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The Top 10 best players to have ever graced our PC screens on Championship Manager and Football Manager over the last 20 years. Top 10 best Championship / Football Manager players ever! Championship Manager 01/02. Championship Manager 01/02 Fan? Want to download the game and the latest updates for free? Head over to our forums and be a part of “Keeping The Game Alive”. October 2016/2017 Autumn Data Update is released! Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup.

We are part of The Trust Project It's been 23 years since the Collyer Brothers released the first Championship Manager, the game that would develop into the all-conquering goliath that is. Iain Macintosh, editor of, has played them all. Leaving aside the new version, as you can never tell how good an FM is until you’ve played it for three months, he gives us his top nine incarnations.

Championship Manager 2001/02 Embedded video for The 9 best editions of Football Manager/Championship Manager Hitting a sweet spot between the level of detail and the speed with which it could be played, there are many reasons why CM01/02 retains a special place in the hearts of those who immersed themselves in its data. Unlike the new versions, the AI is fairly basic and you can’t micro-manage the development of your players, but you can push through half a season in a three-hour train journey with Mike Duff, Mark Kerr and Cherno Samba as the spine of your team. There’s a lot to be said for that. Football Manager 2014 Embedded video for The 9 best editions of Football Manager/Championship Manager Realism is always one of the key factors in any game and FM14 stepped up the pace with the introduction of job interviews.

Now you could land a position that your reputation might not deserve by toadying up to chairmen. Alternatively, you could take your time finding the right job, making sure that your devotion to youth development was encouraged and rewarded. Chillingly, the improved AI brought opposing managers who could quickly see through your time-honoured tactics and adapt, forcing you to change or fall behind. It all went a bit Skynet here. Football Manager 2007 Embedded video for The 9 best editions of Football Manager/Championship Manager A fine effort, balanced and accessible, but notable primarily because it reversed the maddening decision of its predecessor FM06 to include fictional Harchester United players. There is very little worse than investing hours in a detailed simulation of the entire footballing world only to have some bloke called Casper Rose suddenly pop up as one of the world’s best players. When you’re escaping into an alternative reality, you want that reality to be as pure as possible.

The arrival of scout report cards was also a very nice touch, easing the flow of information and breaking it into bitesize chunks. Championship Manager: Season 97/98 Embedded video for The 9 best editions of Football Manager/Championship Manager A ground-breaking version, this.

The first one clever enough to run more than one league concurrently. Granted, you need to make sure that the suitcase-sized tower that passed for a personal computer in those days was powerful enough, but finally it was possible to excel in the Premier League and then land the Barcelona job. And if you had Tom Youngs, you had every chance to do just that. An easy-to-use editor was a nice touch too. Who among us hasn’t dropped themselves into the game with ludicrous attributes, eh? You’re a liar, sir.