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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Don_Biglia
Bit of a weird one I guess, but should the latest megapack work on Ubuntu 22 + FM 2015 ? Some difference I should know about?
Logo's work just fine, but for faces I get this (in multiple skins)
The game did crash on reloading the skin, after unpacking the faces. Logo's were loaded prior to this reload. For the rest the game runs fine though.
Just got back into an old save with a custom db and I really need proper graphics to enjoy the game 😀
mons
Addressed in point 12 of the first post 😉
Evil-Muffin7
I was checking the config file for the megapack and noticed that there was desktop image to person 0. so i was wondering more about the config file and noticed that there was more files but less lines of data in the config…
Top config is a fresh config created minus the usual lines of data to start and end - the bottom config was the original with the latest update but it is 297 images shy of the actual number of images in folder.
sortitoutsi\faces - contains 451,500 files
sortitoutsi\icons- contains 451,459 files
20000035949 - this file needs deleting from main folder.
attached is the original config old (version from update) then the newly created config using FM Graphics Config app
Qvordrup
Some (if not all) of the missing config lines is on purpose.
Evil-Muffin7
I assumed this so i might locate the missing files from the config and make a pack for deletion maybe?
mons
If someone has downloaded an update pack which includes a wrongly-assigned image, then nothing I can do will remove it from his system. That's why I just delete the line from the config. There's really no need to do anything else about it at this stage, frankly you'd be spending loads of time on something I can do nothing about…
Evil-Muffin7
I went through the pack and located many files that are sitting there useless, also noticed a few files that was not included in the config but are in FM24 at least.
the files to delete txt is for anyone to use as reference or can use the .bat version to place into both faces/icons folder once you run it the files on the txt doc will renamed/delete.
ren = rename
del = delete
also included are the icon and faces config just place into the correct folder and rename as config.xml or create your own config.
below is the .bat code
@echo off
ren 2000070683-* 2000070683*
del 1409102.png
ren 1409102alt* 1409102*
del "13114745 (1).png"
del 13162822a.png
del 13231989 (1).png"
del 1409102alt.png
del 142900a.png
del 15076254z.png
del "16119425 (1).png"
del "18097072 (1).png"
del 19172049a.png
del 20000035949.png
del 2000030823a.png
del 2000070683-.png
del "2000154650 (1).png"
del 2000182160a.png
del 2000182955a.png
del "2000187705 .png"
del 2000189927a.png
del 2000227713a.png
del "2000254793 (1).png"
del 23469153-.png
del 28030487..png
del 28109894a.png
del "28115992 .png"
del 29046742a.png
del 29075334a.png
del 29125468a.png
del 29174450a.png
del "30035404 (1).png"
del "31036953 .png"
del 36097360..png
del "37075744 (1).png"
del "37077214 (1).png"
del 3802585alt.png
del "39029946 .png"
del 39046123v2.png
del "41038337 (1).png"
del "42103648 (1).png"
del 43052141alt.png
del "43321899 (1).png"
del "43407361 .png"
del 5100313a.png
del 5204783-1.png
del 52076620j.png
del 53138470_180.png
del 53138470_250.png
del 53166962_180.png
del 53166962_250.png
del "60009636 .png"
del 61003328a.png
del "61042726 .png"
del 61093554a.png
del "62005652 (2).png"
del "62054931 .png"
del "62142786 .png"
del 63031296a.png
del 67211806a.png
del "70093907 (1).png"
del "72000035 alt.png"
del "72046884 .png"
del "77056138 (1).png"
del 83313842-.png
del 85072586a.png
del 8718065-.png
del 90016443a.png
del 91143152i.png
del "91144365 .png"
del 92082987i.png
del "93055317 .png"
del 93055317-.png
del "96135461 .png"
del 2000079680.webp
del Megapack_6.0.png
del "2000254793 (1).png"
del "2000154650 (1).png"
del "77056138 (1).png"
del "13231989 (1).png"
del 64016316v2.png
radetzky
i've an issue with the megapack, i 've about 312000 cutout faces and my HDD has not enough free space to contain all of them so i had to copy inside the fm24 folder just a part of the cut outs.
The matter is that i can't see the faces ingame even if i'm sure to have made all in the right way.
I was wondering if i have to make a new config file for the faces i've copied only.
At the moment i'm using the one included in the last magapack downloaded.
mons
I have no idea why you thought the sin bin thread was the right place to post this 🤣
If you're using the config file from the most recent update pack on a partial database, it should nonetheless display the images in the folder. The only drawback would be that you would have a blank face for those 138,000 people whose images aren't in the folder.
If none are displaying, then you haven't installed the ones you have into the correct place. Can I screenshots of your megapack folder, showing clearly the full path it’s located in?
MaxPower1882
Hi guys!
Is it normal to be prompted to ‘confirm file replace’ when extracting the megapack 2024.00?
I downloaded via torrent and I did select to replace the files, the total faces from ‘Megapack 2024.00’ is 435,704. Just wanted to be sure I chose the right option before adding the 3 update packs where I know I'll have to replace copies of course. *edit, I have no previous packs installed etc, thought may be relevent.
Many thanks for any infomation, and of course, the fine work enhancing Football Manager for us all!!
mons
Each update pack will not only contain new images, but also updates to the existing cuts. With that in mind, it's completely “normal” to get an overwrite prompt whenever installing an update pack 🙂
Evil-Muffin7
@mons the main default pack before the updates contains duplicates upto 20 possibly not sure
Some files in the pack are the same filename but the file extension is in caps for a couple of duplicates. Feel free to overwrite them
MaxPower1882
Yeah, the update packs will, that's nothing unexpected.
I was meaning when I unzip the initial 2024.00 megapack, I get the prompt to overwrite files too. Just best to be sure I'm selecting the right option so the base pack isn't faulty to begin updating as that'll only increase errors i imagine. 🙂
MaxPower1882
Ahh, I believe this was what I was after confiming. Thank you.
I'll return once all is unpacked and updated to double check. Only the last 2 times I've done these this week, I keep getting less ‘iconfaces’ than ‘faces’ and I'm confused where the error is occouring.
Third time's the charm, we hope. 😉
mons
Yeah, we know about that, seems like something went wrong in automatic creation of the iconfaces for the most recent update pack, which led to a couple hundred less iconfaces. We'll look to resolve it in the next update pack, but a couple hundred missing iconfaces out of 450,000 people isn't such a big deal 😉
MaxPower1882
Oh, absolutely. That's awesome news, thanks for coming back to me there. Just glad I'm not making mistakes, ta!
Happy gaming/creating!
WOOFINGLEMON123
How long will it take on mac? I've been unzipping the [premium] rar file for 22 hours and it's still not finished
Am i supposed to compress the rar into a zip and unzip that?
mons
No, to the bit in bold.
As for the first question, it should take a wee while, but it really shouldn't take that long 😕
WOOFINGLEMON123
hmm, alright
Ill try using a different program to extract the rar file. Hopefully that works.. wish me luck XD
WOOFINGLEMON123
Alright, I got it to work!
Can i delete the duplicate folder+the 12gb rar file? Or do i have to keep both
mons
You're safe to download the rar file (if it's fully extracted, naturally). No idea what you mean by duplicate folder 😕
WOOFINGLEMON123
ah, sorry
I looked at something wrong. Thank you!!
radetzky
Sorry, i misunderstood the meaning of sin bin, English is not my native language.
highlighted in green the folder in which the cut out images are
and this is the interface screen of the game
mons
a) You're showing me what's in your graphics \ pictures folder. Is there anything else in your graphics folder?
b) There's a folder named faces, and another named players. What's in the latter one?
c) Are you getting an empty space where the player image should be in-game, or are you getting the black default silhouette?
MaxPower1882
Just to follow up. All seems well. Working as expected and as said, just a few hundred off between the 2 folder counts.
(For maybe reading and curious)
faces: 451,502
iconfaces: 451,461
Glad to see all my beloved Spurs and local teams' peeps, cheers folks!!
CzechSteff
Hi,
I want download version for 2017, but all links and torrents are dead. How can i do this? Thanks
Evil-Muffin7
Feel free to download current version as all version files prior are included but vast majority are new images.
If want older versions can be found here
https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/archive/1
CzechSteff
Thanks for quick reply, If i download current version, its showing me broken pictures like this. Its some trick how solved this?
Evil-Muffin7
What screen is that, also what is the UID for that person.
If the screenshot is your manager profile then you have to self assign an image.
The faces seems to be a skin issue?
Have you followed the steps when installing graphics by unticking cache files and reload skin etc.
Are the files in the correct folder structure and extracted not left in the zip/rar doc.
mons
It's to do with the method of compression for the cuts in the most recent versions of the megapack, which for some reasons older versions of FM don't display correctly.