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                 Championship Manager Season 00/01 FAQ
                               Version 3.1
                            20th January 2001
                              by Rich Taylor
              e-mail: richthecrippler@hotmail.com
                 AOL Instant Messenger: Richthecrippler
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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.

I HAVE CHANGED MY E-MAIL ADDRESS, PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CAN PEOPLE PLEASE E-MAIL ME WITH A LOT MORE QUESTIONS OR RECOMMENDATIONS
CAN YOU ALSO INCLUDE CM 00/01 AS THE SUBJECT

****IMPORTANT NOTE****
WHEN SENDING IN PLAYER RECOMMENDATIONS PLEASE GIVE ME THE CLUB HE PLAYS FOR
AND HIS POSTION, WITH A LOT OF PLAYERS THEY ARE TWO WITH THE SAME NAME AND
I DON'T REALLY WANT TO START THE GAME UP AND SEE WHO IS GOOD AND WHO IS
CRAP. I CHECK ALL THE PLAYERS THROUGH THE EDITOR AND THAT ONLY GIVES
POTENTIAL RATINGS. THANK YOU.

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
Neoseeker http://www.neoseeker.com
CM Snowball http://cmsnowball.cjb.net/
Gamexperts http://www.gamexperts.com

If you have found this guide on any other site please e-mail me and
tell me where.
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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.
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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.

Version 2.9 Added a lot more players and a new tactic at long last, updated
the site list and added a new acknowledgment.

Version 3.0 Added more players and made a few corrections.

Version 3.1 Added players and altered a few comments. Changed my e-mail address
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Contents
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1. Introduction and New Features
2. Cheats and Tips
3. Recommended Players
4. Recommended Staff
5. Tactics and Formations
6. Problems
7. Ackowledgements
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1. Introduction
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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 recommend 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.
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2. Cheats and Tips
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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).

There is supposedly a wau to get a Referee the sacl, I haven't tried it yet
but here it is. After a match go to the FA request section and ask for the
next match to be postponed. Don't go to your news just stay on the FA request
screen and complain about the referee 5 times in a row without checking your
news. After the 5th time check your news and the referee should have been
sacked.
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3. Recommended Players
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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

Alexandr Filimonov (credit: Hayden Shaw)
GK Russian Spartak Moscow
26 Varies

Matteo Sereni (credit: Mohammad Yusuf)
GK Italian Sampdoria
25 6m

Zgibniev Malkowski
GK Polish Feyenoord
22 ??

James Langfield
GK Scottish Dundee
20 600k

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

Delio Cesar Toledo
DL Paraguayan Espanyol
24 2m

Ferry de Haan
DC Dutch Feyenoord
29 ??

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

Ludovic Giuly (credit: Hayden Shaw)
AMC French Monaco
24 6m

Matthew Etherrington (credit: Mohammad Yusuf)
AML English Tottenham
19 1m

Widodo (credit: Mohammad Yusuf)
AMFRLC Indonesian Persija
29 Varies

Djibril Diawara (credit: Mohammad Yusuf)
D/DMRC Senegalese Torino
25 2m

Carlos Roberto Bobadila (credit: Mohammad Yusuf)
MFRC Uruguay No Club
26 Free

Joe Cole
AMC English West Ham
19 4.5m

Pavel Nedved
AMFLC Czech Lazio
27 15m

Javier Artero
AMRC Spanish Dundee
25 600k

Johan Elmander
AMFRLC Swedish Feyenoord
19 2m

Sharbel Touma
AMFRC Swedish AIK
21 800k

Sami Mahlio
MRC Finnish Odd
27 450k

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)

Samuel 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

Andri Sigrsson (credit: Hayden Shaw)
SC Iceland KR
23 Varies

Ernesto Faras (credit: Hayden Shaw)
FRC Argentinian Estudiantes (LP)
20 Varies

Daro Husan (credit: Hayden Shaw)
SC Argentinian Velez
24 4m

Gianluca Zambrotta
AMFRL Italian Juventus
22 7.8m

Gianluca Spinesi
FLC Italian Bari
22 ??

Claudio Belluci
FLC Italian Napoli
25 4.85m

Adrian Mihalcea
SC Romanian Dinamo Bucharest
22 2m

Jochem de Weerdt
SC Dutch GA Eagles
22 ??

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

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4. Recommended Staff
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No favourites yet, please send them in.
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5. Tactics and Formations
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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.

Tactic 5 (credit: Hayden Shaw)
    GK
 DC DC DC
DMR    DML
  MC MC
   AMC
  FC FC

This was used at Barcelona with Cocu in central defence running forward
(dotted line) half way between midfield and defence.

Tactic 6 (credit:Graham Halsey)
    GK
 DC DC DC
MR MC MC ML
    AMC
   FC FC

Solid attacking formation, need fantastic defenders.
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6. Problems
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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.

You really need to download the patch from SIGames.com to get rid of the bugs.
The latest one is version 3.88a and it also rids saved games of bugs as well.
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7. Acknowledgements
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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)

Everyone that keeps sending me players and tactics. :)

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