- This article is about a computer game. For the general concept, see football manager.
Football Manager was a classic football (soccer) management simulation first developed by Kevin Toms for 8-bit computers.
On the 12th February 2004, after splitting from publishers Eidos it was announced that Sports Interactive, producers of the Championship Manager game, had acquired the brand and would henceforth release their games under the "Football Manager" name, whilst the Championship Manager series will go on, but no longer be related to Sports Interactive
Commonly known as FM 2005, is expected to compete directly with the first Championship Manager game to be developed by the Eidos funded Beautiful Game Studios.
It includes an updated user interface, a refined game engine, updated database and competition rules, pre- and post-match information, international player news, cup summary news, 2D clips from agents, coach reports on squads, job centre for non-playing positions, mutual contract termination, enhanced player loan options, manager "mind games" and various other features.
Football Manager 2005 was released on November 4th 2004 and became the 5th fastest selling PC game of all time (according to Eurogamer.net). The Macintosh version of the game comes on the same disc as the PC version, so its sales are, obviously, included. In the United States and Canada, the game is sold as Worldwide Soccer Manager 2005.
List of Leagues included in FM2005
- Country - Levels/Divisions
- Argentina - 2/2
- Australia - 1/1
- Austria - 2/2
- Belarus - 3/3
- Belgium - 3/4
- Brazil - 3/18
- Bulgaria - 2/2
- Chile - 2/4
- China - 2/2
- Colombia - 2/2
- Croatia - 2/3
- Czech R. - 2/2
- Denmark - 3/3
- England - 6/7
- Finland - 2/2
- France - 3/3
- Germany - 3/4
- Greece - 2/2
- Holland - 2/2
- Hong Kong - 1/1
- Hungary - 2/2
- Iceland - 2/2
- India - 1/1
- Indonesia - 2/3
- Ireland - 2/2
- Israel - 2/2
- Italy - 4/7
- Malayasia - 2/3
- Mexico - 2/2
- N.Ireland - 2/2
- Norway - 3/6
- Peru - 1/1
- Poland - 2/2
- Portugal - 3/5
- Romania - 2/4
- Russia - 2/2
- Scotland - 4/4
- Serb&Mont - 2/3
- Singapore - 1/1
- Slovakia - 2/2
- Slovenia - 2/2
- S. Africa - 2/2
- S. Korea - 2/2
- Spain - 3/6
- Sweden - 3/8
- Switz - 2/2
- Turkey - 3/5
- Ukraine - 2/2
- Uruguay - 2/2
- USA - 1/1
- Wales - 1/1
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