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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Footygamer
Please don't spend the time doing this via photoshop, we need to find a way to fix this on the server so it's part of the automated processes each month 🙂
But thankyou for your efforts!
The icons may be a different issue, they use a tool for the size conversion than I used for the compression, so lets consider them different for now.
It's strange that some are indexes and some are rgb, it may be related to the initial upload rather than the compression which was my first guess.
Are you able to provide the IDs of the few that you did identify as indexed (not icons, full faces)
Qvordrup
@Footygamer Faces (full) with indexed color:
Christiano Biraghi (43029905)
Alfred Duncan (43084308)
Jerry St. Juste (37049949)
Gaël Kakuta (34001371)
Kevin Lasagna (43092927)
I'm sure @jcwolf also could help, if you need to identify more pictures with indexed color 😀
theboyscotty
Hi all, I've downloaded the full pack and have unzipped and checked it is in the correct location. I've set the preferences, and reloaded skin many a times however I still cannot get it to work. It has even removed the existing/registered image faces (from SPFL e.g.).
Any suggestions? I'm working from a MacBook
mons
😉
theboyscotty
mons
That looks to be the correct location, but how many images do you have in your faces folder?
theboyscotty
6,911 in total. I've attached the XML file - is there an issue with this?
mons
You've only got the latest update pack, which has that exact amount. The complete megapack has 340,000+ images, so no wonder you're not seeing the whole lot.
My recommendation would be to download the torrent file, and then the subsequent update packs individually 👍
J.Watson#2546
Hello, i have previously downloaded the face packs from this website, they worked for a week or two but ive loaded on today and they are no longer working i have attempted to reset cache and reload the skin but they're still not showing
has anyone got any ideas ?
thanks!
mons
Can you please post screenshots of where you've placed them, showing clearly the full path, as well as of the amount of images contained within that folder?
KEko32
Hi
Is it normal to have a photo of a character who is a regen?
mons
What do you mean? Screenshots would help, as always 👍
KEko32
When I started the game for the first time, my secretary had a photo of a real person, now a regen coach. I'm not sure it's a bug, I just want to ask.
mons
Can I have the UID of the person in this screenshot please? Also, what version of FM are you playing?
KEko32
How do I find out the Id? I'm playing fm 21.4 version via Epic.
KEko32
I find it
KEko32
and find real player.
https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/submissions/show/2050347
mons
In FM22, that UID is assigned to a player, as you've rightly pointed out which is why he's included in the megapack. Since you're playing an older version, for any UID which is assigned to a regen, it might be the case that the UID is used in FM22 and has a cut-out in the megapack. To resolve it, open the faces folder, and move all the images whose filename is greater than 2000120959 into a separate folder (best not to delete them in case you need them if you play FM22 in the future 😉 ). You will also need to edit your config file using this method so that you get a regen face, and not a blank space.
Umar9000
Downloaded complete cut out megapack. Placed in the right place along with other packs and this cutout megapack seems to be the one not loading at all. Have the config file, deleted and redownloaded but to no avail. Can someone help please? ( I have very rarely seen some players/coaches with faces like Eric Jurado at MUN but not all faces for some reason)
mons
Have you changed the preferences as show in the first post? Also, are you running any other facepacks? They can work, but only if you know what you're doing. Finally, I have no idea who Eric Jurado at MUN is since I can't find him in the database 😕
KEko32
Thank you for the answer. One last question if I remove the face file do I need a new game? Will the Regen character appear as they should? 🙂
Umar9000
Yes I have changed the preferences, and no other facepacks Also I'm sorry I meant Marc Jurado, and I'm only assuming his face is from this pack as it is a cutout and I havent used any other packs
mons
All graphical changes can take effect in the middle of a save-game, so no you shouldn't need to start a new game, don't worry 🙂
Can I see a screenshot of your preferences and an upload of your config file as an attachment? I'd also like to see an in-game screenshot of a player who you think should have a cut-out but doesn't.
Finally, can you search for config.xml in your graphics folder (making sure that the search also includes any sub-folders) and upload a screenshot of the ensuing results? It might be the case you have a separate folder somewhere with a config file for an old or previous facepack.
Umar9000
Preferences as they should be. Marc Jurado who has a face which indicates that the megapack is working but not completely??! The config file from my graphics folder and I searched for config.xml and find their specific locations but I checked faces & iconfaces and the config file is present in both.
mons
For the third screenshot, can you change the view so that I can see the full path they're located in? Otherwise I can't tell which (if any) shouldn't be there.
I'd also like to see an in-game screenshot of a player who you think should have a cut-out but doesn't.
Umar9000
Here. Also the config file in faces folder isnt shown here but in screenshot #4 you can see its there. Also its not that Marc Jurado shouldnt have a face its that he does have a face while no one else does in my team.
IgorTMT
i cant extract 13.07, 2022.00 and 2022.01, winrar says format unknown or damaged archive, 7zip says its broken too
mons
Why do you have a config file directly in the graphics folder?
Remove it and see if the pack works. It's 12MB big, whereas the one in your faces folder is 24MB. The latter is correct, and I have no idea where you got the former from.
Most probably the file didn't fully download. Try downloading it again, and make sure the file size downloaded is the same as the one listed on the download page.
IgorTMT
i downloaded 13.07 2 times on uploaded and the error continue, i download from 13.07 until 22.03 and only this 3 have errors, the size is the same of download page
mons
Not sure what I can say as the files aren't hosted on our site and nobody else has reported any issues anyway 😢