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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
- 15 Mar 2024 11:30:39
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mons
The quick start on a demo is effectively a save game, albeit without a club picked, so all the items listed in the main post which require a new game to be started, including changing club names, cannot work in the demo unless you do the workaround in the first post.
It's different in your case as you're on a full game. Not sure what the other 11 changes you're referring to here, tbh. Are you starting a new game? If yes and they still aren't working, it's likely you haven't installed the editor data folder correctly.
Can I have a screenshot of it, showing the path clearly? 👍
rootcoors
Not sure if this one has been captured yet, so apologies if it has.
Hull City now play at the MKM Stadium and not the KCOM Stadium.
Thanks.
mons
Thanks for the heads-up. This is actually correct in the default database so all you'd need to do is open the City, Club and Stadium Names.lnc file with Notepad, search for "KCOM" and remove that entire line of code. It's a change which is save-game compatible too 🙂
rootcoors
Perfect. Thank-you.
RoCCo_42
Turkish Spor Toto Super League Team Names
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 450573 "Adana Demirspor A.Ş." "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=3603
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 458631 "Vavacars Fatih Karagümrük" "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=3611
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 1865 "Fraport Tav Antalyaspor" "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=52
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 1875 "Yukatel Kayserispor" "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=72
Turkish Spor Toto 1.League Team Names
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 130300 "Balıkesirspor" "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=135
Turkish TFF 2.League Team Names
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 130362 "Pendikspor Futbol A.Ş." "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=3623
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 70043025 "Uşakspor" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 70061827 "Criptoswaps Zonguldak Kömürspor" "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=2434
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 70061824 "1461 Trabzon Futbol Kulübü" "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=2375
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 70061824 "1461 Trabzon F.K." ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 70076210 "An Zentrum Bayburt Özel İdare Spor" "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=153
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 70080976 "Adıyaman Futbol Kulübü A.Ş." "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=1871
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 70080976 "Adıyaman F.K." ""
Turkish TFF 3.League Team Names
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 70081711 "Formül Erbaaspor" "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=3641
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 8491577 "Başkent Gözgözler Akademi Futbol Kulübü" "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=4366
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 8491577 "Başkent Gözgözler A.F.K." ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 130377 "Elazığspor" "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=37
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 70054525 "Sancaktepe Futbol Kulübü" "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=778
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 130340 "Bitexen Düzcespor" "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=98
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 70081355 "Gema Polimer Şile Yıldız Spor" "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=442
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 70081355 "Şile Yıldızspor" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 70054576 "İskenderunspor A.Ş." "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=4258
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 70054576 "İskenderunspor" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 70108557 "Alagöz Holding Iğdır Futbol Kulübü" "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=9387
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 70108557 "Iğdır F.K." ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 70081334 "Beyoğlu Yeni Çarşı F.K." ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 70081025 "Başkent Üniversitesi Alanya Kestelspor" "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=3808
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 70081025 "Alanya Kestelspor" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 70081229 "Harput Dibek Elazığ Karakoçan Futbol Kulübü" "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=7196
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 130357 "Redoks Darıca Gençlerbirliği A.Ş." "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=3615
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 452949 "Criptoswaps Edirnespor" "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=38
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 454646 "Yeşilyurt Demir Çelik Ofspor" "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=3693
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 70078189 "Orduspor 1967 Futbol İşl. Spor Kulübü" "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=4929
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 450544 "Gümüşhane Sportif Faaliyetler A.Ş." "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=1096
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 70108691 "Mardin 1969 Spor" "" - https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=28&kulupID=8758
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 70108691 "Mardin 1969 Spor" ""
The Amateur League is a bit challenging because of the team that changes names every year and the ridiculous statuses that change every year. I need some time for it. I will share the Amateur Leagues as soon as possible.
Acebone
# Partick
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 102638 "The Energy Check Stadium at Firhill" ""
The sponsorship deal ended, so this line can be removed.
mons
I've got all the ones you gave me 👍 I have no reason to doubt your accuracy by now, so there is really no need to give a link from the Federation's website 😉 I don't read it and I have to remove it when copying the line of code anyway, so save the both of us some time 😉
Also, unless there's a major name change, there's really no need to go through all the amateur clubs. There are 278 clubs in the amateur divisions, of which 50 have had name changes already, which is plenty. Maybe the main amateur club name changes, if really necessary. I don't fancy inputting hundreds of minor club name changes which might be redundant in a few months anyway 😉
Got that 🍻
Aaron Evander
So just got to 2010 inc folder, city, club and stadium name from your version and just delete?
mons
It's the 2210 folder actually, and you then need to do what I typed, yes.
Aaron Evander
Thank you 😉
tommydevon
Club names are only changed if you apply the editor data files before starting a new game
what does this mean? How do I do it?
Champions league name has changed in a new game, but none of the club names have changed.
Playing on a Mac and useless with tech.
Thanks in advance.
mons
If you don't follow steps 4 and 5, then you won't get club name changes.
comennias
Thank you
BigFlatFoot
Thanks for the work you've consistently done with the name fixes!
I don't know if it's just me, but with the PC Game Pass, it keeps disabling mods every time I start up my PC so the name fixes don't show. I have to enable mods, and paste the fixes into the folder again as they replace them each time 😢 very annoying
Just a heads up for those using the game pass version that this may happen to you too
mons
At least it's better than last year when you couldn't use mods at all…
grade
So I found an American city that is written wrongly. Is that something you correct with this file?
mons
I can and please do submit it, but my file is just a sticking plaster. It's preferable if you also post on the official forums pointing it out, so that it's corrected in the database itself too 😉 It might well just be a typo which has slipped the researcher's attention, for example.
grade
It is a typo, but I posted last year (for FM21) and also for FM22. Don't recall if I did for FM20…
Last year they didn't respond to me and this year... well it has been almost a month and no reply. 😢 Thus the reason I came here, my frustration or losing my patience being ignored is talking way too loud in my head. It is better a sticking plaster than no plaster at all. 😉
In that same thread, you posted the link, my post is the last one. 😛
So the city in question is 20018260 - Niagra Falls (NY) - It should be Niagara Falls.
That is it.
mons
I hadn't actually opened it 😅
I'll add it to the file then, will give you the code later tonight when I get home so you can add it to your files 👍
grade
Nice thanks!
mons
All you need to do is add the below 👍
# USA#thanks and credits to grade for his research"CITY_NAME_CHANGE" 20018260 "Niagara Falls (NY)" ""grade
Which file do I add this? Sorry, I'm newb regarding these files. 😛
mons
Open any of the lnc files and paste it in there. The “right” place would be within the City, Club and Stadium Names.lnc file but ultimately it doesn't make much of a difference.
grade
Thanks 🙂
steveyeu
What would prevent the Premier League renaming? Other competitions work however the Premier League still appears as Premier Division.
mons
Bit hard to answer a question like that without knowing (a) what's in your editor data folder and (b) what's in your 2210/lnc folder. Screenshots always help.
steveyeu
It is setup as per the instructions however I think it may be this in the LNC file:
#England
#some changes as put forward by AhMostyn, others by giftedgiggsy11 and others by shadow² and Qvordrup
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 11 "Premier League" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 11 "Premier League" "
The shortname change is missing the final quote.
EDIT - makes no difference.
mons
If you want me to assist, can you please provide the screenshots I asked for?
I'll fix that for the next patch, but as you've seen, it makes no difference.
steveyeu
What do you need screenshots of? The folder structure is as instructed - removing the existing dbc, edt and lnc folders first before replacing with those from the download. All editor data files are copied to the editor data folder.
In game the fixes work for other competitions however the Premier League is still referenced as the Premier Division.
mons
Come on man, help me help you.
My first post asked for: