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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mons
This is what the MP folder should look like:
Anything beyond the blue line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders. But it MUST be WITHIN the graphics folder. Your screenshots suggest the 11.03 folder is directly in the Sports Interactive folder, which is WRONG.
kwiatek23
Thanks for the hint I will download everything slowly and I will try to upload it will inform you again thanks
Eltarian
Thanks a lot!
How do I see "it's done"? ^^
mons
I'll let you know...
merengue59
mons
edam22
However, with the latest update, none of the images seem to be appearing for me. It has been fine with all of your previous megapacks and updates but this one just doesn't work. I have tried redownloading the full megapack again and still no luck.
Any help would be much appreciated
mons
Thanks for your kind words
That's a bit of a strange one, all's fine my end. You will probably have made a mistake when installing the files for 11.03 - can you give me a screenshot of your current megapack folder? And what exactly is the issue? Do you get a blank space or the black default image?
henrytg
EDIT: For the record, the logos aren't working either
mons
That folder structure looks perfectly fine
Can you try changing skins around in-game? Just in case...
Also, what is the size of the faces folder - how many images do you have in there?
Finally, can I have a look in the Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 2019 folder?
henrytg
Also, no config.xml folders in the folders shown for the logos, but I don't know if that's normal...
But here's my FM19 folder anyway...
mons
papito37
I recently downloaded the full facepack with one of the free sites and did everything as suggested. I extracted them over WinRar and have them saved in the graphics folder I created. While downloading (because it takes quite a while) I was reloading the skin after every new folder out of the 16 parts to see if it worked/how many players I already had loaded. It worked pretty well up until around the 13th or 14th folder when - after again reloading my skin - suddenly all the faces were gone. I tried loading everything again without those two folders but it isn`t working. Also, only half of the folders had the config file but adding it to all of them didn`t do anything either.
Another thing: Are you supposed to have all player faces before the `update` files? Because I didn`t have a whole lot and just figured They`d have the rest.
Would appreciate some help.
henrytg
Right, worked out the issue. my RAR extractor wasn't extracting all the files for some reason. Anyway, changed the app I'm using and it works
mons
My understanding of the pack when downloading it via split files is that you should download ALL the packs. Once they're all in place, extracting the first one will see a chain reaction of all the packs being extracted in the correct order. It looks like you may have not done this correctly.
The safest bet at the moment would be to delete all the files you've downloaded so far and download the whole thing again, this time via torrent (guide on how and where to do so in the opening post of this thread). The torrent file downloads the whole 11.0 megapack. To be fully up-to-date, you would then need to download the 11.01, 11.02 and 11.03 update packs and apply them in order...
kwiatek23
JayJay777
When i go in to the folders of the megapack and open the images they all appear as normal.
It's happening with every player, this is just one example.
Any ideas what the problem is?
mons
You seem to have the iconfaces and main megapack config files swapped around.
Can you upload the config file in your faces folder?
JayJay777
mons
That looks fine. What about the one in your iconfaces folder?
papito37
Alright, so I downloaded it all again like you said (with Torrent) and saved them in a random folder. Then I extracted the first file (11.0 megapack) which has around 200.000 files, but the update packs were'nt extracted automatically like you said. Also, what do you mean by apply them in order? Sorry if its a stupid question, and thanks for your time!
Swedie
papito37
Got it now, thanks for the help!
jimihendrixnr1
Ik have got a question,
I downloaded the " Cut Out Facepack Changes " and I see in a Folder named IRONFACES.
What are those and were to put them ?
I noticed that the pictures are much smaller of the players, but I also see that te PNG files have the same name.....
Cheers.
mons
I've moved your thread to here. First of all, it's iConfaces
Secondly, this sister pack displays the tiny preview images you get in some menus within the game. They are effectively a much smaller version of the main cut-out. They have been in place for years now and they are to be installed alongside the main pack.
Hope this helps
jimihendrixnr1
Thanks for your anwser !
Kallum Brindle
edam22
Here's my folders. Unlike @henrytg my config.xml files are in the folders.
https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/6MqzflqmZqT9PHBfLtxY5OBMsFWixdfwMQGGQIwD.png
I get the default blank image for my players and, for some reason, even when i delete the megapack and then redownload it, the same issue occurs. I have faces that are already in the game.
Thank you for your help, hopefully we can get to the bottom of this
mons
How many images in total do you have in your faces folder?
edam22
215,317 in the faces and 213,893 in iconfaces