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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adambell5
can i just not download a single pic from sortitoutsi like the mark chamberlain one and add it to fm21 graphics folder or do i have to do the same thing with that pic aswell .
mons
Use this fmXML download 👍
adambell5
Thanks Alot mate top work it worked a treat
Globglobgabgalab
I am still playing FM 20, can I download the latest updates (13.01-13.04) or they are only for FM 21?
Thank you.
mons
The way these faces work, they are both forward and backward compatible. If you download the update packs for the 13 series, they will work for FM20, and any older games too 👍
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mons
What error messages are being displayed please and can you please post screenshots?
bartdude
It's could be you, your settings or your network provider. There are no issues with the downloads, apart from the latest Windows 10 updates sometimes not responding unless you open in new tab.
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riverplatelvnv
mons
It may be the case that the extensions on the internet browser or the anti-virus you're using on your laptop is somehow interrupting the mirrors from displaying. Try using incognito mode or the equivalent for your browser, maybe that helps.
You're not installing it correctly, because should not have update packs in separate folders. You should put the files from the faces folder of the downloaded update pack directly into the faces folder of the megapack (i.e. no sub-folders), same for the iconfaces. If you're doing it right, you should be asked if you want to overwrite files, to which you should agree.
At the end of the process, you should have 294,000+ images and a config file inside each of the faces and the iconfaces folder, and no sub-folders within either of them.
riverplatelvnv
but What about the config files ? The new updated faces config file is not the same as the original one with all the faces, if I overwrite it then config file also is gone no?
mons
Yeah, and that's the whole point. The config file included in each update pack does not only contain the code for the images in that update pack, but for all the megapack.
Sezoki Sez
thanks for your work its awesome !
but i have a question, there are a little pack like this ? because 18 go for extraction on winrar its juste horrible
i dont have any ssd and so the transfer is very long
thanks you again !
mons
I'm afraid not. There isn't a way to break it down other than to do so manually, and at just under 300,000 images, I'm sure you can understand that will take much more time than is humanly possible for our small team.
Sezoki Sez
yes i undestand no problem !
thanks you again
bartdude
Point taken Mons 🙂
Guardiol4
mons
I'm sorry, either I've not understood you or you haven't explained yourself well. Can I have a screenshot of what you mean?
As an aside, there are just under 300,000 images in the megapack. If you want to pick and choose, it'll take you so long to do so, you might as well download the cuts that you want from here and use the methods outlined in this thread to generate a config file just for them. Otherwise, if you go to the trouble of downloading the whole megapack, you might as well use all the cut-outs in it.
ole4
ive read through some of the earlier comments but as soon as I add any of the face pic folders my loading times go from about a minute to over an hour, does anyone have any suggestions?
ta in advance
mons
What loading times are you referring to? Can we have a screenshot of the location in which you've installed the files you've downloaded?
ole4
Of course and thanks for your help, picture is attached.
I haven't shown all the files but you can see it's location etc.
As for your loading question, it sits on the 'loading screen' where a team is celebrating after all the war child adverts and copyright pages etc.
mons
That is not how it should be installed. You should have one folder which includes all the images from all the update packs within it with no sub-folders.
ole4
thanks again
CVNM1985
Megapack has been download, content unzipped and placed in a "faces" folder under "graphics" in FM2021 (see screenshot attached) - I then followed the in-game steps in the Preferences menu (unchecked "use catching..." and checked "reload skin when..."😉 but yet the cutout faces do not appear - just the orignal faces the game comes with. Played around for a bit, but couldn't make it work.
Can anyone provide some assistance with this?
Thank you - NM
mons
You don't seem to have the full megapack, which includes over 294,000 images. Besides, there doesn't seem to be a config file in your folder, which is the crucial file which tells the game which image to assign to which person.
The location is fine, so I suggest redownloading the file again, which should be 18.59GB in size.
Parker26
mons
I'm not entirely sure what the question is, but you can use fmXML to generate a new config based on the images in your megapack folder. It's a very simple tool and it creates a config file in 3 seconds; watch this video to see how to use it :thumbup:
Parker26
CVNM1985
Thank you @mons - will download the file again, and will report back if I am still having issues. Cheers!