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).
Onoslo
4 years ago
2 weeks ago
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Can you also confirm that the preferences are as indicated in the opening post, ideally with a screenshot of them?


I have followed all of the steps with this as well and are the same as the opening post
mons
18 years ago
10 hours ago
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I have followed all of the steps with this as well and are the same as the opening post

Drop me a PM, I've got something to suggest
Callum1409
4 years ago
11 months ago
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@Callum1409 and @Fintan Collins, both of you seem to have installed it wrongly somehow unfortunately. Can I have a screenshot of your megapack faces folder, ideally showing clearly the amount of files in there? Also, are you running any other facepacks?


Do i have to download all the latest changes or just the latest one?
mons
18 years ago
10 hours ago
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Do i have to download all the latest changes or just the latest one?

If you download just the latest changes file, that's all you get. You need to have the full megapack, the full 16GB+ file, which will have over 270,000 faces included in it.
Callum1409
4 years ago
11 months ago
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If you download just the latest changes file, that's all you get. You need to have the full megapack, the full 16GB+ file, which will have over 270,000 faces included in it.


i also have the full pack, but will i need pervious update packs?
mons
18 years ago
10 hours ago
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i also have the full pack, but will i need pervious update packs?

No, the full pack is enough. In fact, if you have the full pack and add an update pack to it in a separate folder, then you may well end up with the graphics not displaying at all.

Can you too drop me a PM? Maybe we can arrange something a bit more quickly that way...
columbuscrewdude
13 years ago
14 hours ago
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just noticed that Thiago Reiss 19398875 had his missing face cut it looks like in time to make the latest update. In game and when I searched on here using the search for the player his image is still missing. Did he miss the update or somehow missed?
mons
18 years ago
10 hours ago
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just noticed that Thiago Reiss 19398875 had his missing face cut it looks like in time to make the latest update. In game and when I searched on here using the search for the player his image is still missing. Did he miss the update or somehow missed?

I'm afraid you're mistaken. The cut was produced after the latest update pack was finalized.

You can always download the cut and add him to your game by modifying the config file accordingly
columbuscrewdude
13 years ago
14 hours ago
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I'm afraid you're mistaken. The cut was produced after the latest update pack was finalized.

You can always download the cut and add him to your game by modifying the config file accordingly

Yeah I did that. So is their like a set number of days for the cut off before each update is released? Just curious and think all the staff and graphics makers do a great job, making the game much better. I've been playing it since roughly Karl-Heinze Reidle was at Liverpool.
mons
18 years ago
10 hours ago
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Yeah I did that. So is their like a set number of days for the cut off before each update is released? Just curious and think all the staff and graphics makers do a great job, making the game much better. I've been playing it since roughly Karl-Heinze Reidle was at Liverpool.

The cut-out faces megapack hasn't been around that long, though my first version of the game was CM3 back in 1998, so it'll be around the same time, I guess!

As for the megapack, updates are generally released around every 4 weeks or when we reach around the 4,000 image mark, whichever comes the quickest. With the amount of cuts being produced by the community, it's usually around 3 weeks lately and sometimes less
willroche
12 years ago
1 month ago
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I just can't download it without the download just stopping. I get maybe half an hour into a download and it stops. Can anyone help?
mons
18 years ago
10 hours ago
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I just can't download it without the download just stopping. I get maybe half an hour into a download and it stops. Can anyone help?

There's a number of reasons this could be happening. Have a look at this to see if helps at all: https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000839.htm

Using Google Chrome means you can resume the download from the point it stops, should that happen, so try that too
Leeds1919
11 years ago
14 hours ago
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apologies if already posted, i have downloaded all the paacks and am upto date
the config file in the 12.16 doesnt have all the files that there faces for

e.g Charlie Allan ID:29217875 has a face but not in XML as such isnt showing in my Leeds squad

all ahelp appreciated
mons
18 years ago
10 hours ago
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apologies if already posted, i have downloaded all the paacks and am upto date
the config file in the 12.16 doesnt have all the files that there faces for

e.g Charlie Allan ID:29217875 has a face but not in XML as such isnt showing in my Leeds squad

all ahelp appreciated

I've just downloaded 12.16 and it's there

That UID was added in the 12.04 update pack, so he won't have been added to the config until then. Are you sure you're using the 12.16 config file and not the original 12.0 one? What is the config's filesize and date modified?
Leeds1919
11 years ago
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I've just downloaded 12.16 and it's there

That UID was added in the 12.04 update pack, so he won't have been added to the config until then. Are you sure you're using the 12.16 config file and not the original 12.0 one? What is the config's filesize and date modified?

Hi Mons, thanks for your reply

im using 12.16

the file size is 19.8mb modified Aug 20
mons
18 years ago
10 hours ago
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Hi Mons, thanks for your reply

im using 12.16

the file size is 19.8mb modified Aug 20

Have you edited the config file at all? 12.16 was released on August 17, so the date modified can't be any later than that for it to be the original file.

Also, can I see a screenshot of the section of the config file what you think the line of code for that player should appear?
Qvordrup
17 years ago
3 minutes ago
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Owen Hove (94031966) is index instead of RGB color..... It really looks strange
mons
18 years ago
10 hours ago
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Owen Hove (94031966) is index instead of RGB color..... It really looks strange

I'll see if I can fix it
Qvordrup
17 years ago
3 minutes ago
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It is really easy to fix. In photoshop Image ---> mode then select RGB color instead of index.

here is a fixed version :

mons
18 years ago
10 hours ago
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It is really easy to fix. In photoshop Image ---> mode then select RGB color instead of index.

here is a fixed version :


To be honest, the edges are so jagged, that I prefer to recut this to get a better result. I'll be doing so later today
luke carson
6 years ago
3 months ago
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Everytime i go to dowload the file it comes up as a internet explorer file why is it doing that but when i download it?
mons
18 years ago
10 hours ago
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Everytime i go to dowload the file it comes up as a internet explorer file why is it doing that but when i download it?

I'm sorry, but that doesn't make a lot of sense.

Which file are you downloading and from which page? Also, do you have Winrar installed?
BigAuldGrump
4 years ago
1 month ago
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Hi team, im either being very noobish or just an absolute idiot, after i download im following the instruction and not able to have a file to extract the info from, i keep getting I.E page and then the page doesn't exist.

What am i doing wrong?

Kind regards

Steve
mons
18 years ago
10 hours ago
91,859
Hi team, im either being very noobish or just an absolute idiot, after i download im following the instruction and not able to have a file to extract the info from, i keep getting I.E page and then the page doesn't exist.

What am i doing wrong?

Kind regards

Steve

Are you using Winrar to extract the file you've downloaded? What is the filesize of the file you've downloaded? Perhaps a screenshot of the error message you're getting would be helpful because it's not exactly clear what and where the issue is.
BigAuldGrump
4 years ago
1 month ago
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Are you using Winrar to extract the file you've downloaded? What is the filesize of the file you've downloaded? Perhaps a screenshot of the error message you're getting would be helpful because it's not exactly clear what and where the issue is.

Hi bud,

Yup i was being an idiot and now using my winrar.
Utku Temür
6 years ago
1 year ago
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Hello guys, I just want to ask a question is this "Complete Pack - sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_12.00.rar" contains all the faces or should i download older versions also ?
Jake Linham
10 years ago
8 months ago
1
Hey guys,

Just upgraded my membership to premium to download this pack and am unfortunately having issues with moving the folders.

The 'faces' folder moved over without any trouble but the 'icon faces' folder will not. It shows the message "The folder can't complete the operation because some data in 'sortitoutsi' can't be read or written. [Error code -36]

I am using macOS Catalina and have just installed the game via the Epic Games Launcher. I have used this pack in the past through previous versions of the game and have had no issues.

Thanks,
Jake
mons
18 years ago
10 hours ago
91,859
Hello guys, I just want to ask a question is this "Complete Pack - sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_12.00.rar" contains all the faces or should i download older versions also ?

Where are you downloading this from and what is the size of the file?




Hey guys,

Just upgraded my membership to premium to download this pack and am unfortunately having issues with moving the folders.

The 'faces' folder moved over without any trouble but the 'icon faces' folder will not. It shows the message "The folder can't complete the operation because some data in 'sortitoutsi' can't be read or written. [Error code -36]

I am using macOS Catalina and have just installed the game via the Epic Games Launcher. I have used this pack in the past through previous versions of the game and have had no issues.

Thanks,
Jake

First of all, before trying to extract it, how many images are there in the iconfaces folder? Could be the case that the file hasn't downloaded fully. Secondly, do you have sufficient space on your hard disk for the folder to extract? Thirdly, have you tried extracting it to a different folder?

All being said, I'm afraid that looks like an OS error rather than something to do with these files. As I'm not a Mac user, I can't really offer any particular help other than the above 'generic' guidance.

If all this doesn't help, here's my iconfaces folder
Tunç Öztürk
10 years ago
2 days ago
622
Hi! I wanna download all the packs but its 16gb so it realy large. So I'm curious can this be a problem for my computer?
mons
18 years ago
10 hours ago
91,859
Hi! I wanna download all the packs but its 16gb so it realy large. So I'm curious can this be a problem for my computer?

What kind of problem do you envisage it to possibly be?

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