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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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glimi
Hi. I have a problem with this Fix. I follow the instructions, but it doesn't work. I still have Zabre instead of Juventus
bigpole
I don't want to be rude but if you still have Zebre instead of Juventus - you don't follow instructions.
glimi
I have tried few times. I have the correct name of Champions League and Europa League, but not the club name.
JS15
In the Ajax staff file could you change Dave Vos from Ajax u18 manager to Rangers assistant manager. Can't do this in the data update as he's not officially in the games database.
wfm18
Please add the editor files to your editor files folder and start a new save.
JS15
What exactly are all the various countries in the dbc folder? Can't find any information on what these files are for?
glimi
When I start a new game i have a correct name, but it dosen't work on my save 😢
bigpole
Because it's not possible to add editor files to existing game? And it's always been that. Literally, you have an information in opening post
mons
I'll keep it in mind for any forthcoming release, thanks.
Those were all added with this morning's update. I suspect they're data files on important player and staff movement (e.g. Rangnick to Utd), but I have no way of telling. Leave them there - SI included them for a reason 🙂
knug3
Hello Is it possible to make two different files of Ajax & Hansi Flink? Thanks for a great job
mons
That was the original idea - but it was scuppered due to a bug in the editor, preventing more than one of the files being usable.
Indrajeet
Hey,
after the new update, will I have to re-apply the patch? Any idea?
mons
miguelinho2910
Hi @mons, I'm not sure if it has been picked up yet but the North West Counties Premier Division in England still lists Hallmark Security as a sponsor, the league hasn't had any sponsors for a couple of years now 🙂
mons
Erm, there isn't any competition with Hallmark Security in its name in the most recent version. What's its UID please?
rigoletto#0052
@mons I wrote a small Powershell script to patch these files. https://github.com/alesr/fmpatcher
Let me know if you have any ideas on how to make it more useful.
mons
Hi there. I have no idea what this is, I'm sorry. Can you elaborate? Is it like an auto-installer?
miguelinho2910
I'll be honest, I maybe using an older version on my save. The league isn't playable in my save, so I'd only noticed it when I played one of the clubs in the division in a friendly. The ID is 30007237 🙂
mons
It's got the correct name in the most recent version:
There's a reason why it's recommended to subscribe to the thread and download the most recent versions. It takes 5 seconds to download and 20 to install, at most 😉
Slates84
With SI requesting the Adboard Patch to be removed of the site, i hope to god they don't come after this file. It's always my first thing i download when i get the latest edition of FM
rigoletto#0052
@mons, this is a little program one can run in the Windows shell to do all the files replacement automagically.
- The patch_files folder contains your files that I extracted from the `.rar`.
https://github.com/alesr/fmpatcher/tree/master/patch_files
- The script itself you can see here: https://github.com/alesr/fmpatcher/blob/master/license_names_patch.ps1
It just takes your files and puts them in the right place.
mons
Does it cater for people who aren't using Steam on Windows? Or for those using Gamepass and/or Epic installation? Or for those which have their editor data folder not in the default location?
I appreciate the initiative, but before recommending its use, I want to be sure it won't lead to an inevitable deluge of “the files aren't working” 😉
rigoletto#0052
@mons , yeah, I did this today because I need it. I'll extend it to support Steam or Epic later this week.
I just wanted to share it =]
And thank you for the patch!
aaad
Can I use this one for FM21 cause I like the logo here more than the ones from FM21.
mons
This file is for FM22 and includes no logos, so your question doesn't really apply.
SASH07
Hello guys! Just a question: How can I edit a club´s name? The team is “Pumas de la UNAM” (MEX). The official name is: Club Universidad Nacional, A. C. or just Club Universidad Nacional.
"Pumas" it´s the nickname, “UNAM” are the initials of the university represented by the team.
Thanks.
mons
Read the FAQ in the 3rd post 👍
MrMVP91
Hey do I need to download the new version after the patch to apply it to my current save? Or is the new version only needed if you start a new save?
mons
MrMVP91
Yeah I saw that, I just wasn't sure if it meant to current saves or just that you shouldn't use the old file if starting a new save. But I assume current saves as well lol