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 450,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.

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  • 2024.06 - Released on 17 Mar 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).
mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
@Rob, any idea on how to get round this issue pls?
Ashley Tromans
8 years ago
3 months ago
4
Tried it again on a new download and still with the same issue...

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/vvskeHk2HOmdCxaOgyAMFmiajMQDjgVvrMoUS39T.png
this is my exact problem aswell it keeps on saying download forbidden
TanFive82
8 years ago
10 months ago
3
Not allowing me to install the file.. everytime it says network error. someone help.
HansMaulwurf
6 years ago
1 year ago
2
this is my exact problem aswell it keeps on saying download forbidden


I have the same issue with the "Cut Out Player Faces Megapack".
Tried it with different computers, in different networks and different browsers.
Download breaks up, with no chance to continue.
Swedie
12 years ago
8 hours ago
5,597
Premium
I have the same issue with the "Cut Out Player Faces Megapack".
Tried it with different computers, in different networks and different browsers.
Download breaks up, with no chance to continue.
Just tried downloading the full pack myself. No problem what so ever, using Chrome.
Footygamer
17 years ago
2 days ago
75,258
Can you try again? It should come from a different url now.

Can you also tell me the exact file size it failed at? You said around 85% but I need the actual size
HansMaulwurf
6 years ago
1 year ago
2
Now it works for me.
Thanks for the fast support.
Ashley Tromans
8 years ago
3 months ago
4
It now works fine for me thank you for your help
nimster1980
6 years ago
3 years ago
7
Can you try again? It should come from a different url now.

Can you also tell me the exact file size it failed at? You said around 85% but I need the actual size


Fixed! Thanks very much for your help.
Malarko156
5 years ago
5 years ago
2
Hello,

I´m missing a lot of japanese players faces of J1 League, especially young talents.

Who can help me!?
mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
Hello,

I´m missing a lot of japanese players faces of J1 League, especially young talents.

Who can help me!?

Due to licensing reasons, there are no players at Japanese clubs in the FM database. Any players you may have in your game will have been added by a user-made editor data file which you have downloaded. The player UIDs (used to map cutouts to the correct player) are therefore not fixed like they are in the default database but depending on the combination of editor data files the user has in place. For this reason, this pack has never (knowingly) included players not in the official FM database.
Zac Bell
5 years ago
5 years ago
1
Hi All, i tried to downlaod player faces after payng 10 pounds but t keeps saying failed?? any ideas? so disappointed
mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
Hi All, i tried to downlaod player faces after payng 10 pounds but t keeps saying failed?? any ideas? so disappointed

Moved this to the right place.

Can you take a screenshot of the error message you're seeing?
Seizaburou
17 years ago
4 months ago
1
Premium
Do I need to download 10.1 ... 10.6 to update my megapack 10.0 ?
Or i just need to download the latest one?
mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
Do I need to download 10.1 ... 10.6 to update my megapack 10.0 ?
Or i just need to download the latest one?

If you have downloaded 10.0, you then need to download all the update packs released since then, and apply them in chronological order
Yobbo
14 years ago
4 months ago
3
Premium
Hi, tried 3 times today to download the facepack, with extremely slow download speeds (between 2KBs to 50KBs) with it eventually stopping for the 3rd time at 1.4GB downloaded so far.
It wont let me resume, saying "server unreachable".
I'm using Google Chrome if that helps at all.
Any ideas?
mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
Hi, tried 3 times today to download the facepack, with extremely slow download speeds (between 2KBs to 50KBs) with it eventually stopping for the 3rd time at 1.4GB downloaded so far.
It wont let me resume, saying "server unreachable".
I'm using Google Chrome if that helps at all.
Any ideas?

I'm tagging @Rob, the site owner and administrator who'll be in a better position to assist.

He's Down Under so it may be a wee while till he replies if he's already tucked himself in

Edit: Just noticed you appear to be from that neck of the woods as well
Yobbo
14 years ago
4 months ago
3
Premium
I'm tagging @Rob, the site owner and administrator who'll be in a better position to assist.

He's Down Under so it may be a wee while till he replies if he's already tucked himself in

Edit: Just noticed you appear to be from that neck of the woods as well

Yep, it's only 10:15pm, plenty of daylight left
shizer12
5 years ago
5 years ago
1
Banned
Good luck in downloading all the updates with that speed, lmao. I better have black faces than wasting time to download this shite
mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
So shite you felt the need to create a new account and hide your user name for trolling purposes
ReDHaWk27
13 years ago
2 years ago
89
id: 601709 not seem in game
https://resmim.net/f/QuWGFJ.jpg
mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
id: 601709 not seem in game
https://resmim.net/f/QuWGFJ.jpg

For some reason, looks like it was taken out of the megapack at some point Will be included again in the 10.07 update pack
Yobbo
14 years ago
4 months ago
3
Premium
I'm tagging @Rob, the site owner and administrator who'll be in a better position to assist.

He's Down Under so it may be a wee while till he replies if he's already tucked himself in

Edit: Just noticed you appear to be from that neck of the woods as well

Any update? Still going at a snails pace....
Footygamer
17 years ago
2 days ago
75,258
Hi, tried 3 times today to download the facepack, with extremely slow download speeds (between 2KBs to 50KBs) with it eventually stopping for the 3rd time at 1.4GB downloaded so far.
It wont let me resume, saying "server unreachable".
I'm using Google Chrome if that helps at all.
Any ideas?

That's very unusual have you tried with another browser?
Calan10
8 years ago
1 month ago
245
Very dumb question here, but how do I install the updates?? Do I need to overwrite the repeated files and then save both of the config.xml files?? I have always installed the complete megapack from torrent, but it is my first time installing the little update packs
SniperScoutHD
8 years ago
1 week ago
369
Very dumb question here, but how do I install the updates?? Do I need to overwrite the repeated files and then save both of the config.xml files?? I have always installed the complete megapack from torrent, but it is my first time installing the little update packs
Exactly, but use FM Graphics Configurator.
mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
Exactly, but use FM Graphics Configurator.

This is not really necessary. All @Carlos Garza needs to do is place the files in each update pack (i.e. the cutouts AND the config file) in the megapack folder, accepting the overwrite when prompted. Repeat for each update pack and you should be up-to-date.
Calan10
8 years ago
1 month ago
245
This is not really necessary. All @Carlos Garza needs to do is place the files in each update pack (i.e. the cutouts AND the config file) in the megapack folder, accepting the overwrite when prompted. Repeat for each update pack and you should be up-to-date.


Will do that, thanks Mons
Panna
11 years ago
4 weeks ago
562
There are 2 Christian Kouan in the database for Perugia on the website:

https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-2018/player/43392808/christian-kouan
https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-2018/player/43392798/christan-oulai-kouan

The first one is the wrong one but has the face. The second one is in the right one.
mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
There are 2 Christian Kouan in the database for Perugia on the website:

https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-2018/player/43392808/christian-kouan
https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-2018/player/43392798/christan-oulai-kouan

The first one is the wrong one but has the face. The second one is in the right one.

Good spot! Thanks, I'll add it in 10.08

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