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).
maxiclarkee04
5 years ago
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How often do you add update packs to keep the pack fresh?
weeniehutjr
6 years ago
1 week ago
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How often do you add update packs to keep the pack fresh?

Usually there's an update every 2–4 weeks, depending on the amount of cutouts that are uploaded
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
How often do you add update packs to keep the pack fresh?

You can see the dates when previous update packs were released on this page, and you can then gauge the frequency. It's not a regular timeframe but depends on the output of cut-outs produced by the community. Can be anywhere between 10 days and 3 weeks, give and take.

Edit @weeniehutjr beat me to the punch
maxiclarkee04
5 years ago
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Is there a way to get notified when an update is out?
mons
17 years ago
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Is there a way to get notified when an update is out?

I believe there's a post on the site's Facebook page when a new update pack is released. That, or you can check back on that page I linked you to every couple of weeks or so.
maxiclarkee04
5 years ago
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Hi guys. Trying to download 12.11 and when I get to about 30% on the download the download stops. An ideas?
mons
17 years ago
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Hi guys. Trying to download 12.11 and when I get to about 30% on the download the download stops. An ideas?

It may be due to an unstable internet connection. There's a post about a page or two back which explains it in better detail which I can't link to right now.

I suggest using Google Chrome to download it and use the resume download function if required.
maxiclarkee04
5 years ago
4 days ago
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It may be due to an unstable internet connection. There's a post about a page or two back which explains it in better detail which I can't link to right now.

I suggest using Google Chrome to download it and use the resume download function if required.

I’ll try on chrome
maxiclarkee04
5 years ago
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All downloaded fine and I have the brilliant faces 👍
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
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All downloaded fine and I have the brilliant faces 👍

Enjoy
Brunolino
5 years ago
1 year ago
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Hey there,

I have the problem that when I want to download the full pack (15.6 gb) after like 7 gb the download stops and I get an error.
I thought there is maybe the possibility that someone already run into that issue.
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
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Hey there,

I have the problem that when I want to download the full pack (15.6 gb) after like 7 gb the download stops and I get an error.
I thought there is maybe the possibility that someone already run into that issue.

If you're having persistent issues with internet connectivity, with regular disconnections, I suggest using Google Chrome to download it. With it, it should be possible to resume the download from the point where it was interrupted, rather than downloading it again from scratch.

If that doesn't work, try to look at this: https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000839.htm
Brunolino
5 years ago
1 year ago
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If you're having persistent issues with internet connectivity, with regular disconnections, I suggest using Google Chrome to download it. With it, it should be possible to resume the download from the point where it was interrupted, rather than downloading it again from scratch.

If that doesn't work, try to look at this: https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000839.htm

Thank you!

I am already downloading it with chrome and the smaller updates for the pack werent a problem.
I will give it another try and in case use your link.
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
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Thank you!

I am already downloading it with chrome and the smaller updates for the pack werent a problem.
I will give it another try and in case use your link.

Hopefully that'll work out fine for you

Just so you know, since you're a premium member and you can download the full 12.11 pack, then you don't really need the update packs with them as they're included in the full pack already
Brunolino
5 years ago
1 year ago
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Hopefully that'll work out fine for you

Just so you know, since you're a premium member and you can download the full 12.11 pack, then you don't really need the update packs with them as they're included in the full pack already

ah good to know, thanks.

I was using the panini style packs and was complementing that with the update packs sice the full one didnt work.
I will just exchange them with the full pack when I got it
Brunolino
5 years ago
1 year ago
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Hopefully that'll work out fine for you

Just so you know, since you're a premium member and you can download the full 12.11 pack, then you don't really need the update packs with them as they're included in the full pack already

Just so you know:

Downloading the pack via Internet Explorer fixed it for me
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
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Just so you know:

Downloading the pack via Internet Explorer fixed it for me

Go figure As long as it worked, that's all that matters
Ryan Gillick
4 years ago
1 year ago
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READ THIS BEFORE POSTING!

This thread is only for posting Team facepacks and getting feedback. Do not post in here asking for help on how to get the graphics to work or any kinds of requests.


For cutters, kindly upload the file on our servers and it will be available to download in the individual packs tab on the megapack download page. You can also have mirror hosts elsewhere, naturally. This will eliminate all "where is team x's pack" request. Please notify us by posting in this thread when you upload a new pack

If you want to make a request, please visit this section


hey when i am clicking download on the download button it is not downloading it a zip file or rar it is just a white blank piece if paper worth 16gb what do i do?
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
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hey when i am clicking download on the download button it is not downloading it a zip file or rar it is just a white blank piece if paper worth 16gb what do i do?

Perhaps the icon for winrar only displays once the download is completed? It's not very clear what exactly you mean, so a screenshot would help
eley800
12 years ago
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Hi Mons, im having issues again on a windows laptop any chance of help getting the metallic logo pack and face pack to work please
mons
17 years ago
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Hi Mons, im having issues again on a windows laptop any chance of help getting the metallic logo pack and face pack to work please

What kind of issues do you need help with? I need a bit more info on what's wrong, ideally with screenshots. I'm not a mind-reader after all
eley800
12 years ago
5 months ago
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What kind of issues do you need help with? I need a bit more info on what's wrong, ideally with screenshots. I'm not a mind-reader after all


No worries I I have sorted it, thanks for replying!
themickdawg
3 years ago
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Hey mons, truly thank you for everything that you do.

I've downloaded the 15GB file torrent and am currently extracting to the specified folder with WinRAR, but it's showing that the extraction process is going to take 236 hours... I'm 30 minutes in and it's still at 0% processed because it is so large. I do see the files extracting. Am I doing something wrong here?

Worth noting that I just got the game and briefly loaded it, but have not played it yet since I wanted everything to be in place from my very first save.

edit: I think I’ve sorted it now—increasing the priority and disabling background processes has me at about 4 hours now and that’s probably due to my CPU and HDD. Thanks.
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
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Hey mons, truly thank you for everything that you do.

I've downloaded the 15GB file torrent and am currently extracting to the specified folder with WinRAR, but it's showing that the extraction process is going to take 236 hours... I'm 30 minutes in and it's still at 0% processed because it is so large. I do see the files extracting. Am I doing something wrong here?

Worth noting that I just got the game and briefly loaded it, but have not played it yet since I wanted everything to be in place from my very first save.

Hi there.

As it's a large file, it will take a fair while to extract, but 236 hours sounds a tad excessive

Files only extract as fast as the system resources allow it. If you have a PC which doesn't have good specs or if you're running multiple applications concurrently, then it'll take a fair longer than it would otherwise.

I recommend having the real name fix file in place before starting a new game. As for graphics, you should be able to add anything even after a save game has been started
maxiclarkee04
5 years ago
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Is there any way to request a face?
mons
17 years ago
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Is there any way to request a face?

We have a request forum here.

Have a look at the rules for each type of request before submitting and also have a look at this thread for a guide on how to find the best possible source
maxiclarkee04
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Can we request staff ?
mons
17 years ago
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Can we request staff ?

Sure, and refs and anybody who's in the game
maxiclarkee04
5 years ago
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Will these requested faces be added in the next update?

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