Championship Manager: Season 01/02

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Championship Manager: Season 01/02
Championship Manager 01 02 cover.jpg
Developer(s) Sports Interactive
Publisher(s) Eidos Interactive
Producer(s)
  • Gary Moore (exec.)
  • Steven Didd
  • Andrew Norman
Designer(s)
  • Miles Dinnen
  • Svein Kvernoey
  • Keith Flannery
  • Paul Norman
Platform(s)
Release
12 October 2001
    • Mac
      • WW: 16 November 2001
    • Xbox
      • PAL: 14 April 2002
Genre(s)
Mode(s)

Championship Manager: Season 01/02 is a football management video game in Sports Interactive's Championship Manager series. It was released for Microsoft Windows in October 2001, and for Mac in November 2001. It was later released on Xbox in April 2002. It was released as freeware in 2008. The game allowed players to take charge of any club in one of around 100 leagues across 27 countries, with responsibility for tactics and signings. The game sold more than 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom and is still popular and regularly updated. [1] [2]

Contents

Background

Although never particularly expanding on the graphical side, Sports Interactive included many new features along with the usual updated database. Championship Manager 01/02 implemented the new EU regulated transfer system, introduced in September 2001, and also featured a new "attribute masking" mode, whereby the player could only see information about footballers they would realistically know about (also known as a fog of war).

Other new additions included the ability to send players away for surgery, player notes, player comparisons, and improved media and board interaction.

The champman0102.net community has provided various patches and data updates to the game and continues to do so to this day. The ability to change game values, commentary speed, utilize coloured attributes, change the start year and many other changes have been made. The community has over 13,000 accounts and counting, and "Keeps the Game Alive".

Playable leagues

This edition of Championship Manager included about 100 fully playable leagues in 26 countries, and patch 3.9.67 added South Korea's K-League, its first appearance in the CM series.

Asia

NationLevelsDivisions
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 22
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 11

Europe

NationLevelsDivisions
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 34
Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 23
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 33
Flag of England.svg  England 55
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 23
Flag of France.svg  France 33
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 34
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 22
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Holland 22
Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 22
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 47
Ulster Banner.svg  Northern Ireland 22
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 22
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 22
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 35
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 22
Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland 44
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 36
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 34
Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 37
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales 11

North America

NationLevelsDivisions
Flag of the United States.svg  United States 13

Oceania

NationLevelsDivisions
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 11

South America

NationLevelsDivisions
Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 22
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 310

Free release and data updates

In December 2008, Eidos Interactive made the game available for free download.

Release

In 2001, presenters Ant & Dec, who hosted the Saturday morning show SMTV Live , left the show. On their last show, they received a letter (from Sports Interactive) and special edition copies of Championship Manager: Season 01/02 which saw Ant as a player for Newcastle with a contract of £50,000 a week with a value of £4.7m, and Dec as a player for Sunderland with a contract of £90 a week.

Fictional players

The first release of the game included a player named "Tó Madeira", a great striker no matter where he played. It was later revealed that Tó Madeira was not a real footballer, but in fact a fictional player created by a scout working for the game producers. [3]

Reception

The computer version of Championship Manager: Season 01/02 received a "Platinum" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), [4] indicating sales of at least 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom. [5]

The dedicated CM0102 Forum still continues to create data updates and the most recent, which was also released in November 2020 was released in conjunction with a new server move for the champman0102 website and has proved extremely popular as always and looks forward to celebrating the game’s 20th anniversary later in 2021, with a number of things planned to mark the occasion.

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References

  1. ↑ "Fantasy football - but not as you know it". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
  2. ↑ "- CM 01/02 Forums". champman0102.net. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
  3. ↑ "O caso Tó Madeira". futebolmagazine.com. 4 September 2016.
  4. ↑ "ELSPA Sales Awards: Platinum". Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association . Archived from the original on 2009-05-15. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
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