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.

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  • 2025.00 - Released on 29 Oct 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).
jkishthe1
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By mons 24 October 2024 - 14:14 PM UTC 

Going by your download history, it seems you've downloaded the 2024.13 megapack a few hours ago, so hopefully the below is no longer needed.

 

Use Google Chrome to download it, because it allows the resumption of interrupted downloads.

 

Sadly not it keeps failing and eventually it won't let me resume, just says forbidden. 

mons
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By jkishthe1 24 October 2024 - 14:16 PM UTC 

Sadly not it keeps failing and eventually it won't let me resume, just says forbidden. 

 

Can I see a screenshot of this error, if it occurs again?

jkishthe1
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By mons 24 October 2024 - 14:20 PM UTC 

Can I see a screenshot of this error, if it occurs again?

 

Sure

Andrew Ryan
1 month ago
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Thank you I want to delete them or paste over them but cannot find in my faces packs Bless you for your reply

Andrew Ryan
1 month ago
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The truth is I want to remove them I hate them it is driving me crazy any idea where i find them in my face packs thanks again

mons
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By Andrew Ryan 25 October 2024 - 05:28 AM UTC 

The truth is I want to remove them I hate them it is driving me crazy any idea where i find them in my face packs thanks again

 

Go to preferences, navigate to the interface section and untick the box titled show pictures of players and staff who have been generated by the game (or similar wording).

 

Got nothing at all to do with this pack, however…

Andrew Ryan
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OK thank you for your help

 

Tiago Mauro
1 week ago
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I let it for more than 12h and never finish extract. Can someone help me? Same with logos megapack.

Tiago Mauro
1 week ago
5 days ago
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Update: I downloaded winrar and im extracting it with winrar, now is showing only 10 min! Windows native extract tool is garbage! Its seems windows extract tool make a copy while extracting, thats why is so slow.

Sinski
11 years ago
2 days ago
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Downloaded the packs as described and I cannot see any faces. I have downloaded these on previous versions with no issues but cannot get them to work on FM24. Worked initially with the main download but at some stage loading up all the update packs the faces stopped showing. I believe I have the right setup etc. but could be wrong so I will show what I have at the moment. All other downloads I have done from this site have worked well but not this one.

 

mons
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By Sinski 10 November 2024 - 13:10 PM UTC 

Downloaded the packs as described and I cannot see any faces. I have downloaded these on previous versions with no issues but cannot get them to work on FM24. Worked initially with the main download but at some stage loading up all the update packs the faces stopped showing. I believe I have the right setup etc. but could be wrong so I will show what I have at the moment. All other downloads I have done from this site have worked well but not this one.

 

 

 

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 take a screenshot of the faces folder once it's fully loaded? i.e. not half the way through like in your screenshot. I'd like to see the number of images in there too.

Jack Brisen
1 year ago
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question, i have the 2024 pack, i download the 2025 and its just replacing and overriding?

mons
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By Jack Brisen 10 November 2024 - 13:49 PM UTC 

question, i have the 2024 pack, i download the 2025 and its just replacing and overriding?

 

It's not clear what you're asking here. Can you try rephrasing that?

Sinski
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By mons 10 November 2024 - 13:23 PM UTC 

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 take a screenshot of the faces folder once it's fully loaded? i.e. not half the way through like in your screenshot. I'd like to see the number of images in there too.

 

mons
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By Sinski 10 November 2024 - 14:26 PM UTC 

 

You don't seem to have the full amount of images in there. It should be just over 480,000 and you've got around 7k less. Moreover, the image for Rene S Andersen in your screenshot isn't the most recent one, which leads me to think you never properly installed the 2024.01 update pack, which I can however see that you did download.

 

The easiest solution would be to download the 2025.00 base pack via the torrent file, delete your existing faces and iconfaces folder, and install the most recent base pack from scratch.

rogeriofza
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Just downloaded 25.00 pack- 12.x GB.

Its not working. Nothing wrong with the rar file. It uncompressed. Its in my grahpics/faces folder

All the faces are there..but the config.xml files are not well formed for some reason

mons
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By rogeriofza 11 November 2024 - 18:23 PM UTC 

Just downloaded 25.00 pack- 12.x GB.

Its not working. Nothing wrong with the rar file. It uncompressed. Its in my grahpics/faces folder

All the faces are there..but the config.xml files are not well formed for some reason

 

Seems like you download the 2025.00 base pack, but afterwards, for reasons unknown, downloaded update packs released previously, which might be the cause of your issue. In order for us to understand what you did wrong, can you please upload screenshots of your megapack folder, showing clearly the full path it’s located in as well as how many images are in that folder?

rogeriofza
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Thanks mons. I cleaned up my folder. made it empty. Torrented 25.00 and only applied those faces. So started a fresh.  Started downloading previous updates thinking i was going to go back to 2024.x but stopped that. Trying to get 25.00 afresh installed

 

rogeriofza
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Torrented File:
 



Install location
 

 

Unpacked

 

 

Use cache unticked and hit Reload skin

 



No Face loading

rogeriofza
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30 minutes ago
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By Sinski 10 November 2024 - 13:10 PM UTC 

Downloaded the packs as described and I cannot see any faces. I have downloaded these on previous versions with no issues but cannot get them to work on FM24. Worked initially with the main download but at some stage loading up all the update packs the faces stopped showing. I believe I have the right setup etc. but could be wrong so I will show what I have at the moment. All other downloads I have done from this site have worked well but not this one.

 

 

I have to concur. These packs i have installed before and never had issues. For some reason this 25.00 isnt working even as a clean install. Strange 

rogeriofza
14 years ago
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Faces folder - just to show count

Icon Faces - also





 

rogeriofza
14 years ago
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Each config.xml is around 34MB big…do you think the game wont read this size of XML file. Goes to around 480k thousands on lines

 

mons
18 years ago
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@rogeriofza, as stated earlier, 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 files somewhere.

 

Can you make a search in the graphics folder of the following UID: 2000264574? That's Marko Ristic fyi.

 

Before you take a screenshot, can you sort the results in the manner outlined below?

 

This can be achieved by posting the UID in the red circle, choosing the view tab via the blue circle, the details option in the black circle and making sure the folder column in the green circle is long enough to display the full path.

 

When you run the search, can you change the below search options?

 

This will help me see if there is one or more other folders in your user data folder which contains one or more other facepacks, and where that image is coming from within your files…

trueskyblue87
16 years ago
13 hours ago
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I can't unzip the latest changes file using 7zip or Winrar. Any ideas?

rogeriofza
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By mons 11 November 2024 - 20:36 PM UTC 

@rogeriofza, as stated earlier, 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 files somewhere.

 

Can you make a search in the graphics folder of the following UID: 2000264574? That's Marko Ristic fyi.

 

Before you take a screenshot, can you sort the results in the manner outlined below?

 

This can be achieved by posting the UID in the red circle, choosing the view tab via the blue circle, the details option in the black circle and making sure the folder column in the green circle is long enough to display the full path.

 

When you run the search, can you change the below search options?

 

This will help me see if there is one or more other folders in your user data folder which contains one or more other facepacks, and where that image is coming from within your files…

 

Here is the screen shots you asked for. I found the png file and the config.xml shows up cause of file contents

 

rogeriofza
14 years ago
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Its looking like iconfaces only showing up on search results


 

rogeriofza
14 years ago
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Just checked the winrar file it shows both…I think the uncompression is acting up

 

rogeriofza
14 years ago
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OK found the culprit. For some reason there was a 2025.00 change pack in another directory with my kits. This was throwing it out. Removed that and it all worked.

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