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
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
I've already answered you here. You still haven't provided the screenshots in the way I asked. Help me help you by giving me the tools to do so, instead of wasting time having to repeat ourselves.
There's a video here on how to do it:
michael charters
Hi I'm downloading the cutout mega packs, I've downloaded part 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and part 10,11. I skipped to part 10 and 11 because when i downloading part 1-7 there wasn't the config file with and any off the parts. I thought it would be in part 10 or 11 but it wasn't. Does anyone know why this is or am I doing something wrong?.
Thanks.
mons
You should download all the parts. Frankly, I'd recommend using the torrent file to get the base megapack and avoid faffing about with individual parts.
michael charters
After I finished downloading part 1-11 do I need to download the two changes parts and will the config file be in one of them?.
mons
Yes, I believe so.
michael charters
hi, ive downloaded all parts now and the faces folder in part 11 is empty. Ive notiched a few players like man utds brandon williams eriksen and john stone of man city are missing plus a few more. I've looked in all parts and cant find them anywhere. Where can i get the faces from part 11? I've tried downloading the part again but its the same.
Thanks.
mons
If you download all the parts, all you need to do is to extract the first file and WinRar will take care of extract all the other parts automatically. I have no idea which file contains which player, sorry.
Can I have a screenshot of the location where you downloaded all the compressed files? Showing the sizes of the respective files.
michael charters
I have downloaded all parts 1-11 and the two changes parts and extracted them to the graphics folder. They have worked but I noticed a few players with missing pictures like i mentioned Man Utd Brandon Williams, Bruno Fernandes and others at other clubs. I noticed when I downloaded part 11 it had two folders, icon faces and faces the faces folder was empty so I'm thinking maybe thats the problem. I tried downloading part 11 again but the same thing, do you know if the folder faces in part 11 is meant to have players faces in it?.
Thanks.
mons
The split files are generated automatically, so I don't have control over the contents of the respective file. Tagging @Footygamer in case there's anything he can do.
Brandon DePalmaFarr
Hello, I only read back a few pages to see if anyone had the same issue so sorry if this is a duplicate.
I am playing the game on PC gamepass, I have the full face cut-out face pack downloaded with 386k+ faces (image 1).
They are installed to the file path (C:\Users\username\OneDrive\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2023\graphics\faces) which I think is the default path referenced under the gamepass section.
It seems that nobody in my save has a photo now, (except for Luciano Spaletti??) (image 2).
I reloaded the skin and turned off the caching.
Any ideas/help would be appreciated, thank you!
mons
It might be the case that you have installed an update pack elsewhere; if that is the case, then you need to remove it.. An empty space instead of a cut means that there is a line within a config file somewhere within your user data folder pointing to an image which is not in that same folder.
If you post a screenshot in this manner (and please be sure to read what I'm asking carefully) searching for 43093171 (Zielinski's UID), I'm sure I can locate where the issue is 👍
Brandon DePalmaFarr
Hope I sent this correctly
Brandon DePalmaFarr
I just got it to work, turns out the file location I was using was incorrect, should have been using (C:\XboxGames\Football Manager 2023) instead of (C:\Users\username\OneDrive\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2023\graphics\faces) and the reason faces seemed to be taken away is I did not have the full pack installed in the XboxGames location, something stopped it midway.
Thank you for your responses Mons, think I am good to go now.
MC_CM
Hello,
I'm trying do download the mega pack, download starts, I get the first 100-200Mb and then it just stops. Tried Edge and Chrome in regular in incognito modes - no luck. I have a Gigabit fiber optics connection so that's not an issue here. Any tips?
Thanks,
P.
mons
Can you not resume the download once it stops?
MC_CM
It does not technically stop, it goes to 0.0 Mb/s. When I then pause and resume it, it stays at 0/0 Mb/s.
mons
That's not Chrome, no? Chrome has a resume function iirc.
MC_CM
This happens to be Edge but same situation in Chrome:
mons
I don't use Edge, but I'm aware that Chrome has a specific resume button, which has often helped in situations such as this.
MC_CM
The above screenshot is from Chrome Incognito mode. As you can see download slows down to 0 B/s and stays like that. I can still pause it and then resume it but it doesn't change anything, it stays at 0 B/s after pausing and resuming. Anyone can help with this?
MC_CM
It's still not downloading. Any ideas anyone?
mons
I'm really sorry, this doesn't seem to be an issue anyone else is experiencing right now, and I'm downloading perfectly fine.
Did you manage to get it downloaded since yesterday?
MC_CM
Hey, yes issue is still there but now I think it’s something at my end. It’s a new PC I’ve just build and I’m thinking motherboards LAN drivers acting up. Will have to try wi-fi when I get back home tonight.
Zeefan9876
Anyone else found the facepack crashes their game after the new update?
DimiZag
After downloading the latest facepack update and downloading the latest update from SI, I cannot see the faces from France National team. However, when I go to PSG's page I can see the face for example Mbappe's correctly. Is there any solution for that? Thanks in advance!
mons
That's a licensing issue and you need to download and apply the real name fix again, which you should do with every official update.
@Zeefan9876, it seems to be related to something you're not doing right, because nobody else seems to have reported the issue. Where have you placed the megapack folders?
Zeefan9876
Thanks for replying. It in the same place as where it was before when it worked, Sports Interactive/Football manager 2023/graphics/faces. I find if I start the game and then move the facepacks into my graphics folder once its fully loaded and reload the skin in preferences then the facepacks work fine. Its just when they're added to the graphics folder before I start up the game that it causes it to freeze.
mons
How long have you left the game to load up the splash screen? It might take a little while, maybe a few minutes more than usual if you don't have a top setup. It shouldn't take hours, naturally, just give it some time.
Jeremy Grégoire Real
Can someone explain this to me? The screen speaks for itself
Jeremy Grégoire Real