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.

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  • 2025.00 - Released on 29 Oct 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 upnatem | Permalink | On 21 April 2013 - 18:21 PM
Just got new laptop so downloaded the megapack again.. Only problem is its a rar file and not a zip.. Is this correct? If so do I just move it into the required folder? Thanks

Just extract it with winrar and place it in the folder indicated in the readme.
efekati
11 years ago
11 years ago
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I bought football manager 13 (my first ever FM) the other day and I decided I should download this pack after it was recommended by some friends. After downloading this, I dragged it into my 'graphics' folder which I created after reading the instructions and renamed the folder which was called sortitoutsi to faces. I placed the folder in Football Manager 2013 folder which is in the SportsInteractive folder. I then opened FM 13 and unticked the cache box at the top and ticked the box underneath, as instructed. However, when I ran my game, the player faces weren't there! What have I done wrong and how can I fix this??

Also, in my faces folder, all the images are there and nothing has been erased, so it's not because of that
P.S: is the Turkish league in this pack?

I checked how many images are in the folder and there is 8039. In my save, I've only enabled the French, English, Spanish, Italian, German and Turkish leagues. I have only enabled the top division for each of these apart from England, where I have enabled the leagues up to npower league 2.

It is located like this;
Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2013 > graphics > faces

I also have no idea what you mean by config.xml
mons
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The location is good however you have way, way, way less images than there are in the full megapack. You should have over 125,000 images in all...

What download method did you use? I suggest you use the torrent file and subsequently apply the update packs.
efekati
11 years ago
11 years ago
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I literally just clicked on Download Complete Pack 5.5 then clicked on Part 1 under hotfile.com. Can you give me a link to the correct torrent download link?
mons
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By efekati | Permalink | On 22 April 2013 - 22:19 PM
I literally just clicked on Download Complete Pack 5.5 then clicked on Part 1 under hotfile.com. Can you give me a link to the correct torrent download link?

Part 1 should have indicated there's more of it, no?

Go to the bottom of the download page to get the torrent link.
efekati
11 years ago
11 years ago
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Ok, I'm downloading the torrent link now. After I've downloaded it, do I have to download update pack 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5? If so, how long would it take to download all of them on an average laptop with decent internet connection? And would it work if I didn't download all of them so I can just play it unfinished temporarily? And are club badges included in this pack?
mons
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By efekati | Permalink | On 22 April 2013 - 22:42 PM
Ok, I'm downloading the torrent link now. After I've downloaded it, do I have to download update pack 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5? If so, how long would it take to download all of them on an average laptop with decent internet connection? And would it work if I didn't download all of them so I can just play it unfinished temporarily? And are club badges included in this pack?

You need to download all the update packs in order, yes. You can add new graphics at any time, even in a saved game.

This is called the Cut-Out Faces Megapack - do you think club badges are included? I personally recommend the Metallic Logo megapack for that.
efekati
11 years ago
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How would I download the Logos Megapack then? Is it the same exact method? What folder would I save it in? also, would adding all of this make my game slower or would it not make a difference?
mons
18 years ago
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For assistance on how to download and install the logos megapack, I suggest you ask in the respective forum.

Adding graphics does not make the game itself slower, but it does mean that when you load the game, it will take a little longer to load. But once you're in, it does not affect the game's speed.
Taher
11 years ago
11 years ago
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Hi I am having trouble downloading this from the link provided on your website, I have paid for the membership (given that this is a fan site) can you help and check the link works ok at your end?

Thanks
mons
18 years ago
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This could be a problem with your connection disconnecting temporarily rather than our site. Have you tried using a download manager to resume interrupted downloads?
alexjp_COYB
13 years ago
7 years ago
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I have downloaded a cut out from here for Gotoku Sakai of Stuttgart - he didn't have one before because he's newly added in most recent patch - however it doesn't seem to work as he still has the blank head shape - any suggestions?
mons
18 years ago
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Are you sure that the UID for the image in the official database is the same as the one in your game? Could be you downloaded an unofficial add-on which created him...
alexjp_COYB
13 years ago
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the UID is the same on the cutout and for the player in the game - the cutout is from the latest megapack
mons
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5.06 should be out very soon, maybe it's a config issue and it'll be solved with the release. If not, let us know.
lewis120
17 years ago
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Just had this message when i tried to extract the megapack:

! D:\Downloads\fm 13 graphics\sortitoutsi_megapack_5.06 (2).rar: CRC failed in sortitoutsi\faces\38017475.png. The file is corrupt
! D:\Downloads\fm 13 graphics\sortitoutsi_megapack_5.06 (2).rar: The file "???" header is corrupt

Is there anyway to download the individual files again without having to download the whole megapack again ??
mons
18 years ago
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How many images in all were extracted before you got that error message? You should have 127,713 or thereabouts. If you have significantly less than that, I'd suggest you download the file again.

To search for individual images, you can use the megapack search tool
lewis120
17 years ago
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There are only 90374 so it looks like I'll have to download it all again. Thanks for the reply anyway.
mons
18 years ago
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To avoid the issue repeating itself, you may wish to use a download amanger to ensure the file downloads fully
steff_fae_larky
13 years ago
3 years ago
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Hi there i am downloading the latest pack part-by part,although i cannot seem to so far get them into game,looks like as reading prior posts there isnt a config file contained within the first two parts downloaded,where do i get this? any help would be great..
Side Splitting Pass
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The only config file you need is the one in the latest part 5.6. Download the main pack & all the updates & then add the contents of each folder one by one in chronological order to the main megapack folder & you should be ok.
steff_fae_larky
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By Side Splitting Pass | Permalink | On 10 May 2013 - 21:53 PM
The only config file you need is the one in the latest part 5.6. Download the main pack & all the updates & then add the contents of each folder one by one in chronological order to the main megapack folder & you should be ok.

Hi thanks for getting back to me,so instead of having the individual update folders on their own within fm13/graphics they should all be contained in the main update folder and not 5 seperate update folders then,tried that last night went a bit funny...
mons
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To clarify, you should have one folder, and one folder only, with all the images plus config.xml file within it.
steff_fae_larky
13 years ago
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By mons | Permalink | On 13 May 2013 - 17:34 PM
To clarify, you should have one folder, and one folder only, with all the images plus config.xml file within it.

Thank you mons
shadoow88
11 years ago
1 year ago
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Need some help. I have downloaded the 5.0 pack via torrent and unzipped it. Is it really necessery to update with the 5.1, 5.2 packs and etc. It takes forever to combine all the images together in one folder Any advice how to solve it?
Side Splitting Pass
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Yes you need to download & install each of the updates in order. Faces will show in-game if you just use the 5.0 pack but you'll be missing all the 'new' players & staff who have been cut since 5.0 was released & the updated/newer cut-outs for many teams/players.
mons
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By shadoow88 | Permalink | On 17 May 2013 - 10:01 AM
Need some help. I have downloaded the 5.0 pack via torrent and unzipped it. Is it really necessery to update with the 5.1, 5.2 packs and etc. It takes forever to combine all the images together in one folder Any advice how to solve it?

You don't need to re-download the whole pack again, just the 5.1 - 5.6 update packs individually. If copying around 130MB's worth of images takes forever, then there's probably something wrong with your PC...
mons
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By Daddy160 | Permalink | On 21 May 2013 - 17:48 PM
I have paid for a preimum membership but I cannot download the complete mega facepack for fm 13 (cutout version)

Whenever i click on the download I get a message saying that the site is unavailable. I have checked my internet connection and everything is fine.

However when i click on the pack update link that seems to work. I really need the complete pack before I install the update pack. Please can someone help me

Could you please post the website address shown when you get the message saying the site is unavailable?

Could be an issue with your internet service provider? The download is working perfectly fine for me
Daddy160
11 years ago
11 years ago
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have paid for a preimum membership but I cannot download the complete mega facepack for fm 13 (cutout version)Whenever i click on the download I get a message saying that the site is unavailable. I have checked my internet connection and everything is fine.However when i click on the pack update link that seems to work. I really need the complete pack before I install the update pack. Please can someone help me
Daddy160
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By mons | Permalink | On 21 May 2013 - 17:58 PM
Could you please post the website address shown when you get the message saying the site is unavailable?

Could be an issue with your internet service provider? The download is working perfectly fine for me


I have turned off my internet and turned it on again but the same problem keeps happening. I dont get the error message when i am downloading the update version that seems to download fine. I only get the problem witb mega pack complete versio 5.6

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