Football Manager 2005

Football Manager 2005
Developer(s)Sports Interactive
Publisher(s)Sega
SeriesFootball Manager
Platform(s)Windows, Mac OS X
Release
  • EU: 5 November 2004[1]
  • NA: 8 December 2004
Genre(s)Sports management
Mode(s)Single player, multiplayer over Internet (TCP/IP) or hot-seat

Football Manager 2005, known as Worldwide Soccer Manager 2005 in North America, is a football management simulation video game and the first instalment in the Football Manager series developed by Sports Interactive and published by Sega built on top of the code of Championship Manager 4, which Sports Interactive legally owned the rights to. It was released for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X on 4 November 2004 in Europe and on 8 December 2004 in North America.[2][3]

Football Manager 2005 was the first game from Sports Interactive that was published in North America and was succeeded by Football Manager 2006. It competed directly with Championship Manager 5, the severely delayed and widely slated effort from Eidos Interactive-funded Beautiful Game Studios.[4][5] The Mac OS X version of game came on the same dual format disk as the Microsoft Windows version, so its sales were also included. Football Manager 2005 became the fifth fastest-selling PC game of all time at the time according to Chart-Track, as well as the fastest selling game from Sega Europe at the time.[6]

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  2. ^ "Football Manager 2005 release date moves forward". Eurogamer. 1 November 2004. Archived from the original on 1 October 2022. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  3. ^ Adams, David (9 December 2004). "The Kick-off Begins". IGN. Archived from the original on 17 November 2013. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  4. ^ Manson, Andy (11 February 2017). "The history of Championship Manager, part one: from 1992 debut to the Eidos split in 2003". PCGamesN. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
  5. ^ Dransfield, Ian (26 May 2018) [First published in February 2018]. "The history of Championship Manager and Football Manager". Retro Gamer. No. 178. Future plc. Archived from the original on 2 November 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2021 – via PC Gamer.
  6. ^ "Football Manager breaks SEGA sales records". Eurogamer. 15 November 2004. Archived from the original on 21 November 2021. Retrieved 19 November 2021.