-game preferences shown below:
i.e. use caching ticked and reload skin unticked
jcwolf
Here ...divided the all config search result into 4 images ..
jcwolf
Damian30
Yep, done it every time i then try to rebuild the skin and no joy.
I have badges like Watford, Newcastle, Norwich but no others.
And facewise, I'm just left with the black face
mons
I'll be honest, I'm at a bit of a loss as everything seems to be in order. One last thing, can you search for config in this folder?
Looks like you only have the default logos and faces.
Could you (a) try changing your user data folder to point to the one on your system (instructions here) and (b) follow this advice.
jcwolf
This is the search result inside the docs FM folder...
mons
Nothing seems to be out of line there either. I'm at a complete loss. I know it's something straight-forward, but I just can't put my finger on it.
Check your PM's, I'll be sending you a possible way forward.
jcwolf
tried out the other solution you gave me in steam game FM properties and set the launch options to my user folder in the main drive ...but no go as whell...
I have tried so many things even reinstalled the game from scratch and still no go...
Ill check my email..periodical.. thanks for the hand on this...also been reading other people posts on various sites related to this issue and it seems that with this FM a lot of people are having the same issue...
The thing is that for example...I started installing the Metallic logos , and those didn't show as whell...so installed this facepack and this was the result no go..so I have installed TCM17 logos and they worked using the Football Manager 2017 Resource Archiver...with the kits the same....
but with the players face packs I just couldn't make any work ..
Do not know why..have no idea...since I never add this problem in prev FM versions..
Sad cause faces make a huge difference playing this game...