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.
- 482,917
- 2025.01 - Released on 04 Dec 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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Tobias Woodhouse
Never mind, I've messed around with my CPU settings and got it down significantly. Cheers.
mons
It's supposed to take a while, but definitely not that long. Try closing any other applications running on your system. Whether your hard disk is an SSD also makes a difference, I'm led to understand.
Tobias Woodhouse
Cheers mate - I've got it down to 1 hour now, so we're all good!
tommyknight07
I've noticed faces for Jude Bellingham (Birmingham) & Eduardo Camavinga (Stade Rennes) are no longer showing. I know these faces should be licensed for the game but any idea why they my updated mega packs have removed them?
mons
Both of them have images in the megapack and both are in the 12.09 config, so it looks like you may either not have the full megapack or you have installed it incorrectly.
How many images do you have in your megapack folder and can I have a screenshot of it?
tiago toreiro
Hi,
thanks, I corrected it.
Have a nice day
KyleGarrett
can i get a list of 3 people who are in each download of the part-to-part cutout facepacks so i know that they are working as i go along them please
cheers
mons
The split packs are generated automatically so short of downloading them, no one will be able to assist.
It may be quicker if you download the main pack via torrent, then only download the update packs separately...
macgyver78
Any thoughts?
StuartNG
Instead of faces call your folder players (all lower case). I bet that will make it work ok. That’s the folder order / names I have and mine works fine. I have about 11,500 player and staff pics.
seanhughes
mons
I've no idea how you've managed to do that. Both Liverpool and Man Utd have faces for their whole squad in the megapack, and only a handful of minor staff members don't, for both teams. I suspect you've either downloaded an update pack instead of the full megapack, or you've not installed it correctly.
How many images do you have in your megapack faces folder? You should have well over 250,000 if you're up-to-date with the latest packs.
Screenshots of your faces folder would help
RyanChisholm
I am close to completing the full pack download which is the 15gb one. Do i then need to download any of the updates?
Regards
mons
If it's the full megapack, 15.22GB in size and with over 257,000 images in the faces folder, then you are sorted and don't need to download anything else
RyanChisholm
Thank-you
JamesDavies10
I've recently got a new laptop so over the past few days I've downloaded the player faces mega pack from scratch, see below:
I've extracted 'sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_12.00.part1' which has gone into the 'faces' folder at the top of the screen. Seems to have worked fine, there are 235,294 items in there.
The problem comes when I try to extract the second part. Firstly, when extracting, it automatically creates another 'sortitoutsi' and 'faces' folder within the 'faces' folder already created when I extracted part 1. I'm not sure if this will stop FM detecting the pictures or if I can just sort this out manually. The main issue, however, is that it seems to contain the exact same faces as part 1. Should this be the case?
I'm not sure if I'm just missing something but I wanted to check before going through each part of the megapack.
Any help would be appreciated, cheers.
mons
I've moved this to here
Versions 12.00 part 1 to part 15 are all the same file, just split up for reasons of ease of downloading. If you extract part 1, winrar will automatically extract all the other 14 parts. Which is why you have over 235,000 already; that's the whole 12.0 pack.
What you now need to do is to extract the update packs. These you need to do one by one, starting with 12.01 and going up to 12.09. Yes, you will be prompted to say if you want to overwrite existing files, but there will be some missing images as well. At the end of this whole process, you will have over 257,000 files in both the faces and iconfaces folders.
Hope this helps.
JamesDavies10
Ah right, thanks very much! I've now got my files set up as follows:
There is 257k in the faces folder and around 235k in the icon faces folder. Not entirely sure why there's a difference but at least I know most of them are there. I've done the reload skin but the faces are not appearing. I believe I've sorted my folders properly, and there is also a config file in each of the 'faces' and 'icon faces' folders for good measure. Any idea why they wouldn't be showing in game? Thanks again.
Qvordrup
Try deleting the config file that is outside the "faces" and "iconfaces" folders. That might be the solution.
JamesDavies10
mons
What else is in your graphics folder? Do you have any sub-folders in the faces folder? Screenshots of both if possible
Oh, and have you removed that config file from the screenshot above?
JamesDavies10
Graphics folder -
Sortitoutsi folder -
Faces folder -
I have just noticed the sub-folder in the faces folder (it only shows up when the folder is fully loaded I think), please see below:
The iconfaces pack from the last screenshot has around 40k items in.
Should I delete the sub-folder?
mons
Everything appears to be in place, can I see a screenshot of the interface part of your preferences?
JamesDavies10
The contents of the icon folder has now been moved, with the 40k one now deleted. Now the faces and icon faces have 257k items in. There are no sub-folders in either.
The interface screen:
mons
Again, all is fine. And how do players look in-game? Is it the black default face or is it a blank space?
JamesDavies10
JamesDavies10
Qvordrup
put this config in the "faces" folder and overwrite the one already there. Then you should be good
JamesDavies10
That's done the trick
deltaco18
Downloaded the cut out faces pack and can´t find the config file. Someone know where I can get it?