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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
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
Notes:
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
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 2021’
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.
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\2100OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2021\data\database\db\2101OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2021\data\database\db\2111OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2021\data\database\db\2130OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2021\data\database\db\2140Notes:
\Program Files (x86)\\Program Files\Epic Games Installation
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
Notes:
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\FootballManager2021\data\database\db\2100OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\FootballManager2021\data\database\db\2101OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\FootballManager2021\data\database\db\2111OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\FootballManager2021\data\database\db\2130OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\FootballManager2021\data\database\db\2140Notes:
\Program Files (x86)\\Program Files\Mac
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
You can find these folders by clicking, in the Finder, the Go menu in the menu bar, then choose Go to Folder and type the folder path name (obviously inserting your username), then click Go.
You can get to the Library folder by simply selecting Go from the top bar and holding "alt" key - The Library folder suddenly appears on the drop down
For Mac Lion users, the Library folder will be hidden. Use this link to find out how to show it.
For those struggling to find the Steam and Steam Apps folder etc using Mac with the new OS High Sierra, this link below shows how you can unhide your Library folder which will then let you find the other folders.
Slightly more detail in this post
OPEN
/ Users / username / Library / Application Support / Steam / SteamApps / common / Football Manager 2021 / data / database / db / 2100 OPEN
/ Users / username / Library / Application Support / Steam / SteamApps / common / Football Manager 2021 / data / database / db / 2101 OPEN
/ Users / username / Library / Application Support / Steam / SteamApps / common / Football Manager 2021 / data / database / db / 2111 OPEN
/ Users / username / Library / Application Support / Steam / SteamApps / common / Football Manager 2021 / data / database / db / 2130 OPEN
/ Users / username / Library / Application Support / Steam / SteamApps / common / Football Manager 2021 / data / database / db / 2140 You can find these folders by clicking, in the Finder, the Go menu in the menu bar, then choose Go to Folder and type the folder path name (obviously inserting your username), then click Go.
You can get to the Library folder by simply selecting Go from the top bar and holding "alt" key - The Library folder suddenly appears on the drop down
For Mac Lion users, the Library folder will be hidden. Use this link to find out how to show it.
For those struggling to find the Steam and Steam Apps folder etc using Mac with the new OS High Sierra, this link below shows how you can unhide your Library folder which will then let you find the other folders.
Slightly more detail in this post
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\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2021\\GAMEPASS\editor dataUsers/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports InteractiveOpen 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 2021’
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.
- Date Created
- 08 Nov 2020 16:01:54
- Date Updated
- 16 Mar 2021 10:50:19
- Last Comment
- 30 May 2023 22:55:23
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Tommy Hughes
Mons will publish a new patch version tomorrow:
“I'm afraid I'm in bed for the night, so the new release will have to wait till tomorrow morning. For those who can't wait, make sure the dbc/permanent and edt/permanent folders in your 2140 folder look like the ones in the screenshot, and that your lnc folder does too.”
tucco06
Hi guys
Do you think it's worth waiting for a new update of this file in order to start a new save or it's fine if we keep using the current one for a long save ?
Thanks for your inputs and the great work !
mons
v 4.0 of this file is now available for download 👍
Bielsa is a Legend
cheers Mons
bimbo1989
Am I the only one that sees the wrong spanish teams names even after applying the patch?
I also tried the “remove hashtags” method but doesn't work.
Teams in other nations seem to work fine, Juventus for example is good
mons
Very strange. Can I have screenshots of your editor data folder?
Did you install the files before starting a save game?
bimbo1989
Hi mons! First of all thank you for all your work 🙂
Anyway, I did install the files before starting the save game (I did months ago), remember that it seems that this problem only affects spanish teams. Competition names are fine, and even clubs from othern nations (Bundesliga names are good, Juventus is good, etc.).
Here are the screenshots!
mons
What happens if you remove the fix no fake file?
bimbo1989
Nothing changes.
Pardon my ignorance, but aren't .fmf files in the editor data folder only meant to work at the moment of the creation of the savegame? They shouldn't affect existing games, right?
My concern here is that the spanish names are not working properly in an existing savegame, and they used to show correctly before the 21.4 update.
Just to be sure: in the “remove hashtags" method, I'm supposed to edit the file in all of the folders (2100, 2111, 2140, …) or only in the 2140 one?
mons
Ah, I see where the issue has arisen.
The game will ‘read' the lnc files of the database the game was created with. So if you started the game with 21.3, the game will use the files in that folder.
So, if you're using the remove hashtags workaround, the file should be primarily placed in the folder of the database in which the save game was started. If you don't know which it was, you might as well edit them all 😉
bimbo1989
Ok, it works now!
How they did break in the first place will remain a mystery, I guess 🙂
Dilling
For some reason I suddenly can't download this, or anything else, from the site. Does anybody else have this problem?
SolidLiquid
Same!
mons
We're aware of the issue which has cropped up and I'm sure @Footygamer is working to resolve it asap…
msarthou
Link not working? is it possible or it's my problem? I mean v4.0 for 21.4
mons
Read the post above yours. Just bear with us till it's fixed.
In the meantime, it can be downloaded from the mirror site: https://mega.nz/file/IMNgFLIa#f5lyVjwBRv-4XHSyrnKQebne1pjqxnHagaw9D97mmbo
msarthou
Sorry. You are absolutely right
kevin innes
I can't download the files
mons
Read the posts above yours. Just bear with us till it's fixed.
In the meantime, it can be downloaded from the mirror site: https://mega.nz/file/IMNgFLIa#f5lyVjwBRv-4XHSyrnKQebne1pjqxnHagaw9D97mmbo
Aleksandr Orlov
Thank you for the temporary mirror site! New Save here I come!
luisrha
One fix needed from Mexico
Competition 2000026060 (Mexican Expansion League Champions Trophy) is displayed as “Guard1anes BBVA MX” and “Torneo Apertura”, that's incorrect.
The proper long name would be “Campeón de Campeones Expansión MX”, with “Campeón de Campeones Expansión” as short name.
Sakumadrops
I skimmed through recent posts but currently this fix file can't be applied to the game pass edition (Xbox edition), correct?
EDIT: Actually, forget about this post. I'll try the dump workaround method and if it doesnt work just buy the steam version.
filipppo
If someone know how can i add new barcelona board Joan Laporta to the game?
mons
That's got nothing to do with this file 😕
filipppo
are you sure? I cant edit this in for example future_chairmen.edt?
mons
It's not a licensing issue though, is it?
rbcuk
Can i download the latest V4.0 as i havent downloaded the update for this since V1.4 as its been working perfectly, but going to start a new saved game, but with the updated database i will need to install this fix to get the real names again
mons
v4.0 contains everything you need to have, if that's what you're asking.
rbcuk
Hi Mons, yeah as some updates require you to have every update, just wondered if that was the case with the name fix
mons
I understand what you mean, but that's usually the case for larger files, like megapacks. For this file, the download will always include all the files you'll need.