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
I've moved this to here.
As per the FAQ:
What program are you using to extract the download? I'd recommend Winrar.
Jordi Blake
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
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
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
@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
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
I downloaded it a second time with plenty of space to spare and the same problem.
mons
@Ben Petersen How large is the file you've downloaded? What program are you using to extract it?
Ben Petersen
12g and I'm using the default windows extract all option. Do i need better extraction software?
mons
Use Winrar.
Ben Petersen
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
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
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
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
@mons forgot to tag you
mons
Can I have a screenshot of how you've installed the files you've extracted?
Akram Mohamed
Akram Mohamed
@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
You should have one faces folder with no sub-folders, with all images contained within this folder.
Savatage83
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
How bizarre! Do you have a newgen face fix installed perhaps?
Savatage83
I don't think so… maybe i'll try to start from a clean installation.
Stanb12
I have downloaded all the faces into my documents cleared cache reloaded skin but still no faces are showing any help please?
mons
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
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
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
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?
mons
The first time you load the game with the megapack, it'll take a while to load all the new images. Shouldn't take that long next time.
carlhelms
Hey Mons - do you reckon I should just wait it out for the first effort then?
nice to see you btw - and thanks for replying 🙂
mons
I suppose so, yes. When you say forever and ever, how long are we talking?