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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mons
Please bear with us while we investigate the possible causes and possible solutions for the issue some of you are experiencing.
Can I have a screenshot of your faces folder? Showing clearly (a) the full path and (b) the amount of images contained within
Jorgen
I have my faces megapack in this folder: C:\Users\name\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2022\graphics\players\faces
and C:\Users\name\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2022\graphics\players\iconfaces but it won't show in my game. I ticked and unticked the right boxes, as it shows all my other graphics in my game, but not the player faces. What am I doing wrong?
mons
Can I have a screenshot of your faces folder? Showing clearly (a) the full path and (b) the amount of images contained within
Jorgen
@mons Here you are:
mons
You need to download the whole megapack again. You've got less than one-sixth of the faces, and only the iconfaces from the last update pack.
T4RG4
In the most recent megapack, there is no config file or iconfaces?
sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_2023.00
OK, I can see from some earlier posts a few issues are apparent. I thought the entire pack would contain everything, to be a nice clean download and apply but there is a fault in the file extraction and some elements appear to be missing.
Jorgen
Mons, I've download the latest 9 GB megapack again and got only 62100 faces out of it
mons
What download method did you use? Torrent or split files?
Jorgen
@mons The 9 GB torrent. With unzipping it said it missed one file and that there was more info after the header or something like that.
mons
I'll just let @Footygamer know so that he can investigate and fix anything necessary 👍
okulcio
@mons - split files is OK, torrent is broken.
Launch
I just downloaded the Cut Out player facepack for FM22 on mac, I have done this before with no problems. I know that I have extracted it to the correct folder and everything, that shouldn't be the problem. I downloaded the pack with torrent and got a .zip file named “sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_2023.00.rar” the file is on 10.22 gb however when I extract the file the folder is only 1.8 gb and only contains 62.103 objects (facepack supposed to have over 360k pictures). I can also only find .png files in the folder, no .xml or config file. I'm also sure that I downloaded the latest and complete pack, not just an update file.
What is the problem, and what can I do?
Jorgen
Thank you
mons
Moved this to here - known issue and being investigated, as per previous posts.
Elixir
Hi there !
It's been a while since my last posting here… hehe
I have an issue as Jorgen and Launch. I have Mac and downloaded complete pack 2023.
See the screenshot below.
Hope it will be resolved soon)
Thank you in advance!
mons
Did you download the file via torrent or via the direct download?
Elixir
Direct download
Footygamer
Not sure what's going on here, i'm rebuilding the pack now.
Footygamer
Premium download has now been updated, i'm still testing it myself and will make another torrent when i've confirmed it's definitely fixed.
MarcLister
I've just downloaded it and unpacked the file without any issues. Did you find out what the problem was?
Footygamer
Nope just repacked it, sometimes these things can happens, just computers 😀
Ben Affleck
Hi, trying to download the latest complete pack and it says “failed - forbidden”. Anybody come across this before?
Footygamer
Where does it say that?
Footygamer
The torrent should be updated now as well.
Elixir
It's working now. Thank you!
Zo5o
Hi! Torrent link does not seem to work. Nothing is being downloaded after clicking on it
mons
@Jorgen @Launch @Hoàng Thọ @Gabez Gabez @6scholl6 @okulcio @DrewJS66 @steff222 @gai jin @dispatch @T4RG4 and anyone else who's had issues with the file, the download has been updated and you should be able to download and install it without any issues. Apologies to all for the inconvenience!
@Ben Affleck, can you tell us what page you're getting that error message on?
mons
Just tried it now and working fine at my end.
Can you try again now?
Still downloading…
Many thanks! 👍👍👍
Jorgen
@mons Yes! It works 🙂 Thanks!