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Default 'Substitute' function with wildcards

I don't think wildcards work in substitute. You could instead use
something like this for a one instance replacement:
=LEFT(A1,FIND("FY20",A1)-1)&"FY2008"&MID(A1,FIND("FY20",A1)+6,999)