Product Description

The hallmark of the Championship Manager brand has always been its unsurpassed levels of detail, and this is no exception. The 00/01 edition not only updates CM3 with all the latest transfer info, but also improves on every aspect of the game itself.

Extra player stats are included; there is improved scouting and some great gameplay enhancements. Perhaps the most exciting improvement is in the level of feature optimisation allowing for improved running times, even with multiple leagues running simultaneously. Prepare to give up your social life...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13895 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Eidos
• Released on: 2002-02-08
• Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 95

Amazon.co.uk Review
Time to dig out your sheepskin car-coat and practise your half-time tantrums: Championship Manager with a new season and it's bigger, and better, than ever.

This time round you can have up to 26 leagues running at one time (depending on the specs of your PC/Mac) and the wealth of tactics and options on offer are enough to test any budding Arsene Wengers or Alex Fergusons.

True, the gameplay hasn't changed much, but it's the wealth and depth of stats on offer that brings back Champ Manager fans season after season. The other secret to its continuing appeal is it offers the chance to steer your beloved Third Division no-hopers to League and Cup glory, something that most Premiership-fixated arcade football games overlook.

There are some new demands on your managerial competence: as well as the usual training, transfer market and staffing issues you now have to deal with the media, and the psychological well-being of your players is now as important as their physical health. As before the actual match is played out in text format, which sounds dull, but quickly becomes alarmingly compulsive.

Championship Manager is probably not for the casual gamer as it is impossible to just dip into, but for those footy fans who KNOW they can run a football team better than 99 percent of professional managers, it is a must. Just don't expect much of a social life over the next few months. --Michael Bartley

Customer Reviews

Great Statistics
Championship Manager is a great manager game, with emphasis on manager. The gameplay is poor, which is great because it's not important to a real manager. What's important is tactics and statistics, and the game really comes through here. The big database and the reserves team are great additions to the former versions of the game.
The only reason that this game doesn't get 5 stars is that I have a feeling that some tactics are pre-designed to be succesful, which makes it really hard to get far with an otherwise great gameplan.

Championship Manager Season 00/01 Premier Range
This game is a stunning manager sim and only beaten by its predecessors. It has buckets of detail including complaining about a referee and over 300000 players and coaches from all around the world.

Same old.........
Same format from champ manager but equally effective. can be found cheap now so this edition is worth it for someone with a not too great interest in football. the only problem is that the players are playing for the wrong teams now but that doesn't make any difference to the gameplay as you can, if you can afford it, do a real madrid and buy all the best players. much more taxing than football games where you control the players and incredibly addictive