Championship Manager: Season 00/01

aka: Championship Manager: Seizoen 00/01, Championship Manager: Säsongen 00/01, L'Entraîneur: Saison 2000/2001, Meistertrainer: Championship Manager Saison 00/01, Scudetto: Championship Manager - Stagione 00/01
Moby ID: 2698
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The Championship Manager series involves choosing a football team and then leading it through a potential 30-year career. You must deal with signing and selling players, choosing your team and its formation and tactics, and making sure you have the backroom staff (coaches and scouts for example) to keep your existing players fit and ensure you discover new stars first.

This was the third release of the Championship Manager 3 game engine, and as usual it features squads updated to take account of transfers, and player statistics and abilities updated. 26 leagues from around the world are now featured.

As typical with later releases of a CM iteration, a data editor has been added. The press will now ask you loaded questions based on the team's performance and potential signings, and you must deal with these by choosing the valid answer. Also, players now interact in different ways, and do not always get on with each other, as well as having more potential reasons to be unhappy.

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Design & Programming
Research Co-ordination
Internet Development
Sound Effects
Manual & Written History
Official Fan Club
Fanzine Editor
Written Player Histories
Executive Producer
Producer
Associate Producer
Production Manager
Localisation
Localisation Test Manager
Localisation Test Co-ordinator
Product Test Co-ordinator
Creative Manager
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Average score: 74% (based on 15 ratings)

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Average score: 3.8 out of 5 (based on 25 ratings with 2 reviews)

Good for CM beginners.

The Good
A job of a sport manager is not simple. Stress, lack of time and amount of duties makes this person be entirely absorbed by his work. Our task as manager is not only to control our team during matches, but also to buy and sell players, negotiate contracts, arrange friendly matches and tournaments, oversee trainings or cooperate with board and media. Those tasks are waiting for you in Championship Manager 2000-2001.

In this edition you are able to control a team from 26 countries, including Germany, England, Spain or Brazil. For those who got into a passion- leagues from Finland, Australia or Croatia.

Unlike newest versions of Championship Manager, in edition 2000-2001 you do not need to be a skillful coach or football expert to reach for the biggest titles, also when you decide to take control of team that is sentenced to relegation. Game consists of huge database which includes all needed information about player and club history and statistics. Intuitive interface causes that we will not be lost in all those statistics.

When we are tired of working all time with the same club, we can go on holiday or resign from club and send applications to other teams who are currently without manager. But the quality of our next employer depends on our reputation. Multitude of options is really surprising.

The Bad
Unfortunately huge database makes the game load very long. When you decide to pick all available leagues, you will have to prepare to spend several minutes on waiting for the game to start. (With my 2 GHz processor first loading with full database takes about 12 minutes, next about 2 minutes!). Of course you will also have to assign some time for game loading during the play.

Incredible results like 6:3 or 5:4 occur too often and transfer of a world class player to a team from lower division is possible and astonishingly simple. That could not happen in real life. Despite expended game mode, we do not have the opportunity to take control of our team’s training. What is more, we can not establish ticket prices or expand the stadium.

The Bottom Line
One of the worst fault of sport managers is that they are quickly becoming old. Not only because team squads are being changed but also because every year new editions are being released. Despite course of time and changes in football rules, CM 00-01 is still worth playing. If you have got a lot of patience, you can add some current changes with editor added to the game.

I strongly advise this game to Championship Manager beginners because edition 00-01 do not have so many extended options like present versions.

My opinion: 9/10

Windows · by Kola256 (208) · 2006

The best of the champioship manager series

The Good
Massive player & club databases, editor allows you to place yourself in your favourite team.

The Bad
Limited interaction with board & f.a(which has not improved much throughout whole series), no room for user defined response.

The Bottom Line
The best of the CM series, after this you can no longer edit players, stadium etc. Also after this the makers have taken the liberty of introducing rules which were only ever discussed by fifa & not actually implimented, these rules hamper gameplay. I have recently bought CM4, if you are planning to buy this i would recomend renting or borrowing it as I found it to be a huge disappointment & if you already own any earlier CM games then CM4 offers no real inprovement other than to have updated history records for another year.

Windows · by anthony mckeirnan (1) · 2003

Trivia

Divorce

In a divorce case in Portugal, Championship Manager was stated to be a reason for the breakdown of the marriage.

Finland

This was the first Championship Manager game that had Finnish Premiership (Veikkausliiga) and 1st. Division (Ykkönen) as playable leagues.

Information also contributed by naula

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Game added by Michael Joyeux.

Macintosh added by Kabushi.

Additional contributors: chirinea, Sciere, Wizo, Yearman, BuzzBomber, Patrick Bregger.

Game added November 30, 2000. Last modified March 9, 2023.