Every year the same old questions are asked about how to get the German National Team to pick real players and to a lesser extent about Japanese teams have proper names and to an even lesser extent about those obscure Asian Nations that have been disabled as well. In this guide I’ll go through all the configuration files to let you know what they do and how to reverse them!

All the file names I mention from here on in are located in the edt and lnc folders within “C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\football manager 210\data\db\1000″ if you installed via steam or “C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2010\data\db\1000″ if you installed the boxed version

Fake.lnc

This file has a number of intentions, firstly it disables the German National team but also changes Oliver Khan’s name to Jens Mustermann and finally disables player pictures for France and Holland.

To reverse the effects of this file you can either go in and change the 1′s to 0′s which will disable it, remove the entries and save the file or just delete the whole file.

nleague.lnc

This is by far one of the largest configuration files which creates fake names for clubs in Japan, changes a number of colours and disables the Chinese, South Korean and Japanese National Teams. The other thing file does is randomise the players of Albirex Niigata (Singapore).

Once again either changing the 1′s to o’s will disable some functions or you can just delete the file.

team_holland.ddt

This file does exactly what it says on the tin – 24 of the finest Dutch players are made “first choice” for their country. To end up with a more random Dutch national squad just delete the file.

transfer_embargo.edt

The one you’ve all been looking for! There are two entries in this file – Chelsea & Bournemouth. You can either remove the lines or delete the file and Chelsea will then be able to buy players again! Maybe you might even want to stop other clubs buying players for a period of time ….

valid_takeovers_only.edt

This file determines which types of takeover are permitted in each country – well worth having a look at just to see where the Russian Billionaires won’t be able to invest!!

add_my_chairman.edt

This is one of those fun features that doesn’t get exploited as much as I thought it would, the opportunity to enter your name, favourite club etc. and maybe become their future chairman!

add_my_journalists.edt

This was a new addition in Football Manager 2009 whereby you could add a list of real journalists to the game to make press conferences more realistic.

add_my_media_sources.edt

Coupled with the Journalists file you can add real media sources to the game making press conferences more realistic.

alliteration_adjectives.edt

This is the file which picks the superlatives for those news stories along the lines of ‘Larsen-sational’ there is also a list of negative words but these are only for newgens (due to legal issues). I challenge you to find words that could be added to the already very long list!

sugar_daddy.edt

The second file in this list created initially for Chelsea, in the latest version they are also joined by Manchester City and Notts County.

In the latest incarnation of this file there is now three different types of Sugar Daddy

• Front end – They throw money at the club to spend.
• Back end – They spend enough to make them a force in their current league but if they go up a level or two it would no longer apply.
• Underwriter – They don’t give the manager any extra transfer budget but come the end of the season they will always cover any loss the club is making and not expect the money back.

Hopefully this brief explanation of each file will get your creative juices flowing and some customised versions will be shared, if not at least you’ll be able to buy players for Chelsea and see Ballack playing for Germany!

We use this a lot when we are creating databases such as super leagues, It makes for a really fun game and on the whole It’s pretty simple to do. I’m going to take you through the basics of creating a simple Super League and hopefully by the end of this you will be fully confident in creating your own Super League. There is various other ways you can create a slightly more advanced Super League, such as moving teams down leagues etc, but that will come on another day.

Let’s get Started.

Firstly you will need to select the league that you wish to edit, you’ll need to pick a league that has the same amount of teams, that you want to have in your Super League, for example if you want 20 teams in your top tier Super League, you’ll need a division that already has 20 teams in it, such as the EPL. League rules can not be edited on the game, so make sure the league you have picked Isn’t to obscure and the rules are simple and generic.

Now you have your league, you will need to decide on the teams that will be inhabiting it. In this tutorial we will be directly replacing the teams, for example, if you swap Sevilla with Tottenham, Sevilla with move to the the EPL and Tottenham will replace Sevilla in La Liga and so on. Once you have an idea of the teams you want to move into the Super League, your ready to start some editing.

I need to get my self onto the screen that shows all of the teams that are playing in the league I searched for, to do this : Find – Competition – [Name Of The League] – Teams : You should have a screen similar to what I’ve got below (Obviously dependent on what league you selected):

Starting from the top, click once on the first team listed in the league, the swap button located at the bottom will of now became active and you can now click on it. After you’ve clicked Swap you should be confronted with a search bar, you’ll need to key in name of the team you want to replace the team you clicked on. I’m going to swap the team I clicked on (Sunderland) with the first team I noted down on my 20 teams to go in the Super League (Real Madrid) So I’ll input “Real Madrid” into the search field and double click on them when the search is finished. I’ll then have Real Madrid in my league in place of Sunderland, who will of replaced Real Madrid in La Liga. I now need to double click on Real Madrid and view there competition screen which will look like so: (Depending on the team you picked)

If you look at where is says “Last Division” it still says the Spanish First Division, of course we want to make this database as realistic as possible so we need to change that to “English Premier Division” unless you want Madrid to be one of the promoted teams. You’ll also need to edit where it says last position, as you can see it says “1″ It’s ok to leave it as that, but make sure you don’t use the number 1 again for the last position. Which is why It’s very important to look at every team you re-arrange. You also need to coincide the continental seeding with their last league position. Once you’ve done all that there is nothing else you are required to edit, of course you could edit the relationships, records and history if you find it necessary. You will need to follow this procedure for every team you move into your Super League, and most importantly, you need to make sure everything coincides together (Last Position) – (Last Division) etc, remember you’ll need to set 3 teams Last Division to the Championship and have there last position set to 1-2-3 respectively. Obviously, some of this will be different depending on what team you are editing, the structure and procedure is still the same though.

Once you have all your teams added into the Super League and you’ve checked each team individually and of course followed the criteria listed above, you are done for that tier. You still have your old teams randomly scattered about different leagues, if you want to add some of them to a Super League Division 2 or whatever, the same steps still apply, only differently suited to the league you are editing. There you have it a very simple Super League you can have fun and mess about with, I’ve tried to explain this to the best of my ability and make it as simple as possible, if you have any further questions are queries feel free to post them below!