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 480,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.

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  • 2025.01 - Released on 04 Dec 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).
frodomin
16 years ago
3 months ago
166
Premium
My bad, I was using the 12.0 Megapack. I hadn't noticed the 12.01 update pack was out. So that must be why he looks okay for me. If it helps, his UID is 85028014 and the line you need in the config.xml file is:
<record from="85028014" to="graphics/pictures/person/85028014/portrait"/>


easy done mate and thanks for the reply, don't worry though I'm pretty familiar with the config files, i used to make the icon faces for the megapack a long time ago
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
easy done mate and thanks for the reply, don't worry though I'm pretty familiar with the config files, i used to make the icon faces for the megapack a long time ago

You don't say
RoCCo_42
18 years ago
4 hours ago
7,838
Hi I have installed the main file (12.0) and the latest update update (12.01). There are currently 237472 faces in total. (Much more than 237213 ) I don't know why this happened.
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
Hi I have installed the main file (12.0) and the latest update update (12.01). There are currently 237472 faces in total. (Much more than 237213 ) I don't know why this happened.

The 237213 images are the total of images in the config. The remaining images are cuts added in various update packs down the years which were incorrectly named, duplicates and other various forms of "ineligible". The discrepancy is expected and can safely be ignored
Brasciolo
11 years ago
4 months ago
5
As I told you earlier, put the contents of each download into the faces folder in chronological order, accepting overwrite when prompted. You should have one folder and one folder only, with everything in it

@mons So in the "faces" folder will I have my megapack 11.0 and in addition all the folders up to 12.01?
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
@mons So in the "faces" folder will I have my megapack 11.0 and in addition all the folders up to 12.01?

No, you shouldn't have any sub-folders within the "faces" folder. Drag the contents of each individual update pack in chronological order into the "faces" folder. If done correctly, you should get a message asking you whether you want to overwrite folders or not - say yes.
Vantezzle
9 years ago
2 weeks ago
22
Pogba face vanished after I updated the pack today...Not sure if I did something wrong?
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
Pogba face vanished after I updated the pack today...Not sure if I did something wrong?

My bad, small issue hopefully rectified soon. In the meantime, use these files to sort it out
Vantezzle
9 years ago
2 weeks ago
22
My bad, small issue hopefully rectified soon. In the meantime, use these files to sort it out

Right! i was worried that I did something wrong when updating
JimOfTheHill4
5 years ago
7 months ago
1
Premium
I've purchased a membership but when I click to download the full megabuck it doesn't download and tells me to subscribe


fixed now don't worry aha
kilombos
14 years ago
6 days ago
144
I have a problem with the Pogba face (8502804), it does not appear in the config and does not appear in the game. creating a new config with the FM Graphics Configurator v1.2 does not appear either in the game.

Some solution?? Thanks

https://ibb.co/VDY3TWc
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
I have a problem with the Pogba face (8502804), it does not appear in the config and does not appear in the game. creating a new config with the FM Graphics Configurator v1.2 does not appear either in the game.

Some solution?? Thanks

https://ibb.co/VDY3TWc

My bad, it's a small issue which will hopefully be rectified soon. In the meantime, use these files to sort it out
fascinoso73
15 years ago
1 year ago
59
The last update does not show the face of Paul Pogba!
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
The last update does not show the face of Paul Pogba!

Read this to solve this issue.
kilombos
14 years ago
6 days ago
144
I restore the game (I close and open it again) but the face of Pogba still does not appear even adding the new face and the new config...😕
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
I restore the game (I close and open it again) but the face of Pogba still does not appear even adding the new face and the new config...😕

Can I see a screenshot of where you placed the files?
kilombos
14 years ago
6 days ago
144
Can I see a screenshot of where you placed the files?

I’m not on the computer now, but tomorrow I’ll give you the screenshot.
Replace the two files (face and config.) in the player folder.
Muy documentos/Sports inteetactive/Football manager 2020/graphics/pictures/faces

It may be because inside that folder player I have put another folder with the default faces? Tomorrow I will try
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
I’m not on the computer now, but tomorrow I’ll give you the screenshot.
Replace the two files (face and config.) in the player folder.
Muy documentos/Sports inteetactive/Football manager 2020/graphics/pictures/faces

It may be because inside that folder player I have put another folder with the default faces? Tomorrow I will try

What default faces? You should have one folder and one folder only, containing every cut in there.
kilombos
14 years ago
6 days ago
144
What default faces? You should have one folder and one folder only, containing every cut in there.


Fixed, I was making a silly mistake, I was missing reload skin when confirming changes in preferences.
Thank you so much for the patience @mons

(by default faces which I mean this
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
Fixed, I was making a silly mistake, I was missing reload skin when confirming changes in preferences.
Thank you so much for the patience @mons

(by default faces which I mean this

Good to hear

You mean these
Ashdon
8 years ago
1 year ago
5
Hi, the Paul Pogba Face doesnt show on my game. i have tried to add a different photo of him and that wont work either. any ideas?
Ashdon
8 years ago
1 year ago
5
Good to hear

You mean these



Do i replace the files that are already in there?
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
Hi, the Paul Pogba Face doesnt show on my game. i have tried to add a different photo of him and that wont work either. any ideas?

Read this to solve this issue.
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
Do i replace the files that are already in there?

What do you mean?
Cestrian
16 years ago
1 week ago
9
Premium
Apologies if this isn't the right place for this, I have a quick question.

After installing the megapack (great work btw as always) I noticed that some of the default player pictures had been overwritten with older ones from the megapack, is there a way to only install or only use the pics for players that don't have one included with the base game?
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
Apologies if this isn't the right place for this, I have a quick question.

After installing the megapack (great work btw as always) I noticed that some of the default player pictures had been overwritten with older ones from the megapack, is there a way to only install or only use the pics for players that don't have one included with the base game?

I refer you to this post.

If there are particular players or teams which you think are much better in SI's default images than in the megapack, let me know and I'll have a look at them and add them if need be
Chung_Ad
17 years ago
1 year ago
9
I have downloaded the latest version of Cut Out Player Faces Megapack (12.01) and the image count on my computer is the same as the website suggest (237474). Only Paul Pogba's face is not coming up for some reasons. Does anyone have the same problem?
weeniehutjr
6 years ago
3 days ago
5,229
I have downloaded the latest version of Cut Out Player Faces Megapack (12.01) and the image count on my computer is the same as the website suggest (237474). Only Paul Pogba's face is not coming up for some reasons. Does anyone have the same problem?

See this post to solve the issue
https://sortitoutsi.net/comments/get/502041
Chung_Ad
17 years ago
1 year ago
9
Titan89
8 years ago
1 day ago
9
Premium
Is it only me or why is the Paul Pogba pic missing ?

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