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).
YaYaKoLo
5 years ago
5 years ago
191
Premium
Hi. If I want to add a single player face that is newly cut to my game without waiting for the next update, can I just download and drag into the faces folder? What about the iconface folder?
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
Hi. If I want to add a single player face that is newly cut to my game without waiting for the next update, can I just download and drag into the faces folder? What about the iconface folder?

Follow the steps outlined in this thread. As for the iconfaces, you'd need to resize the cutout to 18x18 then incresae the canvas size to 25x18, and also edit the iconfaces config along the same lines of the main config...
gogthndbfkvkck
7 years ago
5 days ago
5
Premium
Hi all,
i just wondered if someone could help me with something really simple that i just cannot figure at the moment. I have downloaded the cut out megapack and put that into FM19 folder whcih then overwrites the faces that were already in the game. I'm wanting to keep these original faces and know there is a way to put them back in but after various attempts (and following Rowan's video on it) i'm still not getting it
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
Hi all,
i just wondered if someone could help me with something really simple that i just cannot figure at the moment. I have downloaded the cut out megapack and put that into FM19 folder whcih then overwrites the faces that were already in the game. I'm wanting to keep these original faces and know there is a way to put them back in but after various attempts (and following Rowan's video on it) i'm still not getting it

Which part are you having trouble with? Are you not managing to extract the SI cuts? Or is it something else entirely?
gogthndbfkvkck
7 years ago
5 days ago
5
Premium
So ive got the megapack into my graphics folder within 2019 and tried to extract the original faces that came in the games through resource archive, bit not sure if i where i need to put them? because i tried putting them in the graphics folder and going onto the game and reloading skins but the original faces don't seem to be appearing it is just an older picture which is in the megapack. I hope this is making sense

mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
So ive got the megapack into my graphics folder within 2019 and tried to extract the original faces that came in the games through resource archive, bit not sure if i where i need to put them? because i tried putting them in the graphics folder and going onto the game and reloading skins but the original faces don't seem to be appearing it is just an older picture which is in the megapack. I hope this is making sense

If I understood you correctly, you copied the original SI faces into the Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 2019 / graphics folder. You now have the cutout megapack and SI's cuts, right?

If this is the case, the game is only able to read one of these folders. You should only have one folder with all the cuts included in it. However, while our megapack uses the person's UID as the filename, the SI cuts have the person's name as the filename. What you need to do is use fmXML to translate file names to IDs in the folder(s) you want.

Alternatively, you could tell me which SI cuts from which team(s) you were referring to in particular and I'll have a look at them and see which can be included in our pack...
Omerta
13 years ago
10 months ago
14
While extracting the pack with 7-zip i got an error message on a single image file named sortitoutsi\faces\91019084.png. Could anyone please upload this single image for me.

Edit: I'll download the torrent, hopefully it won't have the same problem.

Edit 2: Thanks weeniehutjr.
weeniehutjr
6 years ago
6 days ago
5,204
While extracting the pack with 7-zip i got an error message on a single image file named sortitoutsi\faces\91019084.png. Could anyone please upload this single image for me.

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/face/91019084.png
or https://sortitoutsi.net/search/cutout/91019084
zaza99999
7 years ago
2 years ago
3
french players have no faces. mbappe, rabiot and others...
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
While extracting the pack with 7-zip i got an error message on a single image file named sortitoutsi\faces\91019084.png. Could anyone please upload this single image for me.

Edit: I'll download the torrent, hopefully it won't have the same problem.

Edit 2: Thanks weeniehutjr.

To add to what weeniehutjr said, when you have an issue like this, it may be an indicator there is a problem with your download and that further images may be missing from your megapack download. Just keep an eye on the amount of images in your megapack folder and see if it corresponds to the amount of images in the MP...
Swedie
12 years ago
37 minutes ago
5,592
Premium
french players have no faces. mbappe, rabiot and others...
https://sortitoutsi.net/downloads/view/43990/fm2019-real-names-and-german-national-team-fix
Apply that, and it should be solved.
Rockpsl76
11 years ago
5 years ago
7
Can't get this to work for FM16. I followed all of the instructions. If I do a world search and go to a player, I can see a small version of their cutout on the context sensitive menu. However, when I actually go to the player card it just shows the default black profile picture. I've tried reloading the skin a few times, to no avail...
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
Can't get this to work for FM16. I followed all of the instructions. If I do a world search and go to a player, I can see a small version of their cutout on the context sensitive menu. However, when I actually go to the player card it just shows the default black profile picture. I've tried reloading the skin a few times, to no avail...

Looks like you've either download only the icons pack somehow or not installed the pack correctly. Which download method did you use and which megapack version did you download? How many images in total do you have in your megapack folder? Can you give me a screenshot of what it looks like in there?
Rockpsl76
11 years ago
5 years ago
7
I can see the faces in there. There are 9,799 faces. Directory is Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2016\graphics\sortitoutsi\faces

I do also have English Club and League logos from steam. Possibly causing conflict? Going to try removing it.
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
I can see the faces in there. There are 9,799 faces. Directory is Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2016\graphics\sortitoutsi\faces

I do also have English Club and League logos from steam. Possibly causing conflict? Going to try removing it.

That is much short of the full amount of images you should have in your megapack folder. I can't remember that far back, but it'll certainly be much more than 100,000 faces that you should have so you have a fair amount missing.

Which download method did you use and which megapack version did you download?
Rockpsl76
11 years ago
5 years ago
7
I downloaded the torrent. You are right. I have over 200K in the icon folder, and very few in the large folder. I think I ran out of space on my drive. Surprised the zip function didn't give me an error message..?
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
I downloaded the torrent. You are right. I have over 200K in the icon folder, and very few in the large folder. I think I ran out of space on my drive. Surprised the zip function didn't give me an error message..?

Are you sure you downloaded the full package? Perhaps try downloding it again?
Rockpsl76
11 years ago
5 years ago
7
Yeah, the rar has everything in it, just didn't extract everything. Need to clear some disk space first.
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
Yeah, the rar has everything in it, just didn't extract everything. Need to clear some disk space first.

If that doesn't work, use winrar to extract it (if you're not using it already...)
Rockpsl76
11 years ago
5 years ago
7
Working fine after I cleared some space and unzipped again
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
Working fine after I cleared some space and unzipped again

Excellent; good to hear! Enjoy!
kad38
11 years ago
15 hours ago
292
hi all a question the faces of last year is it working with FM 2019? Thank you for your answers ????
weeniehutjr
6 years ago
6 days ago
5,204
hi all a question the faces of last year is it working with FM 2019? Thank you for your answers ????

yes, it works with FM19 (and should be compatible with FM20,21 and so on as long as SI don't change how facepacks work)
kad38
11 years ago
15 hours ago
292
yes, it works with FM19 (and should be compatible with FM20,21 and so on as long as SI don't change how facepacks work)


ok thank you very much for your quick reply my friend
rokidi
17 years ago
3 years ago
13
I am not shure if the latest update is in the game- how can i see it?
or can you please tell the whole way of installing an updarte-Thanks
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
I am not shure if the latest update is in the game- how can i see it?
or can you please tell the whole way of installing an updarte-Thanks

To install an update pack, just put the contents of the faces folder from the download in your main megapack folder and the contents of the iconfaces folder in your main icons folder. If done right, you should get an overwrite warning, to which you should press yes/OK. If done right, you should have one folder and one folder only for each pack containing well over 213,000 cuts in each.

To check if the latest update pack is working in-game, this should be Pochettino's cut-out and this should be Luis Enrique's cut-out
Svenko72
5 years ago
5 years ago
5
I have downloaded the facepack from here but can't extract it because its password protected. Can anyone help please?
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
I have downloaded the facepack from here but can't extract it because its password protected. Can anyone help please?

It's definitely not password-protected What download method did you do and where did you download it from?
Svenko72
5 years ago
5 years ago
5
It's definitely not password-protected What download method did you do and where did you download it from?
I downloaded it from here and I am trying to extract it with Awe zip.
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
I downloaded it from here and I am trying to extract it with Awe zip.

Try using winrar.

What download method did you use? Torrent? Split files? And what is the total size of the file you've downloaded?

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