LONDON, UK – October 15, 2004 – SEGA® Europe Ltd, is proud to reveal the complete official league license list to be featured in the imminent release of Football Manager 2005, the latest title from Sports Interactive, the creators of the Championship Managerä series. Football Manager 2005 is set to be the most in-depth and involving football management simulation ever when released on November 5 th for PC and Mac.
An agreement has been secured with FIFPro, the worldwide representative organisation for all professional players. Football Manager 2005 will also feature official branding from the English Football League, including club logos, league and cup competition logos, playing kits and players pictures where available. Football Manager 2005 has also now been recognised as the Official Game of the English Nationwide Conference.
In addition to this, Football Manager 2005 will also feature the club logos, playing kits and player pictures (where available) for the Spanish and US leagues. Kits, pictures and logo’s from Dutch clubs as well as kits and logo’s from the Portuguese league are also secured. Licenses from Italian clubs, including club logo’s and player pictures (where available) for the mighty AC Milan.
Confirmation of the league licenses comes at an ideal time, as the team at Sports Interactive is proud to announce that Football Manager 2005 has hit Gold Master stage. With everything in place for its November 5th release date, you too can now become a football manager by downloading the official playable demo. Kick off for the demo is 3pm UK time, to download please go to
www.footballmanager.net or
www.sigames.com, your weekend couldn’t get any better!
FM 2005 Statistics Snapshot
Total Club Logos – 254. Comprising:
England - 100
Spain - 41
Italy - 30
Holland - 37
Portugal - 36
USA - 10
Competition Logos - 5
International Team Logos - 1
Kits - 527
International Team Kits - 2
England - 281
Spain - 78
Italy - 65
Holland - 68
Portugal - 15
USA - 18
Player/Staff Pictures - 6452
England - 2117
Spain - 263
India - 1
Italy - 20
Holland - 250
USA - 227
Face In The Game (regenerated players) - 3574
Football Manager 2005 will be published by SEGA on November 5th 2004. Further information is available online at the both the official FM 2005 and Sports Interactive websites (
www.footballmanager.net and
www.sigames.com).