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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SergiCska
Yes, clearing the cache in other skins helped solve the problem, thanks
SeanD22
Finally solved it. Had to format my usb drive from a FAT-32 to NTFS.
For some reason FAT-32 didnt have enough memory for the megapack switching to NTFS works perfect.
Hopefully solves the problem for others in the future!
Tony_7x
Question FM23:I downloaded all 11 Faces.rar files. Should i unpack all 11 rar files for all faces and icconfaces? I just unpack my 3rd rar file and most of them have the same pictures in it.
mons
What 11 faces.rar files are you talking about? Where did you download them from?
Tony_7x
Cut Out Player Faces Megapack - Complete Mega Pack (10.1 GiB)
sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_2023.00.part01.rar - sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_2023.00.part11.rar (part01 up to part11)
mons
If you have the downloaded files in the same location and extract part 1, it should extract all the packs at the same time.
Tony_7x
Will it also extract the sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_2023.00.rar up to sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_2023.05_changes.rar too? Or should i extract the first change file (sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_2023.00.rar)?
billbradders
Hi all, got a bit of an odd one, I got a new MacBook Pro (16" mid 2019) in the last few days and I've not been able to unzip any of the graphics I've downloaded here, weirdly.
Have tried using Archive Utility & The Unarchiver. I even tried it on my old Mac - which was always fine - and I got the same error. Never had this before, weirdly.
My MacOS is Ventura 13.2 if that helps. I'm a SortitoutSI subscriber so that shouldn't be an issue.
Does anyone know a way around this? Thanks a lot for your help
mons
Extract parts 01 to 11 from sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_2023.00.rar, then extract all the update packs in order.
mons
I'm not a Mac user, so I can't offer any help there, I'm afraid. Are you sure the files have downloaded in full, and not maybe got fully truncated while downloading? What error message are you getting anyway?
JamesLM82
Hi guys, I have downloaded the mega pack now (over 11 files) and exported each using an RAR exporter. However, when adding the images to the graphics folder, they don't seem to be working as now for players the image is just blank - not even the silhouette. I have looked at the folders and can only find one config doc - can anyone help with this issue? I'm on Mac - attached are screens of what I see in the folder and the game.
Any help would be amazing!
C-Lo
Hi all,
Is it just me or are there a lot of duplicates in this pack?
Does anyone know of any smaller packs, broken down in to leagues, countries or continents?
mons
When you extract the parts, you should extract them all in one place. You should have one sub-folder titled faces and one titled iconfaces, each of which should include the 300,000+ images in the megapack. As you're a premium member, I don't know why you didn't just download the full megapack and avoid all the faffing about with parts, frankly.
Not sure what you're downloading, but there aren't any duplicates. Unless you're downloading update packs, which replace previous megapack cuts.
Smaller packs don't exist, no.
Hudson Valla
Hey, I've tried going through every thread and every potential fix I've found for this issue, but nothing has worked for me. I thought I'd put it out there again to ask for troubleshooting help.
I've downloaded and extracted twice, thinking there might have been some error in the download. None of the faces are showing up. My layout is set exactly as instructed, but still nothing has worked.
Has anyone here encountered the same problem, and how did you resolve it?
mons
I've moved this to there, which is the right place for it.
You seem to have a very small part of the megapack. You should have just under 400k images in your faces folder, and based on your screenshot, you have only a very small subset of that. You should also have an iconfaces folder.
I'm not sure what might have happened but you either did not download the full megapack or you did not extract correctly or in full.
How large is the file you've downloaded?
Hudson Valla
Thanks for the re-assortment. Ahh ok, that sounds like you're onto something…
The .rar file is 10.85 GB
mons
So you've certainly downloaded the full file, you just didn't extract it well or in full.
Remove your current faces file and try extracting it again to the same location, and see if you have any better luck this time round.
Hudson Valla
Okay, will re-do all of that. How big is the extracted file??
mons
No idea, but it'll be big. You should have just under 400,000 images in the faces folder, if it's extracted correctly.
Hudson Valla
EDIT: After all that, it was the extractor / unzipper itself blowing it up. I got another app for it and it worked perfectly. Thanks for your help!
Hoàng Thọ
Guys i'm confused a bit
Sorry if someone already asked it.
Let said i have Football Manager 2022 which mean i have to download 22.00 mega version torrent . Can i also update to 23.05 one? (megapack 20.03.00 torrent and 5 changes at the momment )?
What order to install guys? Can i just install mega facepack 22.00 first then skip to 23.00 mega torrent and then 23.01_changes?
mons
For FM22, download the 23.00 torrent file and all subsequent update packs, and install them in numerical order. That's it.
Hoàng Thọ
Thanks you. I also noticed the 23.00 torrent seems smaller than 22.00. Could you explain why is smaller?
mons
The file compression techniques used (of which I have no idea) led to a smaller file size. Rest assured that there are more images in the 23.00 base pack (378,079) than there were in the 22.00 one (331,256).
Hoàng Thọ
I understand now. So basiclly, the 23.00 (torrent) already cover all faces available on FM2022. Of course we still need install the changes pack. If is correct that is good 😀
mons
Yes, that's indeed the case.
Neal William Johnston
could someone help me with face download?? have watched the youtube videos but certain parts are not the same as mine
iwanamzan
Please someone help me. Why players image is just blank? this problem mostly with young players. I never encountered with this problem.
mons
It looks like you have either not downloaded the full megapack or not installed it properly.
Can we have a screenshot of your faces folder? Please make sure the full post is displayed, as well as showing how much the total amount of images in it.
iwanamzan
I just downloaded pack for fm23 version because i copy and paste from fm22. And total amount of images is 396070.