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.
- 482,917
- 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
Can we have a screenshot of the error message? How large is the file you're downloading? What program are you using to extract it?
Jamie W
Well that's what I transferred over, maybe I should redownload them all
mons
I'd delete everything to be safe, and start from scratch.
Lukas Englich
Hey the facepacks don't seem to work for me somehow.
The iconfaces work in the game but I can't get the normal facepacks working and I really don't know what to do or how to figure our the problem.
please let me know if you need more specific information
mons
Please provide screenshots of your megapack folder, showing clearly the full path it’s located in as well as how many images are in that folder.
VVK1907
Don't know where to report this so i will post here.
Player ID 53171657 seems to be broken due to the (1) behind it in the config file. Resulting in the player having no face in game.
Jarrett Lee
I tried the getfiles.co.uk download several times but it tells me "
NoSuchKeyThe specified key does not exist."I have tried for different browsers (Chrome, firefox, safari) but gives me the same error. I can't use the dfile.eu thing because it only lets me download once per 1 hour and also download is slow af. Is there a fix?
mons
Bugger. I'll be sure to remove that image from my folder, so that the config file in the next update pack will not include that line and the image will appear as intended. In the meantime, you can easily remove that line yourself 👍
Thanks for the heads-up 🍻
@Footygamer - not sure there's too much we can do on this, is there?
Unfortunately, it's a third-party site and it doesn't really depend on us 😢
I would suggest downloading the torrent, which gives you the same files in a single download, more quickly and with less hassle.
zeus33bx
Hello,
I don't find the .xml file in the megapack.
Where is it ?
Thanks
mons
It's in the download 😕 What download method did you do to get the megapack?
mons
It's in the download 😕 What download method did you do to get the megapack?
zeus33bx
I download megapack with defiles links, i don't have all 13 parts yet. It's very long 😅
mons
Yeah, that's why you don't have the config file then. All 13 parts are needed to get the megapack in your game.
zeus33bx
Yes I understand, can you tell me in which part the xml file is? Thanks 🙂
mons
No idea, and the pack wouldn't work because, as I've just told you, All 13 parts are needed to get the megapack in your game.
bob swible
I am experiencing the same issue using 7-Zip I get this error (in photo). However, I did just use WinRAR and it appears I got all of the files BUT I still got errors too during the extraction process (seen in photo). 435,625 refers to the items in the “face” folder and 435,704 is the amount in my “iconfaces” folder.
If those counts are wrong could something please let me know what to do to stop such errors from ruining the full amount of faces?
Edit: Forgot to mention I used the torrent for all this and from that extracting the “sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_2024.00.rar”
digimagpie88
Hey, so I have the facepack installed but not the newgan pack. I've just had my first youth intake in FM24 and a bunch of them have real faces, some of them regen faces and some with nothing at all. I'm confused as to what I need to fix, I like having the photos but I;m guessing they're actually really people somewhere else in the game?
I'm also a bit confused as I would have thought regens would have they're own IDs that wouldn't correspond to faces in the facepack?
Any thoughts/help/ideas??
digimagpie88
Hey, so I have the facepack installed but not the newgan pack. I've just had my first youth intake in FM24 and a bunch of them have real faces, some of them regen faces and some with nothing at all. I'm confused as to what I need to fix, I like having the photos but I;m guessing they're actually really people somewhere else in the game?
I'm also a bit confused as I would have thought regens would have they're own IDs that wouldn't correspond to faces in the facepack?
Any thoughts/help/ideas??
bob swible
I'm now having an issue were faces are not appearing in the game
Here's an example of Thierry Henry (ID:9888).
So obviously his ID is on the config.xml file.
And I do have his picture downloaded as seen above.
And yet his picture does not appear in the game.
Here is my settings for “skin”
Any solution to this issue?
bigpole
I believe french national team has a licensing issue which prevents staff/national team player pictures from showing. Realnamefix solves this issue, I think.
Tooly2020
I sorted the issue it was a piece of malware software I was running that messed things up.
Just a quick add-on is Lamine Yamal included in this face pack as he does not have a face in my save.
Gunbuster903
Hi,
I've never had a problem with Facepacks before, but on getting the FM24 demo I decided to reload the whole pack to make sure everything is up to date. The files are in the right place (Graphics folder), but nt all the faces are showing. I can only see about 50% of the PREM players for example (and no PREM logos - but that's a different issue!). Has anyone else seen anything like this?
Thanks in advance.
Steve
googley
hi. the torrent file won't extract for me. are there any issues with it?
bob swible
is there a realnamefix on this website or do I need to go to fmscout?
Qvordrup
https://sortitoutsi.net/content/63651/fm2024-licensing-and-real-name-fix-file-beta-version-not-released-yet
mons
There seems to be a bug in the beta, where newgans get the UIDs of real players. Hopefully it gets resolved soon 👍
Not yet, because the most recent update pack come out on 12 October and the game was released the week after. The forthcoming update pack will contain shedloads of new players, including him.
Seems like you didn't download or install it correctly. Are you getting a blank space where the cutout should be, or are you getting the default black silhouette?
First I'm hearing of it. Are you sure it's downloaded in full?
darrendazman
When i extract the pack after a few seconds im getting this any idea
darrendazman
i am getting
The Extraction Operation was not completed
An unexpected error is preventing the archive from being extracted
Error 0x8090021
any ideas ???
mons
Seems like the file may not have been fully downloaded. Also, is it Winrar you're using to extract it?
jofrik
Hello everyone, I have a small problem here! I had this issue last year as well! I downloaded your facepack, but there are certain players who don't have their faces showing up in the game! For example, Yamal doesn't appear, but many other players do! I've created new config files using the XML program, but it remains the same. Does anyone know what might be the issue?!