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.
- 482,917
- 2025.01 - Released on 04 Dec 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
It's impossible that this issue is related to anything you may have done in-game, such as buying or selling players etc. So the issue must be somehow related to how and where you installed the files. Can you give me a screenshot of your MP folder? Ideally showing clearly (a) the amount of images in it, (b) the folder structure and (c) the folder path, please, so I can assess accordingly.
wlade
Maybe the problem is that there is no .config file? I don't know how I am missing it :/
mons
The amount of images seems about good.
If there is no config file, no wonder the game cannot display the cuts - it's the file used to map the images to the correct player. De Ligt is probably in one of the teams licenced by SI, which is why he's displaying.
To get the config file, just download the latest update pack and put the config file in that folder you showed me. Should do the trick
wlade
yes it did, thanks a lot!
Matanka
mons
That's a bit strange, I know of no issues with Wenger or Arsenal. Do you have any other facepacks loaded? Have you changed the preferences as per the OP of this thread? And finally, what other people aren't showing?
Matanka
Managed to fix it now. Had some random images that did not appear. Like David Unsworth, Michael Mifsud and random managers.
mons
Can you tell me whether you did anything particular to fix it? So I can suggest it should others have the same issue as you...
Matanka
Create a new confiq file, cleared cache and reloaded the skin.
mons
mickbhoy
WorldEarl
Haven't tried it myself, but I have heard some buzz around Affinity Photo.
bradleydale7
Before I downloaded the 10.something mega pack I had older player faces but now I’ve deleted everything and downloaded the latest 9gb mega pack and nothing is showing up, I’ve cleared the cache and reloaded the skin a million time but only certain faces have appeared for example suso from milan is there but zlatan ibrahimovic isn’t
Please help!
Thanks!
mons
How many images do you have in your megapack faces folder? You should have 193,000+. Can I see a screenshot of your faces folder?
Also, have you changed your preferences as in the OP?
bradleydale7
It says that there’s only 41,218 😩 I’ve downloded the full pack 9.07 gb
Sorry I’m confused as to what you mean by changing the preferences
Thanks for the reply!
mons
You need to change your preferences like this:
You seem to have downloaded the full megapack but it's not extracted fully from the compressed file which you've downloaded. Try extracting the pack with Winrar so that you get the full pack's images
bradleydale7
Ah yes sorry, done the preference thing and got no joy,
I’m playing on a Mac and I’m struggling to find a version of Winrar that will work properly... any recommendations please?
Thanks!
mons
Fifth link from the bottom here: https://www.win-rar.com/download.html?&L=0
led wonsaz
Hi, this is my text in the user data folder:
--user_data_location="</Users/Zak/NO NAME/fm18>"
'NO NAME' is the name of my external. Does this seem right? I took screenshots but it seems I have to make a online account to upload and get URLs for them to post here.
Thanks.
mons
Clicking add attachment in the reply box allows you to upload attachments to this forum, as per the attached screenshot
Without screenshots, much as I would like to, my ability to help is somewhat limited. It's like asking a doctor to diagnose and illness via a telephone call
led wonsaz
Hopefully I've got everything, (note that on my first attempt last week I deleted the two additional files in the sortitoutsi folder that appears after extraction, but as it didnt work I have left them there this time around, don't know if this has any effect).
mons
Can I see inside your faces folder as well? You should have 190,000+ images in a single folder, plus the config.xml file.
Also, remind me, what is your exact issue? Are all images not showing or just part of them?
Swedie
Example; when searching for 1780 (team id) the player Daniel Mushitu won't show, but clicking the name shows that he was added in 10.02.
@Rob
led wonsaz
My issue is that no faces are showing up in game.
Inside the kits and logos folders I actually see lots of little images of various kits/logos (and these are successfully applied in game), whereas when I open both the faces and iconfaces folders located in the sortitoutsi folder it is just white/blank as if there is nothing in there. I just presumed this was because there is so many items as when I have nothing but the 'sortitoutsi' folder on my external, a large amount of space is used so the data is in there somewhere?
Thanks
mons
There's only so much I can do without screenshots. Can you please give me screenshots of inside your faces folder as well? What is the size of that particular folder?
The large amount of data could be taken up by the logos and kits only, they could take up easily 4-5GB.
led wonsaz
My bad, I had always opened the folder then exited pretty quickly, it was only when I had the folder open whilst taking pic did I realise there was some time for the loading of the pics inside, so here are the screenshots of inside the faces/iconfaces folders.
The faces folder is 9.77GB for 193,848 items, whereas the iconfaces folder is 286.8MB for the same no. of items.
mons
Can you download and install the 10.02 update pack as that will bring you completely up-to-date?
Also, have you changed your preferences to look like this?
laboratory
I am having the exact same problem on a Mac (I can test it on Windows later today).
I have never had a problem with adding graphics (going back to 2009), but when I downloaded 10.02, trashed the contents of the "faces" folder I had been successfully using, unarchived the rar, and made the correct selections in the interface preferences to reload the skin, I don't get any of the faces. the size of each folder and the number of files from 10.02 seems to be correct and there is an config.xml file present.
mons
laboratory
I had already tried the three default skins, without any change.
The faces that came with the game (and game-generate faces) are still present, as are all of the logos, kits (2D and 3D), trophies and backgrounds I have been using...
I am currently starting a new save and using a different tool to unarchive the rar.