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).
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
Update - I downloaded a new version of megapack and it started working. So I think .xml was corrupted? Or something like that.

Thank you for your time.

As long as it's working now, that's all that matters. Enjoy
JSFM98
8 years ago
2 weeks ago
28
Premium
Hi, just downloaded the update packs but they don't seem to load in the game. Any suggestions?
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
Hi, just downloaded the update packs but they don't seem to load in the game. Any suggestions?

It'll probably be something you didn't quite do correctly.

Have you changed the preferences as per the opening post? Can I have a screenshot of the location you've placed them in?
JSFM98
8 years ago
2 weeks ago
28
Premium
It'll probably be something you didn't quite do correctly.

Have you changed the preferences as per the opening post? Can I have a screenshot of the location you've placed them in?


Pretty sure done everything as per opening post.

Document saved in: C:\Users\jrsul\OneDrive\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2020\graphics\sortitoutsi\faces
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
Pretty sure done everything as per opening post.

Document saved in: C:\Users\jrsul\OneDrive\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2020\graphics\sortitoutsi\faces

Not exactly, it shouldn't go in your OneDrive folder as it causes loads of issues.
JSFM98
8 years ago
2 weeks ago
28
Premium
Not exactly, it shouldn't go in your OneDrive folder as it causes loads of issues.


Oh OK, whats the best way to rectify this?
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
Oh OK, whats the best way to rectify this?

Put it in your Documents folder directly
Callum Grundon
12 years ago
3 years ago
11
Can anyone help me, I have downloaded the megapack and all the changes available up to 12.06 the young players this years pictures are still blacked out Jude Bellingham, Eduardo Camavinga, Harvey Elliott and Ronaldo Came for example

Currently doing a Benfica build from the academy and break the European curse and alot of the kids in my youth teams are black and It is really hurting the immersion for me especailly since some of the youtubers who use cut out (Loki Doki, Workthespace Doctor Benjy who I watch seem to have Camavinga and others faces)
Callum Grundon
12 years ago
3 years ago
11
Camavinga after loaded in most recent changes and clearing cache
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
@Callum Grundon, I've merged your posts in here

Looks to me like you didn't install the megapack correctly. Have a look at the opening post of this thread (particularly the changing the preferences part) to see if there's anything you need to fix.

If all looks fine at your end but it's still not working, can I have a screenshot of the path your megapack files are in, ideally showing inside your megapack folder? Also, one of the properties of your faces folder if at all possible?
Callum Grundon
12 years ago
3 years ago
11
@Callum Grundon, I've merged your posts in here

Looks to me like you didn't install the megapack correctly. Have a look at the opening post of this thread (particularly the changing the preferences part) to see if there's anything you need to fix.

If all looks fine at your end but it's still not working, can I have a screenshot of the path your megapack files are in, ideally showing inside your megapack folder? Also, one of the properties of your faces folder if at all possible?


Thank you first time post still don't really know what I am doing haha slow learner
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
Thank you first time post still don't really know what I am doing haha slow learner

No worries, that's why we have this thread

First of all, your faces and your iconfaces folder should be in separate sub-folders (as per the screenshots in the opening post) not with the latter inside the former. Secondly, you seem to have around 10,000 cuts missing for some reason. Not sure which version(s) of the megapack you've downloaded for that to happen tbh.

Thirdly, do you have a file titled config.xml within the faces folder?
MatKa5
4 years ago
10 months ago
2
I'm sorry to ask this because it may be a common question and the answer must be somewhere, but is the Faces Megapack compatible with all sorts of skins, like the SSD goldskin for example ? Thanks by advance for your answer and your great work !
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
I'm sorry to ask this because it may be a common question and the answer must be somewhere, but is the Faces Megapack compatible with all sorts of skins, like the SSD goldskin for example ? Thanks by advance for your answer and your great work !

All graphics are compatible with all skins, so yes the cut-out megapack will display in the SSD Goldskin and any other skin you wish to use
MatKa5
4 years ago
10 months ago
2
All graphics are compatible with all skins, so yes the cut-out megapack will display in the SSD Goldskin and any other skin you wish to use


Thanks !
delichris
18 years ago
2 days ago
59
Is there a way to get only the config file of the latest download? Ik overwrite the config file and now the faces doesn't work anymore.
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
Is there a way to get only the config file of the latest download? Ik overwrite the config file and now the faces doesn't work anymore.

It's not an enormous file, just download the latest update pack and copy only the config
delichris
18 years ago
2 days ago
59
It's not an enormous file, just download the latest update pack and copy only the config


Will al faces work again? Overwrite it or just delete the other one and put new one in?
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
Will al faces work again? Overwrite it or just delete the other one and put new one in?

If you've installed everything correctly, overwriting your existing config with the one from the latest update pack should suffice
delichris
18 years ago
2 days ago
59
If you've installed everything correctly, overwriting your existing config with the one from the latest update pack should suffice


That won't work.

Edit: I reload it three times but now it works fine. Thanks
eley800
13 years ago
2 months ago
7
Premium
Hi,

I have downloaded both packs and ive followed the instructions but they aren't working when i load up a game?

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
Hi,

I have downloaded both packs and ive followed the instructions but they aren't working when i load up a game?

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Can I have screenshots of the location that you've put them in? Have you changed your preferences to look like this?

Your text to link here...
eley800
13 years ago
2 months ago
7
Premium
Thanks Mon,

I have put them in the graphics folder but no i have not changed it to look like that.

I Have both ticked as thats what it says in the install guide

Thanks

Callum
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
Thanks Mon,

I have put them in the graphics folder but no i have not changed it to look like that.

I Have both ticked as thats what it says in the install guide

Thanks

Callum

Change them and see if that works If it doesn't, kindly post screenshots of where the files are
mayday
13 years ago
3 years ago
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mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656

I saw that before you edited it

Have a look at this thread to see some hints and tips. Since you were last around, the use of remove.bg has made things much easier and quicker, so give the remove.bg tutorial a good look if you think it'd help
Callum Grundon
12 years ago
3 years ago
11
No worries, that's why we have this thread

First of all, your faces and your iconfaces folder should be in separate sub-folders (as per the screenshots in the opening post) not with the latter inside the former. Secondly, you seem to have around 10,000 cuts missing for some reason. Not sure which version(s) of the megapack you've downloaded for that to happen tbh.

Thirdly, do you have a file titled config.xml within the faces folder?


thanks for the help, decided just to delete my whole facepack file and start again with the steps on this thread, worked a treat all the missing players are there, thanks again
eley800
13 years ago
2 months ago
7
Premium
Hi Mons,


https://imgur.com/a/bE125PC

https://imgur.com/a/bE125PC

This link will show where i extracted the files to.

Thanks
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
91,656
Hi Mons,


https://imgur.com/a/bE125PC

https://imgur.com/a/bE125PC

This link will show where i extracted the files to.

Thanks

a) Can I see the full path where it's located in? It's easier on a PC where the whole path is displayed but Macs are a different story
b) Read the opening post to see what the correct installation path for user data on Macs is, because it's changed from the usual folder in FM20
blank800
16 years ago
1 month ago
7
downloaded the megapack for FM 20, however I'm missing a lot of faces? checked only brentford and Arsenal, in Arsenal half of first team players are missing, several first tema players in Brentford. Anyone have any idea why?

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