FM2021 Licensing and Real Name Fix File v4.0 for FM21.4 [released on 16/03/2021]

If you're playing FM Touch, use this file.

This file will need to be re-applied if/when official patches/updates are released to ensure full compatibility. This is due to the fact that some files which are removed when installing this file are automatically re-installed by Steam when official patches come out.

Some of these changes, ESPECIALLY THE CLUB NAMES, do NOT apply in existing save-games. There's a workaround for that in the first post.


The sortitoutsi real names fix changes the instances of fake names in Football Manager 2021 to the proper, real life names for awards, cities, stadiums and competitions, in cases where the actual name is not licensed, such as Champions League, Europa League and Premier League displaying instead of EURO Cup, EURO Vase and Premier Division respectively. It will also fix the fact that the German and Japanese National teams don't call up real players and that the Bayern Munich and Borussia Mönchengladbach managers have fake names. These are all fully save-game compatible.

There is also a club name changes file, which changes the names of clubs in a way which ensures that any nicknames entered in the default database are retained. This file includes the proper names for Brazilian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian (including Juventus) and French clubs to circumvent licensing restrictions. It also adds real-life media and journalists, encompassing most major footballing nations and continents. Brazilian clubs' text colours are also changed through an editor data file. Finally, it includes a small file which corrects the 3-Letter competition names to correspond with any changes made in the lnc files. For all the files in this paragraph to work, however, you will need to start a new game.


Follow the below instructions to install this version of this file

STEP 1.
OPEN

Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2021\data\database\db\2100

DELETE the dbc , edt and lnc folders

OPEN

Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2021\data\database\db\2101

DELETE the dbc , edt and lnc folders

OPEN

Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2021\data\database\db\2111

DELETE the dbc , edt and lnc folders

OPEN

Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2021\data\database\db\2130

DELETE the dbc , edt and lnc folders

OPEN

Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2021\data\database\db\2140

DELETE the dbc , edt and lnc folders

Notes:

\Program Files (x86)\

could be

\Program Files\

depending on your set up.






STEP 2:
COPY the dbc, edt and lnc folders from the downloaded pack

STEP 3:
PASTE them into each of your respective folders mentioned in step 1.

These are what the respective folder structures should look like in the 2140 folder:

dbc:
dbc/permanent:
edt/permanent:
lnc:

STEP 4:
COPY the 10 files located in the EDITOR DATA FILES folder in the downloaded pack

STEP 5
PASTE to

\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2021\editor data

This should be what your editor data folder looks like now. There may initially be a config.xml file in this folder and it can be safely overwritten; it is generated by FM every time the game starts.





To make sure the files have been applied correctly, go to the Champions Cup and EURO Vase in your saved game, and they should be renamed to Champions League and Europa League respectively. If you are in the middle of a save-game, Japanese national teams will be populated in the next instance that players are called up, and not immediately. Do keep in mind that this file does not add Japan-based players, who are not in the official database and will need a third-party add-on to be created and added.

Club names are only changed if you apply the editor data files before starting a new game. For a workaround if you've already started a new save-game, then please read the opening post of this thread.