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 just under 550,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.

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  • 2026.06 - Released on 10 May 2026
Cut-Out Player Faces Megapack

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. You need to use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract the downloaded file.

 

Contrary to previous versions of the game, there is no need to change any settings in the preferences in FM26.

 


2. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using a Mac OS?

*awaiting feedback from Mac users on this

 

Frequently Asked Questions

If you've never downloaded the pack before, you should just download the larger "complete pack".

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, applying the oldest first and continuing to apply update packs in the chronological order in which they were released.
Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. You need to use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract the downloaded file.

Contrary to previous versions of the game, there is no need to change any settings in the preferences in FM26.
You need to copy and overwrite the faces and the new config file from the update pack into the faces folder.

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.

Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. It might be for FM24, but the steps are exactly the same.
It's a known issue with FM26 - read this. We're assuming this issue will get resolved in upcoming official patches/updates.
The new players were added before FM26 was released and didn't have the right UID yet. We've started the process of mapping them to the correct person's UID.
When you have a blank space instead of a cut-out, it means there is a config file pointing to a folder in which an image with that UID is not present. This generally happens when an update pack is installed in a separate folder and not part of the overall faces folder, or there is a rogue config file somewhere. It could also be that you have somehow not downloaded the full megapack but only part of it. Search within the graphics folder for the UID of this person, and you will probably find the secondary image. Delete that folder, and it should be fine.

Otherwise, follow the steps in this comment and post the results so that we can assist you.
In line with guidance on the official SI forums, At present, FM26 cannot handle multiple files with the same name. For example, if you have two files with the name "kit.png", it will not load both. and Player Faces: These work fine. You do not need the icon files anymore, and they can cause issues with the note above. Delete them.

As a result, the iconfaces are no longer available for download because they're not needed. You should also delete the iconfaces folder manually from your system too 👍
You need to change your user data location. Simple steps on how to do so can be found here.

It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.
The torrent file includes the base megapack uploaded just before that year’s FM version is released. Any and all subsequent update packs are to be downloaded separately.
For those who have never used torrents, in the vast majority of cases, it's just a question of downloading the client program (a small file, less than 1MB) and then downloading the megapack torrent file (a tiny file, around 20k) and then letting the program do the job.

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.
Please report this so that they can be reuploaded. Since the files are hosted outside our pages, there isn't much we can do about this unfortunately. You could try downloading the pack via torrent and get it this way.
Extracting the file will take a while, but it shouldn't take the hours and hours that the program extracting will sometimes say it will. To speed it up, it is recommended that you have as few programs running as possible so that the system can dedicate as many resources to the extraction as it possibly can.

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.
You might have a poor internet connection or your browser might have some extensions which interrupt this download. Having loads of downloads ongoing and/or streaming may also de-prioritise this download.

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 most recent update pack will include the most recent config file, so you can choose to download it and use it from there.

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.
Down the years, after an update pack was released, it was noted that some images included therein where of the wrong person, with a wrong extension or duplicated. Due to the way the download system is structured, these cannot be removed from the download, so there may well be a couple of hundred images’ worth of difference, depending on the version you download.
Our megapack covers 25,000 teams and it's impossible to cater for these kind of requests since players and staff get transferred or sacked or retire etc and recreating and reuploading 25,000 different smaller packs would be an impossible task. That's why we have all the images in a megapack so that everything is captured therein.
These persons do not appear in the default database for licensing reasons. This means that they only appear in your save-game because they were added via a custom file, generally the real name fix file. However, this means that their UID (which is what is used to map a person's image to the right individual) is different, and so the game cannot assign the image to them from your existing facepack.

To get them to show, you should individually download any previously available cut-out faces 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).
Amr El Etr
6 years ago
5 months ago
1
Premium

Question has probably been asked before but I cannot find an answer: Any tips on how to make the extraction faster?

 

I am extracting on a Surface Pro 9, 16 RAMs, and it has been taking 2 full days so far.. Not sure how this can be resolved and it's getting quite tiring.

 

Any easy(ier) ways to do this other than using WinRAR or ZIP?

mons
20 years ago
5 hours ago
101,346
By Amr El Etr 09 April 2024 - 19:50 PM UTC 

Question has probably been asked before but I cannot find an answer: Any tips on how to make the extraction faster?

 

I am extracting on a Surface Pro 9, 16 RAMs, and it has been taking 2 full days so far.. Not sure how this can be resolved and it's getting quite tiring.

 

Any easy(ier) ways to do this other than using WinRAR or ZIP?

 

There's a reason why I recommend using Winrar…

CameronJohnWilson
6 years ago
1 year ago
4

I am trying to install the cut out players faces. The download was 11.9GB so was expecting that to take a while.

 

When I try copying the files across from my downloads folder to the graphics folder I have created it doesn't seem to be copying across, or at least it is taking forever and has been on 0% for 45 minutes.

 

What is the issue?

mons
20 years ago
5 hours ago
101,346
By CameronJohnWilson 18 April 2024 - 23:49 PM UTC 

I am trying to install the cut out players faces. The download was 11.9GB so was expecting that to take a while.

 

When I try copying the files across from my downloads folder to the graphics folder I have created it doesn't seem to be copying across, or at least it is taking forever and has been on 0% for 45 minutes.

 

What is the issue?

 

I've moved this to here.

 

As per the FAQ:

Extracting the file will take a while, but it shouldn't take the hours and hours that the program extracting will sometimes say it will. To speed it up, it is recommended that you have as few programs running as possible so that the system can dedicate as many resources to the extraction as it possibly can.

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.

 

What program are you using to extract the download? I'd recommend Winrar.

Jordi Blake
2 years ago
8 months ago
2

Hi, I just bought FM 24 and am downloading face packs for it. Downloaded the torrent file, extracted it through WinRar, but the faces aren't showing up - and I don't mean silhouettes, most of them have just vanished so I'm at a bit of a loss at what to do. Download is located in the sortitoutsi folder in my graphics folder. I'll also flag up another issue I suspect is related to it - for some reason I have two faces folder in my graphics folder, and neither have the full amount of faces specified in the pack. The one in the sortitoutsi folder has about 144,000 and the other 149,000. Logo packs are working fine so what do I need to do to sort out the faces? 

mons
20 years ago
5 hours ago
101,346
By Jordi Blake 21 April 2024 - 20:11 PM UTC 

Hi, I just bought FM 24 and am downloading face packs for it. Downloaded the torrent file, extracted it through WinRar, but the faces aren't showing up - and I don't mean silhouettes, most of them have just vanished so I'm at a bit of a loss at what to do. Download is located in the sortitoutsi folder in my graphics folder. I'll also flag up another issue I suspect is related to it - for some reason I have two faces folder in my graphics folder, and neither have the full amount of faces specified in the pack. The one in the sortitoutsi folder has about 144,000 and the other 149,000. Logo packs are working fine so what do I need to do to sort out the faces? 

 

Screenshots would help, but my suggestion would be to delete all the faces you have and either download the 2024.0 base pack from scratch or extract the rar file again if it's still on your hard disk.

Jordi Blake
2 years ago
8 months ago
2

Here's a screenshot of the graphics folder:

This is the larger faces file in the folder:

 

And the smaller one in the sortioutsi folder:

 

If you've got any further help that'd be massively appreciated. I can just delete the files and re-extract them, but it'll take a while on my laptop

mons
20 years ago
5 hours ago
101,346

@Jordi Blake, I have no idea how you have ended up with two faces folders.

 

The easiest thing is to delete both of them, and extract the rar again.

Ben Petersen
2 years ago
3 months ago
10

I have downloaded the premium members download and then been shown an unknown error not allowing extraction from the downloads folder.

Also when I click on the download it only appears to have a couple of files in it and no actual player's faces, just some random photos of people I'm assuming to be staff.

 

Someone, please help me with a suggestion… 

 

Thanks in advance

Ben Petersen
2 years ago
3 months ago
10

I downloaded it a second time with plenty of space to spare and the same problem.

 

 

mons
20 years ago
5 hours ago
101,346

@Ben Petersen How large is the file you've downloaded? What program are you using to extract it?

Ben Petersen
2 years ago
3 months ago
10

12g and I'm using the default windows extract all option. Do i need better extraction software?

mons
20 years ago
5 hours ago
101,346
By Ben Petersen 26 April 2024 - 19:38 PM UTC 

12g and I'm using the default windows extract all option. Do i need better extraction software?

 

Use Winrar.

Ben Petersen
2 years ago
3 months ago
10
By mons 27 April 2024 - 10:03 AM UTC 

Use Winrar.

Appreciate the help, all my default faces that came with the game are completely gone now silhouette also.

So I'll try downloading the face pack again and install.

 

mons
20 years ago
5 hours ago
101,346
By Ben Petersen 27 April 2024 - 10:40 AM UTC 

Appreciate the help, all my default faces that came with the game are completely gone now silhouette also.

So I'll try downloading the face pack again and install.

 

Remove anything you've installed, and start again from scratch.

 

Watch the video on how to install the pack to be sure you're following the steps correctly:

 

Kamen Dulev
3 years ago
21 hours ago
14

The strangest thing happened.. I am using your sortititsi  facepack like always and in every new save Mason Mount image is not loading… every other one is loaded except the Mount one. What might be the problem?

Akram Mohamed
2 years ago
1 month ago
8
Premium

i'm having issues, if i unpack the first 4 files or so everything works fine, but once i unpack everything i cant see the players, they're just see-through.

im on mac and i used the unarchiver and unrared every single of the 13 packs and put them one by one into a faces folder in the graphics folder.

i saw somewhere here that i should only unrar the first file ?

should i still download them all ?

Akram Mohamed
2 years ago
1 month ago
8
Premium
By Akram Mohamed 07 May 2024 - 11:02 AM UTC 

i'm having issues, if i unpack the first 4 files or so everything works fine, but once i unpack everything i cant see the players, they're just see-through.

im on mac and i used the unarchiver and unrared every single of the 13 packs and put them one by one into a faces folder in the graphics folder.

i saw somewhere here that i should only unrar the first file ?

should i still download them all ?

 

@mons forgot to tag you

 

mons
20 years ago
5 hours ago
101,346
By Akram Mohamed 07 May 2024 - 11:02 AM UTC 

i'm having issues, if i unpack the first 4 files or so everything works fine, but once i unpack everything i cant see the players, they're just see-through.

im on mac and i used the unarchiver and unrared every single of the 13 packs and put them one by one into a faces folder in the graphics folder.

i saw somewhere here that i should only unrar the first file ?

should i still download them all ?

 

Can I have a screenshot of how you've installed the files you've extracted?

Akram Mohamed
2 years ago
1 month ago
8
Premium
By Akram Mohamed 07 May 2024 - 12:01 PM UTC 

@mons i think the problem is in the way i extracted each one of them, maybe i should have just extracted the first rar file ? in each folder (1-13) is either two folders (faces and iconfaces) or just one of the two

 

mons
20 years ago
5 hours ago
101,346
By Akram Mohamed 07 May 2024 - 12:03 PM UTC 

@mons i think the problem is in the way i extracted each one of them, maybe i should have just extracted the first rar file ? in each folder (1-13) is either two folders (faces and iconfaces) or just one of the two

 

You should have one faces folder with no sub-folders, with all images contained within this folder.

Savatage83
6 years ago
6 months ago
2

 

Hello, i have dowloaded the full torrent and copied the files into the correct path

 

Now i have this problem, the faces are out of sync with the players

 

Does anybody know how this happened and how can i fix this?

 

Thank you

mons
20 years ago
5 hours ago
101,346
By Savatage83 08 May 2024 - 14:37 PM UTC 

Hello, i have dowloaded the full torrent and copied the files into the correct path

 

Now i have this problem, the faces are out of sync with the players

 

Does anybody know how this happened and how can i fix this?

 

Thank you

 

How bizarre! Do you have a newgen face fix installed perhaps?

Savatage83
6 years ago
6 months ago
2
By mons 08 May 2024 - 18:49 PM UTC 

How bizarre! Do you have a newgen face fix installed perhaps?

 

I don't think so… maybe i'll try to start from a clean installation.

Stanb12
2 years ago
3 weeks ago
1

I have downloaded all the faces into my documents cleared cache reloaded skin but still no faces are showing any help please?

mons
20 years ago
5 hours ago
101,346
By Stanb12 08 May 2024 - 20:09 PM UTC 

I have downloaded all the faces into my documents cleared cache reloaded skin but still no faces are showing any help please?

 

Can you 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?

Oluwafemi Odekunle
2 years ago
1 week ago
1
Premium

Anytime I download the file, it only comes with the faces folder and not iconfaces. Nonetheless the updated faces still don't show up in my save.

mons
20 years ago
5 hours ago
101,346
By Oluwafemi Odekunle 11 May 2024 - 10:40 AM UTC 

Anytime I download the file, it only comes with the faces folder and not iconfaces. Nonetheless the updated faces still don't show up in my save.

 

What download method did you use? You probably didn't install the file correctly, if images still aren't showing.

 

Watch this video for a guide:

 

carlhelms
13 years ago
6 months ago
9
Premium

Hello

 

sorry if this is in the wrong place - ive spent hours downloading what i need, all was well loading the game and i just needed to install the facepacks

so ive subbed to get premium access and downloaded the 12.gb file - all good!

 

now the game loads forever..and ever and ever…. previous to downloading the face megapack, it was done in 1-2mins?

 

any help please?

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