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 475,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.
- 480,827
- 2025.00 - Released on 29 Oct 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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mons
At my end, I was able to download the full cut-out megapack alongside multiple individual facepacks without any issues. I'm genuinely not sure what the matter can be, or how I can help you for now
ChrisKyrm
I think it has something to do with the config file but I dont know what I'm supposed to do.
The main player missing is joao cancelo but there are plenty u19 players missing even though their faces are in the folder.
mons
How many images do you have in your megapack folder? Which version of the megapack did you download? What is the date modified of the config.xml file?
ChrisKyrm
I Downloaded the full pack on 19-9-20 so it should be the latest version, the config.xml file was modified on 28-10-19 and there are 552.526 files in the faces and iconfaces folders
mons
You're somehow using the wrong config file, the one released with the 12.0 base pack. What download method did you use?
Download the latest update pack, and replace your current config files (faces and iconfaces) with the one from the download.
ChrisKyrm
I just downloaded the full pack from uploaded.net and extracted it , I dont know how that happened. And thanks in advance for your help and quick response
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mons
Read this as to why it's not as straightforward as you might think.
You can download the torrent file, and follow it up with the update packs. Or wait for the 13.0 torrent at some point next month.
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I can at max download a single part at 60kbps speed, which normally must be at least 1200kbps with my connection. And there is a cooldown in between all the downloads while there are more than 16 parts out there to download. It feels impossible to download them all, i hope that 13.0 will arrive soon.
mons
Like I said, you can download the existing 12.0 torrent which contains a solid base with 235,000+ cut-outs, and then you can download the 17 (soon to be 18) update packs separately afterwards. It's just a question of whether you're patient enough.
Understandably, we don't have control of download speeds from sites external to us, so there's not much more we can do there.
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mons
There is a screenshot in the opening post of this thread, for future reference.
You can run multiple facepacks at the same time without any issues (in fact I do so), but they must be in separate folders, each folder with its separate config You must also remember, however, that if there are multiple images for the same person in the graphics folder, the game will only display the one in the first folder by alphabetical order.
In this case, if there are photos of the same person in each folder, the game will only display the one in the cut-outs folder. If there isn't one in the cut-outs folder, it will display the one in the DF11 folder. And so on and so forth.
I remove duplicate files anyway to save space (and because I'm a bit pedantic like that), but it's not necessary, if you keep the above in mind.
Kenny_G7
mons
The bit in bold is enough
JonjoShelvey
Late reply but wouldn't logos not work? The Pc version uses bigger logos, right?
mons
As far as I'm aware, FM resizes them to fit. Not sure if that's the case for FMM, though.
paranoidpixie95
I'm running on Windows 10 via the Epic Games Store client.
mons
Have you changed the preferences as outlined in the opening post of this thread?
If yes, and it's still not working, can we have a screenshot of your faces folder, showing clearly the path as well? Additionally, is there also a folder titled games in C:\Users\[user]\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2020?
paranoidpixie95
For the purpose of all the update packs, since they're also packaged within a folder called 'sortitoutsi', do I extract only the contents within the 'faces' and 'iconfaces' folders into what's already in my library?
Greentrunk
mons
Yep, if you do it right, you should be prompted to overwrite some existing files, which you should accept
Based on discussions in this very chat a few days ago, it results that it is indeed compatible, yes.
GavinMHolder
I have installed FM20 on a new MAC and have dowloaded the latest facepack
however whatever I do I cannot get players faces to load.
I have copied the folder to /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2020/graphics
I have also ticked on reload skin when confirming changes in prefs and unticked use cache to decrease loading times.
it takes ages to load I the skin which makes me think its loading the face pack, but when it load I have the Silhouette face for every player.
is there anything else I should be doing ?
Gavin
mons
Can we have a screenshot of your graphics folders? And of the faces folder too? Ideally showing the full path
12345cieza
We do not currently have any free mirrors for this file. There are two completely opposite reasons this happens:
Possibility 1) The file is very new, and a mirror is still being created, this hopefully shouldn't take more than 5 more minutes.
Possibility 2) The file is very old and you should seek out a newer version. Old files still exist on our servers so if you REALLY need to access it please get in contact with an administrator. Alternatively all archived files held on our server are available to premium members instantly.
This file was uploaded on: 20-10-2020 13:36:12
mons
This is a side-effect of the failed launch of the new site, I'm afraid. As soon as it's back up, normal service should be resumed
12345cieza
Ican´t download next files for this problem:
Karlslunde
Austrian Mixpack 11
Westerlo
Europa pack_after 12.18_v1 (new 88 images)
mons
And that was also slightly related to work being done in the background related to the site. In fact, all those packs were released after yesterday. If you can tag the file creators, perhaps they can upload them to a mirror
12345cieza
I hope so.
Thank you Mons.
Enuka
mons
I'm confused, what 33 facepacks are you referring to?
Irrespectively, files from update packs should all be in the same folder, not separate ones. To be clear, all faces should be directly in the faces folder without any sub-folders, and same goes for the iconfaces.