Championship Manager Season 00/01 Demo is Live

As a testament to the anticipation surrounding the release of Championship Manager Season 00/01 on October 27th, the site received some 18,000 downloads (in spite of there being a block on any more than 150 downloads at any one time) and there are already at least 15 official mirror sites which are averaging 5,000 downloads a day. Thus a total of almost 95,000 die-hard fans are already whetting their appetites for the release of the full game from official sites alone.

"To have this many downloads in such a short space of time has been very exciting," enthused Oliver Collyer, joint Managing Director of Sports Interactive. "Because we managed to launch the demo a week early, these numbers have been achieved without any specific publicity and the marketing is only just kicking off. Once all of the promotional activity is in place, we are confident that we will have one of the most popular demos available on the Internet."

The Championship Manager Season 00/01 time-limited demo is now being hosted at: http://www1.sigames.com/eng/downloads_demos_cm00.shtml.