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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paul_040
Hello guys,
I’m completely new to Football Manager and to this forum. I started a few weeks ago and now I’m totally addicted to FM. I read about this cut-out-faces Megapack and downloaded it as explained on this site.
After getting the 19 GB file with Torrent, I downloaded every new 13.xx version. After extracting the files with „The Unarchiver“ (Mac) I copied the pictures in the main graphic folder and replaced the old picures. Unfortunately not all pictures are displayed in game, although they are in my graphics folder. I don’t know what I did wrong, hopefully somebody can help me.
Thank you in advance,
Paul
mons
This is the right folder, yeah. Can I see inside the faces folder?
How many images in total do you have in your faces folder? You should have well over 300k, all in just one folder and no sub-folders at all. If that is the case, have a look at the first post in this thread so that you can see what you need to change your preferences to in order for this pack to work 👍
paul_040
Yes, I have over 300k in each of my faces and iconfaces folder. I also checked the first post and my preferences were correct. I cleared the cache and reloaded the skin, but some faces still are missing in game, although they are in the folders. Maybe I should download it again? Because I don't know if there is anything else I could do.
mons
Can you mention a few of the faces which are missing in-game? Maybe with in-game screenshots and screenshots of them within your faces folder?
paul_040
I noticed many faces of German youth players are missing, but also other young players. For example Lasse Günther, Shola Shoretire or Igor Matanovic.
mons
Looks like they should be appearing, based on what you're showing me.
How large is your config.xml file in terms of filesize? And can I see your in-game preferences too please?
paul_040
That's what I think, too. Maybe I have done something wrong in the in-game preferences, but don't know what. The config.xml file is 21,3 MB big.
Let me know if you need more pictures of the preferences.
mons
You haven't overwritten the config file from the original 13.0 megapack, for some reason. The config file is what tells the game to assign what faces to which players, and the one you're using doesn't yet have the players you mention included in it, which is why they aren't showing.
Here's the most recent version 😉
paul_040
Ok wow.. now I feel stupid. Didn't exactly know what the file was and therefore didn't renew it. Now everything is showing up. Thank you so much!
Junior_Kensh1
Hi, can you also upload the Update Files as a torrent download? (like the megapack link)
mons
For the time being, it's not under consideration I'm afraid.
Chayanboy01
Can someone please help me I'm trying to download the Cut out player faces megapack, after ten times whitout any luck I'm going bananas.
The download stops after 5 min every time and I can't reload the download, its says connection lost?
Im using a Mac and have never experienced any problems like this before.
Would be grateful if someone can tell my what to do.
mons
It might be a temporary issue either with our servers or your internet connection. Use Google Chrome or a download manager to resume your download from the point it was interrupted 👍
Chayanboy01
Ok I'm going to try that, Thanks
Chayanboy01
still doesn't work…it says
sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_13.09.rar Network failurehttps://fileserver7.sortitoutsi.net/index.php?key=609f98ede5efc&domain=sortitoutsi.net
mons
Which method did you use? If you use Google Chrome, you should be able to resume the download.
Chayanboy01
I used chrome this time, but im not abel to resume the download, it stops after 855mb every time.
mons
Does this not help at all?
When you go to resume the download, what error message does it show you?
Chayanboy01
when I press resumes download its says( nätverksfel in Swedish) Connection lost.
Another strange thing is that according to chrome it will take me 10 hours to download 20gb when its usually taktes about 10 to 15 min.
I checkade my connection and its nothing wrong whit it (300mb/s)
Can I use a torrent downloader like vuze?
mons
How about if you use a download manager?
Chayanboy01
i am using download manager, I've downloaded some other things just to try and no problems there. this is very weird
mons
Very strange indeed. Try giving it a go tomorrow, maybe there's something wrong just today. I'm tagging the site owner and administrator @Footygamer so that he can take a look when he's back online 👍
Chayanboy01
perfect, have a nice Saturday evening
Dmitri-K
Hi.
Benzema is still not updated in 13.09
mons
After reviewing it, I agreed with my original assessment that the current megapack cut is better. If you want to use the more recent cut in your game, it's as easy as overwriting the current cut with the more recent one.
Taylan#2963
I am using the DF11 facepack right now.If I add this pack, will they clash or will it just fill the missing pictures from one another?
Side Splitting Pass
You will need to add the cut-outs to the same folder as the DF11 facepack cut-outs. If you want to keep all the DF11 cut-outs choose ‘skip’ when you are asked if you want to overwrite any cut-outs. You will need to add and overwrite the config file so add that seperately.
The only potential problem is if there are any players/staff in the DF11 pack that are not in the cut-out megapack. I doubt there are many (if any) that aren't in the megapack but if there are any you would have to create a new config file for the entire pack (and do a new one each time you add more cut-outs) otherwise those players/staff won't show a cut-out in the game.
Easiest way to check this is to check the number of cut-outs in your folder when everything has been added and see if it's the same number as in the cut-out megapack (currently 313,654 cut-outs).
LordObsidian
Curious about this one too, but for 14. Or just wondering how to properly apply the change files to the current years master file. Should I download every version, like 6.0-6.10 for FM14 and overwrite the files?
Qvordrup
Another solution is to just have both packs. They don't clash. The game reads the folders in alphabetical order. So the game will read and put the faces of one pack first and then read the next one and fill in the blanks. You will of course have a lot of doublets, but the game doesn't care. Another way is that every thing that goes in to your skin folder takes preference for anything in your graphics folder. So you can put the pack you prefer in your skin folder somewhere and the second priority pack in your graphics folder. Hope that helps you.
mons
I don't believe the torrent files are available for versions of this game which are this old. Even if they were, I very much doubt how many seeds you'd find. I'd suggest just using the current base megapack tbh.