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.

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  • 2025.01 - Released on 04 Dec 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).
Maelito
8 years ago
1 month ago
2
By mons 15 November 2021 - 14:47 PM UTC 

I'm afraid not 😢

 

Oh sad .. Thanks for the answer 

gibmirdasmegapack
3 years ago
3 years ago
2

Hey mons,

 

first of all thanks for the years of work and support you put into this!

 

I'm having a problem with the Megapack I didn't find in this thread:

Some faces show and work correctly, others appear faulty as seen in the screenshots below (faces & icons).

 

I'm using the Megapack 2022_00 with FM 2015 and followed every step in the readme file.

 

Hope you can help me, thanks in advance 🙂

mons
18 years ago
7 hours ago
91,481
By gibmirdasmegapack 15 November 2021 - 15:24 PM UTC 

Hey mons,

 

first of all thanks for the years of work and support you put into this!

 

I'm having a problem with the Megapack I didn't find in this thread:

Some faces show and work correctly, others appear faulty as seen in the screenshots below (faces & icons).

 

I'm using the Megapack 2022_00 with FM 2015 and followed every step in the readme file.

 

Hope you can help me, thanks in advance 🙂

 

Methinks you're missing the actual screenshots 😀

gibmirdasmegapack
3 years ago
3 years ago
2
By mons 15 November 2021 - 15:26 PM UTC 

Methinks you're missing the actual screenshots 😀

 

yeah just updated my first post haha 😀

Grover75262871
3 years ago
4 days ago
66

Part 13 of the complete mega pack at Depositfiles .com is gone. Can anyone reupload it?

mons
18 years ago
7 hours ago
91,481
By manstei75262871 15 November 2021 - 17:49 PM UTC 

Part 13 of the complete mega pack at Depositfiles .com is gone. Can anyone reupload it?

 

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.

Bud15P
8 years ago
11 months ago
1

Hi Mods,

i've been experiencing an issue for the part 13 or sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_2022.00.part13.rar of those pack.

Only for those part (#13), it told me like the file doesn't exist, but otherwise for the rest 18 parts of them were absolutely fine & successfully downloaded.

Will it be possible to be re-uploaded, because the alternative hosting on 'uploaded.net' were not helping at all.

Many thanks for the prompt feedback.

 

Antonio Crespo
3 years ago
1 year ago
1
Same problem here.
By Bud15P 16 November 2021 - 13:02 PM UTC

Hi Mods,

i've been experiencing an issue for the part 13 or sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_2022.00.part13.rar of those pack.

Only for those part (#13), it told me like the file doesn't exist, but otherwise for the rest 18 parts of them were absolutely fine & successfully downloaded.

Will it be possible to be re-uploaded, because the alternative hosting on 'uploaded.net' were not helping at all.

Many thanks for the prompt feedback.

 

mons
18 years ago
7 hours ago
91,481
By gibmirdasmegapack 15 November 2021 - 15:24 PM UTC 

Hey mons,

 

first of all thanks for the years of work and support you put into this!

 

I'm having a problem with the Megapack I didn't find in this thread:

Some faces show and work correctly, others appear faulty as seen in the screenshots below (faces & icons).

 

I'm using the Megapack 2022_00 with FM 2015 and followed every step in the readme file.

 

Hope you can help me, thanks in advance 🙂

 

Just realised I never got back to you on this.

 

Everything seems fine in the folder, so I don't think it's anything wrong in there.

 

It might be something with how FM displays player pictures, but I can't think what could cause that. If you manually save Zouma's 13.11 image into your faces folder, and change the preferences in-game, does it make any difference?

Footygamer
18 years ago
12 hours ago
472,501
By manstei75262871 15 November 2021 - 17:49 PM UTC 

Part 13 of the complete mega pack at Depositfiles .com is gone. Can anyone reupload it?

 

It seems fine to me? Can you screenshot?

Grover75262871
3 years ago
4 days ago
66

 

Followed every step and nothing happen.What did I done wrong?

Grover75262871
3 years ago
4 days ago
66

Kit packs and logo packs were successful but not the face pack

mons
18 years ago
7 hours ago
91,481
By manstei75262871 17 November 2021 - 08:21 AM UTC 

Kit packs and logo packs were successful but not the face pack

 

The location and preferences seem fine in so far as I can tell.

 

How many items do you have in your faces folder? Do you have a file titled config.xml in there? Do you have any sub-folders in there? If you go on Harry Kane's profile, does it display the black default face or is it a blank space?

Grover75262871
3 years ago
4 days ago
66

1.100000 .png folders but I found 3 with .jpg which I don't know why. 

2.Yes. 

3.No. 

4.Black default face displayed

Grover75262871
3 years ago
4 days ago
66

However, when I was trying to unzip the rar file, The Unarchiver said part 15 of the file is incomplete. The file is downloaded completely already which I also don't know why

mons
18 years ago
7 hours ago
91,481
By manstei75262871 17 November 2021 - 09:19 AM UTC 

1.100000 .png folders but I found 3 with .jpg which I don't know why. 

2.Yes. 

3.No. 

4.Black default face displayed

 

  1. You should have 330,000 images +. If it's 100,000, then you don't have the full megapack.

 

 

By manstei75262871 17 November 2021 - 09:22 AM UTC 

However, when I was trying to unzip the rar file, The Unarchiver said part 15 of the file is incomplete. The file is downloaded completely already which I also don't know why

 

Have you downloaded all the split files in full?

Grover75262871
3 years ago
4 days ago
66
By mons 17 November 2021 - 11:08 AM UTC 
  1. You should have 330,000 images +. If it's 100,000, then you don't have the full megapack.

 

 

 

Have you downloaded all the split files in full?

Yes

Yes

Grover75262871
3 years ago
4 days ago
66
By manstei75262871 17 November 2021 - 12:18 PM UTC 

Yes

Yes

 

It should be 330000+ images extraction

mons
18 years ago
7 hours ago
91,481
By manstei75262871 17 November 2021 - 12:24 PM UTC 

It should be 330000+ images extraction

 

Yes, which is why you are having issues with some cuts not displaying since only less than a third have been extracted.

 

Perhaps it's worth redownloading part 15 if the issue is located there. Frankly, you might as well download the torrent file and get everything in a single file without the issues you're encountering here…

Grover75262871
3 years ago
4 days ago
66

I have downloaded part 15 several times the Unarchiver still pops out the incomplete sign. Maybe because part 15 is corrupted originally? Can you have a look?

 

wiebjfedjf
4 years ago
3 days ago
94

kyogo furuhashi's face is not showing up for some reason. 

was his id changed?

all other players' faces are working perfectly, only this particular player's is not

mons
18 years ago
7 hours ago
91,481
By manstei75262871 17 November 2021 - 12:44 PM UTC 

I have downloaded part 15 several times the Unarchiver still pops out the incomplete sign. Maybe because part 15 is corrupted originally? Can you have a look?

 

I recommend downloading the torrent file to avoid these kind of issues.

 

 

By the137man 17 November 2021 - 12:44 PM UTC 

kyogo furuhashi's face is not showing up for some reason. 

was his id changed?

all other players' faces are working perfectly, only this particular player's is not

 

Earlier you mentioned you made a cut for him in a separate folder, have you removed?

 

Also, what version of the game is this and on what platform?

wiebjfedjf
4 years ago
3 days ago
94
By mons 17 November 2021 - 13:18 PM UTC 

I recommend downloading the torrent file to avoid these kind of issues.

 

 

 

Earlier you mentioned you made a cut for him in a separate folder, have you removed?

 

Also, what version of the game is this and on what platform?

 

this is fm 22 mobile

this config file is the config for the separate folder

Junior_Kensh1
6 years ago
7 hours ago
103

Hi. I just wanted to ask if the Torrent version is up to date and if not whats missing from the download segment? The Torrent version has 14.09 GB while the 17 Download parts together have something over 15 GB. 

 

btw: thanks so much for including the torrent version this time!!! 

RoMbA
11 years ago
1 year ago
170

They include always the torrent. You must download the torrent and the two changes files. If you do that, you have the 15GB.

mons
18 years ago
7 hours ago
91,481
By the137man 17 November 2021 - 14:57 PM UTC 

this is fm 22 mobile

this config file is the config for the separate folder

 

Have you unticked use caching in the preferences and ticked reload skin when confirming changes?

 

Also, you should have one folder and one folder only with a config. Remove the smaller one to be safe.

mikaaa72
3 years ago
1 day ago
5
Premium

Hi guys,

 

I just downloaded and installed the complete FM22 Cut-Out Faces Megapack and everything is fine. Now I would like to download and install the 2 Update packs. I've never done this before. Am I doing it right when I copy and overwrite the updated faces with the new config file in the faces folder and the updated iconfaces with the new config file in the iconfaces folder? And there is also a third untitled download file with 214.15 MB. Do I have to download this too? And what do I have to do with it?

 

Thanks a lot for helping. You guys are great and your work is fantastic!

 

Michael.

 

mons
18 years ago
7 hours ago
91,481
By mikaaa72 17 November 2021 - 19:05 PM UTC 

Hi guys,

 

I just downloaded and installed the complete FM22 Cut-Out Faces Megapack and everything is fine. Now I would like to download and install the 2 Update packs. I've never done this before. Am I doing it right when I copy and overwrite the updated faces with the new config file in the faces folder and the updated iconfaces with the new config file in the iconfaces folder? And there is also a third untitled download file with 214.15 MB. Do I have to download this too? And what do I have to do with it?

 

Thanks a lot for helping. You guys are great and your work is fantastic!

 

Michael.

 

The underlined bit is entirely correct and the steps are to be repeated for every update pack.

 

If the 214.15mb file is the 2022.00 update pack, then you don't need to use it at all.

Rui225
3 years ago
2 years ago
7

Hey, sorry if this is always asked but;

 

I downloaded the complete pack for the faces a few weeks ago and would now like to download just the latest update pack. I have done this but I am now just stuck on what the next steps are and what I need to do with the folder for the latest changes?

 

Thanks

mons
18 years ago
7 hours ago
91,481
By Rui225 18 November 2021 - 13:44 PM UTC 

Hey, sorry if this is always asked but;

 

I downloaded the complete pack for the faces a few weeks ago and would now like to download just the latest update pack. I have done this but I am now just stuck on what the next steps are and what I need to do with the folder for the latest changes?

 

Thanks

 

Answered just above your post 😉

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