Championship Manager
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40 free Championship Manager trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Long before football management games swallowed whole weekends, there was Championship Manager. From a home-made text game in 1992 it grew into a British obsession, one that made cult heroes of obscure teenagers and turned tables of numbers into drama. This quiz covers the whole story: the early editions and what each one added, the players who were world-beaters only on screen, the notorious bugs, the famous split between developer and publisher, and the years that followed. It is written for anyone who ever said "one more match" at two in the morning. Some questions any fan will get, and others reward those who remember the update disks. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which TV duo received special Championship Manager copies casting them as Newcastle and Sunderland players?
Ant & Dec
Ant & Dec were handed the one-off edition of Season 01/02 on their final SMTV Live in 2001. Ant was a £50,000-a-week Newcastle star, while Dec earned £90 a week at Sunderland.
Q 02Miles Jacobson first got an early Championship Manager 2 by trading concert tickets for which Britpop band?
Blur
Blur were among the acts he had worked with in the music business before he became a tester for Sports Interactive and, by 2001, the studio's full-time boss.
Q 03Where in a Shropshire family home did two brothers write the original Championship Manager?
A bedroom
A bedroom was the whole studio until the game's success let the pair found Sports Interactive in 1994 and move to north London.
Q 04Which action-adventure franchise sat beside Championship Manager among the flagship series of UK publisher Eidos?
Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider was the global star of an Eidos catalogue that also held Hitman, Thief, Deus Ex and Legacy of Kain.
Q 05Which British football commentator voiced the optional spoken match commentary on the Championship Manager 2 CD-ROM?
Clive Tyldesley
Clive Tyldesley's voice was an optional extra beside the usual text commentary, and that 1995 game proved the last in the series to talk.
Q 06Which unusual pricing model did Eidos offer fans who pre-ordered Championship Manager 2010?
Pay what you want
Pay what you want let buyers name any price from 1p plus a £2.50 transaction fee, and the studio's general manager said the response had exceeded expectations.
Q 07Which US publisher reportedly turned down Championship Manager in 1992 for not having enough live action?
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts wanted action on screen, and the text-only game it passed on reportedly sold a modest 20,000 or so in its first version.
Q 08Which court decision on out-of-contract players was written into the transfer rules of Championship Manager 96/97?
Bosman ruling
The Bosman ruling of 1995 let players in the EU leave for nothing once a contract expired, so the game's managers could suddenly lose a star without a fee.
Q 09Which Japanese publisher signed Sports Interactive after the studio lost the Championship Manager name to Eidos?
Sega
Sega published the studio's rebranded Football Manager from 2004 and bought the developer outright in April 2006.
Q 10Which brothers created Championship Manager and often inserted themselves into the game as below-average players?
Paul and Oliver Collyer
Paul and Oliver Collyer founded Sports Interactive in 1994 and made their in-game selves too poor to play for even the worst teams.
Q 11Typing which England manager's name as the user's own unlocked the national job in Championship Manager 96/97?
Glenn Hoddle
Glenn Hoddle was England manager at the time, and the cheat skipped the usual climb to a reputation good enough for a country to come calling.
Q 12Which console received the exclusive Championship Manager: Season 02/03 after a port of Season 01/02?
Microsoft Xbox
Microsoft Xbox owners got a version of Season 01/02 in April 2002, and its success brought the sequel seven months later, with a joypad that rumbled whenever a goal went in.
Q 13What did the first Championship Manager lack that rivals such as Premier Manager already offered in 1992?
Real footballers
Q 21Maxim Tsigalko, a goal machine in Championship Manager: Season 01/02, was capped twice by which country?
Belarus
Belarus picked him twice in 2003 and he scored on his debut, but a knee injury ended the Dinamo Minsk striker's career at 26, long after gamers had made him a legend.
Q 22Cherno Samba became a Championship Manager cult hero while a teenage striker at which London club?
Millwall
Millwall turned down a £2 million Liverpool offer for him as a schoolboy, yet his Football League debut came years later, for Plymouth Argyle.
Q 23Tonton Zola Moukoko, a Championship Manager legend, was a teenage prospect at which English club?
Derby County
Derby County signed him at 15, and he reportedly turned down AC Milan to turn professional there, but he went home to Sweden in 2002 after family problems.
Real footballers arrived with the 1993 follow-up; in the original every squad carried made-up names, and sides outside the four English divisions fielded men known only by shirt number.
Q 14Which Japanese company bought Eidos in 2009 and so became the owner of the Championship Manager brand?
Square Enix
Square Enix took over that year and within months had cut or moved abroad about 80% of the jobs at the game's in-house studio.
Q 15Which country's leagues joined England's as playable when Championship Manager 2 launched on PC in 1995?
Scotland
Scotland was a PC-only extra, and for the first time the series let managers choose a league system at the start, though only one could run at a time.
Q 16What did Eidos do with Championship Manager: Season 01/02 in December 2008, seven years after release?
Made it a free download
Eidos made it a free download, and the gift kept the 2001 edition alive, with fans issuing updated databases for it long afterwards.
Q 17The first Championship Manager launched in 1992 on the Atari ST and which other 16-bit home computer?
Commodore Amiga
The Commodore Amiga was the ST's great rival of the day, and the series kept appearing on it into the mid-1990s, including the 1994 end-of-season data disk.
Q 18Which competition from outside Europe became playable for the first time in Championship Manager: Season 99/00?
Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer was the edition's headline addition, arriving alongside a World Club Championship and a database swollen past 40,000 players and staff.
Q 19A notorious Championship Manager 4 bug moved which non-league club to a stadium with over 200,000 seats?
Northwich Victoria
Northwich Victoria got the giant ground in a release so buggy that scores could change at random and lower-division sides signed superstars with ease.
Q 20Which unstoppable Championship Manager: Season 01/02 striker was later widely reported to be fictional?
Tó Madeira
Tó Madeira was listed at the small Portuguese club Gouveia, and a 2016 report called him pure invention, though a later investigation claimed a player of that name had in fact existed.
Q 24Which military term fits the attribute masking that hid unfamiliar players in Championship Manager: Season 01/02?
Fog of war
Fog of war meant a manager saw full details only for players he would plausibly know about, which made a good scouting network worth its wages.
Q 25The first Championship Manager was written in which programming language, later judged ill-suited to fast games?
BASIC
BASIC is poorly suited to high-performance games, and the following year's sequel was ported to C.
Q 26Which British publisher, later merged into Eidos, released the first Championship Manager in 1992?
Domark
Domark took its name from founders Dominic Wheatley and Mark Strachan, and its mid-1990s merger created the Eidos label that the series wore for more than a decade.
Q 27Which French manager lent his name to the 1993 French adaptation of the first Championship Manager?
Guy Roux
Guy Roux ran Auxerre for more than 40 years, and the 1993 game bearing his name, built by Ubisoft and Intelek on the brothers' work, spawned sequels as late as 2002.
Q 28What did Championship Manager 4 add in 2003, ending the series' reliance on text and imagination?
A 2D pitch view
A 2D pitch view showed each match from above, and anticipation for it helped the game become the UK's fastest-selling PC title up to that time.
Q 29Which in-house Eidos team took over Championship Manager after Sports Interactive left in 2003?
Beautiful Game Studios
Beautiful Game Studios was set up in 2003 and unveiled the next January, by which time its former partner was preparing a rival game for a new publisher.
Q 30Sports Interactive's successor to Championship Manager took its title from a 1982 game by which designer?
Kevin Toms
Kevin Toms launched Football Manager in 1982 on his own Addictive Games label, founding the genre that the brothers' series would later dominate.