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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.
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Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2022\data\database\db\2200
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
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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.
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mons
I don't have an Xbox so I can't really test it, I'm afraid. If this fix worked last year, then I imagine it'll work this year too.
kizawski
Where did you get this?
https://twitter.com/ce_santanyi
https://www.ffib.es/Fed/NPcd/NFG_VerClub?cod_primaria=1000108&codigo_club=55
Afaik it's still known as CE Santanyí, both their official Twitter and the FFIB official web say that.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_Deportivo_Santañ%C3%AD
There are two official languages.
Club Deportivo Santañí Spanish language
Club Esportiu Santanyí Catalán language
I guess you're right. @mons can you revert it?
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"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 7446390 "C.D. Santañí" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 7446390 "C.E. Santanyí" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 7446390 "Santañí" ""
mons
Done @shadowrun, thanks @kizawski too 👍
black__wh11te
hi what about Juventus Stadium? and Juventus Young Centrum? right now is named: Zebra Stadium and Zebra Young Centrum 😢
mons
Read the FAQ.
black__wh11te
ok understand, thank you im waite for 9 Nov.
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Segunda División RFEF Grupo I
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 67060765 "C.D. Arenteiro" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 67196154 "C.D. Móstoles U.R.J.C." ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 67196154 "Móstoles U.R.J.C." ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 2000112885 "C.D. Móstoles U.R.J.C. B" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 2000112885 "Móstoles U.R.J.C. B" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 1503413 "Cristo Atlético" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 4212400 "Gimnástica Segoviana C.F." ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 4212313 "Club Marino de Luanco" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 67291363 "Salamanca C.F. U.D.S. B" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 67291363 "Salamanca B" ""
Segunda División RFEF Grupo II
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 67000108 "A.D.S.J." "" or "San Juan"
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 67016515 "C.D. Ardoi" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 814071 "C.D. Cayón" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 1503465 "Náxara C.D." ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 4212416 "Peña Sport F.C." ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 4200569 "C.D. Tropezón" ""
Segunda División RFEF Grupo III
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 67016709 "C.E. Andratx" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 67040945 "C.D. Brea" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 67129170 "S.D. Formentera" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 67105977 "S.D. Tarazona" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 109023 "Terrassa Olímpica 2010 S.A.D." ""
Segunda División RFEF Grupo IV
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 4212284 "A.D. Mérida" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 814840 "U.D. Montijo" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 4212372 "C.D. San Roque de Lepe" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 2000132429 "A.D. Mérida B" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 67034883 "C.D. Barrio N.S. de los Remedios" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 67034883 "Barrio N.S.R." ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 67259097 "Xerez Deportivo" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 67276805 "U.D. Tamaraceite" ""
Segunda División RFEF Grupo V
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 67276609 "Puertollano" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 67077458 "Club Atlético Pulpileño" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 67182750 "El Ejido" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 2000099881 "Atlético Jaén" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 7446461 "C.D. Toledo B" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 67000116 "C.D. Marchamalo" ""
luc.velthuis
Are the colours of the europa league champions league and conference league correct in this files?
mons
All in @shadowrun, apart from the broom, naturally.
Nope, will need the full game and editor to be released to be fixable.
diaz23
Are short club names broken this year? Tried a few different name fixes but never had a perfect end result. Armini(a Bielefeld), FC Hei(denheim), Fortun(a Düsseldorf) etc. are “bugged” in this, tried another name fix and got “Manche” for both City & United. These only show up in Leagues in Focus and the live league table. Maybe someone has a fix or a suggestion? Worked fine for me the last years with the full names for every club.
wfm18
Some research on the Ajax staff.
If you can create a first version of the FMF file @mons, I'd like to help you out by making every profile 100% correct afterwards and you can do some final tweaks then again.
Staff Ajax
First team
Erik ten Hag - Manager [2023] (high potential needed, every club in Europe wants him)
Mitchell van der Gaag - Assistent manager [2023] (promoted from Jong Ajax)
Michael Reiziger - Assistent manager [2023]
Winston Bogarde - Assistent manager [2023]
Richard Witschge - Trainer [2022]
Anton Scheutjens - Goalkeepers trainer [2022]
Alessandro Schoenmaker - Physical trainer [2022]
Pim van Dord - Physiotherapist
Peter Hoogland - Physiotherapist
Björn Rekelhof - Physical trainer (Head of Performance)
Thomas D'Havé - Sports scientist
Jong Ajax (second team)
John Heitinga - Manager (promoted from Ajax U19)
Michel Kreek - Assistent manager
René Stam - Goalkeepers trainer / Head of Goalkeeping Youth
Erik Heijblok - Goalkeepers trainer
Gerald Vanenburg - Trainer
Simon Tahamata - Trainer
Misha Salden - Trainer
Ajax U18
Dave Vos - Manager
Steven Pienaar - Assistent manager
Ronald de Boer - Trainer
Yuri Rose - Trainer (officially Manager of U17, but I'd keep him as a trainer for the youth)
Heini Otto - Trainer (new, he's like furniture at Ajax Youth)
Kelvin Duffree - Trainer
John Bosman - Trainer strikers
Luc Stolker - Trainer [2021] (UEFA B license, officially Manager U14)
Michael Lamey - Trainer U17
Cedric van der Gun - Trainer U17
Dennis van der IJssel - Trainer (officialy Manager U16)
Martijn Middelbeek - Goalkeepers trainer
Sander Krabbendam - Goalkeepers trainer
Stan Bijl - Goalkeepers trainer [2022]
Edwin Petersen - Youth trainer
Harry Sinkgraven - Youth trainer (new)
Linda Veltman - physiotherapist
Robbert-Jan Ravensbergen - physiotherapist
Missing players U18
https://www.transfermarkt.nl/ajax-amsterdam-jugend/kader/verein/32791
From what I know Kayden Wolff, Avery Appiah and Don-Angelo Konadu are big talents (Wolff and Konadu up to 150/160 potential range) - I can add these if you'd like. Only for Konadu I'm unable to find his age/date of birth anywhere online (please help!)
Other
Saïd Ouaali - Head youth academy [2021]
Henk Veldmate - Head scouting [2024]
Max Reckers - Head analyst [2022]
Vosse de Boode - Head Sports Science
Maarten Gozeling - Head physiotheraphy
Michel Doesburg - Scout (youth) [2023]
John Steen Olsen - Scout [for life]
Frank Peereboom - Scout (opposition teams)
Fred Arroyo - Scout
Roy Wesseling - Scout
Hans van der Zee - Scout
Urbain Haesaert - Scout
Sonny Bosz - Scout
Angelo de Gruyter - Scout (youth academy) [2022]
Avrim Salievski - Scout (youth academy)
Erik Tammer - Scout (youth academy)
Casimir Westerveld - Scout (officially head scouting youth academy)
Niels Wijne - Head of medical
Michael van Wijk - Medical first team
Directors
Gerry Hamstra - Technical director [2024] (new, came from Heerenveen)
Frank Eijken - Chairman
Marc Overmars - Director of Football [2024] (already included)
Edwin van der Sar - CEO [2023] (already included)
Left the club:
Christian Poulsen (2021, internship ended)
Carlo L'Ami (2020, was still in the Sortitoutsi DB)
Danny Blind - Director (2021, left for Dutch National Team)
Nick Hengelman (2021)
Ronald Vermeer (2021)
Florian Wolf (2021, vv DOVO manager)
mons
Let's take this into PMs 😉
AVB2010
Liga Portugal Bwin ( new name of portuguese league ) still is Liga NOS…
How to fix it?
Thnk
mons
There's a screenshot in the first post showing clearly that's not the case :
I've also redownloaded the file to be sure, and it's input correctly:
Are you sure you're using the correct files and not last year's version or a different file from a different website?
mons
I've had a little bit of time to check this, and the issue only occurs in the leagues in focus page from within your inbox. When the league table is viewed from the division's pages, they appear as normal.
I suspect this is related to the small space that the team name has in this screen and that, in cases where the short name is not short enough to fit, the game then reverts to the six-letter name field. It might also be related to the fact that club name changes within this fix are being done via lnc files in the beta since the editor data files don't work.
I'll keep this in mind to check and investigate once the full game is released to see what, if anything, can be done about it. Looks to be an intentional change from SI though.
MrGizMo
He means the Xbox version on PC i think. On console side you cant change anything 🙂
mons
I don't have that one either 😀
Hopefully some kind soul who's got that and is willing to check can tell us if it works and/or what needs changing in the installation instructions…
MrGizMo
If you still need someone around the release date. I can install and check it out. pm here or on discord dm
mons
I would be more than happy to collaborate via PM like we did last time (i.e. you tell me what needs to be done and I give you all the credit 😀slightly_smiling_face:
MrGizMo
np. Hopefully we can get it to work around the 9th then
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"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 67096539 "Extremadura" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 2094 "Deportivo Fabril" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 2094 "Fabril" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 814094 "Elche Ilicitano" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 814094 "Ilicitano" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 1750 "R.Z. Deportivo Aragón" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 1750 "Real Zaragoza Deportivo Aragón" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 67034843 "Algeciras B" ""
Michael Johansen
I have used this fix, but juve stadium still zebra?
mons
Read the FAQ.
myfunnygame
Hi all!
It is probably my first comment here
Do I understand correctly that the Juve stadium will only be properly named after the full version of the game has been released?
Have a nice day!
mons
Read the FAQ.
wfm18
You could setup an auto-reply for this 😀
mons
Read the…
I mean, it was only answered in the previous post, can't blame him for not checking…
kingrobbo
Come on now Big ask that
Leeds1919
🤣