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.

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  • 2025.02 - Released on 07 Jan 2025
Cut-Out Player Faces Megapack
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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).
Max Weiland
1 year ago
2 weeks ago
1

I downloaded the cut out player faces megabuck but some faces of my team are missing so I wanted to add them by myself. So I added them into the folder but when I try to open the folder tot edit the config file it's loading and after a while the finder is not responding anymore. Can anyone help or just send my an config file I can edit and put into? 

Thanks

 

mons
18 years ago
12 hours ago
92,210
By Max Weiland 10 January 2025 - 10:16 AM UTC 

I downloaded the cut out player faces megabuck but some faces of my team are missing so I wanted to add them by myself. So I added them into the folder but when I try to open the folder tot edit the config file it's loading and after a while the finder is not responding anymore. Can anyone help or just send my an config file I can edit and put into? 

Thanks

 

You can download the most recent update pack and use its config file 👍

Sam3123
14 years ago
1 week ago
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By Qvordrup 09 January 2025 - 16:59 PM UTC 

If you have the silhouettes back, then all you need to do is delete what you have and download and install the latest complete pack (use chrome or any download manager available online to make sure you get the full file). For any rogue config file to interrupt the facepack it has to be within the graphics folder somewhere, and since you have the silhouettes back that is no longer the case.

 

I have re-downloaded twice already. I've copied the graphics folder and tested it on an older game and it works fine. But on this game it wont. It will pull through some logos, but all other logos, faces etc have no image or silhouette 

 

There is nothing else in the graphics folder that could be interfering with it, and as I say, the graphics folders works fine elsewhere. Could the default faces be interfering with it? I'm stumped!

mons
18 years ago
12 hours ago
92,210
By Sam3123 10 January 2025 - 14:53 PM UTC 

I have re-downloaded twice already. I've copied the graphics folder and tested it on an older game and it works fine. But on this game it wont. It will pull through some logos, but all other logos, faces etc have no image or silhouette 

 

There is nothing else in the graphics folder that could be interfering with it, and as I say, the graphics folders works fine elsewhere. Could the default faces be interfering with it? I'm stumped!

 

There might be a config file in the user data folder, not just in the graphics folder.

 

i.e. here: 

david1908
2 months ago
1 week ago
1

Hey,

I downloaded the 14 parts of the cutout face pack and extracted them in the graphics folder as I did with trophies and logos.
I followed the instructions and have 480000 png files and the config.xml file there. I unticked the cache settings and ticked the reload skin box as it needs to be. The facepack still does not work while the other packs do. 

I play on Mac.
Any help is well appreciated I'll name my next your player after anyone, who can help!+

Regards,
David

Ed Winner
3 weeks ago
4 hours ago
2
Premium

hi mate mines the same 

mons
18 years ago
12 hours ago
92,210

@david1908 and @Ed Winner, can each of you upload your config file?

 

Also, do you get the black silhouette or an empty space? 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?

Ed Winner
3 weeks ago
4 hours ago
2
Premium

I did have an empty space but ive deleted all the face files so now gone back to just black silhouette

mons
18 years ago
12 hours ago
92,210
By Ed Winner 13 January 2025 - 21:25 PM UTC 

I did have an empty space but ive deleted all the face files so now gone back to just black silhouette

 

Bit hard for it to work if you do that, mate…

moetto
14 years ago
2 days ago
14
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can anybody tell me if there is a picture for Paul Pogba in the pack? Because he dont have a face for me and maybe there is no pic for him yet but just wondering so my pack is not incomplete or something. 

 

Thank you in advance and also thank you for making the game experience so much better with your hard work.

Azrael
13 years ago
23 hours ago
192
By moetto 15 January 2025 - 17:27 PM UTC 

can anybody tell me if there is a picture for Paul Pogba in the pack? Because he dont have a face for me and maybe there is no pic for him yet but just wondering so my pack is not incomplete or something. 

 

Thank you in advance and also thank you for making the game experience so much better with your hard work.

 

Hi! Yes, there is.

PoorJack
13 years ago
12 hours ago
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By moetto 15 January 2025 - 17:27 PM UTC

can anybody tell me if there is a picture for Paul Pogba in the pack? Because he dont have a face for me and maybe there is no pic for him yet but just wondering so my pack is not incomplete or something. 

 

Thank you in advance and also thank you for making the game experience so much better with your hard work.

 

If there's a picture of him in the facepack... yet his ID doesn't match the file (that's why it doesn't show on his profile page), then a possible scenario is: This is a newly created Pogba... maybe he's being removed earlier due to the ban, and some data update recreated him recently.

 

Anyway, you may simply assign the picture to this new Pogba.

 

moetto
14 years ago
2 days ago
14
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By PoorJack 16 January 2025 - 02:21 AM UTC 

 

 

 

If there's a picture of him in the facepack... yet his ID doesn't match the file (that's why it doesn't show on his profile page), then a possible scenario is: This is a newly created Pogba... maybe he's being removed earlier due to the ban, and some data update recreated him recently.

 

Anyway, you may simply assign the picture to this new Pogba.

 

I wish i knew how to do that i am not the mos technical guy when it comes to stuff like that. I will just wait until it might come a new one that matches his id in the future 🙂

PoorJack
13 years ago
12 hours ago
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By moetto 16 January 2025 - 03:32 AM UTC

I wish i knew how to do that i am not the mos technical guy when it comes to stuff like that. I will just wait until it might come a new one that matches his id in the future 🙂

 

You may wait, but the problem is that data updates and facepacks are independent to each other. Assume there's a new Pogba added via custom data updates. The fact is that different data updates re-create their own version of Pogba. In other words, your new Pogba and my new Pogba could have different IDs... Facepack developers aren't going to follow.

 

Anyway, it's nothing technical, it's "open a text file, and add the ID and filename... like other entries". Of course, do backup before you touch anything!

 

Reference:

https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=w1KMbdGXMJQ (May watch from about 4:40, if you already have the picture.)

https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=ZhuVzb_7PZY (The above video was released before the winter update, so mind the "r-"... or just follow other entries in your file.)

https://sortitoutsi.net/content/847/fmxml-for-pc

 

So, this is the immediate solution... if my assumption is the case. I just feel it's more effective and efficient to take things in own hands... if possible. Giving it a try (at least exploring a bit) is more practical than "I wish I knew how to do that...". Anyway, it's up to you.

 

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