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Championship Manager: Season 01/02 
Developer(s) Sports Interactive Publisher(s) Eidos Interactive Version 3.9.68 Platform(s) Windows, Mac OS, Xbox Release date(s) 2001-10-12 (PC)
2001-11-16 (Mac)
2002-04-14 (Xbox)Genre(s) Sport, Management Mode(s) Single-player, hotseat-multiplayer, online multiplayer Rating(s) - ELSPA: 3+
Media/distribution CD-ROM System requirements Pentium 133 or better, 16MB RAM, 4x speed CD-ROM drive, DirectX 7, Windows 95
Championship Manager: Season 01/02 is a football management computer game in the Sports Interactive's Championship Manager series. It was released in October 2001 exclusively for PC and for Mac in November 2001. It was also later released on Xbox in April 2002.
Contents
New features
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 he/she 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.
Example of a Completed Game
Playable leagues
This edition of Championship Manager included about a hundred fully playable leagues in twenty-six countries, and patch 3.9.67 added South Korea's K-League, its first appearance in the CM series. The full list of playable leagues in CM01/02 is as follows:
Europe
Rest of the World
Communities
Many Internet communities are dedicated to CM 01/02, preferring it to the later editions, such as the Football Manager series and Championship Manager 2010. A high proportion of these websites are also dedicated to editing the game, attempting to make it more up to date and realistic, the largest and best known of these being http://www.champman0102.co.uk/forum, a site dedicated to "keeping the game alive". They offer, amongst other things, updates and patches to bring the game up-to-date with the reality of the 2010/2011 seasons (squads, league structures, substitute rules, finances, team colours, federational changes etc.).
The CM0102 ODB style team also released the September 2011 update - available here - http://champman0102.co.uk/forum/downloads.php?do=file&id=290
The CM0102 SIM style team also released the Christmas 2010 update - available here - http://champman0102.co.uk/forum/downloads.php?do=file&id=214
Free release
On December 2008, Eidos Interactive made the game available for free download, and included a recommendation for users to download a users-created update patch.[1] While the download link appears broken on first inspection, a link to http://eidos.http.internapcdn.net/eidos_vitalstream_com/cm0102/cm0102.zip can be found in the official Championship Manager forum.
Trivia
In 2001, presenters Ant & Dec, who hosted the popular Saturday morning show SMTV Live, left the show. On their last show, they received a letter (possibly from Eidos) 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.
See also
References
External links
Championship Manager series Championship Manager · 93/94 · 2 · 96/97 · 97/98 · 3 · 99/00 · 00/01 · 01/02 · 02/03 · Championship Manager Quiz · 4 · 03/04 · 5 · Championship Manager (PSP) · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 · 2010Categories:- 2001 video games
- Eidos Interactive games
- Association football video games
- Sports management video games
- Multiplayer hotseat games
- Windows games
- Mac OS games
- Video games developed in the United Kingdom
- Xbox games
- Freeware games
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