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 just under 550,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.

  • 548,701
  • 2026.06 - Released on 10 May 2026
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. You need to use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract the downloaded file.

 

Contrary to previous versions of the game, there is no need to change any settings in the preferences in FM26.

 


2. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using a Mac OS?

*awaiting feedback from Mac users on this

 

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, applying the oldest first and continuing to apply update packs in the chronological order in which they were released.
Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. You need to use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract the downloaded file.

Contrary to previous versions of the game, there is no need to change any settings in the preferences in FM26.
You need to copy and overwrite the faces and the new config file from the update pack into the faces 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.

Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. It might be for FM24, but the steps are exactly the same.
It's a known issue with FM26 - read this. We're assuming this issue will get resolved in upcoming official patches/updates.
The new players were added before FM26 was released and didn't have the right UID yet. We've started the process of mapping them to the correct person's UID.
When you have a blank space instead of a cut-out, it means there is a config file pointing to a folder in which an image with that UID is not present. This generally happens when an update pack is installed in a separate folder and not part of the overall faces folder, or there is a rogue config file somewhere. It could also be that you have somehow not downloaded the full megapack but only part of it. Search within the graphics folder for the UID of this person, and you will probably find the secondary image. Delete that folder, and it should be fine.

Otherwise, follow the steps in this comment and post the results so that we can assist you.
In line with guidance on the official SI forums, At present, FM26 cannot handle multiple files with the same name. For example, if you have two files with the name "kit.png", it will not load both. and Player Faces: These work fine. You do not need the icon files anymore, and they can cause issues with the note above. Delete them.

As a result, the iconfaces are no longer available for download because they're not needed. You should also delete the iconfaces folder manually from your system too 👍
You need to change your user data location. Simple steps on how to do so can be found here.

It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.
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.
Please report this so that they can be reuploaded. Since the files are hosted outside our pages, there isn't much we can do about this unfortunately. You could try downloading the pack via torrent and get it this way.
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.
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 any previously available cut-out faces 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).
mons
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
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...

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
7 years ago
1 week ago
4
There are some players faces that dont appear in my game even though their faces are in the faces folder.
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
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
There are some players faces that dont appear in my game even though their faces are in the faces folder.
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.

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
7 years ago
1 week ago
4
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?

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
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
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

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
7 years ago
1 week ago
4
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.

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
Berat Küçük
8 years ago
2 years ago
3
Is it actually mathematically possible to download all the parts and updates in a few days without paying? That is really a torture to try downloading this pack from the scratch. It is 2020.
mons
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
Is it actually mathematically possible to download all the parts and updates in a few days without paying? That is really a torture to try downloading this pack from the scratch. It is 2020.

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.
Berat Küçük
8 years ago
2 years ago
3
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.


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
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
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.

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.
Berat Küçük
8 years ago
2 years ago
3
Can anyone share me a few photos of their Graphics and Faces folders? I somehow destroyed my game while trying to install this facepack on top of another pack called Scopefaces. Every graphics mods including logos and kits are gone with faces at the moment, i appreciate any help. Heyy found a solution, i just deleted the config.xml i had directly on Football Manager 2020 folder and it fixed. Dunno if it will create any other problem but it looks fine now if anyone has the same issue.
mons
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
Can anyone share me a few photos of their Graphics and Faces folders? I somehow destroyed my game while trying to install this facepack on top of another pack called Scopefaces. Every graphics mods including logos and kits are gone with faces at the moment, i appreciate any help. Heyy found a solution, i just deleted the config.xml i had directly on Football Manager 2020 folder and it fixed. Dunno if it will create any other problem but it looks fine now if anyone has the same issue.

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.

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/SPmzlcB2hhvUkr8Sftf0x8O3GxOWH7ad7KpQVtuf.png

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
5 years ago
1 year ago
126
@mons What can I do with the 12.0 series? I pass it to FM21 and download the 13.0 update or remove all and download the 13.0 torrent?
mons
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
@mons What can I do with the 12.0 series? I pass it to FM21 and download the 13.0 update or remove all and download the 13.0 torrent?

The bit in bold is enough
JonjoShelvey
11 years ago
5 years ago
59
Banned
You've got space for the logos as well then


Late reply but wouldn't logos not work? The Pc version uses bigger logos, right?
mons
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
Late reply but wouldn't logos not work? The Pc version uses bigger logos, right?

As far as I'm aware, FM resizes them to fit. Not sure if that's the case for FMM, though.
paranoidpixie95
10 years ago
3 years ago
2
I can't get the base 12.0 megapack to run in my FM2020 game. I've made a graphics folder and extracted the megapack into C:\Users\[user]\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2020\graphics, but when I try to load the skin in game, all players are still the black silhouette, no matter what club I try to search through. Any solutions? Does it only work once you make a new save file?

I'm running on Windows 10 via the Epic Games Store client.
mons
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
I can't get the base 12.0 megapack to run in my FM2020 game. I've made a graphics folder and extracted the megapack into C:\Users\[user]\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2020\graphics, but when I try to load the skin in game, all players are still the black silhouette, no matter what club I try to search through. Any solutions? Does it only work once you make a new save file?

I'm running on Windows 10 via the Epic Games Store client.

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
10 years ago
3 years ago
2
My mistake was not having the option for caching unchecked. I've unticked that and now everything has loaded up nicely. Thanks for the help!

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
19 years ago
10 hours ago
201
Premium
Great work as usual guys. Does anyone know if this is compatible with FM Mobile 20?
mons
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
My mistake was not having the option for caching unchecked. I've unticked that and now everything has loaded up nicely. Thanks for the help!

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?

Yep, if you do it right, you should be prompted to overwrite some existing files, which you should accept



Great work as usual guys. Does anyone know if this is compatible with FM Mobile 20?

Based on discussions in this very chat a few days ago, it results that it is indeed compatible, yes.
GavinMHolder
6 years ago
2 years ago
1
Hello there,

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
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
Hello there,

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

Can we have a screenshot of your graphics folders? And of the faces folder too? Ideally showing the full path
12345cieza
14 years ago
9 hours ago
8,165
I can't download several packs, it appairs the next text:


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
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
I can't download several packs, it appairs the next text:


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

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
14 years ago
9 hours ago
8,165
There was the same problem last 12th July in this forum.

Ican´t download next files for this problem:


Karlslunde
Austrian Mixpack 11
Westerlo
Europa pack_after 12.18_v1 (new 88 images)
mons
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
There was the same problem last 12th July in this forum.

Ican´t download next files for this problem:


Karlslunde
Austrian Mixpack 11
Westerlo
Europa pack_after 12.18_v1 (new 88 images)

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
14 years ago
9 hours ago
8,165

I hope so.

Thank you Mons.
Enuka
5 years ago
5 years ago
1
Hi!! I'm new on this, so: The content of the 33 face packs have to be in the same folder? or can they go in separate folders? I say this because there are so many .rar files and I am a bit clumsy in joining the files.
mons
20 years ago
1 hour ago
101,346
Hi!! I'm new on this, so: The content of the 33 face packs have to be in the same folder? or can they go in separate folders? I say this because there are so many .rar files and I am a bit clumsy in joining the files.

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.

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