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.
- 463,302
- 2024.07 - Released on 15 Apr 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
That's strange. How large is the file you've downloaded?
JamesDavies10
One of them “2022.01” is 16,002,892 KB.
The other “2022.00.part01” is 976,563 KB.
I don't think it tells me anywhere in terms of number of actual pictures.
Here is a screenshot of the graphics folder, in case that helps.
mons
Ignore the file whose name ends with part 01. You should delete that.
Try extracting the file which is 16,000,000 kb large, I think that's the full megpapack.
IAmTheStag
Evening, over the years I have downloaded the changes files and added them too my megapack each month. The last file I downloaded with 13.15. I have noticed version 2022.00 and 2022.01 have since been added to the changes page and say 4k-5k files in each.
Probably me being stupid and forgetting but I am slightly confused whether I need to download these as well? If I click download on 2022.00 it takes me to a page to download the full megapack in 17 separate downloads again?
I downloaded the megapack many years ago and just become used to downloading the monthly updates ever since so I have forgotten what I need to do here now.
mons
It's a known issue and not working as intended and something which we hope to resolve soon.
Once it's sorted, you'll need to download the 2022.00 update pack and the 2022.01 update pack (and soon the 2022.02 update pack) and you'll be fine 👍
Come back tomorrow and I imagine it'll be solved 🙂
Andrej Novotný
Hello guys, I have a problem regarding this pack download. Every time I try to download this pack it stops the download at exactly 2 megabytes and will not download any further. I have tried multiple browsers (opera, chrome, explorer), tried to restart the pc but nothing helped. I thought that maybe my downloads where somehow limited but I am able to download other face packs of the same size without a problem. I had this pack before for the 21 game without any problems but after switching to the new game I cant download it anymore. Any tips would be appreciated.
Thank you so much for your help and advice in advance!
mons
Try using Chrome in incognito mode and you should be able to resume the download from the point it was interrupted, if that happens.
Andrej Novotný
I have just tried it but it doesnt help either, still stopped exactly on 2 megabytes. 😢
Edit: I also tried downloading 2022.00 without the update and it also stops on the same mark. This isnt the case with other facepacks and content on this site.
mons
@Slin91
@Heldacarite
@Joshua Cinna
@Kiliwick
@JD_1984
@IAmTheStag
@Andrej Novotný
You should now be able to choose if you want to download the 22.00 full pack, its torrent or just the update pack 👍
Carlito85
Regarding the 2022.00 download with it being a base file, do I just need to overwrite all images in the faces folder as per usual?
mons
You need to download the 2022.00 update pack (i.e. not the full file) then overwrite your existing files, yeah.
Carlito85
Thanks a lot. I'm so glad I asked first lol, I had downloaded the full pack so I would have probably overwritten all of the FM21 updates up to 13.15.
mons
If you have already downloaded the full pack, you might as well extract it. You'll be sure you haven't skipped an update pack or not installed everything correctly, though you might well already have everything installed.
Mr. Riddle
Hi guys. First year I have a problem with this facepack. Downloaded both the 22 version and update pack 1.
Downloaded, extracted, ticked all the boxed but somehow I do not get the faces working. Noticed it when starting a save with Ajax and most of the youth players did not have faces. I included a picture with proof, but it has occured at several players tested (Rico Speksnijder, Danny Disveld).
Help! 😢
mons
Both players you mentioned were added in 2022.01. I suspect you haven't updated the config file correctly. What is the date modified for the config.xml?
gogthndbfkvkck
Hi,
Just wondered if anyone can help me I usually keep the default faces that come with each FM version and I know I have to extract the faces from the resource archiver but could someone tell me what i then do. I have tried saving them in with my other megapack pics but unfortunately the default faces are still not showing in the game.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
mons
Read this.
This year, there's an additional step wherein the default faces don't have a transparent background like our files so you'll need to use remove.bg to remove the existing background. Frankly, that sounds like too much work when you can have our megapack, but it's your call…
Mr. Riddle
Ay, that solved it! Strange, I usually copy all the files and overwrite them. Never knew the config file was a big deal, though.
Cheers for the assistence! And thanks for all the hard work regarding the facepack. Much appreciated!
mons
The config is what tells the game to map which image to which player. It's the most important file 🙂
Kawooya Malcolm
Hello
Thank you everyone who has worked to put the Cut-Out Faces Megapack together and for the support here
“sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_2022.00.part13” nolonger seems to be available on both uploaded.net (seems to only download a 1 KB file) and DepositFiles (removed due to copyright). I have all the other parts downloaded, can I get a link to this specific one?
Kawooya Malcolm
For clarity, I am downloading from the free downloads page: https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/1/download/complete
John Jopek
Hello! I keep getting an error when i try to upload my pictures to a usb drive to copy to my game computer. Any suggestions on why this is happening?
NateRego
I can not get this to work for FM 17, if anyone has a cut out facepack for that or a 13.0 version that worked for me last time then let me know!
mons
Since the files are hosted outside our pages, there isn't much we can do about this unfortunately. You could try downloading the pack via torrent and get it this way.
Google throws up this link.
It should work just fine, you're most likely not installing it properly. Have you changed the preferences as per the first post? Can you give me a screenshot of your faces folder?
Kawooya Malcolm
Alright. Thank you.
Does the torrent contain the “…changes.rar” files? Or I will have to download those seperately
mons
Torrent file is 2022.00.
Update packs 2022.01 and 2022.02 have to be download separately 👍
MT55
I've gone back to playing football manager mobile this year on my Chromebook as phone is too small, I've downloaded the megapack fine but when extracting it's stuck on 0% all the player IDs are showing as being extracted but it's still 0% and I started it yesterday so over 24 hours. I'm guessing I need to give up?
LUKADONCICFAN7
After I downloaded the latest update some of the faces are blurred. what did I do wrong
mons
As I don't have a Chromebook, I can't really give specific help but if it's been stuck at 0% for 24 hours, it's clearly not extracting well.
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.
I suspect you've put the iconfaces in the faces folder. Re-install it again, making sure you put the contents of each folder in the right place.
karumarinan
hello, i did everything on guide but i still cannot see faces of players in game. i downloaded normal version of fm22 from xbox game pass. please help 😢