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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CzechSteff
Thanks for help guys. I just dowload from archive FM11 to 17 all updates. It works. Cheers.
Sampa
Hi please can you help, it's driving me crazy.
I can only get around 41,000 images - the rest I'm getting the message of “cannot open output file : the file or directory cannot be created."
Can anyone help?
Thank you!
mons
How large is the size of the file you've downloaded? Also, what program are you using to extract it?
Sampa
The complete file which is 11.6 GB. I'm using 7-Zip.
I'm also trying to play off my external hard-drive as I don't have space on my computer, which I think may be the main problem but I don't know how to work around it.
wchoow
all players face suddenly disappeared. Yesterday everything still working fine but today suddenly all disappeared. Anyone know what happen?
mons
Transfer the file to the external hard-drive, and use Winrar to extract it to a folder anywhere in that location. You should then change the user data folder as per the FAQ at the top of this thread 👍
mons
You downloaded a couple of update packs a few days ago. I suspect you didn't install them properly. You should have one folder for faces and one folder for iconfaces, with no sub-folders in each folder.
Can I have screenshots of your megapack folder, showing clearly the full path it’s located in, as well as of how many files and folders are inside it?
wchoow
Sampa
Yeah, when I try to transfer it to the external hard-drive, it says there's not space despite there being 400GB of space.
I then managed to transfer it over by splitting the file and extracted it from there, but still came up with these errors. I've already changed the user data folder yeah.
mons
You've got around one-eighth of the faces in the megapack. I'd suggest removing your existing faces folder, and downloading the torrent and the subsequent update packs to be up to date.
Not sure it's got anything to do with the megapack then 😕
Instead of transferring the downloaded file to the external hard drive, have you tried extracting it to there instead?
Sampa
Yes I have, get the same error.
Weirdly, I've deleted some of the 40,000 files that have transferred and then am able to manually copy over handfuls of files that were erroring otherwise. Huge ball-ache though. What would be helpful is - are these player face codes organised by league or country or any sort of way? And any chance of sharing what those are? Then I can delete the ones I don't want and the ones I do should then be able to avoid the error message!
Konqui
I have been unable to install the face pack since there is no ‘Football Manger 202x’ document in the sports interactive folder on my Mac and I would be grateful if someone could help me
mons
I'm afraid not - the only way to categorise them in any way for the time being would be manually, which is simply not possible for nigh-on half a million people.
The user data folder on Macs is Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x.
What's yours?
radetzky
i've solved making a new config files, thanks for the support given!
Benitez03
I had previously downloaded the megapack, but ended up getting the updates, now, some players, instead of having the black silhouette, just have nothing on their picture, is there anything I can do to fix this? (Either get the silhouette back or give the players an actual face)
(Yamal is an example of this happening)
mons
You've installed the update pack in a separate folder, which you shouldn't do. You should have one folder containing all the faces within it, and when downloading an update pack you should put the contents into the main folder, overwriting when prompted.
Dmitri-K
This club has all faces completed
https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/browse/1/56238
But it still shows only 95%
Benitez03
I did though, installed it exactly in the same folder as the regular megapack, overwriting when I was asked to do so.
Edit: Not sure exactly what was happening, but I just reinstalled in the exact same folder and it worked, so I don't even know. Thank you either way
mons
What's the players folder doing here?
Benitez03
The times I had seen a tutorial said that I could use a folder that includes both the faces and iconfaces folder, so thats what i did
Sampa
Is it possible for it to work with the pack separated into multiple facepack folders?
mons
You'd have to generate separate config files for the contents of each respective folder, which is too much of a hassle, frankly, when you can have everything in one place.
Sampa
What does that entail? I'm guessing not just copy+paste. My silly hard drive won't let me have it all in one place 😢
mons
You can download fmXML (Instruction Video) which will create the config file automatically for you.
nolf123
Can somebody help me please. Out of nowhere, my facepack no longer works. Does anyone know how I can fix that
mons
Earlier yesterday, you downloaded the full 2024.03 megapack. What did you do with your previous megapack files?
Can I have screenshots of your megapack folder, showing clearly the full path it’s located in, as well as of how many files and folders are inside it?
Mikael Bas Børresen
I`m fairly new to the FM scene having just started last year. I recently downloaded FM24 and installed a skinpack and player face pack after seeing WorkTheSpace`s tutorials on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roEsIVWvFiA&t=398s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdGD9br8_8M&t=501s).
After following the tutorial and downloading both the Mega Face Pack and WTCS5 skin, everything worked fine, but I immediatley noticed that quite a few playerfaces were appearing as blank. I have tried alot of stuff to fix the problem such as re-downloading the facepack multiple times, but to no avail.
Help would be much appreciated!
mons
Blank spaces means you don't have the full megapack, or you have update packs installed wrongly.
Can I have screenshots of your megapack folder, showing clearly the full path it’s located in, as well as of how many files and folders are inside it?
Mikael Bas Børresen
I recently downloaded FM24, and along with the game I downloaded the Mega Face Pack and the WTCS5 skin. Everything worked fine, but I immediatley noticed that quite a few player faces were showing up as blank. It seems like the face pack worked for most of the players, but somehow not for all. I have tried alot of stuff to fix the problem, such as re-downloading the face pack, but to no avail.
Help would be much appreciated!
WTCS5WTC
Bastiaans
use fmXML , google it
https://sortitoutsi.net/content/847/fmxml-for-pc