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 460,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.

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  • 2024.09 - Released on 09 Jun 2024
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. 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'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, starting with the oldest.
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:
https://i.imgur.com/85lGeDc.png

The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:

https://i.imgur.com/jbZkFfw.png

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.
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’

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:
https://i.imgur.com/jbZkFfw.png

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.
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.
If you're using Gamepass, then you have to use the default user data folder (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)
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.
You need to copy and overwrite the faces and the new config file from the update pack into the faces folder and follow the same procedure for the iconfaces 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.
Please report this so that they can be reuploaded.
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.
This download has two folders: one is the faces folder which contains the cut-outs which should be displayed on this screen. There is also a file titled config.xml which tells the game which images to assign to which person. The other folder is the iconfaces folder which contains the smaller images displayed near a person's name on the menu which comes up when you right-click on them, and also includes a different config file for this folder.

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.
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 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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By mark_flem 08 June 2024 - 13:54 PM UTC 

I don't know what I'm doing wrong but the packs I downloaded aren't showing in the game, even the logos that were previously there (the licenced ones) aren't showing either. I feel really stupid!

 

I've created folders in the graphics folder for faces, logos & kits & extracted the relevant packs using winrar into their folders. 

 

Then cleared the cache as instructed in the guides & ticked the reload skin when confirming preferences box. 

 

So I'm unsure where Ive gone wrong.

 

Any help would be appreciated. 

 

That's not really the point of this particular thread, however. Why don't you post in the technical support thread of any of the files you've downloaded? 

 

I suggest you post screenshots of your megapack folder, showing clearly the full path it’s located in as well as how many images are in that folder, as well as screenshots of what it looks like in-game.

mark_flem
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Couldn't can't find a technical support thread. Again I'm pretty useless at this 

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By mark_flem 08 June 2024 - 14:17 PM UTC 

Couldn't can't find a technical support thread. Again I'm pretty useless at this 

 

If you hover on each kind of megapack here, most of them will have a forum, and there will be a technical support thread in there.

mark_flem
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I don't know what I'm doing wrong but the packs I downloaded aren't showing in the game, even the logos that were previously there (the licenced ones) aren't showing either. I feel really stupid!

 

I've created folders in the graphics folder for faces, logos & kits & extracted the relevant packs using winrar into their folders. 

 

Then cleared the cache as instructed in the guides & ticked the reload skin when confirming preferences box. 

 

So I'm unsure where Ive gone wrong.

 

Any help would be appreciated. 

 

Here are screenshot to show the locations

mark_flem
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Thanks so much for your help

mons
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By mark_flem 08 June 2024 - 14:53 PM UTC 

I don't know what I'm doing wrong but the packs I downloaded aren't showing in the game, even the logos that were previously there (the licenced ones) aren't showing either. I feel really stupid!

 

I've created folders in the graphics folder for faces, logos & kits & extracted the relevant packs using winrar into their folders. 

 

Then cleared the cache as instructed in the guides & ticked the reload skin when confirming preferences box. 

 

So I'm unsure where Ive gone wrong.

 

Any help would be appreciated. 

 

Here are screenshot to show the locations

 

I've moved this to here because we might get somewhere here 😉

 

I suggest you post screenshots of your megapack folder, showing clearly the full path it’s located in as well as how many images are in that folder, as well as screenshots of what it looks like in-game.

 

So far, you've done only the highlighted bit. Help us to help you by providing all the rest, focusing on faces here as I suspect the issue is the same across the board.

 

Oh, and please use the reply function when answering someone because they then get a notification, and can answer you more quickly 😉

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By mons 08 June 2024 - 14:57 PM UTC 

I've moved this to here because we might get somewhere here 😉

 

I suggest you post screenshots of your megapack folder, showing clearly the full path it’s located in as well as how many images are in that folder, as well as screenshots of what it looks like in-game.

 

So far, you've done only the highlighted bit. Help us to help you by providing all the rest, focusing on faces here as I suspect the issue is the same across the board.

 

Oh, and please use the reply function when answering someone because they then get a notification, and can answer you more quickly 😉

 

Hi whilst these screen shots aren't the player face cut outs you'll see the locations etc. I'm trying to get logos & kits before I do player faces. 

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By mark_flem 08 June 2024 - 18:29 PM UTC 

Hi whilst these screen shots aren't the player face cut outs you'll see the locations etc. I'm trying to get logos & kits before I do player faces. 

 

No offense buddy, but I really need you to pay a bit more attention to what I'm asking - there are reasons I asked for screenshots of your megapack folder, showing clearly the full path it’s located in as well as how many images are in that folder, as well as screenshots of what it looks like in-game, focusing on faces.

 

It's no good showing me the logos stuff - I'm not conversant much about it, which is why I moved this here.

 

In the meantime, here's a video on how to install the cut-out faces megapack: 

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By mons 08 June 2024 - 18:45 PM UTC 

No offense buddy, but I really need you to pay a bit more attention to what I'm asking - there are reasons I asked for screenshots of your megapack folder, showing clearly the full path it’s located in as well as how many images are in that folder, as well as screenshots of what it looks like in-game, focusing on faces.

 

It's no good showing me the logos stuff - I'm not conversant much about it, which is why I moved this here.

 

In the meantime, here's a video on how to install the cut-out faces megapack: 

 

No offence taken & I'm not meaning to be awkward. It's just all a foreign concept to me. I've watched the install video's & followed them as best I can. See more screen shots. I hope these are of more help. If not I'll just leave it & hope my brother can help because you are clearly losing patience. 

 

 

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By mark_flem 08 June 2024 - 19:17 PM UTC 

No offence taken & I'm not meaning to be awkward. It's just all a foreign concept to me. I've watched the install video's & followed them as best I can. See more screen shots. I hope these are of more help. If not I'll just leave it & hope my brother can help because you are clearly losing patience. 

 

You've got around 650k+ images in your faces folder instead of the 460k+ actually in the pack. I can't really tell how you end up there, and I suspect it's part of the reason why it's not working in the way it's intended. I'm not losing patience, and I'm happy to help, but it's quite hard to diagnose an issue like this without having access to as much info as possible, because there will be a myriad of reasons why it could be happening…

 

Frankly, I think your best bet is to delete everything you've downloaded - everything: graphics, logos and kits - and download everything again from scratch. As a premium member, you can get everything directly from here with a 1-click download, which should minimise the hassle.

 

I would suggest installing the packs one at a time, then loading the game after each installation to see if it's working in-game. Let us know what happens when you install the first one 🙂

mark_flem
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Thanks for all your help. I do appreciate it. I'll wait for my brothers help & if he struggles I'll get him to read our conversation in the hope it helps him.

 

There is no support chat for the the logos & kits either. That's why I posted it all here. Have a good day

hariz zakwan
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Guys what happened to Facepack changes from fm12 to fm15? The download links are gone.

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By hariz zakwan 09 June 2024 - 02:43 AM UTC 

Guys what happened to Facepack changes from fm12 to fm15? The download links are gone.

 

a) I can see them just fine here

b) we're in the middle of 2024 - move on and stop asking about such older versions of graphic files

Julk44
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Hi guys, the megapack stopped to work in my game. I tried to make a new save yesterday and the faces did not appear. I did not change anything since my last save and I do not use patches. Any solution? Thanks!

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By Julk44 09 June 2024 - 15:36 PM UTC 

Hi guys, the megapack stopped to work in my game. I tried to make a new save yesterday and the faces did not appear. I did not change anything since my last save and I do not use patches. Any solution? Thanks!

 

As already asked elsewhere, can you please 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, as well as screenshots of what it looks like in-game? We cannot draw conclusions without having even a rough idea of what's what at your end.

Julk44
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The megapack is located in the same place as always. It worked for years…

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By Julk44 09 June 2024 - 15:45 PM UTC 

The megapack is located in the same place as always. It worked for years…

 

You've cropped out just how many images there are in the pack 😕

 

You've also not shown me what it looks like in-game?

 

Why does it always have to be so difficult with you? 😢

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By mons 09 June 2024 - 15:50 PM UTC 

You've cropped out just how many images there are in the pack 😕

 

You've also not shown me what it looks like in-game?

 

Why does it always have to be so difficult with you? 😢

 

Sorry and forget it. I tried to make a screenshot in a new save now and It seems perfect again 🙂

Julk44
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Or not. The megapack has 466.563 elements. It happens in National Teams.

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By Julk44 09 June 2024 - 15:58 PM UTC 

Or not. The megapack has 466.563 elements

 

From the FAQ at the top of the page:

 

Cut-outs for Dutch/French players aren't displayed when viewed through their national team, but appear fine when viewed from their club team. What's wrong?

It's a licensing issue. Download this file (or the equivalent for your version of FM) to resolve it.

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Parris Barron
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Hi - I downloaded the file on mac and get the attached error when I try and unzip it using archive utility 

 

 

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By Parris Barron 10 June 2024 - 10:33 AM UTC 

Hi - I downloaded the file on mac and get the attached error when I try and unzip it using archive utility 

 

I would suggest that you download Winrar, and use it to try and extract the file.

 

How large is the file you've downloaded, and what was the download method please?

Parris Barron
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By mons 10 June 2024 - 10:38 AM UTC 

I would suggest that you download Winrar, and use it to try and extract the file.

 

How large is the file you've downloaded, and what was the download method please?

I used a different tool and it worked. Thank you

 

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Hi guys, does anybody know the password to unzip using winzip for the facepack?

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By Callum Hudson 13 June 2024 - 18:12 PM UTC 

Hi guys, does anybody know the password to unzip using winzip for the facepack?

 

Use Winrar to extract the file. It's not got password protection anyway 😕

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By mons 13 June 2024 - 18:23 PM UTC 

Use Winrar to extract the file. It's not got password protection anyway 😕

 

 

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By Callum Hudson 13 June 2024 - 18:27 PM UTC 
 

 

Which is why I asked you to use Winrar 😉

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By mons 13 June 2024 - 18:44 PM UTC 

Which is why I asked you to use Winrar 😉

 

is winZip and Winrar not the same thing?

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