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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mons
Amer9
mons
Amer9
mons
To download the full megapack, I suggest that you first download the 7.0 torrent from the lower part of this page and then apply each subsequent update pack (7.01 - 7.07) chronologically, overwriting when prompted.
Amer9
Amer9
mons
You need to copy the images (and NOT the folder itself) into the main megapack folder. If you do it right, when you do so, you should get a prompt to overwrite the existing images. Click OK for all.
Installation of the player icons is similar to the main megapack, just put it all in a separate folder - perhaps here.
Amer9
mons
MT55
mons
We release a torrent version of the megapack just before each game is released. This is the .0 version of the megapack. 7.0 was the version released just before FM15, 6.0 before FM14, and so on and forth.
Update packs are then released periodically to add images to the megapack and replace existing images with better/more recent cutouts.
Therefore, if you download 7.0, you already have 6.0 and all its update packs. To be entirely up-to-date, you would then need to download update packs 7.1-7.7.
Due to the size of the file and the amount of work involved, torrent versions of the whole megapack are only released before the game release to allow the community to have a simple download available.
Hope this clarifies.
MT55
I see thanks that clears it well, thanks! I did download a couple of them update packs but I had all the pics anyway just a couple updated ones but wasn't mandatory so deleted it, thanks bro!
mons
I would strongly recommend that you do download the update packs, although they are of course not mandatory.
The update packs include around 8,500 new images and around 9,500 improved cut-outs, so there's a lot more than a couple updated ones
MT55
Considering they don't take long to download I guess I can't go wrong thanks!
oooJohnooo
mons
I don't think download speed or connectedness is affected by the OS.
I don't recall having any reports about similar issues recently, and I can't even check with the site owner and admin as he is currently away on a well-deserved holiday. It could even be an issue with the service offered by the ISP.
Although it's not an ideal solution, can you give it a couple of days and try again? Do let us know if you still suffer the same issue at that point.
Outlaw King
Wonder if you can help me...
I have a C drive w/ 425mb of 60gb free, and an E drive with 762GB of 931GB free.
I have FM2015 installed in E but because my documents is in the C drive, the megapack is taking up valuable space.
I've tried moving my documents to the E drive but keep making an arse of things and can't get it to work.
Is there anyway I can relocate the megapack to my E drive at all?
mons
You can move your whole FM2015 folder from your documents to somewhere in your E folder, then change the user data folder field in the in-game preferences...
oooJohnooo
the icons pack downloaded ok, also tried the logo pack and this stopped work after few hundreds mb's, kits and skins downloaded fine, seems to be files that are large, so I tried to download the packs individually but this also didn't work.
I had the files installed and working fine before on my old laptop, and I refuse to play FM without faces and logos as the games looks so rubbish without.
Any help would be much appreciated
ManagerGod
have a little problem and hope you can help me here.
I downloaded the 7.0 pack last year ,installed it and everything worked fine.
Had to reinstall Windows, made a backup for the graphics and i have all player faces but I´m somehow missing the config.xml.
Downloaded the latest 7.08 because i hoped there would be a config but there wasn´t, so my question is can i download the config separately?
It would save hours to download the pictures i already have just for a tiny config and it would help me greatly. Thank you
mons
You can download the 7.08 update pack config here
oliverb_123
mons
How many images in total do you have in your megapack folder? Do you have a config file?
Screenshots of the contents of your megapack folder might help...
Leoreytt
coldpost
I have downloaded all of my facepacks from this site but for some reason after downloading the 7.8 update I still dont have Martin Odegaards pic in my game... I have checked his ID in game and it doesnt match the id in my cut out pack....
My questions are as follows...
Does anybody have just the XML file for the latest update of the cutitout packs so i can try and change it over to see if that works?
If the above doesnt work what is wrong? His picture id in my graphics folder? Wrong in game? Is my facepack folder corrupt in someway
Any help greatly appreciated gang.
Thanks
philstanbridge
You need the latest official patch (15.3.2) I believe to add his face. It's not a facepack problem as such.
Malygos Cfs
Then I extracted 7.1 and instruction says... I have to PLACE CONTENTS NOT THE FOLDER to... FACES folder. WTF? And the best part, all instructions of 7.1 - 7.8 says they are 5.1 - 5.8 versions for FM09-FM13 from 2012. WTF??
Edit. Ok, ty.
mons
The megapack is not divided by league or club or nation, so if only part of the megapack is displaying, then it almost certainly is a user installation error.
If you have the 7.0 megapack plus all the update packs released after it, then you should have over 161,000 images in your megapack folder. Is this the case? You should also have the preferences as indicated in the opening post.
It would probably also help if you posted screenshots of your megapack folder.
It's really rather straight-forward, I would have thought.
You do not just copy/paste the folders containing the update packs into the main megapack folder (i.e. you should NOT have separate folders with 7.01, 7.02 etc to 7.08 - but one folder with all the images in it). You are to copy the images plus config of each update pack into the main megapack folder. If you are doing it correctly, you should get a prompt asking you if you want to overwrite the existing files, to which you are to answer OK/yes.
I'm not sure about which instructions you are taking about tbh, but if you are sure you downloaded the 7.x update packs, then you should ignore any references to previous versions...
Malygos Cfs
What should I do then, select all .zip files together (megapack + all updates) and then extract option to one folder? Or can I continue with first method?