============================================================================= Championship Manager Season 00/01 FAQ Version 2.8 24th December 2000 by Rich Taylor e-mail: benoit@thecrippler.freeserve.co.uk AOL Instant Messanger: Richthecrippler ============================================================================= Copyright: © Copyright 2000 Rich Taylor. It may not be stolen, altered, or used for any type of profit. It may be reproduced electronically, and printed for PRIVATE, PERSONAL use. It may not be placed on a CD, printed in a magazine or any type of publication. It cannot be placed on any website without my permission.If you would like to contribute to this FAQ (you will be credited,) please e-mail me, as well as any questions, comments, or corrections, to the address above. If you use a small part of this in your own FAQ, give me credit, and do ask for permission first. CAN PEOPLE PLEASE E-MAIL ME WITH A LOT MORE QUESTIONS OR RECOMMENDATIONS CAN YOU ALSO INCLUDE CM 00/01 AS THE SUBJECT The only websites that can post this are; Game FAQs http://www.gamefaqs.com Video Game Strategies http://vgstrategies.about.com Action Trip http://www.actiontrip.com The Cheat Empire http://home.planetinternet.be/~twuyts Championship Manager Season 2000-2001 http://www.champ-man-00-01.com MegaGames http://www.megagames.com Neoseeker http://www.neoseeker.com CM Snowball http://www.geocities.com/y2j_snowball/index.html If you have found this guide on any other site please e-mail me and tell me where. ============================================================================== This is very much a work in progress as the game is very new and new players and tactics and tips will be added all the while. I am also on the Internet a lot more now than with my FAQ for the last game, so I should have a lot more information on this FAQ than the one for CM 99/00 Please feel VERY free to e-mail me with your favourite players/staff/tactics and I will always include them in the next update, with full credit. I am not going to go over all of the basics like what the stats mean, or how to start a game, or what the different buttons do while you are playing a match. You can read the instruction book for that. Or read Mark Vaughn's guide from www.sigames.com/eng or www.thedugout.net as that tells you everything like that you need to know. A lot of the other guides for the CM series are just copies of that, and aren't as good. Whereas I try to collect a lot of the information from different message boards at different websites, as well as using my own experience, to give all the best players, staff, tactics etc. Other guides may be bigger but they are just the instruction manual typed out. ============================================================================== Version 1.0 I have only played the demo from www.sigames.net as the game doesn't come out til Friday but I thought I'd get started now to allow for a FAQ that has information as I have it, best to get one out early. Version 2.0 Added more info about the new features of the game. Added a few recommended players. Version 2.1 Added more players and a few tactics. Version 2.2 Added a lot mor players. Changed the recommended players section around so that higher league and lower league players are seperate. Version 2.3 Added a couple of players. Added a new tactic and updated the info about some of the players. Added a cheat. Version 2.4 Added players Version 2.5 Added players. Added a problems section. Version 2.6 Added players. Added a few more problems. Version 2.7 Added more players. Version 2.8 Yet more players and a couple of more sites to the list. ============================================================================== Contents ============================================================================== 1. Introduction and New Features 2. Cheats and Tips 3. Recommended Players 4. Recommended Staff 5. Tactics and Formations 6. Problems 7. Ackowledgements ============================================================================== 1. Introduction ============================================================================== This will be a FAQ about the entire game, not just the English League like the last one for CM 99/00. I also want this to be an FAQ, so please e-mail me your questions about the game and I will answer everyone that I can, if I don't know it I will find out for you. If you want to reccomend a tactic, save it and send me the tactic as an attachment, I can then check it out and draw the tactic on here myself. The main new feature about this game is the built in editor, you no longer need to download one from the Internet (that reminds me I never thanked Tri Wasano in my last FAQ for his brilliant CM 99/00 editor, thanks. Better late than never). So I want to start off by asking no-one to use this editor to cheat. It is an idiots way out and it should only be used to make the game more realistic. Only make a player better if he is really crap in the game when he is good in real life. Only transfer players when they have been transfered in real life. This is what it is for. I hate it when people say they took a team from the conference all the way to European glory in about 6 seasons. But you know that they done it with an editor. I always changed the name of my club, usually to something stupid like, Jericholics or Slayers Forest or The Skywalkers, but that just shows how sad I am. My favourite new feature is the media interaction. Now when something important is happening at your club they ask for your opinion on it. This can affect the moral of certain players, or the way you are viewed by other managers. For example I was asked whether or not I thought Alan Smith (Leeds) was a future England star. By saying that I beleived he was let him know that I held him in high regard. They also ask about whether someone is available for transfer and the such, very cool thing. You can also now give a player a warning before you actually fine him, which is a good thing as it prevents them from getting too pissed off with you when they are fined, if they are warned beforehand they should have a good idea that something is coming. The most important new feature (after the editor) is probably the FA request feature. You can now complain to the FA about the Referee in your last match :) (I love being able to complain about the ref). And you can also ask for your next match to be psotponed, this is handy if you have too many injuries or you don't have a Goalkeeper to play, or if three or more players are on International duty then the FA may postpone your game and re-arrange it at a later date. I could have done with that in the last game, especially when the Olympic tournament was on as there was no age limit in it (it's now under 23's only, thank god). There are also coach and physio reports available for players in your own squad. This is very useful when you aren't sure if someone is up to the standard you wish, or if you are not too sure of their fitness. The final big feature is the live league table during matches. You can watch it while playing a league match and see what the positions are if all the current scores stay the same, it changes whenever a goal is scored and is very useful if you are trying to avoid promotion as you don't have to try and work it out for yourself. There are new leagues as well, here is a full list of all the nations who's leagues you are able to be able to participate in; Argentina Australia (new) Belgium Brazil Croatia (new) Denmark England Finland (new) France Germany Greece (new) Holland Ireland (new) Italy Japan United States Northern Ireland (new) Norway Poland (new) Portugal Russia (new) Scotland Spain Sweden Turkey (new) Wales (new) The game also comes in a DVD style box, which is a lot less space comsuming than the old boxes, they still don't stand up properly though. I have a big collection of DVD's all lying on their sides while all my videos are still standing strong, and DVD is supposed to be the way forward. Anyway I digress. If you want the game to be bang up to date dowload the first official patch from www.sigames.com/eng it fixes any bugs (most of which are very unlikely to happen, but it's better to be safe than sorry) and contains an official data update, which includes Stan Collymore to Bradford. The problem is it is 11.4 Mb so it takes a long time to download, and not all download utilities will allow you to resume on files over 10Mb, so you can be in for a frustrating time. It's also available at www.thedugout.net. ============================================================================== 2. Cheats and Tips ============================================================================== International Management On the team selection screen when starting a game you can select to manage an international team by going to the teams Squad screen and selecting to manage them as with any other team. You can get to an international teams Squad screen by clicking on a players nationality within a player profile. (thanks to Mark Vaughn's CM guide). ============================================================================== 3. Recommended Players ============================================================================== Higher league means the top division only, obviously the players will still be good at a lower level but they will probably get restless. Lower league is the equivalent of the first division and below. Some players might not be good enough for the first division, so you would probably be better off going for the lesser known higher league players. Sometimes certain players only appear when you have certain leagues running. HIGHER LEAGUE PLAYERS GOALKEEPERS Fabian Barthez GK French Manchester United 27 £8m (varies) Recber Rustu GK Turkish Fenerbahce 27 £4m Magnus Hedman GK Swedish Coventry 27 £3.8m Jerzy Dudek GK Polish Feyenoord 27 £3.8m DEFENDERS Jaap Stam DC Dutch Manchester United 28 £10m Evanilson D/DMR Brazilian Dortmund 24 £5.25m Saliou Lassissi D/DMRC Ivory Coast Parma 22 £4.1m Patrick Andersson DC Swedish Bayern Munich 29 £4.4m Gilmar SWDC Brazilian Real Madrid 21 £2.3m Robbie Stockdale (credit: Brett Smith) DR ? Middlesborough ? £4.5m MIDFIELDERS Rafael van der Vaart ML Dutch Ajax 16 £1.9m Kennedy Bakircioglu AMFRC Swedish Hammarby 19 £625k Rory Delap SW/D/M/FRC Irish Derby 24 £5m Hidetoshi Nakata AMRC Japanese Roma 23 £9m Francesco Totti AM/FRC Italian Roma 23 £20m (varies) I have seen him sold for £45m Kieron Dyer D/DMRC English Newcastle 21 £5m Can play well in defence, but scores shit loads from midfield for a defensive midfielder Stephan Appiah DMC Ghanaian Parma 19 £3.2m Sergio Conceicao AMR Portuguese Parma 25 £5.5m Johan Micoud AMLC French Parma 27 £4.8m Johan Elmander (credit: Andrew Doe) AMRLC Swedish Feyenoord 19 £3.1m Jamie McMaster (credit: Andrew Doe) M/FRC English/Australian Leeds 15 £240k Pablo Aimar (credit: Brett Smith) AMC ? River Plate 20 £20m David Livermore (credit: Brett Smith) DMLC ? Millwall ? £1.2m ATTACKERS Marcus Allback SC Swedish OIS 27 £600k My favourite player in the whole game Ismael Urzaiz SC Spanish Athletic Bilbao 28 £7.75m John Carew SC Norwegian Valencia 20 £7.5m Luis Arcamone SC Argentinian 21 Free Ade Akinbyi SC Nigerian Leicester 25 £3m Marco Di Vaio AMFC Italian Parma 24 £5m Andrew Cole SC English Manchester United 28 £10m Thierry Henry AMFLC French Arsenal 22 £10m Guilherme SC Brazilian Atletico Mineiro 26 £5m Rajku Lekic SC Danish B93 19 £12k Luis Hernandez FC Mexican Los Angeles 31 £3.9m Robbie Keane FC Irish Inter 20 £5.5m Ighli Vannucchi AM/FRLC Italian Salernitana 23 £3.8m Savo Milosevic SC Yugoslav Parma 27 £9.5m Martin Palermo (credit: Brett Smith) SC ? River Plate ? £15m Javier Saviola (credit: Brett Smith) SC Argentinian River Plate 19 £20m Kurniawan (credit: Soul Reaver) FRLC Indonesian Pelita 22 £?? (varies) Sanuel Eto'o (credit: Christopher Jingree) SC Cameroon Deportivo 19 £4m Peter Madsen (credit: Christopher Jingree) FRC Danish Brondby 22 £?? (varies) Marc Anthony FLC Scottish Berwick 22 £50k David Collins FC English Burnley 19 £?? (varies) Not always good, varies from game to game LOWER LEAGUE PLAYERS GOALKEEPERS William Packham GK English Brighton 19 £50k Dean Williams GK English Telford 27 £15k DEFENDERS Andy Todd D/DMC English Charlton 25 £400k Will drop down a couple of divisions for first team football Gary Smith DRC Scottish Hibs 29 £275k Lee Collins DC English Stoke City 22 £varies Peter Kennedy D/DMLC English Watford MIDFIELDERS Micah Hyde MC English Watford ? £2m Ronnie Wallwork D/DMC English ? 20 Free He shouldn't be on a free as he is at Man Utd still in reality. Darragh Ryan AML Irish UCD 20 £8k Good for that price, will play well in the Second Division Dean Keates DMLC English Walsall 22 £275k Charlie Miller AMC Scottish Watford 24 £1m Michael Duff D/DMR Jamie Cureton M/FRLC English Reading ATTACKERS Derek Adams SC Scottish Motherwell 25 £425k Scored 24 for me with Walsall Paul McVeigh SC Northern Irish Norwich 22 £900k James Flood SC Free Transfer 20 Free Nicky Forster SC English Reading 26 £100k David Vandenbeginne FC Belgian Denderleeuw 19 £?? (varies) Has been known to be world class, and like Jason Lee ie shit ============================================================================== 4. Recommended Staff ============================================================================== No favourites yet, please send them in. ============================================================================== 5. Tactics and Formations ============================================================================== Tactic 1 GK DC DC DC DMC MR MC MC ML FC FC This is a really good tactic with a lower division team, especially if you play direct and attcking, as you get the midfield packed. It's also a good idea to make the DMC tackle hard as it then can bully the oppostion's midfielders out of the game. Tactic 2 GK DR DC DC DL MC MC MC FC FC FC To make this tactic really work make the two wide attackers run in towards the centre attacker. I don't know why it works it just does, you get a lot of the ball and the attacks always seem quite persistent Tactic 3 GK DC DC DC DMC MC MC MC AMC FC FC This works really well for me at Reading and Walsall. Make sure that the central MC is quite attacking and that your defensive midfielder is a Defender/Midfielder. I use Adrian Viveash at Reading and it works a treat. Tactic 4 GK DR DC DC DL DMC MC MC MC FC FC This is a good tactic for a big club. Use short passing and always stay on Pressing. If you are ahead, especially by two goals. Switch to Counter Attacking as you are then not that likely to get caught out. More to come soon!!! ============================================================================== 6. Problems ============================================================================== These are just a few of the things that are wrong with the game. I am not complaining it just gets agrivating. Sometimes an entire half can go by without anything happening and the possession bar doesn't even change. Even if you have the right spec of a PC to run 24 leagues they still won't run at a decent speed. Trust me I know. Never run anymore than 6 leagues at a time, even on a top end PC. Sometimes a keeper can come on for another keeper who had been sent off, they will only play for 2 minutes and won't so anything. Yet they will get a 9 rating and Man Of The Match. Quinton Fortune is crap. (More a data error than a problem). This is not a totally technical problem, and it doesn't bother me, but in my league as Reading everytime I play away in the League Cup against Premiership opposition I always win. But if I get a Second or even Third division side in the cup I seem to struggle. ============================================================================== 7. Acknowledgements ============================================================================== Mark Geneste for The Dugout (www.thedugout.net) Eidos and Sports Interactive for the game www.sigames.com/eng for the demo Video Game Strategies (vgstrategies.about.com) GameFAQs (www.gamefaqs.com) Elvis Costello, Neil Diamond, Limp Bizkit and Soulwax for ensuring that I don't have to sit in silence while playing the game, and writing this guide. The Dugout Forum and all that take part in it. Edge & Christian for reeking of awesomeness George Lucas Milo