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How to Get Real Names and Licenses in Football Manager 2023

A free FM Scout "real name licence fix" file lets Football Manager players restore accurate club, league, and award names in-game.

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  1. Football Manager 2023 (FM 23) is expected to launch in November, following FM22's sales of over a million copies.

  2. A free FM Scout "real name licence fix" download restores accurate league, club, cup, and award names like the Ballon d'Or.

  3. Applying the fix requires deleting specific files (fake.Inc, Licensing2.dbc, and others) from the game's database folders before adding the fix files.

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The long-running FM franchise's newest entry, Football Manager 2023 (FM 23), is expected to launch in November following a beta two weeks earlier. Given that FM22 has sold over a million copies to date, we can safely say this game will be just as popular. The game lets you change team names. In this article, we'll talk about how to get real names and licenses in Football Manager 2023 (FM 23).

Football Manager 2023: How Do You Get Real Names and Licenses?Football Manager 2023: How Do You Get Real Names and Licenses?

To do this, you need to download the "real name licence fix" update. You can find it for free on the FM Scout website. With it, you can make sure all the major league names are correct, along with every playable club name across every continent, continental, national, and domestic cup names, as well as individual awards like the Ballon d'Or. You should follow the steps FM Scout has laid out, as below. – We're assuming you already have a file extraction program installed, like 7-Zip or WinZip. These steps apply to FM22, and we think they'll likely apply to the new game as well.

  • Close the game if it's open.
  • Extract the contents of the package to a temporary location.
  • Find the 2240 folder. On Steam for Windows, it will probably be at: \Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Football Manager 2022\data\database\db\2240\.
  • On Mac, it will be here: /Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Football Manager 2022/database/data/db/2240/
  • Open the Inc folder, then go into the All subfolder.
  • Delete all the files you find there, especially these three: fake.Inc, lic_dan_swe_fra.Inc, nleague.Inc.
  • Move the FM22 Fix you downloaded into the All folder.
  • Go back two folders to edit. Open this and go to the permanent subfolder.
  • Delete the fake.edt file. This will help with a number of German names in the game.
  • Go back two folders again to the dbc folder. Go to the permanent subfolder and delete these folders: brazil_kits.dbc, banned names.dbc, Licensing2.dbc, Licensing2_chn.dbc.
  • Once you launch the game, you'll have real names!

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Football Manager 2023: How Do You Get Real Names and Licenses?

To do this, you need to download the "real name licence fix" update. You can find it for free on the FM Scout website. With it, you can make sure all the major league names are correct, along with every playable club name across every continent, continental, national, and domestic cup names, as well as individual awards like the Ballon d'Or. You should follow the steps FM Scout has laid out, as below. – We're assuming you already have a file extraction program installed, like 7-Zip or WinZip. These steps apply to FM22, and we think they'll likely apply to the new game as well.

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