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 450,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.

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  • 2024.07 - Released on 15 Apr 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).
hellfirejet
14 years ago
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After an eleven year gap from playing Football Manager because I don't like Steam! Since you need Steam to play the game even in off line mode, I have missed playing the game so decided to go against my dislike of Steam in order to play the game. So earlier this week I became a Premium member and I have been trying without success to download the Mega Facepack been nearly 10 attempts to get the download installed but it keeps failing after just 2 Gigabites out of 18 Gigs. Anyone else here had this issue and found a fix?
mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
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After an eleven year gap from playing Football Manager because I don't like Steam! Since you need Steam to play the game even in off line mode, I have missed playing the game so decided to go against my dislike of Steam in order to play the game. So earlier this week I became a Premium member and I have been trying without success to download the Mega Facepack been nearly 10 attempts to get the download installed but it keeps failing after just 2 Gigabites out of 18 Gigs. Anyone else here had this issue and found a fix?

I have a few real-life friends who also decided to stop playing FM because of Steam too. Now that you've installed it, was it worth the 11-year sabbatical? I never understood why Steam frightens people so much 🙂

Some users have reported having trouble completing the download. This may be related to temporary issues with our servers, but also with one's internet connection.

Try and avoid downloading other files at the same time (even from outside the site) as this sometimes stops the download for some reason. Additionally, I recommend using Google Chrome to download it because it allows the resumption of interrupted downloads, which could be needed if it happens again for you.
hellfirejet
14 years ago
8 months ago
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Hi mons, I'm using Google Chrome to download, but the download fails when it gets to 2 Gigabite everytime, I goes from saying will complete download in about 1 or 2 hours, then starts going up in hourly estimates, 3hrs, 4hrs, 5hrs etc it eventually says it will take a day then the download stops completely.
ΦΩΤΗΣ ΡΩΜΑΙΟΣ
8 years ago
3 hours ago
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the ploblem in my game in the sinji kagawa faces is fixed now thanks my friends.
DanRBennett_
9 years ago
1 year ago
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I downloaded the face pack and now whenever I click on certain things (e.g Martin Laursen's profile) the game freezes. If I wait 5 minutes or so it resumes again. I then took the face pack out the game and it continues to do it. Any ideas what's happened and how I fix it?
mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
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Hi mons, I'm using Google Chrome to download, but the download fails when it gets to 2 Gigabite everytime, I goes from saying will complete download in about 1 or 2 hours, then starts going up in hourly estimates, 3hrs, 4hrs, 5hrs etc it eventually says it will take a day then the download stops completely.

When a download stops, I get the attached possibility to resume the download. Can you try downloading it with Incognito mode?
mons
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By DanRBennett_ 04 February 2021 - 00:59 AM UTC 

I downloaded the face pack and now whenever I click on certain things (e.g Martin Laursen's profile) the game freezes. If I wait 5 minutes or so it resumes again. I then took the face pack out the game and it continues to do it. Any ideas what's happened and how I fix it? 

 

If you change the preferences as per the screenshot in the first post, does the issue still manifest itself?

 

Also, can I have a screenshot of the location you had installed the pack in? Just to check it was in the right place.

Sam9777
6 years ago
3 years ago
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Is a 6 hour extraction time normal or am I just being stupid and doing it wrong?
mons
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By Sam9777 04 February 2021 - 14:45 PM UTC 

Is a 6 hour extraction time normal or am I just being stupid and doing it wrong? 

 

Sometimes with such a big file the computer gets the calculation of extraction time wrong and it speeds up after a while. Be prepared for it to take a fair while. It may take around an hour or slightly less with all conditions being ideal.

 

If you can't find the time to leave your PC unused to extract the files, perhaps it might be worth letting it extract overnight, making sure there aren't any power settings which send the system to sleep if inactive after a period of time.

DanRBennett_
9 years ago
1 year ago
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By mons 04 February 2021 - 09:54 AM UTC

If you change the preferences as per the screenshot in the first post, does the issue still manifest itself?

 

Also, can I have a screenshot of the location you had installed the pack in? Just to check it was in the right place.


Yes I have the correct preferences but the issue still occurs. I downloaded the complete 18GB pack from this link: https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/style/1/cut-out-player-faces
mons
17 years ago
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By DanRBennett_ 04 February 2021 - 17:21 PM UTC 

Yes I have the correct preferences but the issue still occurs. I downloaded the complete 18GB pack from this link: https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/style/1/cut-out-player-faces 

 

Can I have a screenshot of the location you had installed the pack in? Just to check it was in the right place.

DanRBennett_
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mons
17 years ago
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By DanRBennett_ 04 February 2021 - 18:34 PM UTC 

Here it is 

 

I want to see a screenshot of where the placed your files on your computer once you had downloaded them. Not where you downloaded them from ;)

DanRBennett_
9 years ago
1 year ago
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By mons 04 February 2021 - 19:36 PM UTC

I want to see a screenshot of where the placed your files on your computer once you had downloaded them. Not where you downloaded them from ;)


Oops, silly me. Apologies! There you go
mons
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By DanRBennett_ 04 February 2021 - 19:59 PM UTC 

Oops, silly me. Apologies! There you go 

That looks to be fine. And what's inside the faces folder? And can I see a screenshot of the preferences?

 

DanRBennett_
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mons
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By DanRBennett_ 04 February 2021 - 21:54 PM UTC 

That's inside the folder 

 

I was hoping to see the full folder, including the amount of images in it, as visible in the bottom left corner.

mons
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Molda222
14 years ago
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Is the megapack supposed to be without the config file? I've read something about creating one yourself but i would rather use one created by you to not mess anything up.
mons
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By Molda222 05 February 2021 - 14:47 PM UTC 

Is the megapack supposed to be without the config file? I've read something about creating one yourself but i would rather use one created by you to not mess anything up. 

 

The megapack download includes the config file. If your folder doesn't have it, either you didn't download the correct file or you didn't extract it properly.

garrywhyte
3 years ago
5 months ago
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looking for advice new to adding packs to Fm and every time i try to download the complete pack i just get network issue ?
mons
17 years ago
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By garrywhyte 05 February 2021 - 21:21 PM UTC 

looking for advice new to adding packs to Fm and every time i try to download the complete pack i just get network issue ? 

 

Some users have reported having trouble completing the download. This may be related to temporary issues with our servers, but also with one's internet connection.

Try and avoid downloading other files at the same time (even from outside the site) as this sometimes stops the download for some reason. Additionally, I recommend using Google Chrome to download it because it allows the resumption of interrupted downloads, which could be needed if it happens again for you.

garrywhyte
3 years ago
5 months ago
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ah ok thanks for that so is better to leave my pc alone while it downloads and not have anything running at same time don't think its my net as some smaller files have failed too
hellfirejet
14 years ago
8 months ago
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Earlier in the week I had major problems getting the Mega facepack to download completely, and after many hours of scatching my head to find a solution, I went back to basics and figured out that just maybe my Anti-Virus software might be causing the issue, so I disabled my Anti-Virus, and guess what the download issue was solved, so if there is anyone else having problems downloading any files, might I suggest that you disable any installed Anti-Virus software, and hopefully like me your problem will be solved.
moeosb
3 years ago
3 years ago
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Hi I just bought the premium membership to allow me to download the facepack. The download speed is at 140 kb/s and I have a 1 Gbps internet connection. I'm not sure why that, is there anyone experiencing the same problem?
mons
17 years ago
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By moeosb 07 February 2021 - 04:16 AM UTC 

Hi I just bought the premium membership to allow me to download the facepack. The download speed is at 140 kb/s and I have a 1 Gbps internet connection. I'm not sure why that, is there anyone experiencing the same problem? 

 

I've just given it a go now on my usually terrible internet connection and I got around 3mb/s. Try downloading it using Chrome Incognito, perhaps you have some extensions throttling your download speed. That, and make sure you don't have any other downloads running in the background.

moeosb
3 years ago
3 years ago
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By mons 07 February 2021 - 08:37 AM UTC

I've just given it a go now on my usually terrible internet connection and I got around 3mb/s. Try downloading it using Chrome Incognito, perhaps you have some extensions throttling your download speed. That, and make sure you don't have any other downloads running in the background.


Thank you very much for helping me out. I just tried what you suggested it downloaded at full speed. You are absolutely right, it was a chrome extension throttling my bandwidth.
telu
3 years ago
2 days ago
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I am new to FM, I just downloaded the big package of FM21 faces, do I need to download an update apart or is that download enough? Where can I download the small faces and for the fake faces?
mons
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By telu 08 February 2021 - 08:14 AM UTC 

I am new to FM, I just downloaded the big package of FM21 faces, do I need to download an update apart or is that download enough? Where can I download the small faces and for the fake faces? 

 

You'll have to be a bit more specific. How big is the file you've downloaded and which method did you use? The answer to your question will depend on the file you've downloaded :)


As for the iconfaces, they are included in the base megapack and they are updated within each update pack released.

 

I'm afraid I have no idea what you mean by fake faces, can you explain further?

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