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#675025 FM2022 Licensing and Real Name Fix File v4.1 for FM22.4.1 [released on 04/04/2022] - final version
Acebone
14 years ago
1 year ago
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# Partick
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 102638 "The Energy Check Stadium at Firhill" ""

 

The sponsorship deal ended, so this line can be removed.

#672052 FM2022 Licensing and Real Name Fix File v4.1 for FM22.4.1 [released on 04/04/2022] - final version
Acebone
14 years ago
1 year ago
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# Russia
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 1522 "KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 1522 "KAMAZ" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 58007325 "KAMAZ-2 Naberezhnye Chelny" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 58007325 "KAMAZ-2" ""

 

##Russian stadiums
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 130573 "Gazprom Arena" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 58053777 "Krasnodar Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 58066606 "Nizhniy Novgorod Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 58066607 "Fisht Olympic Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 130569 "Arsenal Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 58066605 "Kaliningrad Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 130610 "Kuban Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 130565 "Trade Unions Central Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 130582 "Central Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 130635 "Lenin Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 477735 "Central Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 130575 "Metallurg Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 58044995 "Sultan Bilimkhanov Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 1301096 "Republican Spartak Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 130581 "Trud Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 8054225 "Textilschik Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 8073220 "Gazovik Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 1301090 "KAMAZ Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 58036112 "Avangard Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 477402 "Rodina Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 130624 "Neftekhimik Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 2000013199 "Kristall Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 58105885 "Krasnodar Academy Stadium" ""
"STADIUM_NAME_CHANGE" 130578 "Shinnik Stadium" ""

 

I hope I did these right! Six-letter name for the first club should be KAMAZ as well. Don't know the format… 🙂

#671699 FM2022 Licensing and Real Name Fix File v4.1 for FM22.4.1 [released on 04/04/2022] - final version
Acebone
14 years ago
1 year ago
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By mons 01 January 2022 - 22:56 PM UTC 

You can go to the changes tab in each of them and clear all changes, then saving. That should revert each of the fields back to the default entries 👍

 

Ahh, there it is. Thanks! 🙂 Also, I found a couple of wiki pages that list the new names for the top two divisions at least. I can't read the sources (they're in Chinese), but they seem like a good base to work from:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Chinese_Super_League#Name_changes

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_China_League_One#Name_changes

#671695 FM2022 Licensing and Real Name Fix File v4.1 for FM22.4.1 [released on 04/04/2022] - final version
Acebone
14 years ago
1 year ago
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By mons 01 January 2022 - 21:14 PM UTC 

Thanks for all this, the news had completely passed me by and I'm surprised nobody else realised tbh. I'll be sure to review them in the near future and amend them accordingly 👍

 

If you want to start a new game without the sponsored names, you can edit them yourself in the meantime using the editor by loading the Club Name Changes file and editing the names to your heart's content 🙂

 

Fantastic, cheers! 🙂

 

To be honest, I only realised fairly recently myself. I was contemplating an Asian journeyman save, and while researching a bit about the interesting clubs out there, that's when I saw something had changed quite dramatically in China.

 

I've booted up the editor (for the first time). If for the sake of simplicity I just want to reset the Chinese clubs to their data from FM22's original database for now, is there an easy way to do just that?

 

I loaded the Club Name Changes file, chose clubs and filtered like this:

 

Nation: Is: The People's Republic of China

And: Number Of Changes: Is At Least: 1

 

That left me with 22 clubs which I assume are then the Chinese ones that have been edited via the file from this site. Can I reset those 22 changes somehow, or do I manually have to fill out names, abbreviations etc.?

#671667 FM2022 Licensing and Real Name Fix File v4.1 for FM22.4.1 [released on 04/04/2022] - final version
Acebone
14 years ago
1 year ago
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By mons 01 January 2022 - 17:51 PM UTC 

I wasn't aware of this, and nobody had flagged it before. Are you saying that the brand names in the below names should all be removed?

 

# China
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 414 "Shanghai Greenland Shenhua" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 414 "Shanghai Shenhua" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23245672 "Dalian Transcendence" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23245672 "DL Transcendence" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23003359 "Shanghai SIPG" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23077977 "Hangzhou Greentown" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 409 "Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 409 "Guangzhou Evergrande" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23292170 "Shanghai SIPG" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23292170 "Shanghai SIPG" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 115946 "Yanbian Fude" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 116403 "Shandong Luneng Taishan" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 131169 "Jiangsu Suning" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 128051 "Liaoning Whowin" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23147325 "Guangzhou R&F" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23147325 "Guangzhou R&F" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23295502 "Hebei China Fortune" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23295502 "Hebei CFFC" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 416 "Tianjin TEDA" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23098526 "Dalian Yifang" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23098526 "Dalian" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 412 "Qingdao Jonoon" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23196491 "Qingdao Huanghai" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23025593 "Guizhou Hengfeng Zhicheng" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23291963 "Beijing BG" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23291963 "Beijing BG" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23172080 "Beijing Renhe" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 131225 "Zhejiang Yiteng" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 406 "Beijing Sinbo Guo'an" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 406 "Beijing Guo'an" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23434312 "Heilongjiang Qihe Dadi" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23434312 "Qihe Dadi" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23295592 "Shānxī Zhisheng" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23415960 "Jinzhong Jinzhihu" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23415960 "JZ Jinzhihu" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23461807 "Quanzhou Qinggong" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23461807 "QZ Qinggong" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23359967 "Zhongchuang Hengtai" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23359967 "ZC Hengtai" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23461813 "Dongguan Mayong Rongyi Team" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23461813 "Mayong Rongyi" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23366052 "Shanghai Jiading Boji" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23366052 "SH JD Boji" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23145432 "Xiamen Lianchuang Century" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23385913 "Hubei Chufeng Heli" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23332538 "Changsha Sihai" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23332538 "CS Sihai" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23370617 "Hunan HBS Mangguoba" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23415962 "Guangzhou Glorious Sports Yinchao" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23415962 "GZ GS YC" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23003114 "Macau Football Association Development" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23003114 "MFA Development" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23447397 "Chengdu Better City" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23447397 "Chengdu" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23448651 "Chengdu Uniplay" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23448651 "CD Uniplay" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23448674 "Chengdu Decci" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23448674 "CD Decci" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23461823 "Chongqing Yuzhong Yuanjie" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23461823 "CQ YH YJ" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23165484 "Zunyi Haihang Huaijiu" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23165484 "ZY Haihang Huaijiu" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23461829 "Maoming Oil City" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23461829 "MM Oil City" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23461826 "Hainan Danzhou Jiazheng" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23461826 "HN DZ Jiazheng" ""
#"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23415966 "Shenzhen Longgang Xingmeng" ""
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23415966 "SZ LG Xingmeng" ""
#thanks and credit to RoCCo_42 for his research
#"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23194491 "Shijiazhuang" ""

 

I am not an expert on Chinese football, so I can't identify all the team names listed there, but corporate names have been disallowed and removed from all Chinese clubs, yes. Neutral names are required. To name a few, Guangzhou Evergrande are now Guangzhou FC, Beijing Sinobo Guoan are Beijing Guoan, and Jiangsu Suning were first renamed to Jiangsu FC and subsequently completely shut down after Suning (the corporate owners) pulled out and left the club in financial ruin.

 

So to answer your question, yes, they should be removed. It's obviously quite the controversial subject, but the “vanilla” names are now reality. You actually saw fans in China protesting the change, because they wanted to keep the corporate names (which to an uninformed European like me seems quite bizarre at first, but I suppose there would be outrage if the Bayer in Bayer Leverkusen was outlawed in Germany).

 

A few sources on the topic:

 

https://www.scmp.com/sport/football/article/3114022/guangzhou-roast-geese-neutral-names-needed-chinese-football-clubs

 

https://m.dw.com/en/chinas-communist-party-forcing-investors-to-pull-money-out-of-european-football/a-57171818

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou_F.C. (as well as for the other clubs, look under “naming history”)

#671646 FM2022 Licensing and Real Name Fix File v4.1 for FM22.4.1 [released on 04/04/2022] - final version
Acebone
14 years ago
1 year ago
8

I applied this name fix, and overall it's a huge improvement, but for some reason the Chinese clubs are back to their corporate names like Guangzhou Evergrande etc. Is this an oversight in the fix, or did I perhaps do something wrong?

 

I'd love to get rid of the sponsorship names just like they did in real life. Might make me want to finally manage in China.