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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Demyan
mons
No idea, to be honest - just say yes. It may be a false positive.
MarcLister
cazalx
I used torrent to download the megapack and tried reinstalling it twice already but it won't work. Obviously putting the rar. into the graphics folder without extracting it doesn't work aswell. Anyone has a fix for me?
mons
It's an enormous file and it'll certainly take a while to extract, and there's not much which can be done to speed that up tbh. Try and have as few concurrent applications running as possible to focus all the system resources and speed up the extraction process.
cazalx
Alright i guess i have no other choice, it just seemed strange to me as i have a rather good pc and never had any problems with something like that. Longest time it took me to extract something with similar size (15gb) was probably around 30 minutes. Was thinking the zip file was corrupted or something.
Anyways thanks for the quick answer!
mons
It shouldn't take you that amount of time either, tbh, but the issue is not just that the file is very large but that it contains well over half a million files, which amount affects how slowly it extracts. Let it extract overnight
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julkjulk
you do not have to download older packs.
algerst
Every time I download, it stops..
I just downloaded a large file on Uptobox for example, and no problem, it was very fast.
mons
If you use Google Chrome, you should be able to resume the download at the point it was interrupted.
cazalx
My question is what updates should i download now? Do i only have to download the lastest changes (12.17) or every single update so 12.01 to 12.17?
mons
All of them (i.e. 12.01 to 12.17) and apply them in chronological order.
FYI, when installing the update packs, you should be getting overwrite prompts. If you aren't, then you aren't installing them correctly
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mons
Due to the frequency of the release of update packs, the uploading to mirrors is automated. I am not too technical, but the way it was explained to me is that the mirror sites chosen are the only ones which permit the customisation required to allow the update packs to be uploaded automatically on them when they are released on our site. mediafire and mega, amongst others, do not allow this, which would therefore require manual uploading.
Many, many years back, I used to upload them myself for this reason on mediafire to but my account got blocked due to high activity on suspicion of copyright infringement, so I'm not to keen on trying again tbh.
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Kureo
As i'm playing a Korean career, i need some faces. But this file is way too big for my internet connexion and i just need the Korean faces. Is there a way to download only these without having to download the full file ?
It would help me a lot, thanks.
mons
Other than checking every team in the country from here and downloading each team's cuts manually and individually, it's not possible
krashd
Which are exactly the same format.
I would also like an answer to this. An archive being extracted into a completely empty folder should never ask if you want to replace files, but this one does, how is that possible?
mons
However illogical it may seem, they are not the same, believe it or not. Try having a png and a PNG file with the same filename in the same folder; Windows won't let you
krashd
The whole reason Windows won't let you is BECAUSE they are the same, extensions are not case sensitive so .png and .PNG are both the extension for Portable Network Graphics.
The cat in me was so intrigued at an archive requesting permission to write over itself that I scanned "sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_12.00.rar" for duplicates and found four sets...
iconfaces\91185039.png
iconfaces\91185039.PNG
iconfaces\768274.png
iconfaces\768274.PNG
faces\91185039.png
faces\91185039.PNG
faces\768274.png
faces\768274.PNG
It seems that while NTFS won't allow two files with the same name to occupy the same location a .rar archive has no such qualms so these files sit happily right next to each other until it comes time to extract them wherein the second file in each set will require permission to overwrite the first one.
You should probably include whichever four are the most recent in an update pack just to make sure people have the newest version as I clicked "Yes to all" ensuring I have the .PNG versions but others might have clicked "No to all" in which case they will see the .png versions. Meaning two footballers will look very different on some computers.
Rob
mons
Thanks for that. It's probably a by-product of the fact that the update packs are actually created automatically based on files that I upload on FTP. Looks like the 2 original cuts (768274 and 91185039) where the .PNG files as they're not appearing in the respective cut-out page and that the more recent cut-out is fine. I'll include it in the next update pack to be safe
P.S. They won't look any different because (a) they're of the same player after all and more importantly (b) FM doesn't read .PNG files but only .png files, for some arcane reason.
P.P.S. Is that Sensi in your avatar?
krashd
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mons
This is an English-language forum. Please post in English
Piotr Dytkowski
I am a premium member and I am trying to download a Cut-Out Faces Megapack from download link on the post, but every single time the download is starting after 40mb it is stopping and after a couple of seconds i have a message about network issue, always exavtly in the same moment. Does anybody have the same problem and knows how to fix it?
Thanks a lot
mons
Try downloading the file using Google Chrome, which allows interrupted download to be resumed from the point they were stopped.
Piotr Dytkowski
mons
It must be something specific to your PC and/or connection then, because it's working fine for me. In the time it took me to type this, it's downloaded 0.5GB already. Maybe it'll stop in the future, but I'd resume it if that was the case.
Try downloading it using Incognito, maybe it's an issue with some extensions?
Piotr Dytkowski
Same. No changes. I've tried edge browser, incognito and all of these always stop exactly on the same place. One interesting thing is if you are downloading another file on the same file this issue will stop every other downloads from your website...