Sports games with incorrect names for athletes are a tale as old as time, and Football Manager 26 is no stranger to this issue. It can be infuriating playing with your favourite players and teams, but seeing the wrong names on the scoreboard.
Fortunately, mods have started rolling out for FM26 pretty quickly, even though the full game hasn’t been released yet. Today, we’ll conduct a walkthrough on how to download and install the FM26 real name fix.
How To Download The FM26 Real Name Fix
To download and fix player names in FM26, you’ll first need a real name fix pack, just like real face packs. These packs can be found on numerous sites, including FM Scout and Passion4FM. Make sure whichever site you choose is trustworthy, since there are a lot of malicious sites that should be avoided. Once you’ve downloaded the pack and have it in your downloads folder, here’s what to do:
- Open FM26’s file location.
- Follow this sequence
- Football Manager 26>shared>data>database>db>2600>Inc>all
- Once you’re in the all folder, delete the following files:
- ac milan (wom).Inc
- acc Inter unlic 24.Inc
- acmilan unlic 24.Inc
- fake.Inc
- inter (wom).Inc
- inter unlic 24.Inc
- japanese names.Inc
- lazio (wom).Inc
- lic_dan_swe_fra.Inc
- licensing club name_fm24.Inc
- men lazio.Inc
- men atlanta.Inc
- After deleting these files, you should only have 10 files remaining. Now copy the pack’s files and paste them in the all folder.
- Next, go back to the 2600 folder and follow these steps:
- 2600>edt>permanent
- Here, delete the fake.edt file. Then go back to the 2600 folder and select the dbc>permanent folder. Delete these files:
- 1_japan_removed_clubs.dbc
- brazil_kits.dbc
- forbidden names.dbc
- japan_fake.dbc
- j league non player.dbc
- Finally, toggle over to the language folder in dbc>permanent and delete both the files there. This completes the steps to downloading and installing the real names fix pack.
At the end, restart your game and you should find all your favourite teams with the correct names.
