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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ducc
How many png files should there be in the faces folder? I have 115 729. Judging from the xml file's line numbers, there probably should be 123 991.
mons
I know it might seem like a ball-ache now that you went to all the effort of downloading the separate packs, but you could always try to download the 5.0 megapack via torrent, available at the bottom of the page you link to above. You would then download the 4 update packs released thus far to ensure you are fully up-to-date...
ducc
Adam Eaton
Face packs have destroyed the memory on my pc, I'm literally down to 900mb left, so I've purchased an external hard drive.
Is it possible to save Face packs to external hard drives?
Cheers
mons
Adam Eaton
mons
Not really, you can change the user folder from within the preferences to wherever you like.
Joel Lucketti
Got a copy of football manager 2013 through the other day. Decided I wanted to use the face pack which a friend from work had given me a mega pack 4 which I have put as a folder containing all the faces in the graphics folder of the sports interactive folder, doing exactly the same as what he has done which works fine for him.
After doing the change round in preferences and fiddling around a lot with it, everything I do the pictures still don't appear in the game. Can anybody help or give me some advice.
cheers all
mons
Can you tell us how many images there are in the megapack folder and if there is a file named config.xml in there, please?
Joel Lucketti
there's 65,518 files and as far as I can see there's no config files only the png picture files
mons
The config file is what makes the game "read" the images. The lack of it is the reason they're not showing.
I'd suggest downloading the 5.0 torrent file from the bottom of this page, then downloading and applying the 4 subsequent update packs to be up-to-date.
caddy
caddy
mons
caddy, I'm afraid you're mistaken. You need only one config file in the base megapack download packs, which is then overwritten with each megapack update pack. The base megapack download packs are not separate entities but rather part of large folder. You do not need to have a config file in each - remember they will all end up in one folder and not separate folders.
caddy
I just extracted each one to seperate folders (i downloaded them in all the seperate parts) - should i instead have just the one folder containing every imaged?
Thanks for your response by the way
mons
gwentdragoon
mons
It's something wrong at your end then, I'm afraid. What is the exact path where you installed the megapack? With screenshots, if possible.
gwentdragoon
Adam Eaton
Any other advice on this please ?
...
mons
Again, please provide me with the exact path; copy and paste it from the address bar if necessary.
Given that you are a premium member, I am assuming that you have downloaded the file using the single-click download from this site. Can you confirm this?
Already answered earlier.
Adam Eaton
How exactly do you go about changing the user folder from within the preferences tab, ive had a quick look but i want to be 100% sure what im doing before i mess about with it because it could up up in me ruining the game and not being able to see any faces at all .. ?
Cheers
caddy
Really nice, really adds a missing element to the game.
Thanks all for your hard work
PS.....is there a similar torrent for logo packs?
mons
Use this page - the official FM13 manual and search for YOUR GAME'S FILES on that page. If you're not sure what you're doing, then I'm not sure I can recommend that you mess about with the folder structure. It's quite straight-forward imo but I recommend that you ensure you know what you're doing. Tbh, I don't think this is the right place for you to do so...
Best to ask in one of the logos forum, I think.
gwentdragoon
Again, please provide me with the exact path; copy and paste it from the address bar if necessary.
Given that you are a premium member, I am assuming that you have downloaded the file using the single-click download from this site. Can you confirm this?
Yep I downloaded it through this site the one click download, all other add ons have worked fine but for some reason since this one it just crashes. I have recently updated with the new fm13 january update. Since taking off the face pack it has not crashed.
mons
You still have not told me the exact path the MP's been placed in. Help me help you here.
The pack works fine for me and thousands of others so it's pretty clear there's something wrong at your end. Either you've installed it incorrectly or your PC can't somehow cope with the size of it, but this is imo unlikely.
gwentdragoon
If you could please state what you mean by exact path? do you mean sports interactive-football manager 2013-graphics ? as I have done it the same with all other graphics as it states in the installation guide. My computer cost 2k only last year and has plenty of memory etc.
Furthermore as I have paid for premium membership I do not appreciate to clear attitude that you are showing a customer.
mons
The price of your computer is not really relevant at this point but, as I've explained before, it's unlikely that it's related to your system, even more now that you've indicated that removing the facepack seems to remove the problem.
When exactly was the game crashing? Was it crashing during matches? Was it crashing when clicking on a particular page (player/team/competition)? Was it crashing during processing? Are the player images displaying at any point before crashing? Have you extracted the megapack file download? How many images do you have in there? Any more info you can provide will help us maybe pinpoint the problem. It seems to me that you've somehow installed it incorrectly from the little evidence that I can gather, but remote assistance is rather difficult unless you can provide me with some furthe details.
I'm not sure what your problem with me is here. It's a Sunday evening and I'm trying to help you find a solution to your problem so I don't believe your attitude is warranted tbph.
The Honduran
Thanks
gwentdragoon
It is in the documents folder, it crashes the moment I click on players sometimes maybe a day into the game. there are over 120000 images in the file and they do show before it crashes.
I understand you are trying to help me but ive paid to use this site and you say I still havent done what you asked and 'help me help you' when im not sure what you are asking, therefore did not appreciate that especially as paying for the privilage.