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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 2022 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. 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, as well as Manchester Utd, 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. Another editor data file creates the Ajax non-playing staff and the German national team manager missing from the database due to licensing restrictions. 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
You may find this (windows) Video Tutorial useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHrhgEG2YbM
STEP 1.
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2022\data\database\db\2200
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2022\data\database\db\2201
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2022\data\database\db\2210
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2022\data\database\db\2230
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2022\data\database\db\2240
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
Notes: \Program Files (x86)\ could be \Program Files\ depending on your set up.
Equivalent folders for PC players on Gamepass
Before being able to operate these files, you need to get Gamepass to enable mods - thanks to @MrGizMo for help on the below guide on how to do so
Click on the game in Gamepass and enable mods as per the below:
When you click “Enable Mods”, this is what comes up:
When you click “Enable Mods”, you'll be notified that mods are now enabled:
And when you click “Open Mods Folder", it'll take you to the location where the game is installed:
OPEN
Program Files\ModifiableWindowsApps\Football Manager 2022\data\database\db\2200
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files\ModifiableWindowsApps\Football Manager 2022\data\database\db\2201
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files\ModifiableWindowsApps\Football Manager 2022\data\databasee\db\2210
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files\ModifiableWindowsApps\Football Manager 2022\data\databasee\db\2230
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files\ModifiableWindowsApps\Football Manager 2022\data\databasee\db\2240
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
Equivalent folders for PC players on Epic Games
Epic Games Installation
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\FootballManager2022\data\database\db\2200
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\FootballManager2022\data\database\db\2201
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\FootballManager2022\data\database\db\2210
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\FootballManager2022\data\database\db\2230
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\FootballManager2022\data\database\db\2240
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
Notes: \Program Files (x86)\ could be \Program Files\ depending on your set up.
Equivalent folders for Mac users
Mac
OPEN
/ Users / username / Library / Application Support / Steam / SteamApps / common / Football Manager 2022 / data / database / db / 2200
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
/ Users / username / Library / Application Support / Steam / SteamApps / common / Football Manager 2022 / data / database / db / 2201
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
/ Users / username / Library / Application Support / Steam / SteamApps / common / Football Manager 2022 / data / database / db / 2210
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
/ Users / username / Library / Application Support / Steam / SteamApps / common / Football Manager 2022 / data / database / db / 2230
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
/ Users / username / Library / Application Support / Steam / SteamApps / common / Football Manager 2022 / data / database / db / 2240
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
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 menu
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.
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 2240 folder:
dbc:
dbc/permanent:
edt/permanent:
lnc:
STEP 4:
COPY the 11 files located in the EDITOR DATA FILES folder in the downloaded pack
STEP 5
PASTE to \Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2022\editor data
This is also the same folder to be used for Gamepass.
As stated by SI themselves, for Gamepass, however:
You are not able to change the user data location as such but you can use the user data folder in Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2022 to store facepacks and graphics.
Equivalent folder for Mac
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive
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 2022’[/spoiler]
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.
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 and German 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
- 17 Oct 2021 11:12:05
- Date Updated
- 04 Apr 2022 16:17:29
- Last Comment
- 17 Mar 2024 00:00:46
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nicketc
You need to remove the file from the editor data that's called “FM22 Sortitoutsi Licenses Fix - Ajax staff.fmf"
mons
I think this gentleman is right actually @AML, I hadn't spotted it in your folder.
AML
Yup that was it. I see you changed the file name to add Flick changes and I didn't delete previous files, only replaced them so it left a duplicate file. When I remove the file called just Ajax staff and leave Ajax Staff and Flick I can get him in the game normally.
Thank you very much both, I was baffled
@mons can you tell me what happened so you had to add Flick forcefully? This wasn't the case in beta iirc?
mons
I was equally baffled! Spotters' badge to @nicketc for that 👏
I'm not 100% sure, but I think he was included in the beta then hidden in the database before the game was actually released.
Hendiyo
i don't get step 4 & 5 can someone help? If I do these two steps i cant pick a team in a new game..
mons
Click advanced setup at the bottom right of the page when starting a new game and instead of picking a team before loading the save game, you then pick it after it is created. That is literally the only difference.
Slates84
Hey Mons,
sorry to ask but was wondering if there will be any significant changes with 1.3 and whether to hold off to start a new save? Ie Hansi Flick bio updated?
thanks
XtaseLH
Great work as always!
Did anyone manage yet to add in-game faces (cut out) to the Ajax staff members? If so, how?
mons
The only things which have been changed are him having his playing and non-playing histories added and a few other very minor tweaks. I don't think that warrants a new release and the hassle that goes with it for the time being tbph. Maybe in another couple of days when there's a bit more changes added. If you feel you need it so badly, send me a private message and I'll forward it, no problem 👍
Read point 3 of the FAQ.
wfm18
Maybe good idea to move to GitHub with the file, so changes to the LNC are always registered and can be downloaded at any time, while you're still able to make stable releases. Copying @DokteurHaisse in, he knows how to set these things up correctly. Completely free as well.
mons
I've been so swamped that I haven't had a time to look into this. I'm wary of adding an extra layer of complexity to downloading the files. Plenty of people already seem flummoxed enough when installing the files in the current method, I dread to think how they'd react to something like this.
delichris
On the screenshot is says Manchester UFC
mons
For the love of crikey, what is the screen you're on in-game where that is being displayed? I can see it's Manchester UFC, I'm not blind just yet 😀
Adam Rozzy Lancaster
Hi mons,
Thanks for the data fixes. Everything works fine for me, except for one issue. I have created my own data via the editor (adding my mates on to the game). When I load up the editor data in a new game, selecting all of your editor data plus my own, I can see yours but not mine. On the screenshot below, I can load all of the data entitled "FM22…", or I can load just my data “The Guys”, but I cannot load them all together. Everything works, just not together. I tried adding my guys to the bookmakers data file and they did not appear. Any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks!
mons
I think it's a bug within the editor tbh. I had something similar when creating the changes for Hansi Flick, which I initially did in a separate editor data file, but which worked alone and with a combination of these files, but not with all of them loaded. My solution was to manually input the data into another file.
Raise the issue on the official forums, so that SI are aware of it. I don't think it's an isolated issue, but it's something which might (and hopefully will) be resolved shortly, so if there's a lot of data to input again, it might be worth waiting until it is rather than doing it all over again.
P.S. You don't have the latest version of this download - try to download it again (removing the existing older files) and see if that works for you 👍
delichris
I already told you that ingame the name was correct only not on the screenshot
mons
And this is the third time I'm asking where the screenshot was taken. What is the in-game screen where it is displaying wrongly? I want to see if I can replicate it on my system.
If you're not going to answer this very simple question, then please don't bother wasting my time any more 👍
yamaheru
I can create a github repository and transfer the ownership to you if you want to. Also I'm planning to create a script to take a backup and copy the files.
mons
I've never used it before so explain to me like I'm stupid. What would this entail and how does it work?
Becanes
This is the part that did it for me. Not sure it's 100% clear you need to do the edit in all db folders. I have struggled with this since Juventus was changed to Zebre and I have used your file since I start playing in FM07. Not having a go or anything but I sure didn't realize it had to be changed in all folders. Thank you.
mons
I don't know how it could be clearer than this 😢
Harry Saunders
I have followed the steps 10 times but I cannot get Juventus and Man U to have their real names, the Premier League has it's correct name so I know it's partly worked, I'm just baffled
Harry Saunders
german national team also not an option to manage at start of game
mons
Let's keep this conversation to here 👍
You mustn't have installed it correctly. Can I have screenshots of the folders on your PC which have screenshots in the main post of this thread?
Harry Saunders
screens attached, just went in game to have a closer look around. Premier League and Champions League etc have correct names. Dortmund's manager is Marco Rose, Germany have real players, Juventus have real staff, but Juventus are still called Zebre, Man U are Man UFC, Germany has no manager
Harry Saunders
heres the INC, EDT, PERM expanded, it's the same in all 3 folders 2200 etc etc
mons
All seems fine.
All the above is when you start a new game or after applying the fix in the middle of a save game?
delichris
The screenshot was taken when i can choose a team. The screen you already saw it.
mons
You cropped it. It's not clear where it is, no.
Harry Saunders
When starting a new save, I don't have any previous saves I got a brand new laptop delivered today so literally starting fresh