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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  • 2024.06 - Released on 17 Mar 2024
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 karumarinan 11 November 2021 - 15:59 PM UTC 

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 😢 

 

That doesn't show anything from this download 😕

karumarinan
9 years ago
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By mons 11 November 2021 - 16:09 PM UTC 

That doesn't show anything from this download 😕



i am sorry i just checked and saw i downloaded only update version 22.01 from files. will download complete edition now and will try again 🙂

 

Nik Jones
2 years ago
2 years ago
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Good Evening, I wondered if I'd be able to get some help. I wanted to be able to restore some of the original faces from FM22 instead of using the cut out face pack for the team I'm playing with as it has overwritten newer pictures of the players. Is this possible? If so is it possible to know how? Many thanks in advance.

 

Nik

mons
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By Nik Jones 11 November 2021 - 21:39 PM UTC 

Good Evening, I wondered if I'd be able to get some help. I wanted to be able to restore some of the original faces from FM22 instead of using the cut out face pack for the team I'm playing with as it has overwritten newer pictures of the players. Is this possible? If so is it possible to know how? Many thanks in advance.

 

Nik

 

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…

Nik Jones
2 years ago
2 years ago
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Thank you for your response, I have read through that post. So if I understand correctly it's not possible to go back to the standard FM images?

 

Apologies if I've misunderstood

Nik Jones
2 years ago
2 years ago
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By mons 11 November 2021 - 21:43 PM UTC 

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…

 

ironically also the team I'm using is Stevenage who are one of Luton's local rivals (which was the team in question from the original poster)!

mons
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By Nik Jones 11 November 2021 - 21:54 PM UTC 

Thank you for your response, I have read through that post. So if I understand correctly it's not possible to go back to the standard FM images?

 

Apologies if I've misunderstood

 

Yes, it is possible but it entails a fair bit of work to get it done, which is frankly not worth it just to get an image which is a few months more recent than what is in the megapack already.

Nik Jones
2 years ago
2 years ago
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By mons 11 November 2021 - 22:01 PM UTC 

Yes, it is possible but it entails a fair bit of work to get it done, which is frankly not worth it just to get an image which is a few months more recent than what is in the megapack already.

 

Understood, no problem at all.

 

Thanks again for your response and all the great work you guys do.

weeniehutjr
6 years ago
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By Nik Jones 11 November 2021 - 21:54 PM UTC 

Thank you for your response, I have read through that post. So if I understand correctly it's not possible to go back to the standard FM images?

 

Apologies if I've misunderstood

You can, but you'd manually search each player's entry in the megapack config.xml file by their UID and delete them from the config, then reload the skin in FM to refresh the cache; if you have the full megapack downloaded that might take a while.

Nik Jones
2 years ago
2 years ago
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By weeniehutjr 11 November 2021 - 22:02 PM UTC 

You can, but you'd manually search each player's entry in the megapack config.xml file by their UID and delete them from the config, then reload the skin in FM to refresh the cache; if you have the full megapack downloaded that might take a while.

 

Ok I'll give that a go, that sounds at least a little quicker than what I had planned to do with cutting out the players faces myself and replacing their picture manually from within the megapack.

 

Cheers for the heads up, I'll give it a look now

Nik Jones
2 years ago
2 years ago
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By weeniehutjr 11 November 2021 - 22:02 PM UTC 

You can, but you'd manually search each player's entry in the megapack config.xml file by their UID and delete them from the config, then reload the skin in FM to refresh the cache; if you have the full megapack downloaded that might take a while.

 

Worked like a dream, thank you so much for your help!

Nik Jones
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telu
3 years ago
1 week ago
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hola buenos días, esta es mi primera vez en FM, ¿debo descargar solo el megapack cortado o también los archivos 2022.00, 2022.01 y 2022.02? 

mons
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By telu 12 November 2021 - 08:37 AM UTC 

hola buenos días, esta es mi primera vez en FM, ¿debo descargar solo el megapack cortado o también los archivos 2022.00, 2022.01 y 2022.02

 

Please post in English as this is an English-language forum.

 

The bit in bold is correct 👍

telu
3 years ago
1 week ago
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By mons 12 November 2021 - 12:11 PM UTC 

Please post in English as this is an English-language forum.

 

The bit in bold is correct 👍

Sorry . hello good day, this is my first time on FM, should I download only the megapack cut out or also the files 2022.00, 2022.01 and 2022.02?

 

mons
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By telu 12 November 2021 - 16:22 PM UTC 

Sorry . hello good day, this is my first time on FM, should I download only the megapack cut out or also the files 2022.00, 2022.01 and 2022.02?

 

The bit in bold is correct 👍

 

After downloading the main megapack 2022.00, you then need to download 2022.01 and 2022.02

covi
7 years ago
1 year ago
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Hi, sorry if this has been already answered, but as I extract the file into FM/graphics, winrar says that some files have the same name, what should I do? 

Nexus85
12 years ago
7 months ago
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Hi, first of all I wanna thank you for amazing jobs with the face packs every year..

But this year I dont understand what I have done wrong, all the logos, kits and trophies is working but I cant get the faces to show? 

I have downloaded the full mega pack and also the first update. 

pickyboloxnese
9 years ago
1 month ago
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By Nexus85 13 November 2021 - 01:44 AM UTC 

Hi, first of all I wanna thank you for amazing jobs with the face packs every year..

But this year I dont understand what I have done wrong, all the logos, kits and trophies is working but I cant get the faces to show? 

I have downloaded the full mega pack and also the first update. 

 

same thing happened to me. i recently move my default sport interactive documents to Drive “D”, logo , kit, skin works just fine but the face wont. any solution for this matter?

 

mons
17 years ago
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By covi 12 November 2021 - 23:53 PM UTC 

Hi, sorry if this has been already answered, but as I extract the file into FM/graphics, winrar says that some files have the same name, what should I do? 

 

Do you have a previous version of the megapack installed?

 

What is the exact path you're placing it in? Full path please.

 

 

By Nexus85 13 November 2021 - 01:44 AM UTC 

Hi, first of all I wanna thank you for amazing jobs with the face packs every year..

But this year I dont understand what I have done wrong, all the logos, kits and trophies is working but I cant get the faces to show? 

I have downloaded the full mega pack and also the first update. 

By pickyboloxnese 13 November 2021 - 08:18 AM UTC 

same thing happened to me. i recently move my default sport interactive documents to Drive “D”, logo , kit, skin works just fine but the face wont. any solution for this matter?

 

 

Can I have a screenshot of both your faces folder?

Nexus85
12 years ago
7 months ago
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By mons 13 November 2021 - 08:35 AM UTC 

Do you have a previous version of the megapack installed?

 

What is the exact path you're placing it in? Full path please.

 

 

 

 

Can I have a screenshot of both your faces folder?

 

Yes sure, what do you want to see in the folders?

mons
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By Nexus85 13 November 2021 - 10:35 AM UTC 

Yes sure, what do you want to see in the folders?

 

I'd like you to answer my questions 👍

 

Do you have a previous version of the megapack installed?

 

What is the exact path you're placing it in? Full path please. Ideally with screenshots.

Nexus85
12 years ago
7 months ago
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By mons 13 November 2021 - 10:52 AM UTC 

I'd like you to answer my questions 👍

 

Do you have a previous version of the megapack installed?

 

What is the exact path you're placing it in? Full path please. Ideally with screenshots.

 

The only version I have is the megapack and the changes pack 214,55 MB

mons
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By Nexus85 13 November 2021 - 11:06 AM UTC 

The only version I have is the megapack and the changes pack 214,55 MB

 

How large is the faces folder in terms of images? Can I see a screenshot inside it? Does it have a sub-folder inside it?

Nexus85
12 years ago
7 months ago
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By mons 13 November 2021 - 11:19 AM UTC 

How large is the faces folder in terms of images? Can I see a screenshot inside it? Does it have a sub-folder inside it?

mons
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By Nexus85 13 November 2021 - 11:44 AM UTC 

 

That looks fine thus far 👍

 

Earlier you mentioned that you have installed the update pack(s) as well. Where is it? That folder contains only the images for the base 2022.00 pack. Looks like you might have installed it elsewhere.

Nexus85
12 years ago
7 months ago
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By mons 13 November 2021 - 11:47 AM UTC 

That looks fine thus far 👍

 

Earlier you mentioned that you have installed the update pack(s) as well. Where is it? That folder contains only the images for the base 2022.00 pack. Looks like you might have installed it elsewhere.

 

Maybe thats where I got i wrong? I just copy paste it on to the same folder and overwrite it?

mons
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By Nexus85 13 November 2021 - 11:51 AM UTC 

Maybe thats where I got i wrong? I just copy paste it on to the same folder and overwrite it?

 

The contents of the faces folder(s) from the update pack(s) should go into this folder. If done right, you should be asked if you want to overwrite - say yes//accept/ok.

Nexus85
12 years ago
7 months ago
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By mons 13 November 2021 - 11:58 AM UTC 

The contents of the faces folder(s) from the update pack(s) should go into this folder. If done right, you should be asked if you want to overwrite - say yes//accept/ok.

 

Maybe a stupid question here but do you mean both folders should go in faces? faces and icon faces in the same folder or is it seperat?

But what do you suggest I do if it doesnt work? 

mons
17 years ago
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By Nexus85 13 November 2021 - 12:03 PM UTC 

Maybe a stupid question here but do you mean both folders should go in faces? faces and icon faces in the same folder or is it seperat?

But what do you suggest I do if it doesnt work? 

 

The contents of the faces folder(s) from the update pack(s) should go into this folder. If done right, you should be asked if you want to overwrite - say yes//accept/ok.

 

Same for the contents of the iconfaces folder.

 

I'm not sure how to answer the second question 😕 Do the above and you should be fine.

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