Editing Football Manager (section)

===''Football Manager 2005''===
{{main|Football Manager 2005}}

On 12 February 2004, after splitting from publishers [[Eidos Interactive]], it was announced that [[Sports Interactive]], developers of the ''Championship Manager'' game, had retained the rights to the source code but not the rights to the title ''Championship Manager'', which were held onto by Eidos (who previously acquired the brand rights from [[Domark]] upon their merger in 1995).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Manson |first=Andy |date=11 February 2017 |title=The history of Championship Manager, part one: from 1992 debut to the Eidos split in 2003 |url=https://www.pcgamesn.com/championship-manager-series/championship-manager-football-manager-history-making-of |access-date=6 October 2024 |website=PCGamesN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Dransfield |first=Ian |date=2018-05-26 |title=The history of Championship Manager and Football Manager |url=https://www.pcgamer.com/the-history-of-championship-manager-and-football-manager/ |access-date=2020-07-21 |website=PC Gamer}}</ref> These developments led to a further announcement that future Sports Interactive [[football management simulation]] games would be released under the famous ''[[Football Manager (1982 series)|Football Manager]]'' brand name. Whilst the ''Championship Manager'' series would go on, Eidos no longer had any source code or a developer for ''Championship Manager''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 February 2004 |title=Sports Interactive unveils Football Manager |url=https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/news120204footballmanager |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211121233832/https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/news120204footballmanager |archive-date=21 November 2021 |access-date=6 October 2024 |website=Eurogamer}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Manson |first=Andy |date=12 February 2017 |title=The history of Championship Manager, part two: the Football Manager years, 2004 to present |url=https://www.pcgamesn.com/football-manager-2017/history-of-championship-manager-part-two |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211121233828/https://www.pcgamesn.com/football-manager-2017/history-of-championship-manager-part-two |archive-date=21 November 2021 |access-date=21 November 2021 |website=PCGamesN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Dransfield |first=Ian |date=2018-05-26 |orig-date=First published in February 2018 |title=The history of Championship Manager and Football Manager |url=https://www.pcgamer.com/the-history-of-championship-manager-and-football-manager/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102143858/https://www.pcgamer.com/the-history-of-championship-manager-and-football-manager/ |archive-date=2 November 2021 |access-date=2021-11-21 |magazine=[[Retro Gamer]] |publisher=[[Future plc]] |language=en-UK |via=PC Gamer |issue=178}}</ref>

Having been left without a publisher for its football management series, Sports Interactive teamed up with [[Sega]]. In April 2006, Sports Interactive was acquired completely by the publisher in a continuing trend of consolidation within the games industry. The first game released under the newly acquired ''Football Manager'' brand was ''Football Manager 2005''. Commonly known as ''FM 2005'', it competed directly with ''[[Championship Manager 5]]'' from Eidos-funded [[Beautiful Game Studios]]. ''Football Manager 2005'' included an updated user interface, a refined game engine, updated database and competition rules, pre and post-match information, international player news, cup summary news, a [[2D computer graphics|2D]] match engine, coach reports on squads, jobcentre for non-playing positions, mutual contract termination, enhanced player loan options, manager mind games, and various other features. ''Football Manager'' 2005 was released in the UK on 5 November 2004, closely followed by releases in many other countries around the world. The [[Macintosh]] (Mac) version of the game came on the same [[dual format]] disk as the [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] version, so its sales were also included. ''Football Manager 2005'' became both the 5th fastest-selling [[Personal computer|PC]] game of all time and SEGA Europe's fastest selling game.<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 November 2004 |title=Football Manager breaks SEGA sales records |url=https://www.eurogamer.net/news151104fm2005sales |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211121235331/https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/news151104fm2005sales |archive-date=21 November 2021 |access-date=6 October 2024 |website=Eurogamer.net}}</ref>