While most gamers will jump into the game to manage their favourite team, this mammoth virtual soccer world will (if you have the CPU power to run all the leagues simultaneously) let you play out an entire management career, applying for jobs with any team in the game. The latest league additions are Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Turkey, Greece, Russia, Poland, Croatia, Finland, and Australia, with the data for all these circuits being bang up to date for the start of the 2000/01 season. Now, in Championship Manager 00/01, you get no fewer than 26 leagues from around the world, all playable either singularly or concurrently for what amounts to a massive simulation of world football featuring some 50,000 real life players. On paper, Championship Manager 's lack of in-match graphic highlights should relegate it to the world of soccer has-beens, yet despite being a text-only game it offers a level of depth and immersion unsurpassed elsewhere.īack in the days of Championship Manager 2, the UK version of the game came with separate add-on European league packs. And that's a shame, because American gamers who don't find a way to import this one don't get to see what the world's most detailed sports management game is all about. This of course excludes the United States, where the game has never been published. The Championship Manager series is one of the best-selling PC brands in the U.K., and probably in most of the soccer-playing world.
