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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Andreas Elsfeldt
mons
I don't know what to say tbh. 4 hours sounds excessive but I'd expect it to take at least an hour or so. Maybe if you're running some other programs in the background, it increases the time of extraction.
Swedie
Andreas Elsfeldt
Muhammad Arief Darmawan
mons
I'm sorry, but I don't understand your question.
Can you give me screenshots of your problem? Maybe that explains your issue a little bit better...
Jürgen Hartmann
Hello mons,
since the last update of the pack, my iconfaces aren`t displayed anymore.
I already recreated a config.xml inside that folder with fmXML program, but no little pics are there. Any ideas?
Thank you very much for your help and support!
See here:
mons
I'm not sure why you created a new config file for the iconfaces. What was wrong with the one provided in the 11.05 folder?
Can you give me screenshots of your iconfaces folder and perhaps attach the config file itself?
Jürgen Hartmann
It didn`t work as it was, so I tried that out.
Qvordrup
well the config is wrong.... it has "portrait" (big faces) instead of "icon"(small faces). The strange thing is that the config provided in the download should work.
you can open the config in notepad press ctrl+h and then replace portrait with icon.
or you can also just use this config
p.s. I use "fm graphics configurator" to make configs I think it is easier to use: https://sortitoutsi.net/downloads/view/848/fm-graphics-configurator-for-pc
Jürgen Hartmann
Maybe it was my fault, because I had fiddeled around with it.
Nevertheless thank you very much @Qvordrup for your quick reply and solving my problem as well!
Now it works fine, take a look here:
boomzdaydevice
mons
We have a request forum here for people who are in FM. We do not cut images of players who are in the game, but we have this thread to help and assist those who want to learn how to cut out.
petros29
mons
First of all, do you have winrar installed? Secondly, what's inside the faces and inside the sortitoutsi folder please?
petros29
mons
rar files don't seem to be automatically associated with 7zip on your computer.
Can I see screenshots:
*of the faces folder
* inside the sortitoutsi folder (and inside any folders in there)
please?
petros29
mons
Delete the empty folder.
Can I see a screenshot of the inside the faces folder in this screenshot? How many images are in there? Is there a file named config.xml?
petros29
https://pasteboard.co/I2FTksX.png
https://pasteboard.co/I2FTv4W.png
mons
Have you changed the preferences like this?
Do you have any other facepacks?
petros29
yes everything is like yours .https://pasteboard.co/I2FXBuT.png
mons
Everything appears to be in order, and I can't see anything particularly wrong. You don't seem to have downloaded update packs 11.01 - 11.05, but that shouldn't result in no images being displayed
What do the missing players look like in-game? Is it the black default silhouette or is it an empty space?
petros29
mons
I'm all out of ideas. The files are all there and they appear to be in the right place. I can't tell what's wrong from the screenshots
Try downloading the update packs, maybe that will solve things for you
petros29
gazcarter1
mons
I'm really sorry but I haven't understood your problem. The folder looks full already and since the amount of images in the folder is the same as in the rar file, why are you extracting it?
aird
I'm just asking because I usually download the latest changes pack but I've noticed in my packs Borna Barisic and Leon Bailey have older images even though they have had improvement requests made.
Am I doing something wrong or am I just being impatient? I know I can download the improvements individually but I just thought I'd ask.
mons
Improvement images are usually included in the update pack following their publication. I manually compare each "improvement" image to the current cut. While most are added to the megapack, some are deemed not actual improvements, due to a poor source, poor cutting technique etc.
In the case of Borna Barisic, I assume you're referring to this. I'll have another look at it, it may be that it slipped past me or that I deemed it not an improvement (although I can't really see why I wouldn't have).
In the case of Leon Bailey, I can't find a more recent request to the current 11.04 cut; appreciate if you could point it out for me