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
Which is why I asked you to use Winrar 😉
Callum Hudson
is winZip and Winrar not the same thing?
mons
No…
TheTongPro
The faces in my facepack doesn't appear after I installed the update pack, only the updated faces appear.
Do I have to delete everything and reinstall it?
(Note: The faces you see either without a preview or with a green/black background does render successfully when I open the image in Photos)
mons
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.
Can you follow the steps in this post, but for Martinez's UID?
O. A.
So ı downloaded the 11gb file and while extracting the contents to the graphic folder it asks me to overwrite some of the images.Am ı supposed to say yes to this or what ?
TheTongPro
Okay, I saw that there was other config files from other folders under graphics, so I deleted them and it is back to normal now. Thanks 👍
Callum Hudson
I’m not paying for winrar just tell the PASSWORD TO UNZIP THE FACEPACK
mons
Winrar is free, and there is no password to the megapack 😕
Callum Hudson
It’s telling me to pay a £52 fee. Can u please send the appropriate link then?
mons
Wtf?
Can you upload a screenshot of what it is that you're seeing?
Callum Hudson
its not letting me use winrar. Is there no other unzipping apps?
mons
What do you mean, it's not letting you use Winrar? 😕
Try the Unarchiver, since you're on a Mac.
Old Time Guy
Hello really need some help here please. Downloaded the Cut-Out Megapack 2024.09 12.2GB
When I try to extract the file it through an error:
The Extraction Operation was Not Completed
An unexpected error is preventing the archive from being extracted
Error 0x8096002A
I have tried re-downloading twice, and multiple attempts to extract.
I am baffled
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Old Time Guy
Sorry I should have added I am on WIndows 11 with a i7 Processor and 32GB RAM
mons
What program are you using to extract the downloaded file? What size is the downloaded file?
BruceLee18
I am using FM22 and want to use the "Cut Out Player Faces" pack from FM24 or later. Is that possible? I see that the FM24 pack has over 460k images of various kinds, while FM22, if fully updated, only has over 377k images. Will it be possible that after playing for 5-6 seasons, when the game generates new young players, their IDs will match the player IDs in FM24? Will the face images be incorrect then? Can anyone explain this to me?
mons
If it's still available, download the FM23 torrent file, so that you get all the FM22 update packs too. Frankly, you might as well get the FM24 torrent file if that isn't available.
BruceLee18
Thank you for your response. Currently, I have the FM24 torrent file along with all its update packs. So, can I still use it to play on FM22?
mons
Yes, absolutely. You'll have a few thousand images of people who are not in your game yet, but that'll have no effect whatsoever on your current player or future regens.
MokLoc
I've recently started a new career with Austrian club Grazer AK and I am also very new to the game. I have downloaded the general face pack but when I enter the game the players just appear as blank images. If anyone knows how to fix please let me know.
Here's an image to show you.
Old Time Guy
Hi, the file size is 12.2gb
The program is the default program in Win 11.
I dont know what that is.
Old Time Guy
I should point out that all other files I have downloaded from the site have unzipped with no issues.
Old Time Guy
Hi there, you can close out any support ticket on my issue.
The solution (via Google) was to download a 3rd party extraction program (I got 7-Zip) and it fired it off no problem.
Thanks
PoorJack
For reference:
HOW TO INSTALL REAL PLAYER FACES ON FM24 - Football Manager 2024 Facepack Installation Guide - YouTube
https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=PntxsezYyss
mons
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.
Can you follow the steps in this post, but for his UID (16122481)?
Oldwarlock
Good morning,
I installed the latest face pack update for FM24 and installed on the old one and it made images of players' faces disappear and I don't know why it made them disappear instead of changing these photos to new cutouts.
Sincerely,
mons
Read the post immediately above yours 👍
gallont09
I had this yesterday setting up FM24 on a brand new laptop. Make sure you are extracting the file with winRAR!! Don't just right click the file and extract all, you have to scroll down to where it says winrar, then extract all through there. If you don't have winrar installed, you'll have to download it
Old Time Guy
Thanks, I actually grabbed 7Zip and it worked fine. Sorry, should have posted that earlier.