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 450,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.

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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. 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'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, starting with the oldest.
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:
https://i.imgur.com/85lGeDc.png

The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:

https://i.imgur.com/jbZkFfw.png

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.
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’

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:
https://i.imgur.com/jbZkFfw.png

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.
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.
If you're using Gamepass, then you have to use the default user data folder (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)
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.
You need to copy and overwrite the faces and the new config file from the update pack into the faces folder and follow the same procedure for the iconfaces 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.
Please report this so that they can be reuploaded.
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.
This download has two folders: one is the faces folder which contains the cut-outs which should be displayed on this screen. There is also a file titled config.xml which tells the game which images to assign to which person. The other folder is the iconfaces folder which contains the smaller images displayed near a person's name on the menu which comes up when you right-click on them, and also includes a different config file for this folder.

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.
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 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).
mons
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By R Charlston 15 October 2021 - 09:39 AM UTC 

hi yes i reverified due to a crash

 

are you saying reload the name fix?

 

Reinstall it, yes.

 

Verifying the game data recreates licensing-related files which are removed when the fix is installed from scratch, so doing that should solve your issue in your current save game 👍

Bielsa is a Legend
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By mons 15 October 2021 - 09:41 AM UTC 

Reinstall it, yes.

 

Verifying the game data recreates licensing-related files which are removed when the fix is installed from scratch, so doing that should solve your issue in your current save game 👍

 

cheers mate

Bielsa is a Legend
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By mons 19 October 2021 - 06:15 AM UTC 

Update pack 22.0 is now available for download, containing 4,129 new or improved cut-outs. The base megapack for FM22, also available via torrent, has 331,256 images in total.

 

Before any of you panic, the 22.0 update pack follows straight from the 13.15 update pack. The decision was taken to standardise the naming convention in line with all the other megapacks available on the site, and to make it more evident which version of the game the pack is for. Those who were up-to-date just need to download the 22.0 update pack, as always.

 

Once FM22 is released, we have a large chunk of cut-outs for players newly added to the database which will be released in the forthcoming update packs, so do keep coming back for more.

 

As always, I cannot but thank all the contributors to this pack, who have excelled themselves yet again with the sheer breadth and quality of the work produced. Since 13.0 was released, the 16 update packs released in just under a year have included 96,045 cut-outs, of which a massive 51,978 were new to the pack. Of course, there are always more images to be added, so do come back regularly to update your megapack with the latest cuts - we aim to release update packs every 3 weeks 👍

 

has the link gone?

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By R Charlston 19 October 2021 - 08:06 AM UTC 

has the link gone?

 

Was working fine when I checked earlier this morning but it looks like the cut-out faces download page is temporarily unavailable @Footygamer 

Cierna
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Trying to download cut out faces but when i click the download tab there is no page.

mons
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By Cierna 19 October 2021 - 12:37 PM UTC 

Trying to download cut out faces but when i click the download tab there is no page.

 

Known issue as per the above. The site admin is working on it 👍

enziocosta
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I gotta to wait to get FM22 Cut-Out Megapack 22.00 torrent.

 

Great work @mons  and Cut-Out staff.

benmarsh
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Not gunna lie i thought it was the end of the cut out faces on sortitoutsi for fm when i saw nothing coming up ha

Kampiaorinis
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The link still seems down for me, basically everything under cut-out seems down. Is it the same for everybody else? 

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By Kampiaorinis 19 October 2021 - 16:36 PM UTC 

The link still seems down for me, basically everything under cut-out seems down. Is it the same for everybody else? 

 

yes as explained by mons 3 posts up

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By R Charlston 19 October 2021 - 16:43 PM UTC 

yes as explained by mons 3 posts up

 

I am sorry, the time shown next to the posts is somehow different from my actual time and I thought the post was talking about early morning

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By Kampiaorinis 19 October 2021 - 16:48 PM UTC 

I am sorry, the time shown next to the posts is somehow different from my actual time and I thought the post was talking about early morning

 

It's a known issue it has been reported and will be resolved in due course 

 

Bielsa is a Legend
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By Kampiaorinis 19 October 2021 - 16:48 PM UTC 

I am sorry, the time shown next to the posts is somehow different from my actual time and I thought the post was talking about early morning

 

No problem, I was about to press the link this morning and it just went

mons
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We ask for your patience while it's being resolved; as always, it'll be worth the wait 😉

kfnielsen
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Take your time @mons  

U guys doing hell of a job in here 

kingrobbo
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Download link seems to be back up now 😉

 

any further issues report here  https://sortitoutsi.net/comments/get/653461 

FM Bard
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Apologies for asking this….if you're already at 13.15 are you up to date?

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By FM Bard 19 October 2021 - 23:55 PM UTC 

Apologies for asking this….if you're already at 13.15 are you up to date?

yes the latest update is shown at the top of this page and in Megapack Download link and the latest is 13.15

 

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mons
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By kingrobbo 19 October 2021 - 22:50 PM UTC 

Download link seems to be back up now 😉

 

any further issues report here  https://sortitoutsi.net/comments/get/653461 

 

By FM Bard 19 October 2021 - 23:55 PM UTC 

Apologies for asking this….if you're already at 13.15 are you up to date?

 

 

The link for the new update pack 22.00 is temporarily down while it's getting fixed, should be back up pretty soon 👍

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By mons 20 October 2021 - 05:35 AM UTC 

The link for the new update pack 22.00 is temporarily down while it's getting fixed, should be back up pretty soon 👍

 

was working when I posted the update earlier and just tried again seems fine for me

 

Footy had repaired the issue

mons
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By kingrobbo 20 October 2021 - 05:44 AM UTC 

was working when I posted the update earlier and just tried again seems fine for me

 

Footy had repaired the issue

 

It's the 13.15 pack, released on 8 October, which is active right now.  The 22.00 pack, released yesterday, is being worked on to be available again soon 😉

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By mons 20 October 2021 - 05:47 AM UTC 

It's the 13.15 pack, released on 8 October, which is active right now.  The 22.00 pack, released yesterday, is being worked on to be available again soon 😉

 

cheers wasnt aware the 22pack was the issue😉

 

trikoulis
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Hi @mons. When i went to 2022.00_changes I can't find the free mirrors. 

mons
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By trikoulis 21 October 2021 - 18:26 PM UTC 

Hi @mons. When i went to 2022.00_changes I can't find the free mirrors. 

 

By mons 21 October 2021 - 12:57 PM UTC 

22.00 is now finally re-available for download 👏

 

Thanks to @Footygamer, the filesize has been compressed further from 22GB+ to less than 15GB, to allow easier access to the megapack 🙂 It took well over a day and a half to generate (hence the delay in getting it back up!) and the split files have to be recreated accordingly, so bear with us while this happens. In the meantime, the torrent file containing the whole 22.0 base megapack should be available for download. We are hoping the compression process will ensure that the update packs from now on while also be correspondingly smaller in size.

 

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AndreasBW1978
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I have a question. I only have the Megapack 13 so far. Do I need the Megapack 13 and all the changes up to 13.15 for FM22 or is the new Megapack 2022 sufficient for it?

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By AndreasBW1978 21 October 2021 - 18:49 PM UTC 

I have a question. I only have the Megapack 13 so far. Do I need the Megapack 13 and all the changes up to 13.15 for FM22 or is the new Megapack 22 sufficient for it?

 

You can download the 13.00 megapack and all 15 update packs for the 13.0 version, plus the 22.0 update pack.

 

Or you can download the full 22.0 torrent file and get the same thing in one go 😉

AndreasBW1978
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Ok. Then Megapack 2022 is enough. Thank you for the quick answer. 🙂

mick1
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I have version 13.15, do I need to remove all parts of 22.0 ? No free mirror for the changes only ?

mons
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By mick1 21 October 2021 - 21:01 PM UTC 

I have version 13.15, do I need to remove all parts of 22.0 ? No free mirror for the changes only ?

 

Read the second paragraph of this post for the answer to your first question and the second paragraph of this post for the answer to your second one.

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