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.
- 482,917
- 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
No idea how you managed that. Here it is to avoid you having to download it again.
s-d-b89
Thx Mate. I've created a new one with fmxml.
178933 Files at the Faces Folder and 331554 Files at the Icon Faces? Is that correct? I wonder why theres some German 4th Level Players which have an Cut Out at the Database. But not at the Latest Facepack.
Examples: Eric Gründemann (VfB Lübeck) 92090306. In the player search theres one for him and in the faces folder theres no file with that ID.
Same for Morten Rüdiger (Lübeck too) 91147353
Are some Players sorted out of the facepack?
mons
You don't seem to have downloaded the full file or to have extracted the full faces folder, you should have over 331k images in the faces folder too.
s-d-b89
ok I will try it again.
fatmup
Yeah I'd done nothing wrong myself, been using your packs for years and just did the same I always do. Reloading the skin in the game wasn't working after I installed the facepack and so I quit the game and restarted it and they still weren't showing. But then I went into preferences and clicked ‘reload skin’ and this time they all started showing as normal. Bit weird because it's not something that I've seen happen before but at least they work now! Thanks for all your hard work.
Jason Cheung
Can I copy the fm21 megapack 13.0 -13.5 and 2022.0 (214mb) to FM22 ?
Is it work on fm22?
mons
Yes, of course. Just for the record, the final 13.x update pack was 13.15, not 13.5. I'm assuming it's a typo, but if not, I suggest removing your current files and downloading the 22.0 torrent, which will include the whole megapack.
JimmyHS
I've downloaded the megapack with torrent but I can't extract them…
I've tried different app to extract the rar file but none of them are working. It stops at 0% or like 97%.
Why ? What could be the problem ? Is it just really really the size that makes it very very long to extract (more than 20 minutes as I type) ? Should I just wait ?
EDIT: Sorry, it just finished as I finished typing that message… Just had to wait longer.
Want to delete this comment now but don't know how.
Thanks for the work you're doing every year, really appreciate what you guys do for the community ! Cheers 🙂
mons
How big is the file you downloaded? Are you sure it fully downloaded?
And yes, a file this big will generally take much more than 20 minutes to extract.
ChandalAzul
Hey,
Thank you for the amazing job every year ! Do you know if their is a way to extract original faces from players already include in the game without the fm resource archiver tool please ? Thanks
mons
No, that's the only way.
dedsnek
The link for the torrent on this page is completely dead for me. I really dont know whats wrong.
dedsnek
Trying a different browser fixed it. Issue was with Brave Browser, download worked with Edge.
sixteen_weasels
I have downloaded the 2022.0 megapack and successfully installed it for FM22; however I have added some additional faces to the game from the completed submissions page on Sortitoutsi and I can't get these to display in my game. They're in the correct folder location; correct format and I have unchecked caching/ticked reload skin but cannot get the new added faces to show. Any ideas?
Deano1903
Have you added the players added to the config file?
For every player added to you need to add an additional config line :
<record from="*****" to="graphics/pictures/person/*****/portrait"/>
Replace the 5* in the above example with the players UID
sixteen_weasels
Thanks for that! where can I find the config file?
Deano1903
Should be in the "faces" folders
sixteen_weasels
Still no luck; do the UIDs need to be added in sequential order or can it be added to the end of the list? ie:
<record from="999" to="graphics/pictures/person/999/portrait"/>
<record from="9997" to="graphics/pictures/person/9997/portrait"/>
<record from="desktop" to="graphics/pictures/person/0/portrait"/>
<record from="2000102538" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000102538/portrait"/>
</list>
</record>
K_Mort23
I've downloaded the FM22 Megapack but seem to be missing Spanish leagues, English leagues atm. Will these be added in future updates? Thanks
Deano1903
From my experience they can be added at the bottom.
The faces you've added manually, are they named as the players UID and not the players name?
sixteen_weasels
UID's were correct; I just had saved them in the wrong folder - all sorted. Thanks for your help!
Deano1903
No problem, glad you've got it sorted
mons
There are more than 330,000 cut-outs in the megapack, and that is the amount of images which should be in your faces folder. If that is not the case, then you have not downloaded the full megapack, and I suspect this is why the Spanish and English leagues aren't displaying for you.
That, or you haven't changed the preferences to look like this:
K_Mort23
Thanks
I do have over 330000 faces in the icon faces folder. I downloaded the megabuck from torrent option this morning, and I've just confirmed that me preferences are as above. There's still a lot of faces not loading up on the game. I must be missing something very simple
mons
Can you give a couple of examples, with screenshots, of players you think should have a cut-out but don't?
Do you have a file titled config.xml in your faces folder?
Can I have a screenshot of your faces folder? If possible, I'd like to see the full path it's in too.
K_Mort23
K_Mort23
The faces folder is within the application support-sports interactive-football manager 2022-graphics path. The one thing I can't see is the config.xml folder
mons
By the screenshots you've uploaded, it's clear the game isn't reading them at all. The config.xml file is the most important one, it tells the game which image to display for which person. If you're missing it, it's a bit like having possession of a mansion but not having a key to the door 😉
Check in the original torrent file - there should be a file titled config.xml in the faces folder, and copy it over to the faces folder.
Otherwise, wait until later this afternoon when I hope to have a new update pack available for download and use the new config file together with all the new images 😉
K_Mort23
Ok that's brilliant. Thanks for your help
gaz_25798
Is this new update from today added new player faces for fm22? ie new players in the game born 2005 for example that werent on fm21