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).
Andreas Elsfeldt
5 years ago
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I'm no PC expert, is that a very good PC then? What program are you using to extract the file?
it a pretty high tier pc and i am using winrar
mons
17 years ago
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it a pretty high tier pc and i am using winrar

I don't know what to say tbh. 4 hours sounds excessive but I'd expect it to take at least an hour or so. Maybe if you're running some other programs in the background, it increases the time of extraction.
Swedie
12 years ago
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i have i5 7600 and gtx 1070 and 16gb ddr4 ram how much time
The extracting isn't particularly consuming on the cpu or graphic card. The important part is the hard drive. If possible try to extract it from one drive to another, or on an SSD. Four hours is far to much.
Andreas Elsfeldt
5 years ago
2 weeks ago
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The extracting isn't particularly consuming on the cpu or graphic card. The important part is the hard drive. If possible try to extract it from one drive to another, or on an SSD. Four hours is far to much.
ty for your help i found out i had epic games running when i closed that it only took me 25 minutes because i used an ssd
Muhammad Arief Darmawan
9 years ago
2 years ago
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about 19.03 megapack, should you merge them? I extract it but it doesn't want to ask the part two
mons
17 years ago
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about 19.03 megapack, should you merge them? I extract it but it doesn't want to ask the part two

I'm sorry, but I don't understand your question.

Can you give me screenshots of your problem? Maybe that explains your issue a little bit better...
Jürgen Hartmann
5 years ago
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We're happy to announce the release of update pack 11.05. It's being released much earlier than usual, thanks to the fantastic works of our cutters, who have produced in just a fortnight the amount of cuts usually produced in around a month

This pack contains 3,387 cut-outs, of which over 2,000 are new images, and takes the total MP head count to 219,107.


Hello mons,

since the last update of the pack, my iconfaces aren`t displayed anymore.
I already recreated a config.xml inside that folder with fmXML program, but no little pics are there. Any ideas?

Thank you very much for your help and support!
See here:
https://abload.de/img/no_iconfaces_sbjft.jpg
mons
17 years ago
17 minutes ago
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Hello mons,

since the last update of the pack, my iconfaces aren`t displayed anymore.
I already recreated a config.xml inside that folder with fmXML program, but no little pics are there. Any ideas?

Thank you very much for your help and support!
See here:
https://abload.de/img/no_iconfaces_sbjft.jpg

I'm not sure why you created a new config file for the iconfaces. What was wrong with the one provided in the 11.05 folder?

Can you give me screenshots of your iconfaces folder and perhaps attach the config file itself?
Jürgen Hartmann
5 years ago
3 years ago
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I'm not sure why you created a new config file for the iconfaces. What was wrong with the one provided in the 11.05 folder?

Can you give me screenshots of your iconfaces folder and perhaps attach the config file itself?


It didn`t work as it was, so I tried that out.
https://abload.de/img/iconfaces_cxkx7.jpg
Qvordrup
16 years ago
10 hours ago
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It didn`t work as it was, so I tried that out.
https://abload.de/img/iconfaces_cxkx7.jpg

well the config is wrong.... it has "portrait" (big faces) instead of "icon"(small faces). The strange thing is that the config provided in the download should work.

you can open the config in notepad press ctrl+h and then replace portrait with icon.

or you can also just use this config

p.s. I use "fm graphics configurator" to make configs I think it is easier to use: https://sortitoutsi.net/downloads/view/848/fm-graphics-configurator-for-pc
Jürgen Hartmann
5 years ago
3 years ago
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well the config is wrong.... it has "portrait" (big faces) instead of "icon"(small faces). The strange thing is that the config provided in the download should work.

you can open the config in notepad press ctrl+h and then replace portrait with icon.

or you can also just use this config

p.s. I use "fm graphics configurator" to make configs I think it is easier to use: https://sortitoutsi.net/downloads/view/848/fm-graphics-configurator-for-pc


Maybe it was my fault, because I had fiddeled around with it.

Nevertheless thank you very much @Qvordrup for your quick reply and solving my problem as well!
Now it works fine, take a look here:
https://abload.de/img/iconfaces_working_hijet.jpg
boomzdaydevice
17 years ago
1 week ago
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I'm horrible at cutting out backgrounds, can anyone help me cutting this image of Demetrio Albertini please

https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3712/10870729105_f8c092ec15_c.jpg
mons
17 years ago
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I'm horrible at cutting out backgrounds, can anyone help me cutting this image of Demetrio Albertini please

https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3712/10870729105_f8c092ec15_c.jpg

We have a request forum here for people who are in FM. We do not cut images of players who are in the game, but we have this thread to help and assist those who want to learn how to cut out.
petros29
10 years ago
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Hello everyone , i have a problem with the players faces in fm 2019. I have downloaded the badjes , the kits and the faces , but i can see only kits and badges . I have install and reinstall them many times . This is the first time that i have a problem with this , and i have done it with all of passed fm's . So is there any solution or any idea why ? I have followed all the suggested steps.https://imgur.com/a/lv8QvjeYour text to link here...
mons
17 years ago
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Hello everyone , i have a problem with the players faces in fm 2019. I have downloaded the badjes , the kits and the faces , but i can see only kits and badges . I have install and reinstall them many times . This is the first time that i have a problem with this , and i have done it with all of passed fm's . So is there any solution or any idea why ? I have followed all the suggested steps.https://imgur.com/a/lv8QvjeYour text to link here...

First of all, do you have winrar installed? Secondly, what's inside the faces and inside the sortitoutsi folder please?
petros29
10 years ago
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It is just an empty folder. I use 7zip. Inside the faces are the faces of the sortitoutsi zip file.
mons
17 years ago
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It is just an empty folder. I use 7zip. Inside the faces are the faces of the sortitoutsi zip file.

rar files don't seem to be automatically associated with 7zip on your computer.

Can I see screenshots:
*of the faces folder
* inside the sortitoutsi folder (and inside any folders in there)
please?
mons
17 years ago
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Delete the empty folder.

Can I see a screenshot of the inside the faces folder in this screenshot? How many images are in there? Is there a file named config.xml?
mons
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petros29
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https://pasteboard.co/I2FW8Ja.png ( last question answered)

yes everything is like yours .https://pasteboard.co/I2FXBuT.png
mons
17 years ago
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https://pasteboard.co/I2FW8Ja.png ( last question answered)

yes everything is like yours .https://pasteboard.co/I2FXBuT.png

Everything appears to be in order, and I can't see anything particularly wrong. You don't seem to have downloaded update packs 11.01 - 11.05, but that shouldn't result in no images being displayed

What do the missing players look like in-game? Is it the black default silhouette or is it an empty space?
petros29
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mons
17 years ago
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I'm all out of ideas. The files are all there and they appear to be in the right place. I can't tell what's wrong from the screenshots

Try downloading the update packs, maybe that will solve things for you
petros29
10 years ago
18 hours ago
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I have tryed it . Doesnt helped .
gazcarter1
11 years ago
14 hours ago
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not sure if I'm posting in the right thread... but I'm making my own cut out facepack, just for the Premier League. I'm having problems extracting the files. I can extract 1 team (say Crystal Palace) but if I want to add all the teams that I have made a cut out pack for the WinRAR that I'm using comes with some kind of corruption message. All ID names are correct which wouldn't make a difference to WinRAR. Deleted and downloaded a new version but no difference
mons
17 years ago
17 minutes ago
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not sure if I'm posting in the right thread... but I'm making my own cut out facepack, just for the Premier League. I'm having problems extracting the files. I can extract 1 team (say Crystal Palace) but if I want to add all the teams that I have made a cut out pack for the WinRAR that I'm using comes with some kind of corruption message. All ID names are correct which wouldn't make a difference to WinRAR. Deleted and downloaded a new version but no difference

I'm really sorry but I haven't understood your problem. The folder looks full already and since the amount of images in the folder is the same as in the rar file, why are you extracting it?
aird
17 years ago
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How often to improvement images get put into the packs?

I'm just asking because I usually download the latest changes pack but I've noticed in my packs Borna Barisic and Leon Bailey have older images even though they have had improvement requests made.

Am I doing something wrong or am I just being impatient? I know I can download the improvements individually but I just thought I'd ask.
mons
17 years ago
17 minutes ago
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How often to improvement images get put into the packs?

I'm just asking because I usually download the latest changes pack but I've noticed in my packs Borna Barisic and Leon Bailey have older images even though they have had improvement requests made.

Am I doing something wrong or am I just being impatient? I know I can download the improvements individually but I just thought I'd ask.

Improvement images are usually included in the update pack following their publication. I manually compare each "improvement" image to the current cut. While most are added to the megapack, some are deemed not actual improvements, due to a poor source, poor cutting technique etc.

In the case of Borna Barisic, I assume you're referring to this. I'll have another look at it, it may be that it slipped past me or that I deemed it not an improvement (although I can't really see why I wouldn't have).

In the case of Leon Bailey, I can't find a more recent request to the current 11.04 cut; appreciate if you could point it out for me

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