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 480,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.

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  • 2025.01 - Released on 04 Dec 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).
alex dagnan
7 years ago
2 years ago
17
@alex dagnan, I have no idea what your last screenshot is, or what you're doing, but I'm pretty sure you haven't installed the file correctly. Have you used winrar or a similar program to extract the file you've downloaded? How large is it?

What's inside the untitled folders btw?

I will still need screenshots of the other 2 things too


one of the untitled folders is for kits
untitled 2 is for the faces...

alex dagnan
7 years ago
2 years ago
17
one of the untitled folders is for kits
untitled 2 is for the faces...
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,499
one of the untitled folders is for kits
untitled 2 is for the faces...

Have you used winrar or a similar program to extract the file you've downloaded? How large is it?
alex dagnan
7 years ago
2 years ago
17
Have you used winrar or a similar program to extract the file you've downloaded? How large is it?


The file was 8.4GB, downloaded fine it's just getting in to work..
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,499
The file was 8.4GB, downloaded fine it's just getting in to work..

Have you extracted it with winrar or a similar program?
alex dagnan
7 years ago
2 years ago
17
Have you extracted it with winrar or a similar program?


ZipRar?
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,499

Can I look inside the megapack folder?
alex dagnan
7 years ago
2 years ago
17
Can I look inside the megapack folder?


Yeah one second,, I can see all the images of places faces when I open it up it's just when I use the interface it doesn't seem to work.. however had no issues with kits logos etc
alex dagnan
7 years ago
2 years ago
17
Yeah one second,, I can see all the images of places faces when I open it up it's just when I use the interface it doesn't seem to work.. however had no issues with kits logos etc
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,499

Looks to me like you don't have the full megapack. If you downloaded the latest version of the MP, you should have over 185,000 images.
alex dagnan
7 years ago
2 years ago
17
Looks to me like you don't have the full megapack. If you downloaded the latest version of the MP, you should have over 185,000 images.


I did download that one.. I'm sure there all there?
alex dagnan
7 years ago
2 years ago
17
I did download that one.. I'm sure there all there?


does that.. then just freezes
alex dagnan
7 years ago
2 years ago
17
does that.. then just freezes


thats the download.. (top right corner)
alex dagnan
7 years ago
2 years ago
17
thats the download.. (top right corner)


Hello?
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,499
I did download that one.. I'm sure there all there?

Not according to the screenshot you sent me. If the images are sorted by alphabetical/numerical order, then you should have many, many more images in that range, like the attached screenshot of my MP folder. You only seem to have a small portion of them.

I saw a 9.08 update rar file somewhere. I suspect you need to (a) remove this folder and (b) extract this rar file.
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,499

This is a forum, not an instant chat, so please be patient.

Can you download winrar (use Google) and use it to extract the file?
alex dagnan
7 years ago
2 years ago
17
Not according to the screenshot you sent me. If the images are sorted by alphabetical/numerical order, then you should have many, many more images in that range, like the attached screenshot of my MP folder. You only seem to have a small portion of them.

I saw a 9.08 update rar file somewhere. I suspect you need to (a) remove this folder and (b) extract this rar file.


Yes that's the one I was doing the Rar file?
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,499
Yes that's the one I was doing the Rar file?

Like I said, download winrar and use it to extract the file you've downloaded. After you do, make sure you put it in the graphics folder.
Gravyb0y
16 years ago
1 week ago
9
I've paid for premium today, downloaded the fixes, and went to download 2 different face megapacks. Each time once the download is complete I am receiving the message 'Failed - Network error' and there is no data available. I am not running anything other than Google Chrome, tried re-DL but to no avail.

Help. Please.
KunAguero16
12 years ago
4 years ago
5
I've downloaded the complete face pack (8.69GB) I've started to extract it on 7Zip to the specified folder "Documents » Sports Interactive » Football Manager » Graphics".

However as I was in the process of doing so, this message pops up:

"Unexpected end of data"
"Warnings: There are some data after the end of the payload data"

http://imgur.com/a/Ho0DV

Any idea what that may be?

Thanks.
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,499
I've paid for premium today, downloaded the fixes, and went to download 2 different face megapacks. Each time once the download is complete I am receiving the message 'Failed - Network error' and there is no data available. I am not running anything other than Google Chrome, tried re-DL but to no avail.

Help. Please.

Can you check in your Downloads folder (or wherever your downloads are placed) to see what is the size of the file downloaded? I suspect that the file download is being stopped half-way through and that you are not downloading the whole file. If you use Google Chrome as your browser, you should be able to resume the file download.



I've downloaded the complete face pack (8.69GB) I've started to extract it on 7Zip to the specified folder "Documents » Sports Interactive » Football Manager » Graphics".

However as I was in the process of doing so, this message pops up:

"Unexpected end of data"
"Warnings: There are some data after the end of the payload data"

http://imgur.com/a/Ho0DV

Any idea what that may be?

Thanks.

Hmm, can you try using Winrar to extract the file?
KunAguero16
12 years ago
4 years ago
5
Hmm, can you try using Winrar to extract the file?


I tried with Winrar and this has just come up:

http://imgur.com/a/ehDug
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,499
I tried with Winrar and this has just come up:

http://imgur.com/a/ehDug

Hmm, looks like the file download was interrupted or corrupted in some way. Can I have a screenshot of the file you've downloaded? And also of the folder that you've managed to extract so far?
KunAguero16
12 years ago
4 years ago
5
Hmm, looks like the file download was interrupted or corrupted in some way. Can I have a screenshot of the file you've downloaded? And also of the folder that you've managed to extract so far?


Sure.

File I downloaded;

http://imgur.com/a/hfdBt

Folder with extractions;

http://imgur.com/a/TqgEU

Let me know if you need anything else. Thanks.
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,499
Sure.

File I downloaded;

http://imgur.com/a/hfdBt

Folder with extractions;

http://imgur.com/a/TqgEU

Let me know if you need anything else. Thanks.

Thanks for those. Can I see the properties of the file you've downloaded (right-click properties from the folder it's downloaded in) and also of the megapack folder?

This will help me see whether the files were fully downloaded and extracted.
KunAguero16
12 years ago
4 years ago
5
Thanks for those. Can I see the properties of the file you've downloaded (right-click properties from the folder it's downloaded in) and also of the megapack folder?

This will help me see whether the files were fully downloaded and extracted.


I may have got the wrong ones here, not too sure.

http://imgur.com/a/fGjXD

http://imgur.com/a/tzuwM
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,499

No, those are exactly what I was looking for

As you can see in the first screenshot, the file you have downloaded is not the whole megapack. It is 7.86GB whereas 9.0 is 8.69 GB. In fact, the second screenshot shows that the MP folder contains "only" 171,686 files whereas the full pack should have 185k+ images. I'm afraid you're going to have to download the MP again, or else live with the missing 13k+ images - up to you...
KunAguero16
12 years ago
4 years ago
5
No, those are exactly what I was looking for

As you can see in the first screenshot, the file you have downloaded is not the whole megapack. It is 7.86GB whereas 9.0 is 8.69 GB. In fact, the second screenshot shows that the MP folder contains "only" 171,686 files whereas the full pack should have 185k+ images. I'm afraid you're going to have to download the MP again, or else live with the missing 13k+ images - up to you...


Will download it again, thanks for the help.
Gravyb0y
16 years ago
1 week ago
9
Can you check in your Downloads folder (or wherever your downloads are placed) to see what is the size of the file downloaded? I suspect that the file download is being stopped half-way through and that you are not downloading the whole file. If you use Google Chrome as your browser, you should be able to resume the file download.


It shows up in m DL file as 'unconfirmed 616227.crdownload' with a file size of 9,108,207KB

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