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 475,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.
- 480,827
- 2025.00 - Released on 29 Oct 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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Izet Pilipovic
I dont know has anyone else had this issue but my faces are all messed up. I downloaded megapack and then i installed changes from 1 to 8 to that.
If anyone has any solution to this would be helpful
mons
What version of FM are you playing?
Izet Pilipovic
Best FM there ever was, FM 15 haha
Yeah i figured it out, I didnt saw there were versions hehe all good now.
presby
Hi everyone, I recently downloaded the 17-part cut out face pack and while extracting them, I get a notification asking me if I want to replace an existing file with the new file. I realised that the files have the same name (numerical number) but the file sizes are different. Do I click Yes or No? And to be honest, I am not sure if I should be getting these notifications in the first place. Thanks!
mons
If you use the split file method, the downloaded files are all linked. So if the downloaded filea are all in the same folder, when you extract the first one, the extraction program should automatically detect the others and extract the lot.
presby
Thanks for your reply, so do I or do I not replace the file when the system asks me? I downloaded them all in the same folder too FYI.
mons
Yep, overwrite them 🙂
jaqua45
Hi all! I'm using the most up to date version of the pack and some specific faces are not loading. For example, ID 52090582 is not loading. I checked to ensure that the face was in the folder and to make sure that the ID was created in the config file which it was. I have also made sure that my settings are the same as the FAQ. If anyone has any solutions that would be really helpful!
mons
Can I have a screenshot of your faces folder? It needs to show clearly (a) the full path and (b) the amount of images contained within it (on Windows it's in the bottom left corner).
jaqua45
Here you go!
mons
You're not using the most up-to-date version of the pack. You've got just over 300,000 images in your folder, whereas the most recent update pack has over 363,000.
It's impossible to know which packs you've missed out, so my recommendation would be to download the 2022 torrent and then download the subsequent update packs and install them chronologically 👍
jaqua45
Thank you! Looks like some of the files were missing and now it's working! Cheers!!!
Mark Dimbleby
Ive downloaded the facepack and it is asking for a pin for me to extract why is this?
mons
What program are you using to extract the file? No password is necessary to extract the file, let alone a PIN.
Mark Dimbleby
Ok I was using Pea Zip but will try Win Rar free trial thanks
DadInk
Hello! No Faces for France national team, any idea why? Everything else works correctly
mons
Read the last entry in the FAQ at the top of the page 👍
maximilian8777
Hello guys, new 2022 pack not works in FM18, and I think it's because maybe the game not support 250x250 and want only image with 180x180?
There is a way? A fix to make them work in FM18?
Thanks!
mons
Cut-outs started to be produced in 250x250 in January 2018, so they worked in FM18. If they're not working, it's likely you didn't install the pack properly.
Please read the FAQs in the technical support thread and, if they don't help, post screenshots in there of your faces folder, showing clearly the full path and the amount of images contained in that folder.
maximilian8777
Hi guys, I don't know why with 2022 megapack on my FM18 some image not showing, and I check and see that the 250x250 not working, only image with 180x180 shows perfectly..
You know why?
mons
I already answered you here.
Please read the FAQs in this thread and, if they don't help, post screenshots of your faces folder, showing clearly the full path and the amount of images contained in that folder.
maximilian8777
I read the faq and follow the instrucions.
I use cut out from many years, and only after I download the last megapack 2022 I got this problem….the same pic of the new megapack that are on 180x180 works perfectly, but the pics 250x250 NO :-(
I reload the skin empy cache and use the Default theme!
180x180 show good
250x250 show empty (also the black silhouett not showing)
See the attachment
250x250 no image: https://ibb.co/pjyxZKJ
180x180 correct → https://ibb.co/51w8dcs
Folders is correct → https://ibb.co/WffZSDR
mons
There's a reason I asked you to post screenshots of your faces folder, showing clearly the full path and the amount of images contained in that folder 😉
The fact that instead of a cut-out you have a blank space would seem to indicate that you do not have the full megapack in place, because that's what happens when the game is looking for an image in the config which is not located in the folder.
It's definitely not a 180x180 or 250x250 issue, but an issue with you not having the full megapack or it not being installed properly, I'm afraid. In fact the cut-out displaying for Raoul Bellanova is not in 180x180 in the megapack but in 250x250.
Bes7i
All the faces in the megapack currently work bar the players from France and Holland, which for some reason do not have their faces.
I've checked the directory to see if they were missing in there but all the faces were in the file, just not showing up in-game.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
mons
I've moved this to here so that you can look at the last FAQ at the top of this thread to see why this is happening for you and how to solve it.
maximilian8777
Here the pic of the folder and the amout of files..
https://ibb.co/dLZv9Yn
I use the same way that I use for any FM and for any megapack….I don't know what happens…
please help
mons
That screenshot contains the full 2022.00 megapack, so in isolation it should work just fine.
Can I have a screenshot of Documents \ Sports Interactive \ Football Manager 2018 \ Graphics?
Also, in this folder, can you do a search of 142173 and post the results in this manner?
This can be achieved by posting the UID in the red circle, choosing the view tab via the blue circle, the details option in the black circle and making sure the folder in the green circle is long enough to display the full path.
This will help me see if there is one or more other folders in your user data folder which contains one or more other facepacks…
maximilian8777
Thanks,
Here your pics:
https://ibb.co/J259NB2
https://ibb.co/C2Pq4xB
mons
All looks fine there. Can you upload the config file from the faces folder?
maximilian8777
Here the file :-)