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
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
When using Chrome, you should be able to resume the download from the download ribbon at the bottom if interrupted.
On that page, I see a link to ‘download pack torrent’. It's on the left, just above the links to the various update packs. If you do not see it, can you give us a screenshot of what you see?
acarloscc
hello. my facepacks stoped working.
correct folder (graphics under my docs/fm21/), unticked the chache, ticked the reload skin… and nothing!
logos and kits are fine, only the facepacks are not loading…
mons
The facepack doesn't just stop working. Did you add any other custom file between when it was working and now? It might be that a file you added which did not appear to be related at all which somehow stopped the pack from working.
Can I have a screenshot of your graphics folder and of your faces folder? Ideally showing the path of each and the amount of files in the latter folder too, if possible.
acarloscc
just deleted all the graphics folder and installed again all the files. it's working again.
answering you, i didn't added any other file, but… let's see…
nightowl2007
Just tried again and the download worked first time no network error or anything. Very strange.
Thanks for the help
mons
I didn't do anything, though :) All's well than ends well :)
OneLilChilean
Want to download the latest facepack updates however unsure what to do after i've downloaded all packs i've missed? Do i just copy and paste into my file however will this leave an issue with the config file?
Sorry if this has been asked before?
Side Splitting Pass
Add the contents of each update pack in date order. The config file in the most recent update pack will work for all the cut-outs.
Dmitri-K
Am I the only one thinking original colors look better here? 😁
mons
And which is the original cut? For me, the one on the left has too much green reflected on the cheek and chin, so I prefer the second one. But if you don't agree with me on this or any other cut, the beauty of the megapack is that you can easily replace the cut in the megapack with any other one of your choosing and it should work 🙂
ajaxuallyball
Hi there. I downloaded the megapack and started a save with Ajax but none of Ajax staff pictures are there except for Overmars. Am I missing something?
mons
Quite an obscure issue, I'll grant you.
Due to licensing issues, out of the whole list of Ajax staff members, only Overmars and Van der Sar (I believe) are in the default database. The remaining staff members are not visible and needed to be added as part of the licensing fix files.
The megapack works by using the config file to assign images to a person's Unique ID number. Persons who are in the database have a fixed UID, whether it's on your save game, mine or on the save game of somebody in Nepal or Bolivia. However, when it comes to persons added in a custom editor data file (like the Ajax staff mentioned above), the UID's are variable and will depend entirely on the combination of editor data file the person using them has in place. Consequently, cut-outs for persons not in the default database cannot be included in the megapack because they cannot be reliably assigned to the right person.
It is however possible for you to download the cut-outs for these persons from previous versions of the megapack using the cut-out search tool, put them in a separate folder, save them by the UID that they have in your save game and generate a config file for them using the methods outlined in this thread.
ajaxuallyball
Thank you for your reply! So basically I should find the UID of each the staff and download the pictures individually and save them as the corresponding ID number in a folder in the graphics folder? Will this carry over to other save games as well?
mons
Yes to the bit in bold.
Due to the variable UID issue, it may be the case that the persons' UID's are different in other saves and therefore the process might not necessarily work for other save games.
ajaxuallyball
Okay, thank you for your help!
Andi
Hello,
I was wondering if there is any place to download all the icon face versions of the faces or would I have to download all of these packs again?
I know it may seem a bit strange but over all these years of using these wonderful faces I have never installed the icon folders (I'm not sure if they were even a thing when I first started using this).
mons
Last month as luck would have it, I uploaded the whole iconfaces folder for somebody else, and you can download it from here.
For the icons folder to be complete, you'll need to download the 13.04 and 13.05 update packs and extract just the contents of the iconfaces folders from therein 👍
Andi
Wow that is fortunate, thank you very much. I actually just downloaded those 2 so works out perfectly.
mons
Go and buy a lottery ticket then - it's your lucky day evidently!
Dmitri-K
Any idea why these faces were not updated with the version from September 2020?
I think pics are good cutted (in terms of quality).
https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/browse/1/452481/timeline
https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/browse/1/156424/timeline
mons
I must have missed them. Both are definite improvements, I'll make sure to add them to 13.07.
jondim11
i am doing the steps but it isn't showing me for example vvd's face
mons
Can we have screenshots of the location you've installed the file in, and also of the faces folder itself? Using the latest update pack released this morning, you should have 300,000+ images in the faces folder and it should be located in Documents \ Sports Interactive \ Football Manager 2021 \ graphics
Are there any other faces which have this issue or is it just VVD?
Rosek
Good evening.
I have a slight display problem only with the faces of players from the French and Dutch teams.
I am using your full pack and it is up to date.
Do I have to re-download it completely or is it a license problem ?
Thank you
mons
You're right, it is a licensing problem and you need to download this file to solve it 👍
bp89
I wonder if, and if so, how to approach the face of Andrej Djruric (RFK Graficar-Red Star Belgrade B team, U-19)? it exists on the Sortitouts database, but it is not possible to access and download the image on its profile. If anyone can just send me a face. Thanks in advance
mons
Here you go 👍
@Footygamer, there seems to be an issue with the link to this player's profile from his team's database page, wherein the link does not include the player's name at the end of the URL (like every other player). Once input manually, it's displayed as per the above paragraph, so it's a display issue, I suspect 😉
Michael mills
Hi I have the cut out facepack all my faces seem to be showing except Liam delap of Man City can you help please
Michael mills
Managed to sort this out his ID was missing from the config file
bp89
Problem is also with Nikola Knezevic (Red Star U-19). I can't access his profile in any way. Can i get the link with the his profile on database, please?
Thanks a lot.