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 475,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.
- 480,827
- 2025.00 - Released on 29 Oct 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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Bamster365
I have added the config file to each part but only faces from the first part are displayed
mons
You should have one folder, and one folder only, containing every cut within it.
Rod Fuser
Worked perfectly, thanks a lot @mons 😇
Midway Man
Some faces disappeared from my game, and are not in the faces folder, I can't put name on all of them but it concerns some japanese players and youngster, there's Tomoki Hayakawa, I've downloaded all the updates since the 08 and am pratically sure that i've done everything good, but maybe I forgot to put one file in the main folder (ive putted a screen from a youngster of my team)
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 Hayakawa's UID - 2000088692?
bigpole
3 possible problems.
How many faces you have in your facepack folder?
Midway Man
I've clear and reset my game a few time and I have 449 702 items in my facepack folder (I had the japanese guy face by myself)
bigpole
And other faces are visible, only this one isn't?
Midway Man
I've looked at some teams and it seems that a lot of players are missing, from U19 teams to J1 league players
bigpole
If you've downloaded the megapack and all updates, you should have 476,470 faces. So if you have 26 thousand faces left, you don't have all faces. So please download faces again, along with updates.
Midway Man
Okay I must've forgot one of the last updates, thanks a lot!
mons
You don't have the full megapack, it should be around 475k images.
Midway Man
It is one of these files ?
Ege Derdiyok
I want the answer to just one question from you. Why dfiles?
There are 12 update files. After uploading each one we have to wait 20 minutes to upload the next file. There can be no such nonsense. Honestly, after downloading this face pack, I will leave this site never to come again.
mons
Because they're among the few sites which allowed our automated uploading system.
You're complaining about getting something for free, which takes loads of people lots of work in their free time. And you're complaining about having to wait all of twenty minutes between downloads. Entitled much?
Go, and don't come back if you don't want to 🤷🏻♂️
Ege Derdiyok
Is it the whole point that it's free? Or is it to find out that I have to use Dfiles after downloading 12GB of maindata?
What happened? 🙂 you mean the site doesn't make money?
Clicks, ads, donations?
Did someone force people to make this package?
In general, you may be right in what you want to say. But the way you say it makes you wrong. And yes, in 2024, it's hard for me to wait 20 minutes after a download.
bigpole
This website is from FM fans, to FM fans. And fans make the content. And to have the storage for the content, admin needs to buy some space. And to have all these files in one place without broken links - it costs money to maintain the infrastructure.
Just because you don't understand this, it doesn't mean you have to be passive-aggressive towards the people here and support helping people here.
You started the rudeness, so don't expect people to be polite to you. And personally, I don't care if you download this file or not, do what you want and go away. Let other people enjoy this facepack.
hudayi1000
Merhaba, yüz yamasını yükledikten sonra FM 24'e giriş yapamıyorum, bu ekranda kalıyor ama 20-25 dakika sonra oyuna girebiliyorum. Eğer bir çözümünüz varsa paylaşabilir misiniz?
mons
Do you mean can or can't here?
hudayi1000
can
purga19
hello i downloaded the megapack and the changes but lamine yamal dosent have the face
mons
Did you manage to resolve this?
You've downloaded the main megapack and then the 2024.12 update pack. You need to download all the 12 update packs and apply them in order.
Sander Wilhelmus
Hello,
Downloaded the facepack, with the cutout faces, which took forever and ever. Surely, having to download +20gb isn't a small undertaking, so I get it. However, one could consider putting it as a torrent in the future, as other sites have opted for. Anyway, the biggest concern is trying to remove the download afterwards or even opening the folder with the facepack. It completely crashes my laptop every time. Fine, I have it on a HDD and a SSD probably would do far better, but my SSD is 256gb and it gets full easily. I had to download Bleachbit (thank you internet) to remove it and it will take +24 HOURS to remove the entire folder. I am aware that this website is run by volunteers, so I'm not trying to step on anyone's toes. However, I'm curious to know how other people experience the whole endeavor and if there are any solutions.
mons
Erm, the main pack is actually available as a torrent, and has been for more than a decade now.
I have no idea what Bleachbit is, and why you decided to use it instead of simply using the delete button.
24+ hours seems a bit much, but using an HDD rather than an SSD will tend to increase the time needed to both transfer and delete it. It's not the large file size which is the issue, but the enormous number of files which need deleting. It's slightly under a million images all told, after all.
*Joan*
Hello!
I've been playing FM for 20+ years, but this never happened to me.
I've downloaded all of the parts up until changes 04, which I can't download because my computer finds a virus before it's done. Help?
mons
It'll be a false positive. Whatever the browser and whatever the antivirus, you should be able to overwrite the warning and download/extract it anyway.
*Joan*
I can't find a way to ignore the warning, the download just fails?
mons
I'm sorry, but I have no idea how to do that without knowing the browser or the antivirus. Try Googling to see how you can do that 👍
*Joan*
Turning off the anti virus did the trick! Another question though. I downloaded all 13 parts of the original file and tried installing it before downloading the updates. Nothing showed up in the face folder, how could that be?
mons
Without knowing exactly what you did and where you extracted it to, there's not much advice I can offer 😢