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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Martin Forster
I'm on mac so I don't have winrar. Not sure if it is possible to get a mac version? Though I do wonder if it is doing that anyway as when I've put the duplicate part in the bin there's over 800,000 files.
Edit: Booted it up with just that part and it's working fine so it looks like this was the case. Thank you
stephen wormald
redidi all faces are all there in folder just not in game except the player i bought
Slashedthighs
Some regens have been get real player faces, i checked the site and they where from people that where on previous games and have a clashing id with the newgen, is there a way to fix this besides removing the ids from the config file (which i've been doing and its really tedious). Thanks in advance.
JimmysTheBestCop
it is an SI database problem not a mod problem though. So anything would just be work around until Si stops the bugs from happening
Thomas Vibbert
For context, the cut-out player pack that I have is all in the correct folder and it works. However, when I exit the game and load the game back up the player and logo packs that are installed won't load correctly into the game. I have to delete the packs and reinstall them before I play each time and that's quite tedious and annoying. I've downloaded the most recent files as well. I never had this issue with FM23 so any suggestions on what the problem is?
ImProbablyGonnaExplode
I downloaded the latest update which also gave me the same problem other people have had where there is an empty box for the face but no face.
I therefore deleted my entire facepack and reinstalled but the problem persists.
I notice that if I open the files in ‘photo viewer’ they are just blank - although they do open in paint.
Could it be an issue with the way the photos have zipped in recent update?
faulky10
Hey team,
first thank you. This is no small task and I appreciate the work you do.
i am struggling to get the pack installed this year. When i unzip to my drive I get these errors and as you can see it's already at 15000 missed faces - that number just continues to climb. Any feedback or guidance would be super helpful!
SempreAbombar
Hi everyone - I’m having trouble with Yamal’s face not appearing in FM 2024. Does anyone know how to fix this? I followed the instructions correctly, and the file is in the “faces” folder, but it still doesn’t show up in the game. I have attached some screenshots for reference.
I also tried the “Reload skin when confirming changes” + Confirm option in Preferences multiple times, but nothing changed.
I appreciate any assistance you can provide.
UPDATE: [Resolved] Replacing the config.xml solved the issue.
mons
Have you changed the preferences to look like this?
A blank space means there is a config file pointing to an image which isn't that folder. This usually happens when someone installs an update pack in a separate folder to the megapack base folder.
Given the issue only happens to a few user, I would surmise it's an installation issue. Without seeing screenshots of your megapack folder, showing clearly the full path it’s located in as well as how many images are in that folder, it's a bit hard to tell.
Do you have enough space in the D folder you're extracting it? I suggest extracting the file to a “temporary” folder, maybe within the H folder, then moving it lock, stock to the D folder whence the game user data folder seems to be located.
Dustin Wells
Hey,
I have the same pack downloaded to both my pc and mac. I'm playing the same cloud save on both, but in my PC game there is no face for Mikey Moore, Ethan Nwaneri, and several other youngsters. My Mac version has them.
Can you help guide me in what the difference could be?
mons
Did you download the pack separately on your PC and your Mac? It might be the case you might not have the full pack on both systems.
Dustin Wells
I did download them seperately, but downloaded from the same link on both
mons
I suspect that you may believe this is the case but without actually having the same files in place. Can you upload screenshots of your megapack folder, showing clearly the full path it’s located in as well as how many images are in that folder? For both systems please.
I may be able to spot the difference(s).
morrisd1986
Hi wonder if anyone can help I have downloaded the mega pack (not the update) and when I go to paste the icons/faces into the relevant folder it says it going to more than one day I left it doing its thing over night from starting it about 1400 and it wasn't anywhere near done…..Please advise!
mons
This is addressed in one of the FAQs at the top of this very thread:
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.
Ody Manolatos
hi
so I just downloaded the fm24 face pack but it didn't contain the config file.
Can somebody send it to me please?
ty
(I can't re-download them because my laptop is slow and it take hours to download)
mons
If it didn't contain the config file, then it most probably wasn't the full megapack. You can generate one yourself for the images you have at your end by using fmXML (use the site's search function to download it 👍 )
Panna
I got a new Macbook but I can't open the 2024.00 full faces folder it keeps loading I've waited for a couple of minutes but I think there are too many files. Is there a way to update the pack without opening the map?
mons
Use WinRar to open it 👍
Panna
I unpacked itt already with WinRar, it doesn't open the folder with the faces in it
mons
That's strange, not sure what to say about that 😕
kad38
Hi everyone just to point out that I have just downloaded megapack 2024.00 and there is no "iconfaces" folder inside
giggs9520
Can anyone help with that all my faces cant be display as the logo and kits are all ok.
I've tried reinstall the game, redownloaded the whole face Megapack. Clean all the cache and refresh the skin and graphics.
Still don't work I even check the mapping XML and couldn't find any issues and clues please help
mons
A blank space means there is a config file pointing to an image which isn't that folder. This usually happens when someone installs an update pack in a separate folder to the megapack base folder, or only installs one or more update packs but not the full pack itself.
Given the issue only happens to a few users, I would surmise it's an installation issue. Without seeing screenshots of your megapack folder, showing clearly the full path it’s located in as well as how many images are in that folder, it's a bit hard to tell, however.
giggs9520
Thanks for replying I found that there are only 8490 files in the faces folder and the paths are the screenshots above.
I have extracted the whole Megapack full waiting for almost two days without errors. Can you recommend a extract tool faster or good to use for Mac.
Hugh folder is way to long that I have to wait
mons
I suggest using Winrar to extract the files. The FAQs at the top of this very thread mention the below too:
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.
kad38
Hi just to inform you that the "iconfaces" folder is missing in megapack 2024.00....how and where to find it please
@mons
Daniel Ekelund
Hello!
I have just downloaded the sortitoutsi cutout megapack for fm 24 and after having uziped the file and put it in the graphics folder I get stuck in the opening loading screen when I launch FM24.
Can someone please help me with this issue, would be immensely greatful.
Best regards,
Daniel
mons
The first time you install the file, it will generally take a fair while to load. Might even take a somewhat long time on older or slower systems. But it should be fine from that point on 👍
Slashedthighs
New update seems to have fixed regens using id's from real players that weren't loaded in the save, they now have an r- before their ID