Football Manager 22 will have to rename Manchester United with a fictitious name due to a legal dispute
The story goes back to last year, when the “Red Devils” sued SEGA for a problem with the shield.
This story goes back a long way. We already told you, back in May 2020 , that Manchester United , one of the most successful football teams in history, had filed a lawsuit against Sports Interactive and Sega, due to the inclusion of a generic club crest in Football Manager , but his real name is. The English box alleged that using the name without the corresponding emblem “damaged the image of the club and deprived the owner of the shield from receiving contributions from showing the brand.
This legal battle has been active ever since. From SEGA they claimed that “it was a legitimate reference in a football context” and that they had been using something similar previously in Football Manager and even previously in Championship Manager without “any complaint from the claimant.” But the result, as confirmed by the official account of the game, is that both parties have reached an agreement to “amicably resolve the dispute with mutual satisfaction.”
After a somewhat ambiguous message that was not very clear to fans, the account responded to a user saying that this message meant that the team would no longer be called Manchester United in Football Manager 22, but will be renamed Man UFC . These changes are made to resolve the dispute between both parties and although SEGA changes the name of the club, it does not admit that it did wrong during all these years by not putting up the royal shield of the Manchester team.
“Sega and Sports Interactive maintain that they do not need a license to use the Manchester United name , but have made the change as a gesture of goodwill so that both parties can move forward,” they indicate from Twitter. A more positive change that we have seen recently about Football Manager is that they are going to incorporate women’s football from now on . Football Manager 22 will have to rename Manchester United with a fictitious name due to a legal dispute
