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 475,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.
- 480,827
- 2025.00 - Released on 29 Oct 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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Svenko72
mons
a) the file needs to be extracted before being placed in the graphics folder; is this the case?
b) what is the path before graphics/sortitoutsi/faces please?
c) did you change the preferences as displayed in the opening post of this thread?
d) can I have a screenshot of the folder where your faces are placed?
Svenko72
! C:\Svenni\fm\2019\sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_11.00.part02.rar: Unexpected end of archive
! C:\Svenni\fm\2019\sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_11.00.part02.rar: You need to start extraction from a previous volume to unpack sortitoutsi\faces\85104424.png
! C:\Svenni\fm\2019\sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_11.00.part02.rar: Checksum error in sortitoutsi\faces\47085174.png. The file is corrupt
! C:\Svenni\fm\2019\sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_11.00.part02.rar: Unexpected end of archive
mons
Can you please answer my questions? Unless you do, I can't really tell what could be wrong. At present, I suspect the download did not fully complete.
a) What download method did you use? Torrent or split files?
b) What is the total size of the file(s) you've downloaded?
c) can I have a screenshot of the location where they are placed?
d) The file needs to be extracted before being placed in the graphics folder; is this the case?
e) What is the path before graphics/sortitoutsi/faces please?
kwiatek23
mons
It'll probably be the case that you either didn't install it properly or the file didn't download fully. No worries. Can I have a screenshot of the location you've placed the downloaded files in? Showing clearly the installation folder path please.
Sumbriva
mons
I'm afraid it's not possible to split the pack by club, division or country, since the only way to do so would be manually and it's simply not possible to do so while keeping into account transfers and staff movements etc...
kwiatek23
mons
Why do you have 6 graphics folders? You should only have 1 with everything in.
The graphics6 folder you took the screenshot of seems to only have the cuts from the 11.01 update pack in it. You need to download the full megapack.
kwiatek23
mons
Is that a question? What do you want a screenshot of? There's already a screenshot in the opening post of the correct installation location for the sake of guidance.
When you download the full 10gb+ megapack file, make sure you place it there.
Hope this helps
kwiatek23
mons
I've moved your post to here.
As per our previous discussion, can you
a) post a screenshot of your megapack folder, and
b) make sure you follow my instructions here
If you want to see what your megapack folder should look like, have a look at the opening post of this thread. It's for Windows, but the file structure for Mac should be the same.
bardo
mons
You're not downloading the full megapack, I'm afraid. It may be the case that the download is stopped before it's completed, either due to server issues or because your internet connection is not stable. If you use Google Chrome to download the pack, you should be able to resume your download if this happens...
aneta919
I am just getting blank faces for my international team (France), the opposition (England) has their pictures, but not mine.
Is there a fix for this?
Thanks for help
mons
It's a licensing issue, solved by downloading these files. This fix is save-game compatible
Thomas Alstrup
Is there a solution to this problem? It's pretty annoying.
mons
That's a bit strange, never had anybody with an issue like that
Can you post a screenshot of the location you've put your graphics folder in? Also of the faces folder itself, if possible
Also, what exactly do you mean by "load the new graphics in the game settings"?
OraLeTH
mons
I've moved your thread to here - check the first post for instructions on how to find it
zulis1234
mons
I've moved your post to this thread.
We have a request system here - please use it
Eltarian
megapack ver.11.03 "iconfaces" folder does not include config file
is it right?
kwiatek23
mons
Good spot - will be rectified shortly
This is the 3rd time you've posted this in the last couple of weeks and every time I've replied asking for more information, namely: can you (a) post a screenshot of your megapack folder, and (b) make sure you follow my instructions here. Every time, for some reason you've ignored me and posted the same thing all over again. Help me help you.
kwiatek23
kwiatek23
kwiatek23