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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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Obyt14
Is it possible to change the likes of B04, BVB, BMG & SGF in this situation?
mons
SI released 22.3 a few days back. Open your dbc/permanent folders in 2210 and 2230 and make sure they look like the below, deleting any other folders:
I am led to understand that doing so will work in your save game.
The league in focus page has very small panels and larger club names are compressed accordingly. The way to edit it would be to edit the clubs' 3-letter name where applicable, using the pre-game editor 👍
Womaz
Excellent thank you, that did work
coronateq
gonna try now its complicated
coronateq
my problem is in game zebre problem but in normal view i have no problem thats weird
mons
If you don't have the editor data file in place before starting a new game, that will happen.
Clubs have a long name (Juventus Fc), a short name (Juventus) and a 3 letter name (JUV). The first two can be edited if you use the workaround, even if you don't have the editor data file in place before starting a new game, but not the third one.
coronateq
thanx downloaded and gonna try it again will reply soon thanx again
SamuraiPizzaRob
My Valencia save was from the 2210 (previous) update - like a plum I'd overwritten the dbc, edt, and Inc folders in the 2210 sub-folder when I was trying to patch everything so any new saves with 2230 show up ‘correctly’. Basically I had to re-apply the change to the City, Club and Stadium Names.Inc file in 2210/Inc folder and hey presto, everything is back as it was.
Radosław Ćwikliński
Hi!
I need help.
I had switched on mods before, but I needed to reinstall Windows and right now I don't see the option of switching mods in Gamepass app.
Did you have a problem like this? Or any of you?
moxey25
Hello guys,
Hope you are all doing well.
Just a heads up the FFA Cup (15051375) has recently been renamed ‘Australia Cup’
https://www.australiacup.com.au/news/australia-cup-name-return-australias-largest-national-knockout-football-competition
b13v3r
Swansea fc plays now in “Swansea.com Stadium”
no longer liberty stadium
https://stadium.swanseacity.com/
mons
Thanks for these @moxey25 and @b13v3r 🍻
coronateq
thats last question sorry taking your timei did everythink you said but at after did editor data cant start any new game whats the problem over there?
i did it finally thank u 🙂
unfortunately japan national team gone how can i fix this 😢
mons
Read the opening post on how your folders should look like in order to get the Japan team to appear 👍
jkadms
hey mons, japan nt isn't working for me either even though the others are working.
when i start a test save the NT is populated with real players, but when they actually play matches, the players are greyed out again
mons
What FM version are you playing and on what platform?
jkadms
latest version on macOS. all the files are installed correctly
have been trying to narrow down the cause. i've tried playing on all database versions and different detail levels so far but nothing has worked as of yet. next thing to try is start dates and editor data
mons
Can I see a screenshot of your 2230/lnc folder, of your 2230/edt/permanent folder, and of the full Japan squad once the game starts?
jkadms
sure
so i didn't screenshot the NT when i started this particular test save, but as you can tell by the fact that real players have been made captain and vice captain, the NT is populated at the start of the game
on this test i actually used a different start date and all of the games through to november have the correct players playing in them, but as soon as we get to december, the friendly and the EEAFF E-1 games have greyed out players and the NT goes back to being unpopulated
edit: just simmed further and the NT is repopulated for the 2022 friendlies in march, so maybe it's just that tournament for whatever reason?
coronateq
i did it finally thanks bro 🙂
mons
Hmm, strange.
I'm not familiar with the EEAFF competition - is it one in which only domestic-based players can be selected perchance?
jkadms
Just had a look at the other teams in the competition and this seems to be the case, thanks. glad to have it figured out 🙂
limonezz
It's a bit buggy in the game (can confirm at least in the original database). The “suggested squad” inbox item suggests that only domestic-based players can participate, but actually there is no such restriction and you can include players based abroad. Maybe the AI can't get around that bug and tries to pick only domestic players.
So definitely there's something fishy going on.
Screenshot is from a save on original database, without custom East Asian leagues on v.2.0 of the Real Name Fix file.
Japan is human controlled (has players based abroad), S. Korea is AI (squad is only with domestic players).
Rhys
Nashville SC's new stadium has a name: GEODIS Park
(I'm still playing FM 2020, so don't have the UID for the stadium, but I thought I would pass this along)
Source: https://www.thestadiumbusiness.com/2022/03/11/geodis-takes-naming-rights-to-nashville-scs-new-home/
mons
Changed 🍻
# Nashville"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 1389 "GEODIS Park" ""Rhys
Here are a couple of name changes I have noticed for my FM 2020 save(s) and aren't in the most recent update.
They might be in FM 2022, but if they are not, I thought I would pass these along too.
# Cheltenham Town (Whaddon Road)"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 631 "Jonny-Rocks Stadium" ""Source
# Crawley Town (Broadfield Stadium)"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 640 "The People's Pension Stadium" ""(It is listed twice, under both
"The Checkatrade.com Stadium"and"The People's Pension Stadium". The latter is the current name.)Source
# Harrogate Town AFC (Wetherby Road)"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 5100048 "The EnviroVent Stadium" ""Source
# Lincoln City (Sincil Bank)"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 675 "LNER Stadium" ""Source
# Peterborough United (London Road)"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 696 "Weston Homes Stadium" ""Source
# San Jose Earthquakes"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 72013735 "PayPal Park" ""Source
Swindon's home is no longer sponsored, so it's back to being the plain old “The County Ground” now. (UID: 725)
The same goes for Nuneaton Town's “Liberty Way”. (UID: 30017765)
mons
Thanks for these. These are all actually in the original db for FM22 so they don't need to be in the file any more; same goes for most of the other English stadiums in the file. Once 22.4 eventually comes out and v 4.0 of this file is released, only the below will be included:
# Boston United"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 615 "The Jakemans Community Stadium" ""# Man City"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 5114325 "Etihad Stadium" ""# Swansea City"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 4000723 "Swansea.com Stadium" ""# others"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 29086576 "Totally Wicked Stadium" ""Jenny Wilken
Felix Magath is new Headcoach at Hertha BSC Berlin. In the current DB he is retired and cant be choosen in game, Source in english: https://www.bundesliga.com/en/bundesliga/news/hertha-berlin-appoint-felix-magath-after-tayfun-korkut-dismissed-19207
mons
That has got nothing to do with this file because it's not a licensing issue.
AjsHydra
Hi mons,
Thank you for all your hard work on this.
I'm late to the party this year and only just started playing, downloaded the fix and followed the steps (hopefully). Everything has worked with the exception of Man Utd and Juventus team names. I've started a new game save etc but doesn't make a difference, any ideas? I'm sure it's me being stupid so any suggestions welcome! : )